Freisler command
| Freisler command | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Right skirt |
| Founding members | |
| Oliver Keudel | |
| Erik S. | |
| Sebastian Kramm | |
Kommando Freisler is a right-wing rock band from Vellmar near Kassel, which attracted attention for its texts that openly glorify National Socialism and the Holocaust and which have been the subject of several investigations.
Name of the band
The name refers to Roland Freisler , the President of the People's Court , the highest court of the Nazi German state for political criminal matters. As a judge, Freisler was responsible for thousands of death sentences in the negotiations he led during the last three years of the Nazi regime.
In 2003 the now indexed CD “Geheime Reichssache” was produced for the first time and has been distributed in the neo-Nazi scene since spring 2004. The booklet shows a portrait of Freisler with a depiction of Justitia and the hanged members of the military resistance Karl Biedermann , who was convicted and executed only 3 months after Freisler's death, and in the background an excerpt from Freisler's certificate of appointment as President of the People's Court. Freissler's death sentence for priest Hermann Josef Wehrle serves as the intro of the CD .
Content of the texts
The texts are strongly anti-Semitic and openly glorify National Socialism. The song “The flag lowers” ends with the National Socialist greeting “ Sieg Heil! ".
Well-known German hits such as “In the car before me drives a young girl” by Henry Valentino and “Beinhart” by Torfrock or folk songs such as “ Die Vogelhochzeit ” are used as melodies and are sometimes replaced by texts that are based on the original and that show open racism and confession to express the Ku Klux Klan . The texts correspond to the ambivalent attitude towards the Holocaust that is widespread in the extreme right . On the one hand, this is denied and portrayed as a lie (e.g. in "Das Poisongas"), on the other hand, the genocide of the Jews is glorified and there is a positive reference to the Nazi concentration camps .
Indexing and Police Investigations
The band's first CD was indexed on August 31, 2004. The reason given was that the texts were predominantly anti-Semitic and fulfilled the criminal offense of Section 130 (2) StGB ( sedition ).
According to the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office, the band enjoys cult status in the neo-Nazi scene due to their mixture of popular hit melodies and neo-Nazi texts. In order to avoid possible prosecution, the production of illegal CDs has been relocated abroad in recent years, presumably to Scandinavian countries. The sound carriers are still intended for the German market.
In October 2007 the police searched the apartments of the NPD chairman Thorsten Heise and the neo-Nazi songwriter couple Michael and Annett Müller . Heise is accused by the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office of being the author of the "Geheime Reichssache" CD by Freissler Command.
In November 2007 the group released their second CD “Buy, Hear, Hate”. Allegedly, the CD was checked for criminal liability in Germany. Still, the album was indexed on June 27, 2008 . In 2009 the group's demo was confiscated . At the end of 2008 the unauthorized live album "Project Wolfsschanze - Live in Club Dirlewanger" was released.
In November 2009, the members of the group had to answer before the Herzberg am Harz district court for sedition . Jürgen Rieger , who was supposed to be defending a member, died before the trial began. The member has therefore not yet been summoned. The two remaining members Sebastian Kramm and Oliver Keudel were sentenced to fines. In addition, the management of the musician Annett Louisan announced that they would take legal action against the band because they had reenacted their song “Das Spiel” under the title “Pitbull” with a right-wing extremist text. On October 28, 2010, the sentence for singers and drummers was increased by the Göttingen regional court following an application by the public prosecutor. Oliver Keudel received a prison sentence of 10 months, drummer Sebastian Kramm five months, both of which were suspended.
Discography
- Demo (year unknown, confiscated, indexed according to BAnz . 114 of July 31, 2008)
- Unpublished songs (2001, CD-r, indexed)
- Secret Reichssache (2004, indexed)
- Buy hate hearing (2007, indexed according to BAnz. No. 95 of June 27, 2008)
- Project Wolfsschanze (Live at Club Dirlewanger) (unauthorized, 2008)
- FSK 18 (2010)
- The best of the 30s, 40s and the latest from today! (Booklet indexed according to BAnz AT 11/27/2015 B3 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ redok on the searches by the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt a. M. ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cottbus District Court of March 18, 2009: Az. 70 Gs 363/09
- ^ Herzberg: Fine for neo-Nazi musicians. Newsclick.de, accessed on November 3, 2009 .
- ↑ a b Johannes Radke: Pop star defends himself against Nazi band. zeit.de , March 22, 2010, accessed June 7, 2010 .
- ↑ Andreas Speit : Right band covers Annett Louisan: "How he tears you up". taz.de , March 21, 2010, accessed June 7, 2010 .
- ↑ Court increases penalties for neo-Nazi band members. HNA.de , October 28, 2010, accessed October 30, 2010 .
- ↑ BAnz AT 28.09.2018 B8
