Horst Günter Roersch

Horst Günter Roersch (* 1945 ) is a German weightlifter and bodybuilder . He attracted attention with sometimes violent and illegal campaigns directed against people like Richard von Weizsäcker and Ignatz Bubis .

origin

Horst Günter Roersch comes from Frankfurt. He attended elementary school up to the seventh grade, and then learned the profession of motor vehicle mechanic , in which he only worked for a short time because the earnings seemed too low to him. He was married for twelve years and has two daughters.

athlete

At first Roersch was a member of TSG Frankfurt as a weightlifter and later competed in the regional league for SV Hamburg Police . In 1969 he was German runner-up in the heavyweight division and in 1970 German master in the second heavyweight division. At the end of 1971 he was considered a candidate for participation in the Olympics. In January 1973 Roersch moved back to TSG Frankfurt. In the same year he became German bodybuilding champion. In 1975 he became German super heavyweight champion for Rot-Weiß Loerrach. In 1976 he joined TSV Reinbek , who competed in the Regionalliga Nord. On August 18, 1984 he set a European bench press record up to 125 kg for the TSV in Reinbek with 258.0 kg .

further activities

Roersch worked at times as a doorman for discos and brothel keeper. In 1975 he was fined for promoting prostitution.

Since 1985 he has felt politically “driven into the opposition”. According to his own statements, he read newspapers and contemporary history books over a period of five years. At an event with Ignatz Bubis , a member of the board of directors of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Roersch appeared in a Till Eulenspiegel costume to accuse Bubis of his resistance to performances of the play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod . After Roersch had accused Bubis of censorship from within the audience and Bubis had reacted angrily, Roersch's microphone was turned off.

After a lecture by the physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , Roersch spoke to him about his and his wife's behavior under National Socialism . Roersch also intended to speak to Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker, whom he accused of not reporting on the murders of Jews in Germany when he was in Switzerland in 1942 , of having defended his father Ernst von Weizsäcker at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and of 1962 to To have been involved in the production of the defoliant Agent Orange in 1966 at Boehringer Ingelheim . Around 1990 Roersch gave up this intention of a conversation again.

On December 2, 1993, Roersch waited in front of the Hamburg Thalia Theater for Richard von Weizsäcker, who was visiting the city and wanted to attend a performance of the play Minna von Barnhelm . Rörsch spoke to von Weizsäcker with “Have a word, Mr. President” and then slapped him in the face, whereupon von Weizsäcker fell to the ground and Rörsch was arrested by bodyguards. Weizsäcker was injured in the nose and lip and lost the immediate memory of the situation of the blow, but continued his visit to the theater.

In his interrogation by the police, Roersch said he wanted to provoke a criminal trial against himself with the act in order to be able to bring Richard von Weizsäcker's past up to speed. In court, however, he described the blow as a "reflex, controlled by my emotional world". Von Weizsäcker waived a lawsuit against Roersch for denigrating the Federal President . Roersch was sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence for willful assault . The prosecutor had asked for 10 months without parole and appealed against the judgment.

When Richard von Weizsäcker took part in the opening of the German Gymnastics Festival in Hamburg's main church Sankt Michaelis on May 15, 1994 , Roersch distributed leaflets in front of the building with the title “Mein Schlag gegen Weizsäkker” and was then temporarily arrested.

On October 2, 1994, Roersch insulted von Weizsäcker as a "Nazi" in the Hamburg theater . On April 27, 1995, Roersch distributed leaflets again in front of von Weizsäcker's Berlin official residence, Schloss Bellevue , where his 75th birthday was to be celebrated, and was arrested.

After the council of the community of Gollwitz (part of Brandenburg an der Havel since 2003 ) had rejected the accommodation of 50 to 60 Jewish emigrants from Russia in the Gollwitz manor planned by the district administration in 1997 and was criticized in public for this decision, Roersch left At the end of October , handing out leaflets signed with his name to households in the town of Netzen , which is adjacent to Gollwitz , in which he and others a. Bubis vilified and expressed himself xenophobia. Independently of Roersch, other right-wing extremists also had brochures distributed to Gollwitz households. Criminal charges were filed against Roersch and an investigation was initiated.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Gerhard Mauz : Have a word, Mr. President! , Spiegel No. 1, January 13, 1994
2. ↑ ^{a b} Roersch leaves Hamburg, Hamburger Abendblatt , January 15, 1973
3. ^ Weightlifting - German Championships (Men - Part 2) , Sport-komplett.de
4. ↑ Personal data , Spiegel No. 51, December 13, 1971
5. ^ Günter Roersch strengthens Reinbek, Hamburger Abendblatt , March 9, 1976
6. ↑ Weightlifting Association Schleswig-Holstein from 1982 eV: State records powerlifting: Active / Men ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. As of January 6, 2012 
7. ↑ The Law of Hantelns , mirror no. 49, December 6, 1993
8. ↑ Ten months into construction? , Focus No. 1, January 3, 1994
9. ^ Jürgen Zöllner: People , Berliner Zeitung , May 17, 1994
10. ^ Weizsäcker assassin arrested - leaflets distributed in front of Bellevue Palace, Hamburger Abendblatt , April 27, 1995
11. ^ Dietgard Tomczak: propaganda in Lower Saxony sent , Berliner Zeitung
12. ↑ Hamburg Nazi rushes in Gollwitz, press review on Berlin and Brandenburg, archive  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Hagalil.com