Markus Beisicht

Markus Beisicht in autumn 2008

Markus Kurt Beisicht (born March 29, 1963 in Bonn ) is a German lawyer and right-wing extremist politician . Until September 2014, he was chairman of the right-wing extremist citizens 'movement pro Cologne and is currently chairman of the supra-regional association of citizens' movement pro NRW, which was largely derived from it . He was also state chairman of the right-wing extremist German League for People and Homeland in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Life and work

Markus Beisicht was born on March 29, 1963 in Bonn. After graduating from the district-Lucas-Gymnasium in Leverkusen-Opladen and the military service in the medical battalion in Itzehoe (Schleswig-Holstein) he studied at the University of Cologne Law . He completed his legal traineeship with the second state examination and has been admitted to the bar since 1993.

Today Beisicht works nationwide as a freelance lawyer. Together with Karlheinz Schlaeper and Judith Wolter he runs a law firm in Leverkusen with a focus on criminal and criminal procedure law , press law , dismissal protection law and labor law . Beisicht has made a name for itself nationwide as a defense lawyer for right-wing extremists and militant neo-Nazis such as Axel Reitz .

Beisicht is married and has two children (* 1999 and * 2003).

In March 2013, the police arrested four alleged Salafists in Leverkusen, Bonn and Essen , who may have prepared an assassination attempt.

Political career

During his studies, Beisicht was active as federal chairman of the university group Ring Freiheitlicher Studenten (rfs) between 1984 and 1987 , a group that the Münster District Court had attested to neo-fascist tendencies in 1981 .

Beisicht was initially a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), founded the Cologne District Association of Republicans in 1987 together with his student and party friend Manfred Rouhs and became its district chairman. Later he was a member of the federal executive committee. In 1989, the Republicans stood as a candidate for Cologne city council and received 7.4% of the vote. He then served on the city council for his party for two years. In 1991 the REP parliamentary group split off around Beisicht and Rouhs as a parliamentary group of the DLVH . Beisicht became state chairman and member of the federal executive committee and represented the parliamentary group until the 1994 election, when the DLVH left the city council. With the DLVH, Beisicht put a bounty of 1000 DM on an asylum seeker in hiding.

In 1999, Beisicht joined the pro-Cologne citizens' movement, which has been represented in Cologne's city council since 2004. On December 2nd, 2004 he was elected to the chairmanship of the citizens' movement pro Cologne, replacing Judith Wolter as chairwoman, who has been chairwoman of the parliamentary group ever since. He was previously Deputy Executive Chairman. A little later (2007) the citizens' movement pro NRW was founded, based on the proposal by pro Köln, which he is also head of. In the 2009 local elections , he ran for the office of Lord Mayor of Cologne and received 4.8% of the vote.

In September 2007, Beisicht took part with other politicians such as Rolf Schlierer (REP), Gerhard Frey ( DVU ) and Udo Voigt ( NPD ) at a conference of right-wing German politicians and members of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group in the European Parliament in Strasbourg . At the conference it was decided by the politicians to actively support the politics of the ITS parliamentary group in Germany.

A lawsuit by pro Köln against the mention in the reports for the protection of the constitution for the years 2005 and 2006 was dismissed by the administrative court in Düsseldorf on December 4, 2007 . The court justified the rejection, among other things, with statements by Admission that there had been contacts with the right-wing extremist Vlaams Belang for years , and the content of an interview he had given the National-Zeitung .

In June 2008, Beisicht published an article on the Internet portal kreuz.net which, according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was used for " homophobic , anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic statements" and was therefore observed by German security authorities. Beisicht's contribution found its way into the North Rhine-Westphalian constitution protection report for 2012 after kreuz.net was switched off on December 2nd of this year.

Beisicht has been chairman of the pro-NRW council group in Leverkusen since 2009 and a member of the Leverkusen II district council. He was also the top candidate for pro NRW for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 and a pro-NRW direct candidate in Leverkusen. For the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2012 , he was again elected as the top candidate.

In January 2020, the platform Endstation Rechts reported on a planned cooperation between the Leverkusen council group Aufbruch Leverkusen , which emerged from parts of Pro NRW and led by Markus Beisicht, and the right-wing umbrella organization Aufbruch Deutschland 2020, which was planned by Andre Poggenburg , but not yet founded .

