Ludwig Bock (Lawyer)

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Ludwig Bock (* 1942 ) is a German lawyer . He has been convicted of playing down the Holocaust as a seducer of the people .

Life

Bock became politically active in the National Democratic University Association (NHB) , which was founded in 1967, and was a member of the NHB federal board in the year it was founded. In 1972 Bock ran for the NPD in the Bundestag election in the Freiburg constituency. In 1970 he was involved in an action by NPD members of the state parliament against the GDR flag in Ulm. After that, Bock worked for the "Nationaleuropean Jugendwerk" (NEJ) founded in 1973, which he temporarily headed before he was chairman of the arbitration board of the Society for Free Journalism (GfP).

Worked as a lawyer for the Nazi scene

He became known nationwide in 1977 as the supporter of the former concentration camp guard Hildegard Jungsert in the Majdanek trial in Düsseldorf . On the 154th day of the trial, Bock applied for the witness and former concentration camp inmate Henryka Ostrowska to be arrested in the courtroom for aiding and abetting murder. She testified that in Majdanek she had been forced to bring containers with Zyklon B into the gas chambers. Bock accused the expert and historian Wolfgang Scheffler for his statement "the war unleashed by Hitler in 1939", and that he carried out "Allied propaganda of victories after 1945". Bock referred positively to historical revisionist works such as that of the book author David L. Hoggan and contradicted - according to the court - the "certain knowledge and almost undisputed prevailing opinion in historical research" that Hitler was second World War I "unleashed".

Bock represented, among others, the neo-Nazi band Tonstören , the Holocaust deniers Ernst Tag , Fredrick Toben and Sylvia Stolz as well as the former NPD federal chairman Günter Deckert . As the lawyer for the Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel , Bock cited passages from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf and the racial laws of the National Socialists. He was also a defender in the "mammoth neo-Nazi trial" in Koblenz.

On the basis of a lawyer's plea in which, among other things, the Holocaust was played down, Ludwig Bock fulfilled the offense of sedition and was sentenced to a fine. A revision was rejected in 2000. For example, when defending the defendant Günter Deckert on April 3, 1997, Bock had submitted an auxiliary evidence request to the Mannheim Regional Court, in which he wanted to name leading representatives of the German state as witnesses for “that there are primarily massive political interests”, “which Breach of historical truth in connection with the Holocaust ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Difficult borderline question, wise judgment: May defenders of Holocaust deniers play down the Holocaust? April 9, 2000 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed August 2, 2017]).
  2. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: FLAG DISPUTE. - DER SPIEGEL 30/1970. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Stephan Braun, Anton Maegerle: Lawyers of the extreme right . In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (eds.): Strategies of the extreme right. Background - analyzes - answers . Springer, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-531-15911-9 , pp. 378-403 .
  4. ↑ a b c Bock, Ludwig | Belltower News. Retrieved August 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Yvonne Brandt: Majdanek Trial: In the nights came the horror . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . January 18, 2017 ( wz.de [accessed August 2, 2017]).
  6. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: WAR CRIMES: Playing forwards - DER SPIEGEL 18/1977. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  7. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany: WAR CRIMES: Playing forwards - DER SPIEGEL 18/1977. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Zündel lawyer has to go to court herself. November 15, 2007, accessed August 9, 2017 .
  9. ↑ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Holocaust denier: Zundels' defense attorney quoted in court from "Mein Kampf" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Politics. February 9, 2007, accessed August 2, 2017 .
  10. ^ Trial in Koblenz - 26 suspected neo-Nazis in court - indictment with 926 pages . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . August 20, 2012 ( general-anzeiger-bonn.de [accessed on August 2, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Federal Court of Justice: (Ref .: 6 KLs 503 Js 69/97) . Karlsruhe April 6, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942