Michael Vogt

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Michael Vogt, Leipzig Book Fair 2016

Michael Friedrich Vogt (born December 16, 1953 in Kassel ) is a German publicist , documentary filmmaker and political activist . Vogt worked as a documentary filmmaker in the 1980s and 1990s, worked from 1998 to 2007 as a lecturer ( honorary professor ) at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig in the field of public relations and communication management, and since then has primarily appeared as a political activist.

Life

Michael Vogt grew up in Kassel and attended elementary school from 1960 and from 1964 the Wilhelmsgymnasium , where he passed the Abitur in 1972. From 1972 to 1977 he studied German, political science and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (Magister artium 1977). In 1978 he started writing his dissertation. In 1979 he started with Vera Piroschkow , a private lecturer in political theory with a special focus on Russia, at the Philosophical Faculty with the dissertation The Anthropology with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Consequences of a normative image of man for Dr. phil. PhD .

As a student, Vogt was politically active and became a member of the Danubia Munich fraternity in the 1972/73 winter semester ; In 1977 he was its chairman and spokesman. In 1973 and 1974 Vogt was a member of the University Political Committee (HpA), a committee of the German fraternity that, according to Dietrich Heither et al. “Has acted as a ' water heater ' for right-wing extremist ideas since the mid-1970s ”. In 1976 he was a member of the main committee of the German fraternity and in 1977 became its chairman and spokesman. Vogt later became a member of the Ring of Freedom Students , which was founded in 1979 on the initiative of the HpA in the Federal Republic of Germany and which had “strong neo-fascist tendencies”. During a temporary stay in Cologne, he became a member of the Germania Cologne fraternity in 1980.

In the early 1980s he worked for Lübbe-TV under the editor-in-chief of Wolfgang Venohr . Together with Venohr, he produced documentary films, including the 1983 two-part film Why the Germans Voted Hitler and Why the Germans Followed Hitler and, in the same year, a film with Alfred de Zayas about allied war crimes in World War II , war crimes 1939 to 1945 Part I and Part II . Since the 1980s he has appeared with “ national neutralist positions”. In 1984 he was a co-signer of the right-wing appeal “Save peace, unite Germany”.

In later years, other productions for various clients followed, in addition to films on the subject of nutrition and wellness (including Pro7 and n-tv ) also controversial contributions such as 2002 Nemmersdorf 1944: The Truth About a Soviet War Crime . The film is set on the “Bibliotheca Germania” channel, which is next to the “German sword” and “German free spirit” channels. There one turns against “the FRG regime”, sees “Germany occupied and divided” and wants the state of the state before the Treaty of Versailles .

From 1998 to 2007 Vogt was an honorary professor at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies at the University of Leipzig in the field of public relations . He was released in 2007 after he had created a film Hess Secret Files with right-wing extremist Olaf Rose in 2004 , which was assessed as historical revisionist and flawed, and after he had participated in a "dubious" meeting in Strasbourg, to which the then right-wing extremist group Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) in the European Parliament . Vogt denied participation; Participants of the meeting, such as the Federal Chairman of the Republicans Rolf Schlierer , remembered differently: "Yes, he was there, we even talked to each other" (Schlierer). The Hess film was based primarily on information from the British author Martin Allen , whose contemporary historical publications have been known since 2005 to be based primarily on forged documents (apparently by Allen himself). Even afterwards, Vogt repeatedly represented Allen's theses publicly without dealing with the allegations of falsification. The reference of the two film authors to the Würzburg history professor Rainer F. Schmidt led to his protest. Schmidt regretted the interview he gave, because Vogt and Rose were specifically serving a clientele who were not interested in scientific clarification, but only followed dark conspiracy theories . He accused the film writers of having deceived him in the presumptuous role of n-tv journalists.

From 2007 he worked as a freelancer for Jan Udo Holey's Internet station Secret-TV . For the Nuoviso company he interviewed Heinz Dieterich , University of Mexico City, about his book Socialismo del Siglo XXI ( Socialism of the 21st Century ) , which was successful in Latin America . He then worked as a moderator for Alpenparlament.tv .

In 2012 Vogt published a manifest "Path to Freedom - Germany's Awakening 2012" in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter . In it he pleaded for a "revolutionary reorganization", namely for the "abolition of the party state", for the "establishment of real popular rule" and the exit from NATO and the euro zone . Only a völkisch definition of belonging to the German people should apply. “According to the German and fraternity understanding”, the quality of “German” is measured according to the criteria “descent and culture”. Unfortunately, "Federal Republican citizenship is currently being given in an inflationary manner and regardless of German origin and descent". In Vogt's view, the Federal Republic was a declining system that was in a pre-revolutionary phase . The federal government saw in these statements indications of anti-constitutional efforts. Also in 2012, Vogt initiated - together with Jo Conrad - the project Aufbruch Gold-Rot-Schwarz . The aim of the project is in particular to unite those groups, such as the provisional imperial governments , deny the existence, sovereignty and legitimation of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Vogt was a partner in Schild Verlag in Elbingen and runs his own internet station Quer-Denken.TV as an organ of the so-called truth movement . Until his retirement after a stroke at the end of 2017, he was a member of the "media advisory board" of the association " Wissensmanufaktur ", which describes itself as an "independent institute for economic research and social policy" and declares that it also publishes things that do not correspond to "political correctness" . Here Vogt cooperated with the early supporter of the AfD and advisor to the BZÖ , constitutional lawyer Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider , the anti-feminist non-fiction author and former television spokeswoman Eva Herman , the meteorologist and denier of the greenhouse effect Wolfgang Thüne , the high-ranking economic functionary Wilhelm , who also publishes in right-wing extremist periodicals Hankel , the major general a. D. and history revisionist Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof and the "economic expert" Andreas Popp, who calls on Gottfried Feder .

Publications

  • with Olaf Rose : Hess secret files, history and background of the failed German-English peace negotiations - long version of the n-tv documentation. DVD, ISBN 3-937163-51-4 .
  • Die Linke und die Nation with Peter Brandt Audio-CD, Verlag: Polarfilm (October 31, 2007)
  • Path to Freedom: Germany's Awakening 2012 - Urban Urban Manifesto for a New Revolutionary Order. In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter. 2/2012.
  • with Jan van Helsing , Michael Morris, Gerard Menuhin , Andreas Popp, Niki Vogt, David Christensen, Johann G. Schnitzer , Stefan Erdmann , Ben Morgenstern, Johannes Holey, Bruno Mertens, Udo Schultheis, Rudolf Passian , Wolfgang Sipinski: politically incorrect: uncomfortable Facts and dangerous truths that can no longer be spoken! Ama Deus Verlag, Fichtenau 2012, ISBN 978-3-938656-60-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Vogt: The anthropology with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, consequences of a normative image of man . Dissertation, LMU Munich, 1979, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Jens Mecklenburg (ed.): Handbook of German right-wing extremism . Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 323.
  3. ↑ a b c Burschenschaftliche Blätter. 1977, p. 162.
  4. ↑ a b Dietrich Heither , Michael Gehler , Alexandra Kurth , Gerhard Schäfer : Blood and Paukboden. A history of the fraternities . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13378-5 , p. 231.
  5. ↑ Dietrich Heither , Michael Gehler , Alexandra Kurth , Gerhard Schäfer : Blood and Paukboden. A history of the fraternities . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-13378-5 , p. 236.
  6. ↑ Hans-Joachim Loose: Kölner Burschenschaft Germania 1920–1980: History and membership directory of the Cologne Burschenschaft Germania. 1980, p. 340.
  7. ^ Margret Feit: The "New Right" in the Federal Republic. Campus Verlag, 1987, pp. 191 and 176.
  8. ↑ Steffen Kailitz : The political culture of interpretation as reflected in the “historians' dispute”. What's right? What's left? . Westdeutscher Verlag, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-531-13701-8 , p. 269.
  9. ^ Franz Gress , Hans-Gerd Jaschke , Klaus Schönekäs : New rights and right-wing extremism in Europe: Federal Republic, France, Great Britain . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1990, ISBN 3-531-11890-0 , p. 269.
  10. ↑ All information according to: Christoph Giesen: Honorary professor under suspicion of right-wing extremism. In: Der Spiegel. November 12, 2007. (online) ; University of Leipzig fires controversial honorary professor. In: Spiegel Online. November 23, 2007. (online) ; VVN-BdA against cooperation with vigils. “Take a close look at who we stand in line with.” Dismissing any cross-front attempt. In: New Germany. 2nd December 2014.
  11. ↑ the-files-prof-dr-michael-vogt-der-internetsender-secrettv-and-the-secret-files-of-rudolf-hess
  12. ↑ Ernst Haiger: Fiction, Facts, and Forgeries. The "Revelations" of Peter and Martin Allen about the History of the Second World War . In: The Journal of Intelligence History 6, Summer 2006 (published 2007), No. 1, ISSN  1616-1262 , pp. 105-117; https://vdocuments.site/documents/5750a34e1a28abcf0ca1b106.html ; ders .: Forgeries [by Martin Allen] on the history of the Second World War in the British National Archives. In: Christian Müller-Straten: Counterfeit detection. Volume 2, Verlag Dr. Christian Müller-Straten, Munich, pp. 211-221.
  13. ^ Christoph Giesen: University of Leipzig: Honorary professor under suspicion of right-wing extremism. In: Der Spiegel. November 12, 2007. (online)
  14. ^ Albrecht Kolthoff: Brown merchandising. The TV broadcast for the DVD for the book about the Nazi demo. In: Telepolis. September 30, 2004. (online)
  15. ↑ German Bundestag Printed Matter 17/10829. 17th electoral term, small question from the Die Linke parliamentary group, 25 September 2012. (online)
  16. ↑ Florian Diekmann, Oliver Trenkamp: Right-wing extremist fraternities: Dreaming of the revolution. In: Spiegel Online , November 23, 2012, accessed December 22, 2012.
  17. ^ A conference of a different kind in the Alsfeld town hall. ( Memento from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Oberhessische Zeitung. Local edition Alsfeld, November 8, 2012.
  18. ↑ Michael Friedrich Vogt clarification on the rumors and false reports ( Memento from April 2, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) September 27, 2017
  19. ↑ Wissensmanufaktur Personen 7 July 2013 , 17 March 2018
  20. ↑ Günther Lachmann, Schachtschneider gives up candidacy for AfD . In: The world. January 7, 2014. (online)
  21. ↑ Björn Hengst, Eva Herman: Right-wing parties vying for their dream woman. In: Der Spiegel. October 11, 2007. (online)
  22. ↑ Stefan Lauer: Who does the Monday demos on the right? In: VICE . May 13, 2014. (online)
personal data
SURNAME Vogt, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vogt, Michael Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel