Michael Winkler (columnist)

Michael Peter Winkler (born August 7, 1957 in Würzburg ) is a German columnist and author of political writings, science fiction and fantasy novels. He is a regular contributor to far-right websites . He emerged in 2005 with a public denial of the Holocaust , for which he was sentenced to a final fine in 2008.

Life

Michael Winkler attended the X-ray high school in Würzburg . After graduating from high school and doing military service , Winkler began studying physics in Würzburg , which he completed in 1985 with a degree in physics. From 1986 to 2002 he worked as a software developer and programmer . Unemployed from 2003 onwards, he devoted himself to his hobby, writing. Winkler called himself a CSU member, but is not politically active.

Journalistic activity

Website

Winkler operates an extensive website in the style of a weblog . Since 2004 a longer column has been published every week, the pillory , and since 2005 it has published daily daily commentaries on current topics in German and European politics. He puts these texts also right-wing websites available about Age Media , the nonconformist , freies-volk.org , volksfront-medien.org , weltnetzladen.com and others.

Winkler's previous publisher, JK Fischer in Gelnhausen, distanced itself from him in August 2016.

Positions

In his texts, Winkler represents a conservative to right-wing extremist view of the world, enriched with numerous elements from areas such as anti-Semitism , conspiracy theories , anti-capitalism , anti-communism and historical revisionism . He expects the current economic and political order to collapse soon and advises his readers to prepare for it (e.g. by stocking up on food and buying precious metals ). He is a supporter of the preventive war thesis and stab-in-the-back legend , proponent of a dictatorship and describes himself as a monarchist .

Holocaust denial

On May 10, 2005, Winkler published a pillory on his website under the title “The Inconceivable” , in which he dealt with the theses of some Holocaust deniers, greatly reduced the number of victims of the Holocaust and described Anne Frank's diary as a forgery. A reader then filed a complaint. On June 1, 2006, a house search took place at Winkler's residence , during which incriminating material was found. On June 27, 2007 he was sentenced by the Würzburg District Court to a fine of 100 daily rates of ten euros each. Winkler appealed, one year later, on August 19, 2008, the district court of Würzburg increased the sentence to 120 daily rates.

Winkler has since removed the objectionable text from his website, but left the title highlighted in color. The comment advises readers that the text has been banned by state censorship . In another text in his pillory from 2008, Winkler publicly doubts the Holocaust: Anyone who searches for the remains of the Holocaust victims in the extermination camps , which he calls “creepily arranged museums of shuddering,” will be punished for “even if he finds absolutely nothing Has."

In another pillory , Winkler describes his criminal trial as a “political process” in which the verdict was arbitrarily passed. He mentions the Leuchter Report as a “completely erroneous view” of a “proven expert on the American execution gas chambers”; on the other hand, he was concerned with "that this German pseudo-state needs the Holocaust as a state dogma that sustains its existence".

In the summer of 2011, Winkler reported that another house search had taken place. He had previously referred to Angela Merkel as a “Trulla from the Uckermark ”.

In March 2012, Winkler reported again on a police summons: He had described the " kebab murders " as "nullity".

In August 2013 Winkler was sentenced to a fine of 240 daily rates of 10 euros. The subject of the proceedings were several “daily comments” and a “pillory” that were published in 2010 in the magazine Recht und Truth , as well as a linked article. The prosecutor had demanded 12 months imprisonment, suspended for three years.

Lectures

Winkler was often unloaded by organizers after they learned of his right-wing extremist background. This sometimes led to death threats from the right-wing extremist scene against organizers or those who canceled.

Publications

• Thoras, slave of Atlantis. Fantastic novel , Frieling Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3828003255 .
• Saving where it doesn't hurt: A book about Germany , Books on Demand , 2005, ISBN 978-3833424731 .
• What is really in the Basic Law ...: A help for interested citizens , Books on Demand, 2007 ISBN 978-3837008951 .
• Fraudsters Republic of Germany , Books on Demand, 2007 ISBN 978-3833496639 .
• The spiritual world , JK Fischer Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940845-00-9 .
• The German Century: State Concepts of the Future , JK Fischer Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-940845-22-1 .
• Politics in the pillory , JK Fischer Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-941956-34-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Winkler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Winkler's website

Single receipts

1. ^ Roland Röhrich, Winfried Stadtmüller: Annual report 1971/72. Röntgen-Gymnasium Würzburg, Würzburg 1972, p. 21 ( class 8 a ).
2. ↑ JKFischer Verlag: Michael Winkler - JKFischer Verlag Shop. In: www.jk-fischer-verlag.de. Retrieved August 29, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Andrea Röpke , Maik Baumgärtner: (SZ, July 28, 2009): Neo-Nazis on the Internet: Arming for a crisis
4. ↑ Mainpost, August 21, 2008: Würzburg: Physicist plays down the Holocaust: fine
5. ↑ "Daily Comment" of July 8, 2011
6. ↑ "Daily Commentary" of March 8, 2012
7. ↑ "Daily Commentary" from August 15, 2013
8. ^ Robert Andreasch: Michael Winkler event in Munich's Westend announced aida-archiv.de of June 10, 2009.
9. ^ Jens Raab (Main-Netz, November 13, 2009): Death threats after the lecture was canceled ; Redok: Death threats against mayor  ( 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.