Martin Wiese

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Martin Wiese (* 1976 in Anklam ) is a German neo-Nazi resident in Landau an der Isar who has been convicted several times and who became known nationwide in connection with an explosives attack planned by his right-wing terrorist organization " Schutzgruppe " on the Jewish Center in Munich in 2003 and subsequently received a seven-year prison sentence was convicted.

Life

Start of its activities

Born in 1976 in Anklam ( Mecklenburg-West Pomerania ), Martin Wiese became active in the neo-Nazi scene after the political change in East Germany. As early as August 1992 at the age of 16, he took part in one of the most famous riots in Federal Republican history, the days of attacks and arson attacks on the asylum seekers' home in Rostock-Lichtenhagen .

Leading neo-Nazi squad in southern Germany

In the summer of 2002 Wiese, who had moved to Munich two years earlier, took over the management of the “ Comradeship South - Action Office South Germany” (AS) after its founder, Norman Bordin , committed serious bodily harm in an attack on a 31-year-old Greek on January 13, 2001 in Munich's Zenettistraße after Wiese's birthday party, had to go to prison. In August 2002, Wiese and Norman Bordin were standing in front of a Munich court, because in April 2001 Wiese had struck down a black person with a fist. There was no conviction because the blow was considered self-defense .

Between 2000 and 2003, Wiese often appeared at various neo-Nazi demos or vigils, mainly in the Munich area. In 2000 he participated in several NPD information stands in downtown Munich. In August 2000, he and other Munich neo-Nazis took part in the so-called Rudolf Hess memorial march in Wunsiedel . In October 2002, Wiese was rejected by the Munich district administration department as the deputy head of a demonstration against the Wehrmacht exhibition registered by the Hamburg neo-Nazi Christian Worch , as he had been charged with the relevant priorities. The demonstration took place anyway and around 500 neo-Nazis marched through Munich. In November 2002, Wiese was able to register several rallies against the same exhibition. B. on November 10th, when around 50 "free comrades" took part in a rally at Marienplatz, or on November 30th, 2002. He also participated as a speaker in neo-Nazi marches like in Schwäbisch Hall on the same occasion where he spoke about the Wehrmacht soldiers who fell near Stalingrad said: “ 84,000 German soldiers fighting upright and bravely, murdered, starved and eaten up! ".

During the time under his leadership, the “Kameradschaft Süd” put its own website on the Internet , for which the right-wing extremist Robert Stillger from Baldham (near Munich), an employee of the “Bayernstimme” published by the NPD state board of Bavaria, was responsible. Wiese also worked with the right-wing extremist association "Demokratie direkt" (Democracy Direct ) of the Munich Republican City Councilor Johann Weinfurtner (who died on July 8, 2005) and was to be found at almost all of the association's events. Meadow often took over the security of the events together with other neo-Nazis.

Wiese is also said to have had contacts to the banned neonazine network Blood and Honor and its "armed arm" Combat 18 .

The planned bomb attack on the Jewish cultural center

The "Kameradschaft Süd" led Wiese until his own arrest on September 6, 2003 in Nuremberg in connection with a planned bomb attack on the laying of the foundation stone of the new Jewish cultural center on November 9, 2003 at St.-Jakobs-Platz in Munich . Wiese was thereupon charged with a total of eight other members of the "Kameradschaft" leadership group of membership in a terrorist organization (Section 129a StGB) and planning an explosive attack and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. The "Comradeship South" was banned. Bavaria's Interior Minister Günther Beckstein spoke of a " Brown Army Fraction " at the time.

During the trial against Wiese, some handwritten letters that Wiese had written while in custody and wanted to smuggle out of custody, but then forgot in the dining room, were read out. In the pamphlets signed with " Heil Hitler " and provided with swastikas , he hounded several times against the "Jewish republic", which he wanted to "flatten". “ Of course nothing has changed in my attitude towards the Führer, the people and the fatherland. I will not find peace until we have celebrated the final victory, ”it says. Wiese did not distance himself from the letters. He has an internal "relationship" with the leaders of the Nazi Reich. During the trial, he threatened the two co-defendants, David Schulz and Alexander Maetzing, who had confessed to their involvement and testified against Wiese.

