Ingo Hasselbach

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Ingo Hasselbach (born July 14, 1967 in East Berlin ) is a well-known German dropout from the neo-Nazi scene. He is the author of the books Führer Ex (English, with Tom Reiss ) and Die Abrechnung - a neo-Nazi gets out (German) as well as co-founder of the neo-Nazi dropout organization Exit Germany .

Life

Hasselbach grew up as the child of two journalists in East Berlin. His mother was an editor at ADN , his father Hans Canjé , head of the youth radio, was a staunch anti-fascist and communist . After school, Hasselbach began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. However, in 1985 the first conviction for "hooliganism" followed. With the marriage in 1987 he changed his name from Ingo Pfannschmidt to Ingo Hasselbach. He divorced two years later, but kept his ex-wife's name. His public exclamation “The wall must go!” Brought him a nine-month prison term in 1987. In 1988 he joined the neo-Nazi scene and was prosecuted again. While a first attempt to escape via Czechoslovakia failed and resulted in repeated imprisonment (three months), he managed to escape to the Federal Republic of Germany on November 6, 1989, three days before the fall of the Berlin Wall .

In the period after the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution , he was a leader in various neo-Nazi organizations such as the " National Alternative " and the "Comradeship Social Revolutionary Nationalists". Among other things, he was the contact person in East Berlin for the neo-Nazi leaders Michael Kühnen and Christian Worch . In 1993 he decided to withdraw from the neo-Nazi scene, among other things because of the murders of Turkish asylum seekers. At this point in time he had already spent three years in detention centers (among other things for sedition ).

His offensive handling of the exit and the publication of the book Die Abrechnung acknowledged his former comrades with a narrowly failed attack (book bomb) on his mother. Hasselbach subsequently disclosed all of his knowledge of the neo-Nazi scene to the Federal Criminal Police Office , although he was not only burdening others but also himself. In 1997 he was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence for an arson attack on a left-wing alternative youth club.

After 1995 he traveled increasingly to the USA , where he worked as a journalist in the wake of the bomb attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and dealt with the terrorist activities of the neo-Nazi scene. His article, which u. a. was reprinted in the New York Times , caused a sensation and paved the way for the publication of Führer Ex , the English version of The Reckoning.

After Hasselbach had completed his second book, The Threat - My Life After Exiting, in 1996 , he lived for some time in the USA and Great Britain and campaigned publicly for the abolition of the death penalty , with his articles always being a topic in the media. From that time until 2000 he worked with Winfried Bonengel on the script for the film Führer Ex , which was released in late 2002.

From 2000 to 2017 he worked in the field of production design with Dominik Graf , Helmut Dietl , Urs Egger , Michael Klier , Roland Suso Richter, Friedemann Fromm and Bill Condon, among others .

Since March 2000 he was married to the director Maria von Heland and after the birth of his children lived in other European countries for security reasons. The marriage ended in divorce. Hasselbach has appeared in public again since 2017. In July 2017, he held an event on the 25th anniversary of the Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots.

He has been married to the German photographer , writer and film producer Nadja Klier since February 2018 .

Movies

  • Leader Ex - Feature Film (2002), as a screenwriter
  • Lost Sons - Documentary (2000), directed by Fredrik von Krusenstjerna
  • Recycled - feature film (1998), directed by Maria von Heland
  • Womb - feature film (2010), as an actor

Books

  • Ingo Hasselbach, Winfried Bonengel: The accounting. A neo-Nazi gets out. Construction Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-351-02413-4 .
  • Ingo Hasselbach: The threat - my life after leaving the right-wing terror scene. Construction Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-351-02446-0 .
  • Burkhard Schröder: I was a neo-Nazi - through Ingo Hasselbach. Ravensburger Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-473-35139-3 .
  • Ingo Hasselbach: Fuehrer Ex. Random House, 1995.
  • Ingo Hasselbach: Chapter "Fear" in Freya Klier (HG): And where have you been? 30 years since the fall of the wall, Herder Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-451-81670-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Extremism: A Global Network. In: New York Times. April 26, 1995, p. A25.
  2. ↑ https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/neonazi-aussteiger-behoerden-waren-vor-rechtsterrorismus.990.de.html?dram:article_id=154265
personal data
SURNAME Hasselbach, Ingo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Füllgrap, Ingo; Pfannschmidt, Ingo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, dropout from the neo-Nazi scene
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin