Mehmet Kubaşık

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Memorial plaque for Mehmet Kubaşık in front of his former kiosk on Mallinckrodtstrasse in Dortmund
Overall view of the memorial

Mehmet Kubaşık ( May 1, 1966 in Hanobası , Pazarcık District - April 4, 2006 in Dortmund ) was a German retailer of Turkish and Kurdish descent . He was shot dead by members of the right-wing extremist terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU) and was the eighth person killed in their series of Ceska murders . Until the NSU exposed itself in November 2011, the investigative authorities wrongly suspected Kubaşık himself of criminal machinations and his family of being involved in the crime.

Origin and family

Born in the village Hanobası that grew Kurdish and Turkish citizens Kubasik in Southeast Anatolia, where he worked on the farm of his father. He married his childhood sweetheart Elif against the will of his parents; they had their daughter Gamze in 1986 and lived in Hanobası. In 1987 Kubaşık was called up for 18-month military service, which he performed together with the sixth victim of the Česká series İsmail Yaşar . Because of the increasingly threatening situation for the family, which belongs to the persecuted religious minority of the Alevis , Mehmet Kubaşık fled with his wife and daughter to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1991 and applied for asylum with his family , namely - through an acquaintance - in Dortmund . After a temporary stay in Switzerland and almost two years in refugee accommodation , his application was granted. With his wife Elif he had two sons born in Germany in addition to their daughter; all family members took on German citizenship in 2003 . His wife Elif called it "a conscious decision": "Germany felt like home."

work life

Kubaşık started out as an unskilled worker in a fruit and vegetable wholesaler and then worked as a construction worker before suffering a stroke. When he had recovered from it, he went into business for himself; he opened a kiosk on Mallinckrodtstrasse in Dortmund's Nordstadt ( location ). He had run the kiosk with the help of his family for two years and recently decided to go out of business as work was consuming family life when Kubaşık was shot dead on April 4, 2006.

Death and investigation

Kubaşık was found by a customer lying in a pool of blood behind the counter of his kiosk around 1 p.m. There are no witnesses to the fact. According to a 2007 case analysis by the Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office , the perpetrators visited the kiosk between 12 noon and 1 pm and shot and hit him four times with the same Česká 83 series pistol , which was used in all of the homicides known as the “ Ceska series of murders ” twice. Only one cartridge case was found.

One day after the death of Kubaşık, his relatives were questioned because the investigative authorities erroneously assumed that the Česká series was closely related to the victims' family background. The widow and children were questioned separately about the father's alleged drug deals, Mafia and PKK contacts and were long suspected of the crime themselves. As the suspicion against Mehmet Kubaşık soon became public, the family was stigmatized for years. Because of the casual and brief acquaintance with İsmail Yaşar , the investigators suspected that both had co-financed a political organization in Turkey and were therefore killed. In the direction of right-wing terrorist motivation - as in almost all other cases in the Česká series - an investigation was not made until November 2011. This came about through the self-exposure of the terror cell and the subsequent extended suicide of the two main perpetrators, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt , and after Beate Zschäpe , the third member of the terror cell, had sent out videos that confess her own.

Processing and commemoration

The relatives - like the family of the first NSU victim Enver Şimşek - took part in a silent march with 2000 people in Kassel on May 6, 2006, organized by the Yozgat family, whose son Halit was a victim of the NSU two days after Kubaşık would have. In another silent march a month later in Dortmund, 200 people took part. Kubaşık's daughter Gamze became one of the public faces of the families of the NSU victims. She spoke to Semiya Şimşek , Enver Şimşek's daughter, at the central memorial event of the Federal Republic in the Schauspielhaus am Gendarmenmarkt in early 2012.

It was not until the end of 2011 that Beate Zschäpe and several alleged assistants were investigated. The Federal Criminal Police Office assumes that a postcard from September 2005, which, according to the written report, was written by Uwe Böhnhardt, stamped in Dortmund and addressed to the NSU trio's Zwickau apartment at the time, assumes that Böhnhardt spied on the kiosk beforehand. Shortly before the murder, most recently on April 3, 2006, excerpts of the Dortmund city map were printed out on the computer in the NSU apartment with the help of a route planner, which were provided with several markings (but not the crime scene). In November 2011, investigators found dozens of addresses of political opponents as well as Muslim and Jewish institutions in Dortmund in the remains of the NSU apartment. On April 3, 2006, one day before the murder of Kubaşık, a mobile home in the name of Holger Gerlach - whose identity Böhnhardt often adopted as a camouflage - was rented "at very short notice" in Chemnitz. the day after the murder of Halit Yozgat. The act can be attributed to the NSU because it is mentioned in the confession video sent by Zschäpe as part of their “Germany tour” and an article on the murder of Kubaşık was found in the rubble of the last NSU apartment in their press archive. In front of the kiosk, a witness saw two men with bicycles, which she described as "junkies or Nazis" and whose physique and age attributed to Mundlos and Böhnhardt.

In the NSU trial before the Munich Higher Regional Court , Zschäpe was accused as an accomplice of the murder and four assistants from 2013. The Kubaşık family was one of the joint plaintiffs there and was represented by nine lawyers, each of whom dealt with different complexes. They insisted that the prosecutor general's indictment, in particular the alleged local contact persons of the defendants, should be brought into view in Dortmund. Links between the NSU and the Dortmund neo-Nazi scene are suspected; they were allegedly acquainted with the right-wing extremist band Oidoxie and the local violent group Combat 18 . The crime scene was a few hundred meters away from the neo-Nazi Siegfried Borchardt's apartment at the time and from the neo-Nazi meeting place "Deutscher Hof" . At the closing lectures of the trial in November 2017, Elif and Gamze themselves pleaded. In July 2018, Zschäpe was sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in, among other things, the murder of Kubaşik, without being present at the scene. Ralf Wohlleben and Carsten Schultze were sentenced to early prison terms for aiding and abetting the murder of Kubaşik, among others, because they had procured the murder weapon. The judgments are not yet final.

From January 2016, the NSU investigative committee of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament dealt with these circumstances. The thesis was considered Kubasik was possibly therefore selected as victims because the kiosk located near the death site of the Nazi propaganda as "martyrs" designated SA have been -Mitglieds Adolf Hoh, 1930 killed the in violent political conflicts had been. In its final report in 2017, the committee came to the conclusion that the investigation after the murder had blocked the view of the family and had been guided by prejudice. In their separate votes, the Greens and the Pirate Party came to the conclusion that the family had been stigmatized and criminalized by the nature of the investigation; Police and public prosecutors should be investigated with regard to structural racism . In addition, the final report revealed the close ties between the Dortmund neo-Nazi scene and Kassel, which, in the opinion of the Greens, have not yet been sufficiently clarified.

Memorial for all NSU fatalities at Dortmund Central Station (2013)

Mehmet Kubaşık was buried in Turkey's Kahramanmaraş province . In September 2012, a memorial stone was set in the sidewalk in front of Kubaşık's former kiosk. A memorial for all ten victims of the NSU was inaugurated near Dortmund Central Station in July 2013 in the presence of Kubaşık's widow - corresponding to similar locations in other affected cities. Dortmund neo-Nazis have tried again and again to disrupt the memory. Repeatedly, Kubaşık was commemorated with rallies and honors; On the tenth anniversary of his death, Borussia Dortmund's football fans remembered the murdered person with a banner in the presence of their relatives at a home game.

On February 5, 2019, the district council for the north of the city decided to name the square in the square "Münsterstrasse / Mallinckrodtstrasse / Kleine Burgholzstrasse" after Mehmet Kubaşık. The name was changed on November 8, 2019.

literature

  • Barbara John (ed.) In collaboration with Vera Gaserow and Taha Kahya: Our wounds cannot be healed. What the NSU terror means for the victims and their families. Herder, Freiburg, Basel, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-06727-3 , chapter “I've already buried my heart: Elif Kubaşık, wife of Mehmet Kubaşık, tells”, pp. 110-120 and chapter “I don't want to Be forever a victim: Gamze Kubaşık, daughter of Mehmet Kubaşık, tells ”, pp. 121–134 (preprint) .
  • Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Homeland Security. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-55202-5 , p. 635 f.
  • State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia , 16th electoral period, printed matter 16/14400: Final report of the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry III , March 27, 2017, Chapter B.III: “Murder of Mehmet Kubaşık - Dortmund crime complex”, pp. 416-518 (PDF) .
  • Antonia von der Behrens (ed.): No closing words. Nazi Terror - Security Authorities - Support Network. Pleading in the NSU trial. VSA, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-89965-792-0 , including:
    • Elif Kubaşık: We are part of this country and we will continue to live here. Plea dated November 21, 2017. p. 25 f.
    • Carsten Ilius: The murder of Mehmet Kubaşık in Dortmund. Example of racist investigations and inadequate investigations into local NSU network structures. Plea of ​​November 21 and 22, 2017. pp. 27–61.
    • Gamze Kubaşık: You broke the promise! Plea dated November 22, 2017. p. 103 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Armin Lehmann: NSU murder of Mehmet Kubasik: Life with pain. In: Der Tagesspiegel , March 12, 2013.
  2. ↑ Barbara John (ed.) In collaboration with Vera Gaserow and Taha Kahya: Our wounds cannot be healed. What the NSU terror means for the victims and their families. Chapter “I have already buried my heart: Elif Kubaşık, wife of Mehmet Kubaşık, tells”, pp. 110–120, here pp. 110 and 114 (for military service). In addition to this information, there are conflicting reports in various media. The Tagesspiegel mentions 1989, the Deutsche Welle speaks of the "end of the 1980s", while the WAZ mentions 1991 as the year of his arrival in Germany. In the Turkish-language media there are also other information: Milliyet confirms in 1991, and Yeni Hayat reports on the military service that Kubaşık did in Turkey in 1991. Hürriyet, on the other hand, writes that Kubaşık and his family first fled to Switzerland and only came to Germany in 1994. There it is also said that Kubaşık himself was involved in a Kurdish organization and that his wife was a member of the Kurdistan Socialist Party .
  3. ↑ Barbara John (ed.) In collaboration with Vera Gaserow and Taha Kahya: Our wounds cannot be healed. What the NSU terror means for the victims and their families. Chapter “I have already buried my heart: Elif Kubaşık, wife of Mehmet Kubaşık, told”, pp. 110–120, here p. 110.
  4. ↑ a b Andrea Grunau: Right-wing extremism: A daughter wants justice. In: Deutsche Welle , April 25, 2013.
  5. ↑ Barbara John (ed.) In collaboration with Vera Gaserow and Taha Kahya: Our wounds cannot be healed. What the NSU terror means for the victims and their families. Chapter “I have already buried my heart: Elif Kubaşık, wife of Mehmet Kubaşık, told”, pp. 110–120, here p. 111.
  6. ↑ Tom Sundermann: NSU Trial: The Nightmare After the Murder. In: Die Zeit , November 5, 2013.
  7. ↑ Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Heimatschutz. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, p. 635 f.
  8. ↑ a b Gamze Kubaşık: Daughter of a dead NSU remembers: “I don't want to be a victim forever”. In: the daily newspaper , November 4, 2011.
  9. ↑ Barbara John (ed.) In collaboration with Vera Gaserow and Taha Kahya: Our wounds cannot be healed. What the NSU terror means for the victims and their families. Chapter “I have already buried my heart: Elif Kubaşık, wife of Mehmet Kubaşık, told”, pp. 110–120, here p. 114.
  10. ↑ Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Heimatschutz. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, p. 645.
  11. ^ German Bundestag , BT-Drs. 17/16400 : Decision recommendation and report of the 2nd committee of inquiry according to Article 44 of the Basic Law. August 22, 2013, p. 63. See also Lara Fritzsche : Linked in mourning. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , Magazin, issue 10/2013.
  12. ↑ Böhnhardt is said to have spied out the crime scene in Dortmund. In: Die Welt , September 22, 2015 ( DPA report).
  13. ↑ Stefan Aust, Dirk Laabs: Heimatschutz. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, p. 667.
  14. ↑ Plea of ​​the Federal Prosecutor's Office 3rd day: Complete transcript. In: NSU-Nebenklage.de , July 27, 2017; Tobias Grossekemper: The NSU murder on Kubasik - a case with many open questions. In: Ruhrnachrichten , April 4, 2017.
  15. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen : Carsten S. in the NSU trial: “Then I found out! That was bitter ”. In: Spiegel Online , June 18, 2013.
  16. ^ Minutes of the 156th day of the hearing - November 6th, 2014. In: NSU-Watch , November 6th, 2014; Marie Becker: The NSU and the militant right-wing scene in Dortmund. In: Courage against right-wing violence , February 20, 2015.
  17. ↑ Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Heimatschutz. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, p. 635 f.
  18. ↑ Andreas Winkelsträter: Right-wing terrorism: kiosk murder 2006 near the Nazi meeting place "Deutscher Hof" in the north of the city. In: DerWesten , November 17, 2011.
  19. ↑ Tom Sundermann: The widow's pain. In: Zeit Online , NSU-Prozess-Blog, November 22, 2017; Marcel Fürstenau: NSU trial: "If you are sorry at some point ...". In: Deutsche Welle , November 22, 2017; Julia Jüttner, Thomas Hauzenberger: Plea in the NSU trial: "Think about it carefully, Ms. Zschäpe". In: Spiegel Online , November 22, 2017.
  20. ↑ Dominik Reinle: Kubaşık members before NSU committee: Treated by investigators as a perpetrator family. In: Westdeutscher Rundfunk , January 13, 2016. See also this: NSU committee in Mallinckrodtstrasse: MPs visit Dortmund's crime scene. In: Westdeutscher Rundfunk , October 20, 2015.
  21. ↑ NSU crime scenes in close proximity to the places of death of "martyrs" of the NSDAP. In: NSU-Watch NRW , February 21, 2016; Tobias Großekemper: "Blood witness" hypothesis: Is there a pattern behind the NSU crime scenes? In: Ruhrnachrichten , June 14, 2016.
  22. ↑ Florian Forth: Final report: "Structural failure" in the investigation of the NSU murders. In: Dortmund24 , April 10, 2017. See also the final report of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament (PDF) , March 27, 2017.
  23. ↑ Wolfgang Dahlmann: Widow collapses when the memorial stone is unveiled. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 24, 2012.
  24. ↑ Memorial commemorates the NSU victims. In: Welt Online , July 15, 2013; Memorial stone for NSU victims in Dortmund. In: Westdeutscher Rundfunk , July 17, 2013.
  25. ^ Felix Huesmann: Dortmund neo-Nazis revile Anne Frank and NSU victim Mehmet Kubaşık. In: Störungsmelder , December 23, 2014.
  26. ↑ Thomas Thiel: BVB fans remember NSU victim Mehmet Kubasik. In: Ruhrnachrichten , April 3, 2016.
  27. ↑ Remembrance, commemoration and warning: City of Dortmund names Mehmet-Kubaşık-Platz
personal data
SURNAME Kubaşık, Mehmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish-German retailer of Kurdish origin, allegedly eighth victim of the series of killings by the right-wing extremist terror group "National Socialist Underground" (NSU)
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanobası , Pazarcık
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 2006
Place of death Dortmund