Michael Müller (singer-songwriter)

Michael Müller (or "songwriter Michael") (born December 3, 1975 in Amberg ; † May 30, 2009 in Bad Lauterberg in the Harz Mountains ) was a German politician ( NPD ) and right-wing extremist songwriter .

Life

After finishing high school, Müller completed an officer training course in the armed forces and became a lieutenant . He studied electrical engineering at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and later continued his studies in Regensburg . During his studies, he from 1997 to 1999 member of the fraternity Cimbria Munich , then to 2001, a member of the Prague fraternity Teutonia to Regensburg , which was observed in 2001 by the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior because of right-wing tendencies.

He stood in the constituency of Northeim for the NPD in 6th place on the state list in the state elections in Lower Saxony in 2008 .

Müller was married to the singer Annett Müller , who was also part of the neo-Nazi spectrum, and lived in Bad Lauterberg in the Harz region . He suffered from a brain tumor and died on the night of May 30, 2009.

Political location

Michael Müller has appeared at numerous national and regional right-wing extremist events since 1997. He has been listed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution since 2000 as a “right-wing extremist songwriter”. In the 2005 report on the protection of the constitution, Müller and his wife were named as the “most popular performers” among right-wing extremists out of 26 right-wing extremist songwriters known in 2005.

According to the magazine Derrechte Rand , Michael Müller's contacts with the neo-Nazi leader Norman Bordin included his participation in the establishment of a “National Resistance of Southern Germany” in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.

Genre and ideology

In his songs Müller combined rock and guitar music with nationalistic and Germanic - mythological texts. He also mocked political opponents and the Jewish victims of the Holocaust : For example, he backed the melody of the well-known hit song At 66 by Udo Jürgens with an anti-Semitic and seditious text (“with six million Jews , that's just where the fun begins”). This made Müller known nationwide. The repeated performance of this song prompted Jürgens on July 14, 2004 to file a criminal complaint against Müller for intentional copyright infringement . Jürgens wanted to prevent the abuse of his song in right-wing extremist circles.

Some of Müller's lyrics and CDs are indexed . Songs by Michael Müller and his wife are featured on the forbidden school yard CD , with which the NPD has been trying to indoctrinate young people with right-wing extremist messages and to advertise their election since 2004. It calls for anti-capitalist rebellion with rhetoric similar to that of the NSDAP in the 1930s, in part openly glorifies the Second World War and National Socialism , and threatens today's politicians with a “tribunal”.

Appearances

Michael Müller appeared, often together with his wife, at numerous rallies and hall events of the NPD and its youth organization JN as well as with neo-Nazi organizations such as the Aid Organization for National Political Prisoners and their Relatives . V., the National and Social Action Alliance West Thuringia (NSAW) and the Action Office South Germany . He also appeared at events organized by well-known neo-Nazis, such as B. at a birthday party of Martin Wiese in Munich , after a lecture by Horst Mahler and a Yule Festival at the Reichshof by Manfred Roeder as well as at nationwide events of the right-wing extremist scene such as the Rudolf-Heß memorial march in Wunsiedel .

Müller's appearances on October 14, 1998 and January 3, 1999 at the federal office of the NPD, where he a. a. the hit Geils satirized . This was listed with the lyrics, author, audience reaction and evidence in the Federal Government's application for a ban on the NPD and was thus included in the NPD ban proceedings at the Federal Constitutional Court . At the press festival of the German voice on August 7, 2004 in Mücka , Saxony , Müller announced the fictitious suicide of Michel Friedman, according to eyewitness reports .

Discography

• Knights of the New Kingdom (2003)
• Revolution (2003)
• No matter how strong the enemy is (2004, indexed )
• Factor Germany (together with his wife Annett )
• From oblivion (2006)
• Brood of Hell (2006)
• Back from the dead! (2008, indexed)

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 509-510.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DOEW: News from far right - June 2001: Bavarian Interior Minister warns of fraternities ( Memento from December 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ ^{a b c} neo-Nazi Michael Müller dead ( memento of the original from February 6, 2012 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. , accessed January 1, 2012 
3. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2005, p. 64 (pdf) ( Memento of August 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ BNR 9/2004 ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Report Mainz , broadcast on April 26, 2004
6. ↑ Redok: Advertisement from Jürgens against Michael Müller ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ Looking to the right, reports 3/2003 ( Memento from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Britta Schellenberg: Dealing with right-wing extremism based on right-wing extremist music, pp. 8 and 16 f. (pdf; 798 kB)
9. ↑ BNR 2/2006 ; > Antifa Thuringia: Thuringia - Germany's brown center. March 23, 2006
10. ↑ BNR 23/2002 ( Memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Robert Andreasch / Andreas Speit : With a swing in the West? How the NPD envisions a future in Bavaria. Federal Agency for Civic Education , June 17, 2008, accessed April 30, 2016 . 
12. ↑ Bavarian Ministry of the Interior: Constitutional Protection Report 2004/1, p. 7
13. ↑ Looking to the right 10/2003 ( Memento from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ Application by the Federal Government, represented by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, pp. 53–54 (pdf) ( Memento of April 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
15. ^ BNR reports 2004 ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ BAnz. No. 60 from March 31, 2005, indexes from March 2005 ( Memento from June 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ BAnz. No. 93 of June 30, 2009