Norbert Burger (politician, 1929)

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Norbert Burger (born April 13, 1929 in Kirchberg am Wechsel , Lower Austria ; † September 27, 1992 ibid.) Was an Austrian independent management consultant as well as a German national and right-wing extremist politician.

Life

Norbert Burger was deployed as a volunteer at the front towards the end of the Second World War and, according to his own account, was involved in executions . He later studied in Vienna and Innsbruck , was a member and senior member of the beating German national fraternity Olympia , in 1961 by the Austrian government for support from South Tyrol - terrorists was dissolved and the DvpV Alemannia Innsbruck.

In 1953 he became federal chairman of the Ring of Freedom Students (RFS), the student organization of the FPÖ , and was a member of the "inner circle" of the Freedom Academic Associations . He belonged to the inner circle of the New Institute for Current Affairs (National Ideology Center, NIZ).

Burger submitted his dissertation , supervised by Ferdinand Ulmer and Eduard Reut-Nicolussi , in July 1956 at the University of Innsbruck . It dealt with "The Italian infiltration of German South Tyrol " . In 1959 he published on South Tyrol in the Eckart publications of the Austrian Landsmannschaft protection association . He was a co-founder of the separatist Liberation Committee South Tyrol (BAS), which pursued its goal of separating South Tyrol from Italy with terrorist means and claimed to be one of the leaders of the BAS. He was arrested for this in 1961 in Klagenfurt . He then went to the Federal Republic of Germany and directed illegal actions in South Tyrol from Augsburg and Munich .

In 1963, Burger was arrested in Munich and expelled . In the same year he resigned from the FPÖ. In the South Tyrolean trial in Graz in 1965 before a lay judge, the court declared that it had no jurisdiction after several weeks of hearing, as there was a suspicion of a political crime which, under Austrian law at the time, could only be judged by a jury. This jury trial took place in Linz and ended on October 14, 1965 with an acquittal for all 15 defendants. The majority of the jury did not want to convict the accused because of the bomb attacks in South Tyrol and the accused of the theft of explosives in Austria. A lawyer announced that the jury saw the reason for exclusion from punishment due to the state of emergency prevailing in South Tyrol, so they did not accept the charge of explosives crimes, but instead did not accept criminal high treason against Italy as an act in Austria. Meanwhile, on April 20, 1966, an Italian court sentenced Burger in absentia to 28 years' imprisonment. In 1967, Burger founded the Austrian National Democratic Party (NDP) with some like-minded people , of which he was the first national spokesman and which was dissolved in 1988 due to National Socialist re-engagement under the Prohibition Act of 1947 . In an appeal process in 1968, Burger was sentenced to eight months in Vienna.

In Italy , in 1971, Burger was sentenced to one life sentence and one to 28 years imprisonment in absentia for terrorist activities in South Tyrol. The judgments were based on explosive attacks, due to which u. a. four people - namely Carabinieri while trying to defuse the explosive material - were killed ( attack on the Porzescharte ). From 1975, Burger was a local councilor in his home town of Kirchberg am Wechsel.

In 1978 he joined the support group of Aktion Neuerechte (ANR). In the federal presidential election in 1980 , Burger stood as a candidate and received 140,000 votes (3.2%). His election rallies were disrupted by anti-fascists , which led to violent clashes with his supporters. His bodyguard, Alfred Baar, was accused in 1981 of purchasing letters of support for Burger's candidacy and convicted.

As a consultant, Burger was involved in the establishment of the Hermann Niermann Foundation , founded in 1977 , which he managed with the help of middlemen until the early 1990s. He regularly wrote articles in right-wing extremist magazines such as Die Aula and Klartext .

Burger died on September 27, 1992 in his birthplace. The funeral was also attended by his daughter's partner at the time, Heinz-Christian Strache , later FPÖ federal party chairman (2005–2019) and Vice Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (2017–2019).

publication

  • Norbert Burger: The Italian Infiltration of German South Tyrol , Diss., Innsbruck 1956
  • Norbert Burger: South Tyrol, a German fate , Eckartschriften 3, Vienna 1959
  • Norbert Burger: The self-government of the Åland Islands: a study on the solution of a minority question through real autonomy - with comparisons to the South Tyrol question , series of publications by Mondsee Working Group 4, Mondsee-Verlag , Walla 1965
  • Norbert Burger: South Tyrol where to? A political problem of our time - and its solution , Druffel-Verlag , Freising 1966

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Kronauer: "For a reunited Tyrol!" The "South Tyrolean freedom fighters" yesterday and today, pp. 38–40, in: Lotta NRW, issue 27, summer 2007, pp. 38f
  2. ^ "Acta Studentica", volume 92/1992, p. 3
  3. ↑ Cf., DÖW 1980, Hermann Dworczak: p. 123.
  4. ↑ Cf., DÖW 1980, Herbert Exenberger: p. 174.
  5. ↑ Cf., DÖW 1980, Herbert Exenberger: p. 159.
  6. ↑ Cf., DÖW 1980, Hermann Dworczak: p. 123.
  7. ↑ Cf., DÖW 1980, Claus Gatterer: p. 350.
  8. ↑ No judgment on terrorists . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 22, 1965, p. 5 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ Burger goes free . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 1, 1967, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  10. ↑ See Norbert Burger, 1966, p. 8
  11. ↑ Cf., DÖW 1980, Herbert Exenberger: p. 149.
  12. ↑ Cf., DÖW 1980, Herbert Exenberger: p. 175.
  13. ↑ Cf., DÖW 1980, Herbert Exenberger: p. 175.
personal data
SURNAME Burger, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg am Wechsel
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1992
Place of death Kirchberg am Wechsel