Karl Richter (politician, 1962)

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Karl Richter, 2018

Karl Richter (born April 22, 1962 in Munich ) is a German right-wing extremist politician (non-party, formerly NPD ), publicist and author . He represented the List of Citizens' Initiative Foreigners Stop Munich (BIA) from 2008 to 2020 in the Munich City Council .

Life

School education and studies

After graduating from high school at Munich's Luitpold High School and completing military service , Richter studied history , folklore , Sanskrit and musicology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Worked for the Bundeswehr as a reservist and consultant

Richter, who did his basic military service in the German Armed Forces until 1982 , took part in military exercises as an active reservist in the function of a trainer at the 233 mountain hunter battalion in Mittenwald . Most recently in the rank of a staff sergeant in the reserve, the studied historian was also active in the Defense District Command 65 "Upper Bavaria" (Munich) for political education . a. he conducted political seminars on the subject of right-wing extremism . At the end of 2003, his reserve activity was stopped by the Bundeswehr after the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) had informed the responsible military authorities about Richter's right-wing extremist background after the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) had informed them. A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Defense said that his superiors had not noticed right-wing extremist sentiments up until then. The Bavarian state board of the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces expelled Richter because of his illegal activities for the right-wing extremist citizens' initiative Ausländerstopp 2010.

Others

In a magazine article entitled A Symbiosis That Never Was : “Christian-Jewish” Legacy , Richter spread anti-Semitic ideas and wrote of the “infiltration of global 'world conscience' with the Holocaust dogma, which refers to the worldwide enthronement of a Jewish special- Identity at the expense of any other national integrity. "

He did not blame right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik for the attacks in Norway in July 2011 , in which 77 people were killed , but rather the political system that provoked such actions. He puts the investigation against the Zwickau terrorists of the NSU on a par with the break- ins of Eastern European gangs ; The murders were planned less in right-wing extremist circles than in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . Richter demanded the end of the planned NS Documentation Center in Munich, which was a "superfluous grave of millions". The Hitler assassin Georg Elser is in his eyes a "bomber with insidious intention to kill". Richter is in contact with Martin Wiese . During the COVID-19 pandemic , judges spread violent fantasies on the NPD Facebook page, according to which it would be “bloody” and at the end “the fall of the regime and its European and transatlantic backers to hell” (with the latter on the scene are US American Jews meant).

politics

Political career 1989–2007

From 1989 to 1994 Richter was a consultant for the MP of the party The Republicans (REP) in the European Parliament and former NPD functionary (1969–1972, 1975–1980) Harald Neubauer . When Neubauer became chairman of the Bavarian REP regional association, Richter followed him as press spokesman .

After Neubauer was expelled from the Republicans in July 1990 after internal party struggles with the then chairman of the Republicans, Franz Schönhuber , Richter also left the REP and, at the request of the then chief editor and subsequent editor of the magazine Nation und Europa (NE; discontinued in 2009), Peter Dehoust , the post of editor-in-chief of the NE. In October 1991 Neubauer, Richter and others founded the German League for People and Homeland (DLVH). In the same year, Karl Richter became editor-in-chief of the new party organ “Deutsche Rundschau”, which in 1994 merged with the magazine “Nation und Europa”, which had been merged with the German monthly magazine since 1990 .

In addition, Richter was editor-in-chief of the right-wing extremist magazine Opposition from 1998 until his appointment in 2002 . Since then he has been on the editorial board of the journal Deutsche Geschichte , headed by Gert Sudholt ( Society for Free Publishing ) and published by the Berg publishing house . Europe and the world active. Furthermore, Richter published in the Junge Freiheit and in the journal Die Aula, which is related to the FPÖ .

When the NPD moved into the Saxon state parliament in 2004, he was a scientific advisor to the parliamentary group. From 2004 to 2020 he was a member of the NPD.

Membership in the Munich City Council since 2008

In the local elections in Bavaria in 2008 , Richter was the top candidate of the citizens' initiative to stop foreigners in Munich and was elected to the city council with 1.4 percent as its only candidate.

When he was inaugurated on May 2, members of the CSU parliamentary group of the Munich city council observed how he raised his right hand in the Hitler salute when he was sworn in , and then filed a complaint. In the first instance, Richter was sentenced in August 2008 by the Munich District Court to a fine of 5,600 euros. Judge's defense lawyer Sewarion Kirkitadze announced a revision after this judgment . In the June 2009 revision, he was finally sentenced to a fine of € 2,880. As a result, Richter was sworn in again on July 29, 2009, as the first oath had lost its validity due to the final conviction.

Richter's motions in the city council are rejected by the other parties as a matter of principle, his speeches ignored. According to the mayor of the time, Christian Ude, “the NPD does not succeed at all [...] in organizing a right-wing spectacle”.

From spring 2008 to January 2014, Karl Richter was also editor-in-chief of the NPD party newspaper German Voice .

In the state elections in Bavaria in 2008 , he ran unsuccessfully for the NPD in the district of Munich-Ramersdorf ( constituency of Upper Bavaria ).

At the national party conference of the NPD in April 2009 in Berlin , Richter was elected deputy national chairman.

In the municipal elections in Bavaria in 2014 in Munich, Richter ran again as Lord Mayor and for the Munich City Council. While he failed as an OB candidate with 0.4 percent, he again achieved a mandate in the local parliament with 0.7 percent of the votes cast. In 2016 Richter spoke several times as a speaker at rallies for the Munich Pegida offshoot.

In the local elections in Bavaria in 2020 , the BIA only achieved 0.2 percent; Richter thus lost his seat on the city council.

Publications

literature

  • Raimund Hethey: NPD instrumentalizes the Saxon state parliament. In: The Right Edge . No. 92 Jan./Febr. 2005, 8f.

Web links

Commons : Karl Richter (Politiker, 1962)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press and Information Office of the City of Munich (ed.): Handbuch des Münchner Stadtrats 2013 . Munich 2013, p. 39 ( PDF ).
  2. ↑ Check the rights. In: Netz gegen Nazis , April 15, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Hans Canjé: Everything completely harmless ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Ossietzky (magazine) , 07/2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sopos.org
  4. ^ A b Claudia Naujoks: Local election Bavaria: The historian Karl Richter and the "Citizens' Initiative Foreigners Stop" (BIA). In: Endstation Rechts , February 29, 2008.
  5. ^ "When Hitler shook my hand" In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 1, 2004.
  6. ↑ a b c Dominik Hutter: Right, perfidious, unsuccessful. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 23, 2011.
  7. ^ Anton Maegerle : Obersalzberg to the NSU. The extreme right and the political culture of the Federal Republic 1988–2013. Edition Critic, Berlin 2013, p. 349. ISBN 978-3-9814548-6-4
  8. ↑ Maria Fiedler: Conspiracy theories, propaganda, chaos: How right-wing extremists ignite in the corona crisis. www.tagesspiegel.de, March 27, 2020
  9. ↑ Former state chairman and deputy federal chairman - Karl Richter resigns from NPD from Thomas Witzgall terminus Rechts Bayern April 14, 2020
  10. ↑ Neo-Nazis move into the city council. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 3, 2008.
  11. ↑ Bettina Link: Hitler salute: fine for city council. In: Münchner Merkur , August 22, 2008.
  12. ↑ Tobias Schulze: A neo-Nazi for the Munich city council: Leberkas über alles In: taz.de from March 15, 2014.
  13. ↑ Press report on Pegida Munich, Sept. 5, 2016 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lintention.com
  14. ↑ Dominik Hutter: Greens will be the strongest force in the city council
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist, parliamentary advisor to the NPD state parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich