Manuel Ochsenreiter

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Manuel Ochsenreiter (2015)

Manuel Ochsenreiter (born May 18, 1976 in Isny im Allgäu ) is a German journalist . From 1994 to 2004 he was the author of the new right Junge Freiheit , as well as the author of the magazine Sezession of the Institute for State Policy , as well as the author of peculiarly free . From 2004 to 2011 he was editor-in-chief of the German military magazine , for which he continues to write. In March 2011 he moved to the same position for the monthly magazine First! Both magazines are published by Dietmar Munier and assigned to the right-wing extremist spectrum.

Life

Origin and political activity

Manuel Ochsenreiter claims to be Catholic and grew up in the community of Ellhofen in the Allgäu . After graduating from high school in Lindenberg in 1996 , he did his basic military service in the armed forces.

From 1994 he wrote articles (often reports ) for the new right weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit . In 1995 he was one of the authors of the anthology We 89er edited by Roland Bubik , in which twelve representatives of a generation of “young rights” presented their political goals opposing the 1968 movement . As a result, he was interviewed by Bayerischer Rundfunk and his views were taken up in the satirical magazine Titanic and the news magazine Focus . He was a member of the nationalist association Witikobund and the Junge Union (JU), where he in 1995 the "conservatives move" cried into life, as well as deputy chairman of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Bavaria of Unions ready or almost ready right-wing Christian conservatives Germany Forum ( CKDF).

Studies, corporation and young freedom

Ochsenreiter was one of the youngest editors and headed the "Zeitgeist & Lifestyle" department of Junge Freiheit in Berlin. He left the newspaper in 1998 because of austerity measures. In 1999, Ochsenreiter began studying at the private Institute for Marketing and Communication (IMK) in Berlin, which he completed with a degree in marketing communications . During this time he joined the dutiful Berlin fraternity of the Märker . Today he is there old man .

From 2001 to 2004 he was head of the domestic politics department of Junge Freiheit . Thorsten Thaler , deputy editor-in-chief of Junge Freiheit , sees Ochsenreiter's “merits” in his contributions to Islamism and left-wing radicalism . In addition, he wrote for the journals Sezession , which is also included in the New Right, and is peculiarly free .

Editor-in-chief of the DMZ and at first!

Ochsenreiter was editor-in-chief of the German military magazine (DMZ) from 2004 to 2011 . During this time, the red-green federal government forbade the Bundeswehr libraries and specialist information centers from continuing to use the magazine because it was part of the “ right-wing extremist spectrum ”.

Since March 2011, Ochsenreiter, who was initially deputy, has been the successor to Günther Deschner as editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine First! the right-wing extremist publisher Dietmar Munier . He conducted a high-profile interview with the far right-wing father of the SPD politician Sigmar Gabriel . He also interviewed personalities from the European right, including a. the NPD politician Arne Schimmer, leading activist of the association of Holocaust deniers European Action , the Hungarian national-conservative politician Zoltán Kovács and the Russian nationalist Alexander Dugin , whom he described as a "long-time fatherly friend". According to the extremism researcher Elmar Vieregge , who covers the magazine “First!” In the yearbook Extremism & Democracy 2013 , Ochsenreiter also uses his articles in the magazine to make himself known and to disseminate his own positions.

As a DMZ - and first! -Editor-in-chief reported on the Balkans (Serbia, Hungary) and the Middle East (Lebanon, Syria, Iran). He is repeatedly interviewed by state media Russia Today , Syrian TV and the Iranian news agency Fars . He commented in detail on the civil war in Syria in the new-right youth magazine Blaue Narzisse , but also abroad. In new right circles he is regarded as an expert on Syria and the Middle East .

Speaker activity

He has worked as a speaker in the past. a. at the New Right Institute for State Policy (IfS), the right-wing extremist Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland (JLO), the right-wing extremist Society for Free Journalism (GfP) and the State and Economic Political Society (SWG). He also gave lectures and a. at the "ideas workshop" of the Normannia-Nibelungen fraternity in Bielefeld , the Marburg fraternity Rheinfranken , the Marburg fraternity Germania and the fraternity Frankonia Erlangen . In 2012 and 2013, Ochsenreiter also took part in the national-conservative trade fair Zwischenentag in Berlin, organized by Götz Kubitschek .

In 2013 he was a speaker at the fifth “Identitar Idé” congress organized by Arktos Verlag in Stockholm , to which Philippe Vardon ( Bloc identitaire / Nissa Rebela ) and Paul Gottfried were also invited. In 2013 he gave a lecture on Syria. In 2014 he and other “relevant guest speakers” were invited to the “Identitarian Congress” in Budapest , which was banned by the Hungarian government shortly before the event. The Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW) described the invited speakers as right-wing extremist to neo-fascist . The educational scientist Benno Hafeneger counts Ochsenreiter among the actors in the field of the Identitarian Movement .

In September 2014 Ochsenreiter was a speaker (“Israeli lobby in Germany”) at the “New Horizon” conference in Tehran, which, like the previous conference in 2006 , offered a platform for Holocaust deniers .

From September 2018 to January 2019, Ochsenreiter worked as a specialist in the Bundestag office of AfD MP Markus Frohnmaier . After Ochsenreiter was accused of being involved in an attack in the Ukraine, he asked Frohnmaier to terminate his employment so that reporting on the allegations could no longer harm him in the future.

Attack in Ukraine

On February 4, 2018, an arson attack on a Hungarian facility was carried out in the Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod . According to the Polish authorities, the attack with Molotov cocktails should be attributed to Ukrainian neo-Nazis in order to strain relations between Ukraine and Hungary. The Polish perpetrators were caught and stood before a Polish court in Krakow in 2019. The main defendant, Michal P., is said to be a member of the Polish fascist group “ Falanga ”, which supports the pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine . In addition to the arson attack, he is charged with terrorist financing. P. testified in court that Ochsenreiter had instigated him to look for people to carry out the crime. Furthermore, Ochsenreiter determined the day of the attack and gave specific instructions on how to carry it out. The two co-defendants had also implemented everything according to Ochsenreiter's specifications. He also stated that he had received 1500 euros in several margins from Ochsenreiter.

After a criminal complaint by a private person, the Berlin public prosecutor's office is investigating Ochsenreiter on suspicion of inciting serious arson . The Polish public prosecutor's charge is "financing terrorism". This denies all allegations. His lawyer stated that Ochsenreiter had "no knowledge of such attacks".

family

Manuel Ochsenreiter has been married since 2003 and has two sons.

Publications and reception

Political positioning

In a 2005 interview he described himself as a “ conservative ” and distinguished himself from right-wing extremism and neo-Nazism . In the opinion of the SPD politicians Stephan Braun , Alexander Geisler and Martin Gerster , however, he does not always create the distance to "right-wing extremists". This is what Ochsenreiter Ernst Jünger calls his “favorite author”. According to his own statements, one goal in his life is: “Maybe a little ' conservative revolution '”.

In his publications for Junge Freiheit , he exercises strong media criticism by denouncing a media landscape that is supposedly dominated by the “left”. In addition, in his publications he alludes to the left's alleged “club of fascism”. The Hamburg media scientist Joan Kristin Bleicher attests to him having a “ right-wing conservative worldview” with regard to gender roles for the time he worked at Junge Freiheit .

Book publication "State murder in Baghdad"

In 2007 Ochsenreiter published the anthology State Murder in Baghdad. Saddam Hussein on the gallows , in which articles by Jörg Haider , Jamal Karsli , Richard Lobsien , Heinz Magenheimer , Emil Schlee , Franz W. Seidler and Michael Wiesberg appeared. The authors drew u. a. Parallels between the Nuremberg trials and the trial of Saddam Hussein . In the NPD press organ German Voice , Ochsenreiter stated that both of them were “ victorious justice ”. He also gave an interview on the book for the right-wing extremist magazine Nation und Europa . After the publicist Thomas von der Osten-Sacken , the book was also favorably advertised by Regin-Verlag .

Relationship to Islamism

In 2005, Ochsenreiter gave an interview to the Islamist Internet portal Muslim-Markt . He traveled to Lebanon in 2008 , had himself photographed on a destroyed Israeli tank and met representatives of the Shiite militia Hezbollah . There Ochsenreiter a. a. whose spokesman for Lebanon Imad Alawa . He sees similarities between the so-called right wing and Muslims in the criticism of liberalism . He stated that there is “a historically evolved relationship between Muslims and Christians ” and referred to the Second World War . At the same time, he criticized the Muslim umbrella organizations in Germany , which sought to be close to Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and social democracy instead of orienting themselves towards conservative parties.

Fonts (selection)

  • A matter of education . In: Roland Bubik (Ed.): Wir '89er. Who we are - what we want . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-548-36643-0 , pp. 209-225.
  • Ed .: State murder in Baghdad. Saddam Hussein on the gallows . Bonus, Selent 2007, ISBN 978-3-935962-06-3 .

literature

  • Anton Maegerle : Political and journalistic career of authors of the Junge Freiheit . In: Stephan Braun , Ute Vogt (ed.): The weekly newspaper "Junge Freiheit." Critical analyzes of the program, content, authors and customers . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-15421-3 , pp. 201-202.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Muslim-Markt interviews Manuel Ochsenreiter, editor-in-chief of DMZ , Muslim-Markt , May 17, 2005.
  2. ↑ JF Intern: cups and tools . In: Junge Freiheit , April 17, 2004, April 16, 2004.
  3. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer : Media of a new social movement from the right . Dissertation, University of Bochum, 2000, p. 217 ( PDF ).
  4. ↑ a b Interview with Manuel Ochsenreiter , Bayerischer Rundfunk , 2005.
  5. ↑ a b Michael Klonovsky : Die Gegen-68er . In: Focus , issue 41, October 8, 1995, pp. 78-80.
  6. ↑ Barbara Junge, Julia Naumann, Holger Stark : Page 63 right writer. How a network in the media and politics works to restore the national . Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88520-621-8 , p. 63.
  7. ^ A b c Anton Maegerle : Political and journalistic career of authors of the Junge Freiheit , Wiesbaden 2007, pp. 201–202.
  8. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer: Media of a new social movement from the right . Dissertation, University of Bochum, 2000, p. 422 ( PDF ).
  9. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer: Media of a new social movement from the right . Dissertation, University of Bochum, 2000, p. 188 ( PDF ).
  10. ^ Thomas Pfeiffer: Media of a new social movement from the right . Dissertation, University of Bochum, 2000, p. 186 ( PDF ).
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  12. ↑ VII. BIDW 2011: Speakers ( Memento from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Bielefelder Ideenwerkstatt, accessed on October 9, 2013.
  13. ↑ Anton Maegerle : Ultrarechte Think Tanks - intellectual upgrade for the yesterday . In: Tribüne 169/2004, 152 (162).
  14. ↑ Manuel Ochsenreiter , strangely free , accessed on October 10, 2013.
  15. ↑ Robert Scholz: Change at the “First!” Top - Ochsenreiter becomes the new editor-in-chief . Right end of the line , March 2nd, 2011.
  16. ↑ Answer of the Federal Government to the minor question from MPs Ulla Jelpke , Inge Höger , Petra Pau , Paul Schäfer (Cologne) and the DIE LINKE parliamentary group (printed matter 16/9292): Contacts between the Bundeswehr and advertisers in the right-wing extremist German military magazine. German Bundestag, printed matter 16/9550, p. 2. ( PDF )
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  26. ^ Hk: Russian media offensive arrived in Germany . In: Horizont , No. 47/2014 of November 21, 2014, p. 31.
  27. ↑ Kourosh Ziabari : West-led armed opposition in Syria will fai , Syrian TV , January 13, 2013 (interview).
  28. ↑ Javad Arab Shirazi: Manuel Ochsenreiter: ISIL, A Geopolitical Multifunction Tool for Western Interests in Region (interview). Fars , October 19, 2014.
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  33. ↑ HDJ to Hezbollah . Look to the right , August 11, 2009.
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personal data
SURNAME Ox rider, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Isny in the Allgäu