Insult proceedings

In September 2012 the Cologne District Court sentenced Beisicht to a fine of 2,000 euros for insulting . He had expressed during a lift of his party, which had been blocked by counter-demonstrators, he saw "an excited Green parliamentary deputies," namely, Volker Beck , of itself "as Obergauleiter this SA aufspiele -Horden"; they are “the children of Adolf Hitler ”, they “started that way”. The court assessed the particular situation in which the statement was made as mitigating the guilt.

A complaint against Beck, because he spoke in an interview with Pro Köln as a “brown troop” and “right-wing extremist idiots” was not followed up by the public prosecutor.

The conviction on account of insult was overturned by the Federal Constitutional Court on February 8, 2017 under the file number 1 BvR 2973/14.

See also

• Pro-movement

Web links

• Markus Beisicht at abgeordnetenwatch.de (state election 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Right-wing extremist party "Pro Köln" elects gay chairmen. In: queer.de , September 7, 2014, accessed on September 8, 2014.
2. ↑ Pro Köln is subject to court. In: Focus , July 10, 2009.
3. ^ Hans-Peter Killguss, Jürgen Peters, Alexander Häusler: PRO KÖLN - development and activities . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): Right-wing populism as a “citizen movement”: Campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-91119-9 , p 55, p 55-71 55. .
   Alexander Häusler: Political program of PRO NRW . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): Right-wing populism as a “citizen movement”: Campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-91119-9 , p. 90, p. 88–93, p. 90.
4. ↑ Detlef Schmalenberg, Harriet Drack: Ultra rights catches up with the past. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 19, 2007.
5. ↑ cf. Alexander Häusler : Right-wing populism as a “citizen movement” (2008), p. 22
6. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Peter Killguss, Jürgen Peters, Alexander Häusler: PRO KÖLN - development and activities . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): Right-wing populism as a “citizen movement”: Campaigns against Islam and the construction of mosques and communal counter-strategies . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-91119-9 , pp 58, pp 55-71, 58. .
7. ↑ Stefan Laurin: Under the mantle of bourgeoisie. In: Die Welt , November 27, 2011.
8. ↑ Investigators prevent Islamist assassination attempt. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . March 13, 2013, accessed March 13, 2013 . 
9. ↑ Münster District Court , decision of November 6, 1981, Az. 32 Ds 46 Js 59/80. On page 9 it says about the "Ring of Freedom Students": "[...] in summary, after the court's deliberations with regard to the state of knowledge presented on the character of the Ring of Freedom Students, it cannot be denied that this association is a student group with strongly neo-fascist tendencies. "
10. ↑ Guido Kleinhubbert: Playing with fear . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 2008, p. 33 ( Online - Jan. 1, 2008 ).
11. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for 2004 ( Memento of February 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), p. 74, p. 76.
12. ↑ City of Cologne: election of the mayor in 2009 ( memento of the original from September 2, 2009 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
13. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for 2007 ( Memento of July 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) pp. 75–76.
14. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for 2007 ( Memento from July 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), pp. 78–79.
15. ↑ kreuz.net: "Will the cardinal submit to the gay pervert?", July 7th, 2008 (Author: Markus Beisicht)
16. ↑ State security unmasked kreuz.net. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , March 29, 2012.
17. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2012 for North Rhine-Westphalia, p. 38  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ LTO , BVerfG continues line to Art. 5 GG: Designation as "Obergauleiter" no defamatory criticism https://www.lto.de/recht/nachrichten/n/bverfg-1-bvr-2973-14-meinungsfreiheit-beleidigung- criticism deputy /
19. ↑ Clemens Schminke: Fine for Pro-Cologne chairmen. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , September 18, 2012.
20. ↑ BVerfG, decision of the 3rd Chamber of the First Senate of February 8, 2017 - 1 BvR 2973/14 - Rn. (1-20). In: bundesverfassungsgericht.de. February 8, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017 . 
21. ↑ The wrong classification of an utterance as defamatory criticism shortens the fundamental rights protection of freedom of expression. Press release No. 25/2017 of April 5, 2017. In: bundesverfassungsgericht.de. April 5, 2017. Retrieved May 10, 2017 .