Jens Pühse

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Jens Pühse at the national party conference of the NPD in November 2006

Jens Pühse (* 1972 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a right-wing extremist politician of the NPD and was temporarily a member of the party's executive committee. Today he is the second chairman of the right-wing extremist party foundation Europa Terra Nostra .

Party career

Jens Pühse joined right-wing extremist circles in the Bremen area in his youth . In 1987 he joined the Young National Democrats (JN), but left them again in 1990 because of their course, which he regarded as too liberal, and joined the Nationalist Front (NF). Until it was banned in November 1992, Pühse was the leading cadre of this organization. Together with Steffen Hupka , also a former member of the NF, and Markus Privenau from Bremen, he was a partner in Aufruhr-Verlag, in which the right-wing extremist paper Einheit und Kampf was published. In 1994 Pühse rejoined the JN and from 1996 to 1999 was a member of the JN federal board as head of the federal organization. In 1997 he became chairman of the NPD district association Freising in Bavaria. At the party congress in January 1998 in Stavenhagen , Mecklenburg , he was elected for the first time as an assessor in the NPD party executive. Here, as the NPD federal organization leader, he heads the organization department. For the state elections in Saxony in 2004, he ran in the electoral district of Leipzig 3 as a direct candidate for the NPD and received 6.3% of the votes.

Pühse has been active in the right-wing extremist Europa Terra Nostra foundation since 2017 . The foundation was founded on July 3, 2015 in Berlin and is affiliated with the European party " Alliance for Peace and Freedom ", an association of 14 European right-wing extremist parties.

Right skirt, Pühse's list

In 1993 Pühse founded Blitzversand, one of the first most important mail order companies for legal rock in Freising near Munich in the early 1990s. In 1997, the right-wing rock label Pühse Liste, named after him, followed, and the Jens Pühse Tonträgervertrieb record distribution company , which was given up in the following year "to bundle forces" and affiliated with the German Voice Publishing House of the NPD. The separate CD catalog Pühse's list with numerous German and international right-wing rock bands still appears here. More than 40 records were released on the label alone. In 2001, Pühse took over Donner dispatch from Lüdenscheid. After the takeover, Pühse himself worked at the publishing house in Neuburg an der Donau as production manager. He quickly rose to the position of editor and after the publishing house moved to Riesa and Holger Apfel moved into the Saxon state parliament, Pühse Apfel's successor as managing director of the publishing house and organizer of the German Voice Press Festival, by far the largest right-wing rock festival in Germany . The idea and implementation of the schoolyard CD project of the NPD was essentially Pühse's.

The British magazine Searchlight reported that Pühse was present in 1999 when William Luther Pierce took over the Swedish Nazi rock label Nordland . When, with the arrest of Hendrik Möbus in the United States in August 2000, Pierce's most important contact in Germany ceased to exist, Pühse took over this function.

Criminal proceedings

In 1997 Pühse was sentenced by the Worms District Court as a co-organizer of a banned rally on the day of Rudolf Hess's death on August 17, 1996 in Worms to 120 daily rates of 60 marks each. Thomas Wulff and Holger Apfel were also charged with him. Together with Pühse, they had taken over the organization of the illegal deployment. Apple received a fine of 2,700 marks and Wulff a suspended sentence of six months. Pühse's defense attorney, Günther Herzogenrath-Amelung , obtained an acquittal in the second instance before the Mainz Higher Regional Court because he argued that there could only be one chairman, not three. Only Thomas Wulff was convicted, Jens Pühse, however, acquitted.

A house search was carried out on March 10 and 11, 2003 at the Deutsche Voice publishing house and in the apartments of employees of the publishing house and, in addition to business documents, more than 8,000 CDs and 1,000 music cassettes were confiscated. After evaluating the material, the public prosecutor charged Pühse, as the publisher's production manager, with having commissioned the production of CDs with Nazi propaganda and right-wing extremist songs in nine cases and then distributed the CDs. The charges were incitement to hatred and dissemination of propaganda material from anti-constitutional organizations. However, the Dresden Regional Court acquitted Pühse.

On April 3, 2008, this acquittal was largely overturned by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe. The matter was referred back to another criminal division of the Dresden Regional Court for renegotiation. The State Security Senate of the Federal Court of Justice considers it obvious that five of the eight CDs that have been indicted constitute a criminal offense of sedition or the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations.

Trivia

In June 2011, Pühse was excluded from the club SV Werder Bremen . The presidium of the association justified the exclusion with the incompatibility of Pühse's work for the NPD and the contents of the association's statutes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Danijel Majic: "Europa Terra Nostra": Neo-Nazis come to the book fair | FR.de. In: FR.de. September 12, 2017, accessed on July 20, 2018 (German).
  2. ^ Condemned - punishment for NPD action, in: Rhein Zeitung of December 10, 1997 / RLP
  3. ^ Right-wing extremist Jens Pühse, in: Sächsische Zeitung of February 21, 2007 page 3 / DRS Dresden as a whole, page 3
  4. ^ Indictment against the applicant for the NPD demo, in: Nürnberger Nachrichten of April 12, 2008, p. 14
  5. ^ Indictment against the applicant for the NPD demo, in: Nürnberger Nachrichten of April 12, 2008, p. 14
  6. ^ NPD functionary Jens Pühse excluded from Werder Bremen ( memento from January 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Website of SV Werder Bremen. Retrieved June 30, 2011.