Marcel Wöll

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Marcel Wöll as speaker (2007)

Marcel Wöll (* 1983 ) is a former leading activist of the neo-Nazi Free Comradeships , who appeared nationwide as a speaker at right-wing extremist rallies and demonstrations. From May 2006 to April 2008 he was chairman of the Hessian NPD and city councilor in Butzbach as well as a member of the district council of the Wetterau district. After the NPD of Hesse had failed at the one percent mark in the 2008 state elections, he decided not to run again, voluntarily according to the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. His successor as regional head was the city councilor of Frankfurt Jörg Krebs. After his conviction for denying the Holocaust , Wöll resigned his mandates in the Wetterau district council and in the city council of Butzbach. He has not been a member of the NPD since 2008 and has not been politically active since 2012.

Career

Wöll is a skilled carpenter. He is married and a father of two. His wife was also active for the NPD and ran unsuccessfully in the municipal elections in the Wetterau district on March 26, 2006 on the same election list as Marcel Wöll.

Political activities

He was one of the most active personalities in the neo-Nazi area. Between 2004 and 2012, Wöll appeared nationwide as a speaker and organizer of neo-Nazi marches. He was the comradeship leader of the “Free Nationalists Rhein-Main”, who propagated a “reformed National Socialism” and with their actions were already able to win over numerous young people from the neo-Nazi area.

At the beginning of 2005 he became co-owner of a house in the Hoch-Weisel district of Butzbach, which is of national importance as a place for training courses and meetings. This led to extensive resistance actions by various anti-fascist, church and communal groups. The conspiratorial nature of these meetings as well as points of contact with groups with contacts to the banned Blood and Honor network have meanwhile led to public prosecution investigations against Wöll and the Free Nationalists he led for the formation of a criminal organization .

On March 26, 2006 Wöll was elected as the only candidate of the NPD in the city ​​council of the city of Butzbach. He uses this mandate for agitation work, although the democratic parties tried to prevent this. On May 27, 2006, Wöll was elected chairman of the NPD in Hesse. His political work, his involvement in demonstrations and his activities in the Butzbach house are monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

According to information from the Frankfurt Assembly Authority, Marcel Wöll registered a demonstration in Frankfurt am Main on June 17, 2006 on behalf of a group of National Socialists , during which the Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad was to be cheered. This received nationwide attention in the media. In an interview with the Hessenschau he said that there has historically been a German-Islamic solidarity for a long time, as he explained using the example of the Islamic volunteers of the Waffen-SS . The city administration did not give permission for the demonstration. In contrast, a rally against the anti-Semitic statements made by the Iranian President on the sidelines of the Iranian team's soccer game for the 2006 World Cup, which was planned as a counter-demonstration, met with considerable media coverage.

Surrounded by a small group of neo-Nazis, Wöll appeared on November 6, 2006 as a disruptor of a reading by Hannes Heer at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz . This incident attracted some attention in the German press, as Heer was a well-known journalist and historian who is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Wehrmacht exhibition . Insults came from within the group.

On February 21, 2006, Wöll became a member of the Wetterau district council through a replacement procedure. On June 8th, Wöll and three other NPD members attacked activists of the youth association ['solid] in the stands of the district assembly in Friedberg during a meeting of this body. With the approval of the district council, the youth had advertised with leaflets in front of the building for a ban on the NPD. Wöll was then excluded from the next meeting for gross violation of the rules of procedure of the district council.

On August 7, 2007, Wöll, who had several previous convictions for bodily harm, was sentenced to four months' imprisonment without parole by the Friedberg District Court (Hesse) for inciting people by denying the extermination of the Jews . In a district council meeting, he described excursions by schoolchildren and youth groups to Auschwitz and Buchenwald as "trips to the sites of so-called National Socialist terror" and claimed that they were being "brainwashed". The judgment was upheld on June 25, 2008 on appeal by the Giessen Regional Court, and Wöll's lawyers announced an appeal. The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court rejected this in October 2009, the judgment is now final.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2008 , the NPD was the top candidate and also ran as a direct candidate in the Wetterau I constituency , where he received 1.1% of the first votes.

Media activities

In September 2006 Marcel Wöll initiated an Internet news program under the title “Die Woche - critical news”. It is reminiscent of the appearance of the Tagesschau, but takes a right-wing extremist perspective. The programs are spoken by Marcel Wöll himself and were initially distributed via YouTube . After a short time, the programs were deleted with a reference to YouTube's terms of use. However, they were made available again on the website of the right-wing extremist “Free Resistance”, which is close to the NPD.

After his release from prison, he made his first public appearance in 2012 at the State Congress of Young National Democrats in Rhineland-Palatinate. There he held a training course on the subject of “intelligence and parentage”. Wöll currently lives in East Thuringia and competes as an MMA for Eastfight from Gera. In 2013, Lars Weber , chairman of the East German football club Wismut Gera , had to resign after a photo was published on Facebook that showed him with Wöll. Weber had also employed him in his controversial Alpha Security company.

meaning

According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Marcel Wöll was regarded as one of the most active and politically successful right-wing extremists in Hesse. This was clearly shown by the fact that his house was made available for political agitation, training, networking and planning as well as when he was elected city councilor on the NPD's list. Its activities were judged by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as questionable. The fact that Wöll, as an exposed member of the neo-Nazi comradeship scene, was also state chairman of the NPD made him a key figure in neo-Nazism in Hesse. After Marcel Wöll no longer took office as state chairman in 2008, the party continued to lose importance. Their activities have been classified as almost meaningless for years.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jens Joachim: Not on probation ( Memento from May 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, August 7, 2007
  2. ↑ FAZ of April 9, 2008, p. 53
  3. ↑ a b The NPD makes television - right Internet TV (tagesschau.de archive) tagesschau.de , February 19, 2007
  4. ↑ Ahmadinejad as the new idol of the right-wing radicals ( Memento from October 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Hessenschau , May 28, 2006
  5. ↑ One of the neo-Nazis is studying at the university ( Memento from December 2, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Allgemeine Zeitung , November 8, 2006
  6. ^ Neo-Nazis interfere with a lecture on the Nazi era, Spiegel Online , November 7, 2006
  7. ↑ NPD man threatens beating in the district council Spiegel Online , June 21, 2007
  8. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from June 26, 2008, p. 57 Former NPD leader Wöll has to go to prison
  9. ↑ www.hr-online.de - "Holocaust Statement. 'I can't comment on that ...' ” ( Memento from March 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, June 17, 2007, p. R2
  11. ↑ Judgment against Marcel Wöll confirmed . Frankfurter Rundschau, October 6, 2009
  12. ^ Propaganda broadcast: NPD plans newsreel on YouTube Spiegel Online , September 27, 2006
  13. ↑ State congress of the JN Rhineland-Palatinate with Marcel Wöll in “Weller's Weinhäusel”. Antifascist Information Office Rhein-Main, November 5, 2012, accessed on November 22, 2014 .
  14. ↑ The Departure of the Nazi President. Tages-Anzeiger , October 8, 2013, accessed November 22, 2014 .
  15. ^ Markus Völker: President with sympathy for rights. the daily newspaper , October 6, 2013, accessed on November 22, 2014 .
  16. ^ Arthur: New Nazi flat in Butzbach-Hochweisel. October 22, 2008, accessed August 8, 2019 .
  17. ^ LfV Hessen: Constitutional Protection Report Hessen 2014. Accessed on August 8, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wöll, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH 1983