Kurt Hoppe (politician, 1936)

Kurt Hoppe at a right-wing extremist rally on July 26, 2003 in Meiningen.

Kurt Hoppe (* 1936 ) is a German party official. Hoppe, who came from Zella-Mehlis , was a functionary of the party The Republicans and the DVU . Since 2003 he has been the Thuringian state chairman of the German party .

After his membership in the DSU , Kurt Hoppe became deputy state chairman and member of the executive committee of the Republicans in 1994 and is still a member of the " Franz Schönhuber Circle of Friends ". In the course of the disputes about the new course of the federal chairman Rolf Schlierer , he left the party in 1997.

In 1998 he joined the DVU and a year later was elected deputy state chairman and also acted as press spokesman for the Thuringian regional association. He left the DVU in March 2002. In the same year he attracted attention through connections to the neo-Nazi scene of the NPD and the Free Comradeships . The Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia ruled: "Hoppe already drew attention to himself in the past when he advocated grass-roots cooperation between right-wing extremist parties in Thuringia and also wanted to include so-called free nationalist forces in his work." For example, he stepped on December 2, 2000 as a speaker at a demonstration organized by the comradeship network “ National and Social Action Alliance West Thuringia ” (NSAW) in Schmalkalden and on April 28, 2001 at a DVU event together with Patrick Wieschke (NSAW) in Mosbach . At an anti-American demonstration registered by Hoppe under the motto "No German blood for US interests" on March 23, 2002 in Erfurt, in which numerous neo-Nazis such as André Kapke and Ralf Wohlleben took part, the leading NSAW cadre Marco Polzius was a second applicant. Hoppe was also one of the organizers of the so-called “ South-West Thuringian Rounds of Free Nationalists ”, which took place five times in the years from 2002 to 2004 with the aim of “all 'nationally minded' forces, right-wing extremist parties, comradeships and 'free forces '(...) to connect with each other (in order to) overcome the political conditions in the Federal Republic ”. Hoppe is also one of the organizers of an annual event on the day of national mourning at the grave of "an unknown soldier" on the Schmücke near Oberhof , at which between 20 and 60 right-wing extremists gather every year. Hoppe also actively campaigned for the Sonneberg right-wing rock band Sturmangriff and was present when the Zella-Mehli comradeship was founded .

In March 2002 he resigned from the DVU because, according to his own admission, due to the split in the parliamentary group in the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt - here the FDVP was formed from half of the 16 parliamentary group members - he no longer saw any prospects in elections. For the following period he himself said: "I was active as a non-party 'national', and my interest was in bringing together the 'comradeships' and the remaining party members from the individual national parties."

In 2003 Hoppe joined the German party and became chairman of the newly founded Thuringian regional association. He continued the close relationships with leading Thuringian neo-Nazis. Christian Bärthel , an avowed NPD supporter and former DVU member with ties to Christian Worch and Gerd Ittner, became deputy state chairman and press spokesman for the DP and press spokesman in Thuringia . Another board member as an assessor was Michael Burkert, one of the leading neo-Nazis in Thuringia. Since then, Hoppe has appeared as a speaker at numerous rallies by Free Comradeships and the NPD. B. at the “Third Thuringian National Youth Day ” in Saalfeld on May 29, 2004, on June 5, 2004 in Schleusingen with Frank Schwerdt and Burkert and on July 3, 2004 in Gotha together with Wieschke, Schwerdt and Wohlleben.

Hoppe ran for the 2005 Bundestag election on the NPD's list as a direct candidate in constituency 198 ( Suhl - Schmalkalden-Meiningen - Hildburghausen ) and received 5779 first votes (3.7%) for himself and 5468 second votes (3.5%) for the NPD .

Even the 2009 election came Hoppe in constituency 21 (includes the cities of Suhl , Zella-Mehlis and Oberhof ) for the NPD to.

Web links

• German Party: Militant Entries
• NPD functionaries and neo-Nazis are closely intertwined with the German party in Thuringia
• Constitutional Protection Report Thuringia 2003 (PDF file; 697 kB)
• Constitutional Protection Report Thuringia 2004 (PDF file; 487 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Vater: Landtag election. Postal voting with record participation . In: Free Word . Suhl August 29, 2009 ( insuedthueringen.de [accessed July 18, 2020]).