Holger Gerlach

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Holger Gerlach (* 1974 in Jena ) was one of the most important supporters of the right-wing terrorist cell " National Socialist Underground (NSU"). He was sentenced to three years in prison in the NSU trial for supporting a terrorist organization.

Holger Gerlach comes from Saxony, but most recently lived in the Schaumburg district of Lower Saxony.

Holger Gerlach is said to have been a member of the “Freie Kameradschaft Jena” from the mid-1990s, which included Uwe Böhnhardt , Uwe Mundlos , Beate Zschäpe , Ralf Wohlleben and André Kapke . The first four formed the NSU after 1998. Until 2011, Holger Gerlach was one of the most loyal supporters of the NSU, who was only exposed in 2011. Gerlach claimed in the NSU trial that he knew nothing about the murders of his friends. He handed Uwe Böhnhardt his replacement driver's license and in 2001 his own passport. Ten years later, Gerlach had a passport in his name, but with the photo of Uwe Böhnhardt, and gave it to him. This enabled Böhnhardt to operate under a false name. He bought Beate Zschäpe's health insurance card from a hairdresser in Hanover for 300 euros.

He made it possible for the terrorist cell to act by forging documents and to commit acts of violence motivated by neo-Nazism. He is also said to have transported a weapon from Jena to Zwickau in 2001 on behalf of Ralf Wohlleben . In 2007, the mobile home that Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos used for the murder of policewoman Michele Kiesewetter and the attempted murder of their colleague Martin A. was rented with his identity card . Holger Gerlach made a comprehensive confession in court. In an initial interrogation, he admitted that he had supported the two terrorists Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos .

According to the intelligence of the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Gerlach was known as a follower of the neo-Nazi scene. It had appeared through neo-Nazi activities by 2005.

Since his release from pretrial detention, Gerlach was initially part of the witness protection program of the Federal Criminal Police Office. Gerlach later left the witness protection program voluntarily for reasons unknown.

process

Gerlach was represented by lawyers Stefan Hachmeister and Pajam Rokni-Yazdi. In court he confessed to having organized passports and a driver's license for Zschäpe, Böhnhardt and Mundlos. He admitted to having deposited 10,000 euros for the NSU at his place of residence in Lauenau, Lower Saxony . He apologized for what he did in a read-out statement. Gerlach was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the Munich Higher Regional Court in 2018 for supporting a terrorist organization.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neo-Nazi terror group: Judge issues arrest warrant against Holger G. In: Welt Online. November 14, 2011, accessed November 17, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Andrea Röpke: The National Socialist Underground and its Network. In: Andrea Röpke, Andreas Speit (Ed.): Blood and Honor. Past and present of right wing violence in Germany. Ch.links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-707-6 , p. 139.
  3. ^ NSU trial: Three years imprisonment for Holger G. on: ndr.de
  4. ^ NSU trial: Lower Saxony Holger G. condemned. paz-online.de, accessed on July 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c d e Angelika Henkel, Stefan Schölermann: Holger G. - unsuspecting supporter? In: tagesschau.de. Norddeutscher Rundfunk, May 3, 2013, accessed on May 3, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Andrea Röpke, Andreas Speit (ed.): Blood and honor - history and present of right-wing violence in Germany. Ch. Links, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-707-6 .
  7. ^ NSU investigations: BGH cancels arrest warrant against Holger G. In: Spiegel Online. May 25, 2012, Retrieved May 3, 2013 .
  8. ↑ NSU used silencers - but not in all murder attempts. on: tagesspiegel.de , February 4, 2014.
  9. ↑ Holger G. confesses and apologizes ( memento from June 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de from June 6, 2013.
  10. ↑ Reading is easy ( memento from June 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de from June 6, 2013.
  11. ↑ Reading is easy ( memento from June 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de from June 6, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Holger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German accused in the trial of the terrorist organization "National Socialist Underground"
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena