Kay Diesner

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Kay Diesner (* 1972 in Berlin-Friedrichshain ) is a German former neo-Nazi . From 1997 to 2016 he served a life sentence in the Lübeck correctional facility for the attempted murder of the 63-year-old bookseller Klaus Baltruschat and the murder of the 34-year-old police chief Stefan Grage.

Career

Diesner grew up in East Berlin and fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in the summer of 1989 . There he immediately made contact with neo-Nazi groups. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he was one of the squatters in Berlin's Weitlingstrasse . The first ideological training courses and military sports exercises took place here. The later dropout Ingo Hasselbach was an important mentor for the then seventeen year old . Their contact was through the neo-Nazi group “ National Alternative ”. After Hasselbach left, Diesner met Arnulf Priem , the Berlin leader of the German alternative . On August 13, 1994, the weekend before the anniversary of Rudolf Heß's death , the occasion for annual neo-Nazi marches, there was an anti-fascist demonstration at Priem's ​​apartment. Priem holed up together with 25 other people in the attic of the house. When journalists in front of the house were shot with a slingshot, a special task force of the police, accompanied by a television team, stormed the attic. All 25 people were arrested, including Kay Diesner. House searches and trials followed. Diesner was sentenced to a fine and Priem received a four-year prison term.

Background to the murder

On February 15, 1997, the Young National Democrats (JN) wanted to hold a demonstration in Berlin-Hellersdorf . Due to the broad counter-mobilization, they preferred to convert the demonstration into a hall event followed by a concert by "a very well-known national songwriter". The Wuhletal S- / U-Bahn station was specified as the meeting point . There there were clashes with the counter-demonstrators. The neo-Nazi scene blamed the PDS ruling in Hellersdorf , also because the district mayor Uwe Klett had spoken out in favor of the protests and against the JN demonstration. On February 19, 1997, early in the morning, Kay Diesner went to the PDS district office armed with a pump gun. Gregor Gysi's office was also located in the house . The bookstore of the then 63-year-old Klaus Baltruschat from Berlin-Marzahn was on the ground floor . Diesner shot at him and seriously injured him. Baltruschat's left forearm had to be amputated.

On his escape he ran into a police check on February 23, 1997 in the Roseburg car park on the A 24 in the Duchy of Lauenburg in Schleswig-Holstein. Here there was a firefight, during which Diesner fatally injured 34-year-old police chief Stefan Grage and seriously injured another officer. In the further course of events, Diesner fired at two other police officers and was arrested, even hit by a projectile.

The process

In the trial before the Lübeck Regional Court , Diesner was emphatically unapologetic. Although he admitted the acts without further ado, he stated that he “did not feel guilty in terms of the lying indictment”. He also refused to apologize from the victims' family members. Rather, he mocked his victim by calling him a " cop " who was one of those who "had to be shot in the back, in the head wherever you hit them". In the overall assessment, Public Prosecutor Günter Moeller came to the conclusion that Diesner was a one-man terrorist cell. Diesner became a lifelong imprisonment convicted. In addition, the particular gravity of the guilt was determined. Early release from prison after 15 years is therefore not possible. The question of whether right-wing organizations had played a role in the crimes remained open in the process. According to the judgment, Diesner was the "sole subject" of the negotiation.

Distance from neo-Nazism

In an interview with the Berliner Zeitung in February 2013, Diesner said that he had turned away from the neo-Nazi scene. His deeds, which he committed out of “confused ideological hatred”, were “madness” and he felt sorry for them today. He had come to his senses during his imprisonment and had meanwhile "broken off all contact with the Nazis". On the other hand, in an article in a right-wing extremist prison newspaper in 2009, Diesner described his victim in Berlin as a "Bolshevik functionary" who "was just unlucky that I met him" and showed no remorse. Until at least 2008 Diesner was also represented by the right-wing extremist aid organization for national political prisoners and their relatives , as he had not lost "faith in a free national Germany" and hoped "unbowedly" for "a major turnaround for the people and homeland". In the last "prisoner list" of the 2011 banned HNG, Diesner was still listed as a prisoner who wanted to contact us by letter. The Tagesspiegel reported on February 7, 2017 that he had already been released in June 2016. According to the Lübeck public prosecutor's office, Diesner had turned away from the neo-Nazi scene and was no longer a threat. The administration of the Lübeck prison , where Diesner had served his sentence , also took this view . Diesner's victims were not informed of their release.

literature

  • Laura Benedict: Longing for bondage. The Kay Diesner case and the right-wing scene. Investigations on the spot. Edition Ost, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932180-36-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ apartments of right-wing extremists searched - 08/17/94
  2. ^ Associations: Armed Piles . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1994 ( online ).
  3. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/anklaeger-verzeichen-einen-weiteren-anstieg-der-straftaten-mit-radikalem-grund-die-rechte-gewalt-marschiert,10810590,8876794.html
  4. ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/nach-verhaftungen-sind-neonazis-weniger-aktiv-rechte-szene-verunsichert--drei-ihrer-fuehrer-sitzen,10810590,8882620.html
  5. ↑ Nazi_O-Ton_Nationales_Infotelefon_Berlin _-_ Ansagen_Wuhletal _-_ Kai_Diesner.mp3 (8.1M)
  6. ↑ A Berlin bookseller who was gunned down by a neo-Nazi doesn't just want to talk about the attack in a rescheduled trial. A victim's plea. By Peter Brock on October 29, 1999
  7. ↑ Injured, treated - forgotten? ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) By Frank Jansen , published in the Tagesspiegel on April 6, 1997
  8. ↑ June 4, 2012 The Bookseller and the Neo-Nazi
  9. ↑ Online: ( Memento from October 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 8.9 MB) BfV special right-wing extremism, No. 21: "Danger of an armed struggle by German right-wing extremists. Developments from 1997 to mid-2004". P. 13
  10. ↑ Right-wing extremist Diesner - It remains with life imprisonment , Spiegel Online , December 8, 1999
  11. ↑ a b The bookseller and the neo-Nazi . taz, June 4, 2012
  12. ↑ Nadja Erb: Kai Diesner and right-wing extremism: Once a Nazi, always a Nazi? . Frankfurter Rundschau, February 21, 2013
  13. ↑ Bundestag printed paper 16/13369 . German Bundestag - 16th electoral term, June 16, 2009
  14. ↑ Frank Jansen: After 19 years in prison: Berlin police murderer free again police & justice. In: tagesspiegel.de . Retrieved February 7, 2017 .
  15. ^ Neo-Nazi Kay Diesner is free again. The day the victims fear. Tagesspiegel February 17, 2017 . Retrieved October 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Diesner, Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neo-Nazi
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Friedrichshain