Ignaz Bearth

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Ignaz Bearth (* 1984 ) is a right-wing extremist Swiss politician . He was a co-founder and only president of the former small party Direct Democratic Party of Switzerland (DPS).

Life

Bearth grew up in Werdenberg and after finishing his school career completed an apprenticeship as a transport infrastructure builder . He has lived in Uzwil since 2006 .

politics

Bearth was a member of the right-wing extremist party, Nationally Oriented Swiss (PNOS), for which he also appeared publicly. He was a co-founder and the only president of the Swiss Direct Democratic Party . In spring 2013 Bearth supported the right-wing extremist Jobbik in the Hungarian election campaign.

Bearth ran for the DPS St. Gallen in the National Council elections on October 18, 2015 and, according to the preliminary election result, achieved 0.1% of the votes cast. In February 2016 Bearth wanted to run in the cantonal elections in St. Gallen in the constituency of Wil.

Since the merger of the DPS with the party of nationally oriented Swiss in 2017, Bearth has been a member of the PNOS again.

PEGIDA

The unsuccessful Pegida spin-off PEGIDA Switzerland was founded on January 9, 2015 in Zurich . Bearth resigned as its spokesman on January 16. The Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office had announced an investigation into insulting a foreign state, but subsequently did not open any criminal proceedings against Bearth. On Facebook, he described the German Chancellor and the Federal Government as the “real Nazis in Berlin”.

In 2015 he appeared in Linz, Vienna, Weil am Rhein and Dresden as a speaker at Pegida events outside Switzerland.

Facebook Likes Controversy

Bearth is suspected by various media of having bought the majority of his 30,000 (as of 2015) Facebook likes , mainly from India (43%) and Serbia (14.9%). At the beginning of September 2017, Ignaz Bearth's account on Facebook was blocked.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The right wing of Pegida Switzerland , Tages-Anzeiger January 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Small but mean: The right-wing extremist scene in Switzerland , Fabian Christl, Der Bund , February 18, 2016
  3. ↑ Right-wing extremists mobilize thousands of people in Berlin , Berliner Morgenpost March 12, 2016
  4. ↑ What does an SVP do with the right-wing extremist identities? , Daniel Kissling, Vice January 28, 2016
  5. ↑ Ignaz Bearth counts racists among his friends , Blick January 13, 2015
  6. ↑ The right hate movement and its Facebook Army , fault indicator 10 January 2017
  7. ↑ Swiss right-wing populist incites against Renate Künast with a wrong quote , Stern December 6, 2016
  8. ↑ It's in the right corner. In: Wiler news . August 6, 2015, accessed September 29, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Burka ban and deportations , on taz.de , accessed on February 13, 2015
  10. ↑ Switzerland has a new right-wing party , on tageszeitung.ch, from July 29, 2012, accessed on February 14, 2015
  11. ↑ Ignaz Bearth resigns as Pegida spokesman , on blick.ch , January 16, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2015
  12. ↑ Carnival Monday elevator on bnr.de, of 21 January 2015 Retrieved on February 13, 2015
  13. ↑ Generous suffrage for small parties ( memento of May 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), on Tagblatt.ch, January 18, 2015
  14. ↑ Communiqué National Council elections 2015 ( Memento from October 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), on dpsschweiz.ch, accessed on October 19, 2015
  15. ↑ DPS wants to go to the Cantonal Council , on Tagblatt.ch, from December 20, 2015, accessed on January 28, 2016
  16. ↑ PNOS: PNOS - Consistent, Social, National! Retrieved July 15, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Fabian Eberhard: Pegida is planning a demo in Switzerland. In: sonntagszeitung.ch. January 11, 2015, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Ex-Pegida-Mann in the sights of the Federal Prosecutor's Office , on 20min.ch, from January 18, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2015
  19. ^ Beat Kraushaar: St. Gallen Pegida activist in the sights of the Federal Prosecutor's Office. In: Switzerland on Sunday . January 17, 2015, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  20. ↑ Pegida Switzerland cancels demonstration , on 20min.ch, from February 3, 2015, accessed on February 14, 2015
  21. ^ No criminal proceedings against Ignaz Bearth. In: Thurgauer Zeitung . March 4, 2015, accessed September 29, 2015 .
  22. ↑ 1,800 people demonstrated against 100 Pegida supporters in Linz , on standard.at, from February 2, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2015
  23. ↑ Pegida: Six advertisements because of the Hitler salute , on wien.orf.at, from April 19, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2015
  24. ↑ Two Swiss control the "Pegida Dreiländereck" , two Swiss control the "Pegida Dreiländereck"
  25. ^ Dresden: Attacks on journalists at Pegida rally , on spiegel.de, from September 29, 2015, accessed on October 20
  26. ↑ Indians love the man from Pegida Switzerland on 20min.ch, January 12, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2015
  27. ↑ Melchior Popp: Record at the funeral march: Now “Pegida” wants to conquer Europe , on focus.de, from January 13, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2015
  28. ↑ Benjamin von Wyl: We answer Ignaz Bearth's social media questions , on vice.com , from January 14, 2015, accessed on February 13, 2015
  29. ↑ 173,000 likes gone: Facebook deletes accounts of Swiss right-wing populist Ignaz Bearth Aargauer Zeitung September 2017
  30. ↑ Swiss Pegida founder sees himself as a “victim of a campaign” , Blick September 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Bearth, Ignaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss politician (DPS)
DATE OF BIRTH 1984