Klaus-Jürgen Menzel

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Klaus-Jürgen Menzel (born March 22, 1940 in Bernsdorf ) is a German politician . He entered the Saxon state parliament for the NPD in 2004 , but resigned from the party after he had been expelled from the parliamentary group. In 2009 he left the state parliament.

Political career

After completing an agricultural apprenticeship, Menzel worked as a farmer in Sweden and Denmark, among others. After returning to Germany, he worked as an agricultural consultant, independent hunting agent and farmer in Lower Saxony and Saxony. He was a member of the DRP from 1959 to 1964, a member of the NPD from 1967 to 1973, the Greens , the ödp and the Republicans (assessor in the Lower Saxony state board). In 2002 he re-joined the NPD. He was deputy NPD state chairman in Saxony. On January 24, 2007, Menzel resigned from the NPD. Previously, a party expulsion procedure had become pending at the NPD Federal Arbitration Court. Menzel was deputy chairman of the revanchist "Interest Group for the Reunification of All Germany" (IWG) observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Menzel has close ties to the militant neo-Nazi " Free Comradeships ". In the 1990s he worked as a teacher for "History, Religion, Art" at the "Kameradschaft Bremerhaven".

From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the Saxon state parliament . Until his parliamentary group expulsion at the end of 2006, he was a member of the NPD parliamentary group. Menzel was a member of the "Environment and Agriculture" committee of the Saxon state parliament as well as a deputy member of the petitions committee and the "School and Sport" committee of the Saxon state parliament. His personal colleague was Peter Naumann . On January 21, 2005, Menzel and the NPD parliamentary group left the plenary session in order not to take part in a minute of silence for the victims of the National Socialist terror.

However, Menzel came under criticism several times as a member of parliament. After the NPD MPs Holger Apfel and Johannes Müller had polemicized against the EU policy in Brussels in June 2005 , the SPD parliamentary group leader Cornelius Weiss pointed out that the agricultural spokesman for the NPD, Klaus-Jürgen Menzel, himself had at the end of the 1990s had already collected EU funds. Menzel had registered agricultural land near Verden for closure, although the field was cultivated with field crops. In addition, Menzel is said to have neither been the tenant nor the manager of the 21.9 hectare area. He later had to repay the wrongly collected set-aside premium of 15,900 euros to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Agriculture . Apparently in order to escape the recourse claims, he registered his residence in Beverstedt near Verden. On October 7, 2002, he took an oath of disclosure in the Weißwasser district court. After receiving the parliamentary allowance, the payment notification was sent to him again.

In October 2006, the plenary session of the Saxon state parliament lifted Menzel's immunity. The background to this is criminal proceedings for undecided false testimony and thwarting of punishment. Menzel was officially expelled from the NPD parliamentary group on November 14, 2006 because of financial irregularities after he had declared in a television interview that he still stood by Adolf Hitler.

On December 12, 2006, the meanwhile non-party Menzel had a revolver smuggled into the plenary hall of the state parliament. A visitor had received a bag from Menzel in which the revolver was found during an inspection at the entrance. Thereupon Menzel, who admitted to the act, received an unlimited house ban. The following sentence of nine months in prison for illicit gun possession was overturned for formal errors.

Another scandal occurred during a state parliament debate on October 17, 2008, which had been requested by the NPD on the subject of "The understanding of democracy in the Saxon bloc parties after the district elections". In his speech, Menzel called for violence against individual groups of people: You don't need to raise your hands, you can raise them on August 30th next year, then you won't be here anymore. [...] Long speeches do not help against Zionists , Freemasons , warmongers and other psychopaths, only hand grenades. But where Rotfront and Antifa live , no slogans help, only the bazooka. Representatives of all democratic parties in the state parliament reacted indignantly. State Parliament President Erich Iltgen called the statements unbearable. Menzel was expelled from the chamber and received a disciplinary punishment. The next ten times he was no longer allowed to attend the sessions of the state parliament. It was the first time that the Saxon state parliament exhausted these sanctions since the state was reconstituted after reunification. The month before, Menzel had already said in a debate in the state parliament, in which, at the request of the NPD, the state of Saxony should make an attempt to delete the paragraph on incitement to hatred (§ 130) from the criminal code : The plague of this and the previous century is and remains Zionism . The contribution was given a call for order.

Klaus-Jürgen Menzel was sentenced to two years probation for breach of trust because he had arranged hunting trips without permission.

Quotes

  • “ History has already pronounced its verdict, and that is: acquittal for our people, acquittal for the Reich government, acquittal for the Greater German Wehrmacht. We're here again today and no power in the world is taking us away. "(From a speech on May 8, 2004)
  • “ Let Odin be my witness, the subsidies were forced on me by the Jews in Brussels. With this they want to dissolve the German national substance. "(Reaction to an interim question from the SPD parliamentary group leader Cornelius Weiss, who pointed to a subsidy fraud committed by Menzel in the 1990s with EU area premiums; Dresden, June 22, 2005)
  • About Adolf Hitler : “ I still consider the Führer to be a great statesman, perhaps one of the greatest we have ever had. I stand by that. "
  • “ If it is already tied to a date, I would like the borders of September 1, '39, that is, including the Sudetenland and Austria. "
  • “ I still stand by the Führer. There is no mistaking it. Nothing has changed. How should. "(At the NPD party congress on November 11, 2006)
  • “ I stand by the Führer, I said - as before. "(In an interview with the satire magazine EXTRA 3)
  • " I am an absolute advocate of the reintroduction of the death penalty - I stand by it! " (Also in the EXTRA 3 interview)
  • About Peter Porsch : " When I look at Peter Porsch, the other Austrian becomes more and more likeable "

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ N-tv: NPD MPs in Saxony. Landtag lifts immunity ; News from October 11, 2006
  2. ^ Spiegel: Ex-NPD member of parliament has revolvers smuggled into the state parliament ; News from December 13, 2006
  3. ^ Spiegel: Right-wing extremist calls for armed violence against political opponents ; News from October 17, 2008
  4. ↑ report
  5. ^ Report in the Süddeutsche Zeitung ; Report in the mirror
  6. ↑ Report in the mirror
  7. ↑ a b RBB - Contrasts: Stable "Right": The tourist destination Saxon Switzerland becomes the stronghold of the NPD ; Broadcast on September 22, 2005
  8. ↑ a b taz (ap): MP stands by the leader
personal data
SURNAME Menzel, Klaus-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politicians (DRP, REP, NPD), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernsdorf