Horst-Werner Nilges

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Horst-Werner Nilges , known as Knöllchen-Horst , (* 1953 or 1954) is a German early retiree who is known for his private reports of traffic violations . He lives in Badenhausen near Osterode am Harz .

He has filed around 56,000 reports since 2004 (as of 2017). He became known nationwide through the false report from the German Press Agency (dpa) that he had reported a rescue helicopter in use because of illegal parking.

Life

Horst-Werner Nilges was a mechanical engineer and taxi driver. After his early retirement, he began to report traffic violations in the Osterode district in 2004 . A local radio station he justified his work with the fact that he wanted to make people more law-abiding. He reports ten to fifteen reports to the Osterode district per working day. According to the district administration , many of them are not being prosecuted because either trivial items are reported or evidence is missing. In December 2005, Nilges had to answer for several false reports in court and was sentenced to 15 daily rates of 40 euros. In the opinion of the Göttingen public prosecutor's office, the collection of the data in a private file does not violate applicable law, as it only documents the cases reported by itself. He also filed charges in Duderstadt .

Nilges failed with his lawsuit against the local editor Uwe Lowin, who asked in an article why Nilges had enjoyed early retirement with so much energy for his surveillance activities for decades.

The city administration of Osterode hired another employee to process the notifications from Nilges.

Nilges is also committed to ensuring that politicians and administrations comply with applicable law. For example, he filed a complaint against the city of Osterode and the police with the state of Lower Saxony . The community had to lower sewage charges. He reported the district of Osterode for fraud. After the investigations of the public prosecutor's office, the district administration revised the waste fee regulations.

The TV broadcaster RTL reported in 2011 on the program “The 10 Crazy Germans” of a process in which Nilges was fined ten euros for speeding.

In 2013 the Lower Saxony Higher Administrative Court found that Nilges was engaged in "denunciation activity" and that the authorities could not force the authorities to prosecute the alleged administrative offenses he had recorded. This was preceded by a lawsuit by Nilges after the district increasingly refused to pursue the bagatelles he had reported. In 2014, he placed around 600 advertisements in the Göttingen district . Businessmen from Duderstadt wrote open letters to the city that the accumulation was “bad for business”, those affected felt “persecuted and spied on”. The public order offices in Duderstadt announced that the reports will be handled by contact area officials on site.

In January 2015, Nilges filed a complaint against Dolly Buster and demanded 1,500 euros in compensation for pain and suffering . According to reports from the newspaper Harz Kurier, Dolly Buster is said to have said in a public television appearance that he “probably got excited about it”. The Osterode district court dismissed his complaint, however, as the word “cool” in this case does not represent a degradation. In addition, he had already won 400 euros from RTL because of the statement. In February 2015, Nilges filed a criminal complaint against the comedian Dietmar Wischmeyer , who had referred to him in the series “Günther the tractor driver” on radio ffn as “old stinker”, “Knöllchen-Nazi” and “Horst, the bugger”.

At the end of 2014, the Federal Constitutional Court imposed an abuse fee of 1000 euros on him because of an inadmissible constitutional complaint . In this complaint, he reprimanded a judge's trial director.

In 2015, Nilges filed around 5000 reports, of which only 30 were processed.

In October 2016, the Göttingen Administrative Court confirmed an order from the state commissioner for data protection in Lower Saxony in the urgent legal protection proceedings for the use of dashcams , according to which "the use of these cameras to document traffic events is prohibited". In April 2017, Nilges was fined 250 euros by the Hanover District Court for filming another road user with a dashcam and attaching this material to one of his advertisements.

Quotes

“I don't sit at the regulars' table and talk about problems. I sit at my desk and work on it. ”- Nilges to a journalist for Stern .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Zgoll: "Knöllchen-Horst" is not allowed to film traffic offenders. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung . April 10, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c Artur Fischer-Meny: Keep it up, Horst Nilges! In: stern.de blog by Artur Fischer-Meny. September 29, 2008, archived from the original on September 17, 2011 ; accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Gückel, Christoph Oppermann: "Knöllchen-Horst" shows "tractor driver" Dietmar Wischmeyer. Because of "stinky boots". In: Göttinger Tageblatt . February 2, 2015, accessed on February 23, 2016 : “The Tageblatt was also displayed because it published a text from the German Press Agency (DPA) online. In it the false claim that Nilges had reported the crew of the rescue helicopter because of wrong parking. In fact, he never has. Only as a footnote did he also mention in a list of administrative offense reports against parking offenders that the rescue helicopter landed on the sidewalk in Herzberg on that day. "
  4. ↑ Pensioner reports rescue helicopter due to improper parking. In: Hello Germany. ZDF , accessed on February 23, 2016 (YouTube video).
  5. ↑ Felix Helbig: Horst Nilges clarifies. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 17, 2009
  6. ↑ a b c Gunnar Vogt: The pedant of Osterode. In: The time . December 19, 2006
  7. ↑ a b “The 10 Craziest Germans” with Sonja Zietlow , loomee-tv.de, July 25, 2011, accessed on January 7, 2012
  8. ↑ "Knöllchen-Horst" now hunts in a larger area. In: RP Online . October 18, 2012
  9. ↑ a b Nilges again. Report in the ARD television magazine Brisant ( YouTube )
  10. ↑ Claus Peter Müller: Hate figure from the Harz - "Knöllchen-Horst" has to pay ten euros. In: FAZ . 4th August 2010
  11. ^ The court certifies "Knöllchen-Horst" denunciation. In: Der Spiegel . Retrieved September 25, 2013
  12. ↑ "Knöllchen-Horst" expands its hunting area. Parker hunters from Lower Saxony. In: Göttinger Tageblatt. December 8, 2014, accessed February 8, 2015
  13. ↑ Kuno Mahnkopf: "Knöllchen-Horst" annoys retailers. Accusation of spying. In: Göttinger Tageblatt. November 28, 2014, accessed February 8, 2015
  14. ^ Fear of informers: "Knöllchen-Horst" arrived in Duderstadt. In: Thuringian General . December 11, 2014, accessed December 16, 2014
  15. ↑ "Knöllchen-Horst" fails with lawsuit against Dolly Buster. In: Spiegel Online . January 29, 2015
  16. ↑ "Knöllchen-Horst" shows comedian Dietmar Wischmeyer. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine . 3rd February 2015
  17. ↑ Federal Constitutional Court, decision of September 15, 2014, Az. 2 BvR 1746/14, link to the decision
  18. ^ Complaint in Karlsruhe: "Knöllchen-Horst" has to pay 1000 euros. In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine. February 4, 2015, accessed February 7, 2015
  19. ↑ Self-proclaimed law enforcement officer - "Knöllchen-Horst" reported more than 5000 traffic offenders in 2015. In: stern . 4th January 2016.
  20. ↑ State Commissioner for Data Protection Lower Saxony: Decision of the Administrative Court of Göttingen - Court confirms data protection ruling against "Knöllchen-Horst" November 2, 2016
  21. ↑ Alexander Gratz: AG Hannover: 250 euros fine for "Knöllchen-Horst" for dashcam recordings of traffic violations on verkehrsrecht.gfu.com, August 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Nilges, Horst-Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knöllchen-Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pensioners, complainants of traffic violations
DATE OF BIRTH 1953 or 1954