Johannes Lerle

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Johannes Lerle (born June 1, 1952 in Halle (Saale) ) is a German anti-abortion and Holocaust denier as well as an Evangelical Lutheran theologian . He is active in publishing in the Internet and was due to expression of offenses such as libel and sedition legally to monetary and imprisonment sentenced .

Life

Lerle was born in 1952 in Halle (Saale) as the son of the old Lutheran pastor Ernst Lerle . He attended the polytechnic high school there for ten years , completed a three-year apprenticeship as a skilled worker for chemistry and received his Abitur in 1972 . He studied Protestant theology in Leipzig and Halle and passed the first , but not the second, state examination. In 1982 he moved from the GDR to Bavaria and received his doctorate in theology in 1988 .

Until about 1993 Lerle worked as a chemical worker at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . In 1993 he learned the Russian language in Saint Petersburg . After his return he worked as a warehouse and kitchen worker as well as a gardener's assistant . Until the mid- 1990s , he was a partner of a clearing firm and freelance active garden helper, then Lerle was at least to 2007, unemployed and from 2007 to March 2012, immersed in order the law enforcement agencies to withdraw.

Worldview

Lerle belonged to the Christian and anti-communist opposition in the GDR . According to Martin Luther's interpretation, he campaigns against abortions and attacks Judaism and Islam as well as the zeitgeist that he sees as anti-Christian . He combined these objectives in various texts.

Opposition activity in the GDR

Before moving to West Germany in 1988, Lerle was active in opposition to the communist regime . He was imprisoned by the Ministry of State Security for producing and disseminating Christian texts and later released. The ministry portrayed Lerle's behavior as a result of meningitis in Lerle's childhood, his family assuming that he tended to "get lost" and then disregard the feelings of others. Because of his political activities, he was initially denied the Abitur, despite his giftedness in natural science subjects.

Commitment against abortion

Johannes Lerle campaigns against the impunity of abortion , especially on the Internet and by distributing leaflets . He was sentenced to four fines and two imprisonment terms between 1998 and 2003 for various insults in the course of these activities; one proceeding was dropped.

Anti-Semitic activities

In 2007, Lerle described the National Socialist genocide in the Auschwitz extermination camp as an alleged injustice in Auschwitz on his website . On other occasions, however, he had compared abortions with the Holocaust, which he otherwise denied .

On October 23, 2007, Lerle was sentenced to one year imprisonment without parole by the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court for hatred because he had denied the Holocaust . The indictment was represented by the human rights activist Walter Grandpair as a public prosecutor (Az. 11 Ns 404 Js 45504/2006). After his conviction, Lerle, who had unsuccessfully denied the Holocaust in the first instance at the Erlangen District Court, went into hiding and thus evaded his arrest for years . In March 2012, he was recognized and arrested during a traffic control in Lübeck , whereupon his sentence was carried out.

Before and during his escape, Lerle had repeatedly published articles denying the Holocaust and other anti-Semitic articles on the right-wing extremist , Islamophobic and Catholic-traditionalist blog kreuz.net . The blog reported on Lerle's arrest and also published his texts afterwards, before it went offline on December 2, 2012 and the computer in Vienna was confiscated in August 2013 . Lerle's anti-Semitic and anti-Judaistic texts, some of which also deal with the topic of abortion, have been preserved on a separate website indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People.

Fonts

  • 1988: Basics of Ebrard's theology . Erlangen, Nuremberg, Univ., Diss.
  • 1990: Did the Apostles Baptize Infants? Gross Oesingen: Luth. Buchh. Harms
  • 2003: Nuremberg heretic trials against opponents of child murder: a chain of perversions of the law . J. Lerle

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Regional Court of Nuremberg-Fürth , judgment on file number 11 Ns 404 Js 45504/2006 . October 23, 2007
  2. ↑ a b Bruno Schrep: Johannes in the lion's den . Der Spiegel from January 1, 1999
  3. ↑ a b c Anton Maegerle : Fugitive People's Incitator captured , look to the right , March 21, 2012 (paid article)
  4. ↑ Janusz Biene: Crusader of stupidity . In: the daily newspaper of March 11, 2009
  5. ↑ Lebensrechtler Lerle again at large . Livenet , August 12, 2002
  6. ^ A b c Andrew Brown: Christians and the lunatic fringe. ( January 15, 2013 memento on the Internet Archive ) The Guardian , June 29, 2007
  7. ↑ PZ Myers: Who'd have ever cared about Johannes Lerle if Dembski hadn't defended him? ScienceBlogs , June 29, 2007
  8. ^ Opponents of abortion sentenced to one year in prison . idea.de of June 18, 2007 (paid article)
  9. ^ German anti-abortion opponent sentenced to one year in prison . kath.net from June 19, 2007
  10. ↑ Hannah Beitzer, Oliver Das Gupta: Verfassungsschutz brandmarkt kreuz.net. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 29, 2012.
  11. ↑ Computer confiscated from kreuz.net , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , August 10, 2013. Accessed July 7, 2015
  12. ↑ Gebhard Schultz: kreuz.net - right-wing extremist Catholics on the Internet , Brandenburg State Center for Political Education , March 25, 2009
  13. ^ Website of Johannes Lerle: Christian writings against the zeitgeist . Accessed July 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lerle, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, anti-abortion and Holocaust denier
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale) , Germany