The presiding judge Bernd von Heintschel-Heinegg pronounced Wiese guilty of ringleadership of a terrorist organization and of several weapons and explosives offenses. According to the Bavarian Supreme Court, Wiese would not have shrunk from a “bloody revolution”. Von Heintschel-Heinegg emphasized that there were no concrete plans for an explosives attack on the Jewish cultural center on November 9, 2003, but the aim of the “Comradeship South” was to remove the system of the Federal Republic of Germany and establish a National Socialist state. The court sentenced Wiese to seven years' imprisonment.

During the entire detention period, Wiese was looked after by the neo-Nazi aid organization for national political prisoners and their relatives (HNG). He wrote several inflammatory pamphlets while in custody. An early release was therefore refused. The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution expected that Wiese will again play an active role in the neo-Nazi scene after his release from prison in August 2010. He is subject to management supervision .

After release from prison

Since spring 2011, Wiese has been trying to unite the neo-Nazi scene in the Munich area under a new umbrella organization called NSB ( National Social Movement ) and has appeared several times at neo-Nazi events, including as a co-organizer. Despite leadership supervision and a ban on contact, Wiese participated in a neo-Nazi vigil on Monday, April 25, 2011 on Munich's Marienplatz and thus possibly violated the ban on contact with the former members of the right-wing terrorist "protection group" of the "Kameradschaft Süd". On May 8, 2011, Wiese participated in the SS commemoration in Bad Reichenhall , where he was again accused of violating his ban on contact, as Karl-Heinz Statzberger also took part in the neo-Nazi event. However, actual personal contact could not be proven. On May 9, 2011, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the Munich Police Headquarters was investigating Wiese on suspicion of violating the ban on contact.

In September 2011, Wiese was seen charging with other neo-Nazis from an inn towards an anti-fascist demonstration. Wiese took part in the memorial day in Wunsiedel on November 13, 2011, in a march in Landshut under the motto “Stop Left Violence!” On February 25, 2012 and in a march on May 1st in Hof . Wiese also took part on “4. National Frankentag ”in Roden-Ansbach, a neo-Nazi event that is in the tradition of the Frankentag by Julius Streicher . In July 2012, on the anniversary of Friedhelm Busse's death , the authorities prevented a wreath-laying ceremony at the Patriching cemetery in Passau , but afterwards a spontaneous demonstration with torches and flags took place through downtown Passau, in which Wiese also took part.

On June 15, 2013, Wiese was taken into custody because he was wearing a sweater with the sentence "Have you thought of Hitler today?" After a complaint by the regulatory authorities, he was released again and then gave a speech at the so-called “Thuringian Day of National Youth”.

During a celebration by members of the " Free Network South " in July 2013, Wiese attacked the cars of passing journalists. They then filed a complaint.

More convictions

On May 9, 2012, Wiese was sentenced to one year and nine months imprisonment by the district court of Gemünden am Main, among other things, for sedition and threats . In the summer of 2011 at a rally in Lower Franconia, he severely threatened several journalists and announced that they would be sentenced to death by a “ People's Court ”. Wiese himself denied the allegations, but was convicted by video recording. The process was accompanied by great media interest and increased security measures. Two police officers and four journalists who were either present at the rally or had investigated it gave testimony in front of the court. On the day the verdict was pronounced, several neo-Nazis demonstrated in front of the Landshut regional court.

On September 25, 2013, Wiese was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment without parole in an appeal process by the Würzburg regional court for sedition and threat of violence. The court considered it proven that in the summer of 2011 he had threatened various journalists with death sentences by a “people's court”.

Publication ban and judgment of the BVerfG

During his detention, Wiese tried to publish articles in relevant right-wing extremist magazines. When he was released, he was forbidden to “publicize right-wing extremist or National Socialist ideas” for a period of five years. The directive also concerned publications below the threshold of Sections 130 and 86a of the Criminal Code ( incitement to hatred and the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations ). According to the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court , this instruction was too vague. It is not possible to define what is allowed and what is forbidden. "Because the classification of a position as right-wing extremist is a question of the political battle of opinion and the sociological debate", it said in the judgment. The preventive suppression of certain content of opinion is disproportionate. The prohibition made it largely impossible for the complainant to participate in the public opinion-forming process with his political convictions. This comes close to a denial of freedom of expression itself. The interest in rehabilitation does not justify such an approach.

Television documentaries

  • Terror from the Right - The New Threat. Report & documentation. Series: The story in the first. Director: Thomas Reutter , Production: Südwestfunk 2016, length: 44:02 minutes, first broadcast: March 7, 2016 in Das Erste / ARD ( online : accompanying information with video stream ; about Martin Wiese from approx. 24:55 minute).

literature

  • Explosives in Munich. Martin Wiese, Comradeship South, NPD . A brochure from the anti-fascist information-documentations & archivstelle münchen eV (AIDA) in cooperation with the Kurt Eisner Association for Civic Education in Bavaria eV Munich 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Authorities who cannot get a neo-Nazi under control. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 20, 2011, accessed on December 13, 2011 .
  2. ^ "Right Activities November 2002" aida-archiv.de
  3. ^ "Neonazi group blown up" sueddeutsche.de of May 10, 2006
  4. ↑ “Eine Münchner Kameradschaft” berliner-zeitung.de from September 16, 2003
  5. ^ Süddeutsche.de: Threat from a "Brown Army faction from May 11, 2010
  6. ^ SZ: "Martin Wiese threatens lawyer" of March 9, 2005
  7. ↑ Süddeutsche.de: "Martin Wiese has to be behind bars for seven years" from May 11, 2010
  8. ^ AIDA archive : "Martin Wiese released from prison" of September 2, 2010.
  9. ↑ AIDA archive: “Martin Wiese is rushing again” from July 4, 2007.
  10. ↑ AFP: "Neo-Nazi Martin Wiese must stay in prison" 'No distancing from Nazi ideas recognizable' from May 8, 2008
  11. ↑ taz: "Razzia bei Brauner Hilfe" from September 7, 2010
  12. ↑ Central Bavarian: "Neo-Nazi Martin Wiese comes under supervision" from August 14, 2010
  13. ↑ movement in the brown swamp ; Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 21, 2011; Retrieved April 29, 2011
  14. ^ Neo-Nazis on Marienplatz , Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 27, 2011
  15. ↑ http://www.br.de/fernsehen/das-erste/sendung/report-muenchen/dossiers-und-mehr/rechtsextreme-in-bayern100.html ( Memento from April 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Right-wing extremist event on the “Charlemagne commemoration” in Bad Reichenhall  ( 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. on bayern-gegen-rechtsextremismus.de; Retrieved May 11, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bayern-gegen-rechtsextremismus.de  
  17. ↑ Another SS commemoration in Bad Reichenhall  ( 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. on badreichenhall.org; Retrieved May 11, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / badreichenhall.org  
  18. ^ Investigations against neo-Nazi Wiese on sueddeutsche.de; Retrieved May 11, 2011
  19. ^ The Munich neo-Nazi network on abendzeitung-muenchen.de; Retrieved November 21, 2011
  20. ^ Wiese, Martin , netz-gegen-nazis.de, from May 2012
  21. ↑ Police allow nightly demonstrations with right-wing terrorist Wiese , buergerblick.de, from July 24, 2012
  22. ↑ Right-wing rock for “Wolle” ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , publikative.org, June 16, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.publikative.org
  23. ^ Munich: garden party with the right-wing terrorist ; End of the line on July 22, 2013
  24. ^ Neo-Nazi Wiese sentenced to one year and nine months in prison , Mainpost , accessed on May 9, 2012
  25. ^ Wiese, Martin , netz-gegen-nazis.de, from May 2012
  26. ^ Threats against neo-Nazi journalists: Martin Wiese sentenced to prison term Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 25, 2013, accessed on September 25, 2013
  27. ↑ Ref .: 1 BvR 1106/08
personal data
SURNAME Wiese, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German neo-Nazi
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Anklam