Matthias Faust (politician)

Matthias Faust (* 1971 in Hamburg ) is a former right-wing extremist German politician in various parties ( CDU , REP , NPD , DVU ). From January 2009 until he left the party in early 2011, he was federal chairman of the right-wing extremist German People's Union . From the end of 2010 to the end of 2011 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the National Democratic Party of Germany , after which he was a member of the Federal Executive Committee as an assessor. He has not been politically active since 2013.

Life

Faust's political career began at the age of 15 in the youth organization of the CDU , the Junge Union . The trained businessman from Hamburg left the CDU at the age of 30 and became a member of the Republicans . At the beginning of 2006 he became her Hamburg state representative until he switched to the anti-constitutional NPD at the end of the year . There he was a confidante of Hamburg's NPD state chairman Anja Zysk , who later left the party after intrigues within the party. This created an intimate hostility with her successor Jürgen Rieger .

In March 2007 he switched to DVU and became press spokesman for the Hamburg regional association. In December 2005, Faust still stated: “For me, the DVU is absolutely not worth discussing. Apparently it only consists of a Dr. Frey, who usually appears in public in a rather stupid way. I am not aware of any state parliament in which the DVU has really done serious political work, usually the parliamentary group broke up after a few weeks. "

In 2008, Faust stood as the top candidate for the DVU in the Hamburg state election . For his election campaign, he was highly praised in right-wing extremist circles.

In the DVU, he held the office of federal organization head and was thus responsible, among other things, for the party's election campaigns. In addition, Faust received fourth place on the DVU list for the European elections .

At the DVU party conference on January 11, 2009, Faust was elected to succeed the previous party chairman Gerhard Frey with 87.6 percent of the vote . After the election of Faust, the Berlin political scientist Hajo Funke assumed that the DVU would work more closely with the NPD after the change: “Matthias Faust is considered to be very flexible to the right. It can therefore be assumed that the DVU will become more cooperative with the NPD. ”At the 2010 national party conference of the NPD in Bamberg , Faust and NPD party leader Udo Voigt announced the plan to unite the two parties. On June 8, 2010, it became known that the DVU had withdrawn his membership because he had done this without consulting the board and had thus "caused serious damage to the DVU". Another reason for exclusion was the statutes of the DVU, according to which members who have given the so-called oath of disclosure due to financial difficulties lose their membership. However, on June 18, 2010 , the Munich Regional Court I declared the corresponding provision of the Articles of Association ineffective in a preliminary legal protection procedure; Faust is still a party member. At the national party conference of the NPD on November 6, 2010, Faust was elected Deputy Federal Chairman of the NPD in anticipation of the intended merger. In the state elections in Bremen in 2011 , he ran as the top candidate of the NPD. The party failed at the five percent hurdle . At the NPD party congress in November 2011, Faust was no longer elected as deputy chairman, but was still a member of the national executive committee.

He was an employee of the NPD party organ German Voice .

Web links

• Article about " Matthias Faust " in the lexicon of right-wing extremism by Belltower.News
• Matthias Faust (with photo) at parliamentwatch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tagesschau.de: Change in leadership at NPD and DVU ( Memento from September 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ ^{A b} Hamburg: Hamburg DVU makes Worch-Adlatus the press spokesman
3. ↑ Bavarian Constitutional Protection: Right-wing extremist parties (PDF document; 319 kB) ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ ^{a b} NPD blog: Frey withdraws: DVU soon under new management ( memento of the original from January 13, 2009 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. 
5. ^ NPD blog: Hamburg: New noise - old methods
6. ↑ Protection of the Constitution against right-wing extremism: Hamburg DVU make Worch-Adlatus press spokesman ( memento of the original from March 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
7. ↑ Regional Returning Officer in Hamburg: Election for the guarantee on February 24, 2008 (PDF document)  ( 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.  
8. ↑ NPD blog: Is the NPD finished?
9. ↑ DVU.de: Federal Board of the German People's Union (DVU) ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ DVU boss Gerhard Frey resigns after 22 years
11. ↑ http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/npdparteitag102.html ( Memento from June 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ tagesschau.de accessed June 8, 2010 ( Memento from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
13. ↑ A. Speit: Trouble at the DVU: rights suffer from top priority ; taz.de, June 20, 2010.