Manfred Rouhs

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Manfred Rouhs (with megaphone) next to right-wing extremist Axel Reitz (4th from right )

Manfred Rouhs (born September 16, 1965 in Krefeld ) is a functionary of the right-wing extremist spectrum in Germany . He was active in seven small parties and organizations of the right-wing extremist spectrum, including as a functionary of the Young National Democrats (JN) (NPD youth association), as an NPD member and direct candidate for the election to the 11th German Bundestag , as a functionary of the Ring of Freedom Students , as a functionary of the Republicans , as a functionary of the German League for People and Homeland and as a functionary of the " Citizens' Movement pro Cologne ". Until its dissolution in November 2017, he was federal chairman of the right-wing extremist small party “ Citizens' Movement for Germany ”.

Since mid-2019, Rouhs has also worked as an author for the right-wing extremist online blog PI-News , where he publishes articles that are anti-Islam and xenophobic in particular .

Life

Manfred Rouhs attended various grammar schools in Krefeld and graduated from high school in 1985. He then studied law and social sciences at the University of Cologne .

1979 Rouhs joined the CDU youth organizations Junge Union (JU) and Schüler Union (SU) . In 1981 he switched to the Young National Democrats (JN) , the youth association of the NPD. In January 1985 he was elected chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia . The following December he was also nominated as a direct candidate for the NPD in Krefeld for election to the 11th German Bundestag.

In 1987 he resigned from his position as NRW-JN chairman, switched to the Republicans (REP) and, together with Markus Beisicht, set up the party's Cologne district association. At the same time, Rouhs became general secretary of the Ring of Freedom Students in Germany , which the Münster District Court had attested to have neo-fascist tendencies in 1981. In the local elections in October 1989, Rouhs was elected for the first time for the Republicans in the Council of the City of Cologne.

In October 1989 the North Rhine-Westphalian state executive of the party removed him from his offices and expelled him from the party a month later. In 1991 he joined the right-wing extremist German League for People and Homeland , for which he was a member of the Cologne city council until 1994 with his council mandate. From 2004 to April 5, 2011, Rouhs was a member of the Cologne City Council for pro Cologne.

Until its dissolution in November 2017, Rouhs was federal chairman of the “ Citizens' Movement for Germany ”, which was founded in January 2005.

Among other things, he works as a publicist and maintains various websites.

Since 2014, Rouhs has been selling license keys for Microsoft products from dubious sources via the “SoftwareFair” online shop. The computer magazine c't suspects that the business model is “a massive infringement of copyright on a commercial scale”. According to von Rouhs, profits from the shop flowed as donations to the pro-Germany citizens' movement .

In 2019, the right-wing extremist functionary founded a company in Hong Kong , which can be commissioned via the Internet site "HongKong1.de".

Foundation of "Signal für Deutschland eV" in November 2017

During the phase of dissolution of pro Deutschland , Rouhs founded the non-profit association "Signal für Deutschland eV" at the founding meeting on September 7, 2017. According to the statutes, the purpose of the association is "the general promotion of the democratic state, the promotion of education and the promotion of help for people who have become victims of a politically motivated crime, as well as charitable purposes according to § 53 AO and the promotion of crime prevention."

Journalistic activity

Outside of politics, Rouhs is mainly active as a journalist. In 1987 he founded the publishing house named after him and launched the magazine Europa vor (now nation24 ), of which he is the editor. Political scientist Wolfgang Gessenharter describes it as one of the strategic organs of the New Right .

In 1996 he moved to the Eschweiler district of Dürwiß and ran an office there for around 16 months. From the beginning of 1997 appeared in Rouhs' Cologne publishing quarterly RechtsRock - Fanzine New Doitsche wave (NDW) until the end of Rouhs with the magazine in 1998 signal was merged. In the 6/1998 edition, under the heading “Model of a successful local cultural revolution ”, the emergence of a community and youth center in the Saxon district town of Wurzen was described as a model for “ nationally liberated zones ”.

Rouhs announced in September 2012 that the film Innocence of Muslims would be screened in full in Germany. Federal Minister of the Interior Hans-Peter Friedrich announced that he wanted to prevent this with all possible means and accused Rouhs 'party of the Citizens' Movement for Germany of "provoking the Islamists in Germany as well" and thereby "pouring oil on the fire with gross negligence."

Litigation

In the NRW reports on the protection of the constitution in 2003 and 2004, nation24 was described as a right-wing extremist publication; This was declared unlawful in a judgment of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court at the end of 2006, since, according to the judges, “there are no actual grounds for suspecting that the publication of nation24.de is an effort that goes against the free democratic basic order is directed ". The Ministry of the Interior announced that it would seek an appeal, but this did not materialize.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pro Köln is defeated in court , Focus Online from July 10, 2009
  2. ^ FAZ: Neon fish for Germany , from September 23, 2012
  3. ^ JN press service, press release on the 1987 federal election, Manfred Rouhs NPD candidate for the Bundestag with curriculum vitae.
  4. ↑ Press release of April 5, 2011 by the City of Cologne: Council member resigned, accessed on April 5, 2011.
  5. ↑ Holger Bleich: Software from the right. Dubious sales of Microsoft license keys fill Pro-Germany party coffers. c't, 17/2014, p. 60ff
  6. ^ Website of the China Express Logistic CEL UG (limited liability). Manfred Rouhs, accessed March 1, 2020 .
  7. ↑ China Express Logistic CEL UG, Berlin - HRB 206691 B Berlin District Court (Charlottenburg). Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ November 16, 2017: Dissolution of the party “Bürgerbewegung Pro Deutschland” - anti-Muslim camouflage project failed. November 16, 2017, accessed October 3, 2019 .
  9. ^ Statutes of the association "Signal for Germany eV" . signal-online.de. September 7, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Gessenharter, The New Right - A Danger for Democracy? , VS Verlag, January 2004, p. 206
  11. ^ Skinheads and right-wing extremism , brochure of the protection of the constitution of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, June 2001, p. 55.
  12. ^ Constitutional Protection Interim Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 1998, November 24, 1998, p. 29.
  13. ↑ Pro-Germany "boss wants to show Mohammed film in Berlin Spiegel Online, accessed on September 15, 2012
  14. ↑ Judgment of the 22nd Chamber of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court, oral hearing on November 21, 2006, AZ 22 K 3124/04, p. 16.
  15. ↑ Dirk Eckert: Rights in court . In: taz nrw, January 10, 2007, p. 1

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personal data
SURNAME Rouhs, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Pro Cologne)
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld