Jürgen Distler (politician, 1971)

Jürgen Distler (born May 1, 1971 in Bayreuth ; † June 15, 2014 ) was a German right-wing extremist politician and publisher.

Life

Jürgen Distler joined the Republicans from 1989 to 1990 , but with whom he did not feel comfortable politically. He switched to the Young National Democrats in 1990 . As a member of the state and national executive boards, he was Holger Apfel's deputy from 1995 to 1999 . He was mainly active in public relations and for the party organ The Activist . He also coordinated various “regional action groups” in the Franconia area .

In 1996 he was elected to the Bavarian state board of the NPD . In 1998 he moved to the party's national executive committee. From the autumn of 1996 onwards, he and Apfel built the party newspaper German Voice into a “regular monthly newspaper at an acceptable level”. In February 1999 he became the newspaper's editor-in-chief. In 2001 he took part in the mayoral election of Riesa , but lost quite significantly with less than 1000 votes.

In February 2001, Apfel took over his post at Deutsche Demokratie. Distler's last editorial contribution was published in October 2001. During the NPD ban proceedings in 2001 it was revealed that the Bavarian State Office for Protection of the Constitution had tried in April 2001 Distler as V-man win. This recruitment attempt took place after the prohibition proceedings became known and was cited by the responsible judges as one of the reasons for discontinuing the proceedings. As part of the international demonstrations against the NPD ban process, he gave a speech in Washington, DC in front of the "American Friends of the British National Party " and consulted with activists of the National Alliance .

Since May 2002, Distler was no longer listed as an editor at the German voice. He has not appeared as an activist since then.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jürgen Distler . In: Thomas Grumke and Bernd Wagner (eds.): Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3399-5 , p. 251-252 .
2. ↑ BVerfG, 2 BvB 1/01 . March 18, 2003 ( bverfg.de ).