Judith Wolter

Judith Wolter (born August 4, 1978 in Cologne ) is a German lawyer . She is the former deputy chairwoman of the right-wing extremist citizens' movement pro Cologne and the former treasurer of the resulting pro NRW party .

Life and work

Judith Wolter graduated from high school in 1998 and studied law from 1998 to 2003 at the University of Cologne . In 2003 she passed the first state examination in law. From 2003 to 2005 Wolter completed his legal clerkship at the Aachen Regional Court . After completing the second state examination in 2005, she was admitted to the Cologne bar in 2006 and has been a specialist lawyer for family law in Cologne at the Beisicht & Dr. Schlaeper, whose authorized representative Markus Beisicht is the chairman of the right-wing extremist citizens' movement pro NRW . She represented four regional associations of the DVU against the DVU in the dispute over the merger with the NPD to form the NPD - Die Volksunion .

Judith Wolter is married to Markus Wiener and has two children. She lives in Cologne.

Political career

Until 1999 Wolter was active in the party The Republicans , for which she ran in the 1999 local elections in Cologne. In the same year she was elected chairman of the extreme right-wing citizens' movement pro Cologne , which had emerged three years earlier from the German League for People and Homeland (DLVH). After the local elections in 2004 she moved into the Cologne City Council and became parliamentary group leader. After the founding of the citizens' movement pro NRW , Wolter became treasurer of the party and deputy chairwoman of Pro Köln in 2007. In 2009 she moved back to the city council and remained group leader. In addition, she started as a district administrator in the Rhein-Erft district in 2009 . In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 , she was on the list and was a direct candidate in Cologne VII. Since the dissolution of Pro Cologne, Judith Wolter has been an independent councilor of the city of Cologne.

Relationship to right-wing extremism

In terms of content, Wolter takes the position that May 8, 1945, as the end of the Second World War, was not a date to celebrate, since at that time a third of what was then Reich territory was de facto lost .

In November 2002 Wolter took part in a federal congress of the NPD youth organization Young National Democrats in Kirchheim, Hesse, and spoke a greeting. In 2003 she organized a demonstration together with Markus Beisicht and the NPD functionary Thorsten Crämer. The following year, she gave an interview to Crämer for the NPD party newspaper German Voice . In 2006 she also gave an interview to the national newspaper of DVU boss Gerhard Frey .

After statements in the right-wing extremist magazine First! In the context of the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 . and on the Internet portal Gesamtrechts.net had appeared and then the Internet portal Abgeordnetenwatch was asked about this she replied as follows:

“The citizen movement pro NRW represents liberal positions. The freedom of the press is one of the most basic democratic rights for us. I am therefore available to every press organ for interviews or other inquiries, regardless of which political spectrum it belongs to and whether it represents our opinion or not. "

Although activists of the right-wing extremist scene (including Siegfried Borchardt and Daniela Wegener ) were involved in several demonstrations and rallies by Pro Cologne between 1999 and 2004 , Wolter, along with other Pro Cologne functionaries, distanced himself in 2004 from an election call by the Cologne National Resistance under the leadership of Axel Reitz in favor of Pro Köln.

Legal dispute

On July 5, 2003, Judith Wolter is said to have been attacked and injured by ten left-wing extremists while distributing leaflets against refugees in Cologne-Poll. In a trial before the Cologne district court in early September 2004 against four anti-fam members, Wolter got caught up in contradictions after questioning the defendants' lawyers for several hours, so that the chief public prosecutor Rainer Wolf applied for acquittals for all four defendants. Only the attorney of co-plaintiff Wolter, Markus Beisicht , tried in his closing argument at least for the main defendant to achieve a “severe prison sentence”. He compared Wolter with the victims of National Socialism . In the end, however, all four defendants were acquitted.

literature

• Alexander Häusler (Ed.): Right-wing populism as a “citizens' movement” - campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies. Wiesbaden 2008.
• Christoph Busch : Politics production and representation in the municipal parliamentary work of pro Köln. In: Kathrin Mok, Michael Stahl (ed.): Political Communication Today. Contributions from the 5th Düsseldorf Forum Political Communication. Berlin 2010, pp. 67–86.
• Stephan Braun , Anton Maegerle : Lawyers of the extreme right. In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right - backgrounds - analyzes - answers. Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 378-403.

Web links

• Portrait in the Potsdamer Neuesten Nachrichten and in the Tagesspiegel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.kanzlei-beisicht.de/anw%C3%A4lte/
2. ↑ Pro Köln is subject to court. In: Focus , July 10, 2009.
3. ^ Hans-Peter Killguss, Jürgen Peters, Alexander Häusler: PRO KÖLN - development and activities . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): Right-wing populism as a “citizen movement”: Campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-91119-9 , p 55, p 55-71 55. .
   Alexander Häusler: Political program of PRO NRW . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): Right-wing populism as a “citizen movement”: Campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-91119-9 , p. 90, p. 88–93, p. 90.
4. ↑ Lawsuit of the DVU regional associations against the DVU application by Judith Wolter ( Memento of the original of August 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Pascal Beucker : Not much going on outside of Cologne. In: the daily newspaper , September 3, 2009.
6. ↑ Candidate list of the party for the 2010 election campaign ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Stephan Braun , Anton Maegerle : Lawyers of the extreme right , Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2009, p. 390f.
9. ^ Image document Wolter (left), Crämer (middle) and Beisicht (right).
10. ↑ Pro Cologne and the extreme right - a small selection. In: Cologne on the far right ( Memento from June 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Interview with the magazine First!
12. ↑ Pascal Beucker : "Pro Köln" confuses right with right. In: the daily newspaper , September 3, 2004.