Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (right-wing extremist)

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Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (born October 27, 1937 in Nuremberg ) became known as a German neo-Nazi . He was the founder of the right-wing terrorist military sports group Hoffmann named after him and banned in 1980 .

childhood and education

Hoffmann was born in Nuremberg in 1937. His father was a doctor and died in World War II in 1940 . The family was evacuated during the air raids on Nuremberg to Kahla in Thuringia , where Hoffmann grew up. He learned the profession of porcelain painter and became a member of the Society for Sport and Technology (GST). In 1953 he fled to the Federal Republic of Germany and returned to Nuremberg. There he began training as a graphic designer and then attended the Nuremberg Academy for Fine Arts and finally the Art Academy in Munich .

Until 1989

In the 1950s Hoffmann made several trips to Turkey , Iran and India . In 1968 he appeared in the uniform of an officer of the Air Force of the Armed Forces at an event in Nuremberg Café along with some men in SS - uniforms and women in BDM apparels to an audio tape noise of grenades howling and machine-gun fire on. He got involved as a "youth consultant" at the re-established front-line combatant organization Stahlhelm . Hoffmann stated several times that he was not pursuing any neo-Nazi goals. However, he speculated about Austria's reconnection to Germany, which is why he was denied entry to Austria for an indefinite period due to National Socialist propaganda, and he also expressed great admiration for the person of Adolf Hitler.

"It would be quite simply foolish to deny that Adolf Hitler was brilliant and that he undoubtedly did a lot of things here that we are slowly coming back to today, doing them again."

- Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, 1974

1973 Hoffmann founded the military sports group named after him Hoffmann . This was banned in 1980 as an anti-constitutional organization.

Hoffmann had contacts with the DVU boss and publisher of the Deutsche National-Zeitung Gerhard Frey . In 1976 Frey took over Hoffmann's court costs of 8,000 DM "out of national solidarity".

On December 19, 1980, the Jewish publisher and former chairman of the Israelite religious community in Nuremberg, Shlomo Lewin , and his partner Frieda Poeschke were shot in Erlangen by Uwe Behrendt , a member of the military sports group Hoffmann. Hoffmann's involvement or a murder assignment given by him was suspected, but could not be proven. There was never a conviction because the alleged perpetrator committed suicide.

On June 16, 1981, Hoffmann was arrested at Frankfurt Airport and charged with various offenses. For counterfeiting of money , deprivation of liberty , dangerous bodily harm and violations of the Arms and Explosives Act, he was sentenced in 1984 by the Nuremberg-Fürth district court to a prison sentence of nine years and six months, which he served in Bayreuth . He was released from prison in 1989 because of good conduct and “favorable social prognosis”. The WSG had meanwhile become a myth in the neo-Nazi scene; There are, for example, T-shirts with the likeness of the “boss”, as Hoffmann called himself, referring to Ernst Röhm .

Development after 1989

Ermreuth Castle

After his release from prison, Hoffmann and his wife Franziska founded several construction and renovation companies in Nuremberg and the surrounding area in the early 1990s. The company conglomerate later included up to 15 companies. When the Wall came down in the GDR, he moved to Kahla, got his parents' house back and renovated or built numerous offices and apartments here. Larger parts of downtown Kahla, including over a dozen houses, came into the possession of the couple, who were among the largest investors in the small town. Real estate was also acquired in Nuremberg for the purpose of renovation. Hoffmann also ran two antique shops in Nuremberg and Munich.

A restaurant operated by Hoffmann developed into a meeting place for the local neo-Nazi scene. At the same time, he made contact with former comrades -in- arms such as ex-WSG "Unterführer" Bernd Grett, who is now working for the NPD in Saxony , or the ex-WSG "officer" Anton Pfahler . Hoffmann also had business relationships with Wilhelm Tell , an architect and head of the Republicans in Jena . From the end of 2000 Hoffmann increasingly withdrew from Kahla and moved back to Schloss Ermreuth near Neunkirchen am Brand , where the headquarters of the WSG had already been located. The companies in Kahla were largely liquidated . In 2004 he acquired several properties in Kohren-Sahlis , West Saxony , including a former manor with a manor house and stables, where the writer Börries von Münchhausen once lived. For the manor Sahlis Hoffmann created the non-profit Fiduciary Cultural Foundation Schloss Sahlis in order to receive funding for the preservation of the cultural monument Schloss Sahlis . Between 2005 and 2007, he received around 130,000 euros from the Free State of Saxony for maintenance and care . Hoffmann raised organic wool pigs there . In the meantime he described himself as “a socialist eco- fascist ”.

In 2010 Hoffmann gave a lecture at Gasthof Zollwitz in Hausdorf near Colditz . Hoffmann's apartment and his estate were then searched by forces on suspicion of a planned bomb attack as part of an investigation into a neo-Nazi group around André Kapke . The search was unsuccessful. After the terrorist activities of the National Socialist underground , to which Kapke had a connection, the Jena public prosecutor announced that the investigations would be restarted.

In 2011 Hoffmann announced a presentation on his website in the so-called “National Center” of the NPD in Leipzig on the subjects of “Legally questionable methods of the German judiciary”, “The problem of global overpopulation and the effects on our living space” and “The true history of the Hoffmann military sports group " on. A few days after the NSU murders and assaults became known, the event was canceled because, according to Hoffmann's statements, "the NPD thinks that, given the anti-fascist tsunami triggered by the reporting on the 'Zwickau Cell', it can not allow itself ".

In 2012 Hoffmann gave twelve lectures nationwide, as he told Report Mainz , three of them in Baden-Württemberg and one in the West Palatinate. According to Hoffmann, functionaries of the banned neo-Nazi organization “ Wiking-Jugend ” also took part. The recording of the presentation of his book on the NSU on October 27, 2012 in Ermreuth was put online as a YouTube video, as was the conversation about "rights violence" with the journalist Olaf Sundermeyer on August 1, 2012 in Ermreuth. Sundermeyer used the conversation for his book Right Terror in Germany - A History of Violence , published on October 23, 2012 .

In 2016, the Wyhratal wastewater association obtained the foreclosure auction of Schloss Sahlis due to unpaid wastewater fees.

Works

  • Betrayal and loyalty. Myth and tragedy of the military sports group Hoffmann. Novel. Themis Verlag, Neunkirchen 1985, ISBN 3-926913-00-2 .
  • The Oktoberfest legend / targeted suspicions as a political weapon in the "democratic constitutional state". German Voice Publishing House , Riesa 2011, ISBN 978-3-935102-40-7 .
  • The NSU Trio or: "... thrown a handful of dirt in the wind." Critical examination of the book DIE ZELLE. Themis Verlag, Neunkirchen 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-040216-6 .
  • Life memories. First volume 1937–1971. Themis Verlag, Neunkirchen 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045781-4 .
  • Life memories. Second volume 1971–1980. Themis Verlag, Neunkirchen 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050083-1 .
  • Political analyzes and visions with 35. Critical self-commented with 65. Thought over and additionally explained with 73. Themis Verlag, Neunkirchen 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056912-8 .

literature

  • Rainer Fromm : The "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann": Presentation, analysis and classification: a contribution to the history of German and European right-wing extremism. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1998.
  • Andrea Röpke : Ex-WSG boss buys manor. In: look to the right. No. 9/2004.
  • Andrea Röpke, Berny Vogl: What is actually ...? Karl-Heinz Hoffmann. In: The right margin. No. 84 September / October 2003.
  • Patrick Moreau : Les héritiers du IIIe Reich. L'extrême droite allemande de 1945 à nos jours. Paris 1994.
  • Ulrich Chaussy : Oktoberfest . The assassination. How the suppression of right-wing terror began. Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86153-757-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Grumke , Bernd Wagner : Handbook right-wing radicalism : people, organizations, networks: from neo-Nazism to the middle of society . Leske & Buderich, 2002, p. 170.
  2. ↑ You would have lost your laughter . In: Der Spiegel. 48/1980, p. 76f.
  3. ^ The military sports group Hoffmann. In: Panorama . March 11, 1974. (online)
  4. ^ Wolfgang Most: Association of individual perpetrators: Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann. In: haGalil onLine . January 3, 2006, accessed January 1, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Federal Minister of the Interior, Constitutional Protection Report 1984 , 1985, p. 194.
  6. ↑ Moses and pigs. In: Der Spiegel . 31/1989, July 31, 1989.
  7. ↑ Small inquiry (printed matter 5/4674) from the Saxon state parliament member Kerstin Köditz
  8. ^ A b Karl-Heinz Hoffmann: His website is a parade ground for conspiracy theories . In: The time . February 3, 2016, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed May 9, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Investigators arrest neo-Nazis on suspicion of terrorism , fr-online.de November 29, 2011.
  10. ↑ spiegel.de
  11. ^ After the Nazi series of murders: "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann" in the sights of the investigators. In: The world. November 17, 2011.
  12. ^ Christian Fuchs: NPD invites right-wing extremist speakers. In: Spiegel-online. November 27, 2011.
  13. ↑ swr.de
  14. ↑ swr.de
  15. ↑ nordbayern.de
  16. ^ LVZ-Online: Right-wing extremist withdraws from Saxony - Karl-Heinz Hoffmann's manor in Kohren-Sahlis is foreclosed on auction - LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
  17. ^ Thomas M .: The hustle and bustle of the Kohren Sahlis manor Karl Heinz Hoffmann (MDR 01/27/16). February 4, 2016, accessed May 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg