Oliver Janich

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Oliver Janich (born January 3, 1969 in Munich ) is a German journalist and book author as well as co-founder and former chairman of the Party of Reason (PDV).

Janich represents right-wing populist , xenophobic and conspiracy-theoretical views. He sees himself as a representative of libertarianism and currently lives in the Philippines .

Activity as a journalist

Work as a stock market and financial journalist

Janich was employed by Euro am Sonntag and Focus Money . As a freelance journalist, he wrote for the Financial Times Deutschland , Euro and the Süddeutsche Zeitung ; later also for Kopp Online and Compact .

Investigations against Janich for manipulation of the stock market

Together with two friends from his economics studies, Janich was part of a network of stock traders and stock market journalists (“Bosler clique”) who systematically posted the prices of rather unknown listed companies whose shares had previously been bought by people in their network. In September 2010, the Munich public prosecutor's office had the homes and offices of around 30 suspects, including Janich's, searched. The ringleaders of this conspiracy, to which Janich was not a member according to the findings of the trial, were convicted in 2012. Various stock market journalists have reduced their sentences through confessions and were sentenced at most to probation.

Janich now lives in the Philippines.

conspiracy theories

Even as a financial journalist, Janich represented conspiracy theories on September 11, 2001 in several articles , and these also appear in his books. He also spreads conspiracy theories about alleged electoral fraud without giving any evidence.

Against the appointment of Sinan Selen as Vice-President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Janich raised a mood in a video published on Youtube by claiming that Selenium had the post "at the request of the Turkish government". The Süddeutsche Zeitung described the contribution as a "hate video" and referred to xenophobic comments underneath. According to Spiegel Online , his YouTube videos contain “some racist statements and serve anti-Semitic conspiracy theories”.

Janich is considered to be the promoter of QAnon narratives, an extensive conspiracy theory that originally emerged in Imageboards .

Party of reason

Janich founded the Party of Reason after the proposal to found a party, which he put forward in a Focus Money column, had received a positive response from the readers. He is a supporter of the Austrian School of Economics and calls for the abolition of the state central bank monopoly . Like his party, he advocates that people should have the free choice of what money they use, whereby, according to Gresham's law, a currency of stable value would automatically prevail.

On April 17, 2013 Janich resigned from the Federal Presidency.

In the municipal elections in Munich in 2014 Janich wanted to run as a representative of the PDV for the office of mayor and for the Munich city council , but did not receive the necessary number of supporter signatures. As a result, he was the 11th candidate on the list 3 of the free voters for the district committee 12 Schwabing-Freimann without success .

The capitalism plot

In his book The Capitalism Plot , Janich describes the Austrian School of Economics . In addition, Janich claims that there are powerful interest groups who oppose a free economic order in the sense of the Austrian school. He describes how these interest groups influence the media in order to prevent objective coverage of certain political events. The Süddeutsche Zeitung calls Janich a “rabid advocate of libertarianism” who calls for anarchy or at least a minimal state so that the free market then creates a fair and efficient economic order. Janich reproduced the history of the banknote system in clear language and uncovered the myth of money creation as the central systemic flaw of capitalism. While the first half of the book is still rated as entertaining, the second half is described as a conspiracy theory that has failed at the beginning. Janich considers the reader to be naive and his convictions as universal. In the end, “the thesis that the capitalist system is a huge piece of propaganda with which the 'world government' of a mafia tries to dominate the people remains. The eugenicists , the pharmaceutical industry, Otto Schily and even Angela Merkel are supposedly hiding behind this 'communist world conspiracy' . ”In an article in the magazine Der Spiegel in 2010, the opinion is expressed that Janich's alleged“ Spezl-Netz would have been wonderfully in the Book fits in ”, but is not mentioned.

Political opinions

Janich supported the alternative for Germany before the 2017 federal election . In 2018 he compared a documentary by the children's channel with the propaganda by Joseph Goebbels . The Stuttgarter Zeitung criticized this comparison and described Janich as a “right-wing blogger”. In 2018, Janich distributed a video that "supposedly should show how journalists shoot staged images of refugees in distress at sea". However, Jacques Pezet later found this to be a fake. After the Bavarian state elections in 2018 , Bayerischer Rundfunk reported that Janich was distributing videos that spoke of fraud in the state elections without even providing a clue.

In June 2020, the program Frontal showed in a report about conspiracy storytellers how Janich spoke about tribunals for politicians and journalists and said: "Many of the people who are in power today should actually be hung up."

Publications

  • Money management. Rationality and application of the fixed-fractional approach. Thesis. TM-Börsenverlag, Rosenheim 1996, ISBN 3-930851-10-5
  • The capitalism plot. The secret circles of power and their methods. FinanzBook Verlag , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89879-577-7
  • The United States of Europe. Secret Documents Reveal: The Elite's Dark Plans. FinanzBook-Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-89879-820-4
  • Safe without a state: How a natural legal system works without a monopoly of force . CBX-Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-945794-90-6
  • Impossible Mission 9/11: How a small special command could have carried out the biggest terrorist attack in history . CBX-Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3945794913

TV reports

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ BA 12 (Schwabing-Freimann) , Hello Munich , February 21, 2014.
  2. ↑ FOCUS Online: Authors - Imprint - FOCUS Online intern. Retrieved on August 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Bullshit with little pictures . In: Der Spiegel . November 15, 2010. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
  4. ^ Case SdK: Ex-shareholder protectors back at large . In: Der Spiegel . March 12, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ SdK affair The rulings are of little help to investors . In: Wirtschaftswoche . March 20, 2012. Retrieved December 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ Michael Borgers: Xavier Naidoo: Interplay with right-wing media . deutschlandfunk.de , March 18, 2020, accessed June 4, 2020.
  7. ↑ Nik Afanasjew: 9/11 - Is it all a lie? In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 9, 2011, p. 2 , accessed June 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ a b c What is it about rumors of alleged electoral fraud? Bayerischer Rundfunk , October 19, 2018, archived from the original ; accessed on June 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Georg Mascolo, Ronen Steinke: This is how people hound a terrorist on the Internet . In: sueddeutsche.de . December 6, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 9, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Corona videos on YouTube. Behind the conspiracy . In: Spiegel Online , May 21, 2020. Accessed May 21, 2020.
  11. ↑ rnd.de: Felix Huesmann: “QAnon” - the rise of a dangerous conspiracy theory , editorial network Germany , April 7, 2020.
  12. ↑ Manfred Dworschak: The Apocalypse according to Q. In: Der Spiegel from July 18, 2020, p. 104.
  13. ↑ Oliver Janich: Stock market commentary: New party . In: Focus Money. No. 2, January 2, 2008
  14. ↑ a b Oliver Janich: Oliver Janich: Simply free: How a completely different economic model could completely renew our society. Retrieved April 23, 2020 . (PDF file; 163 kB). In: Zeitgeist No. 31, January 15, 2012
  15. ^ Party of Reason: Basic Program of the PDV ( Memento of June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). January 22, 2012
  16. ↑ http://www.parteidervernunft.de/ruecktritt-des-bundesvorsitzenden ( Memento from April 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ↑ Municipal elections in Munich 2014 - List 3 of the free voters for the district committee Schwabing-Freimann ( Memento from December 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), KunstundKultur.org, 2014.
  18. ↑ Münchner Verlagsgruppe : The Capitalism Plot ( Memento from May 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Oliver Janich: The capitalism plot . Finanzbuchverlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89879-577-7 , p. 446
  20. ↑ Conspirator meets conspiracy. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 2, 2010
  21. ↑ Dinah Deckstein, Markus Grill & Christoph Pauly: Affairs: Bullshit with little pictures . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46, November 15, 2010.
  22. ↑ Oliver Janich: Why you should choose the Alternative for Germany (AfD). May 5, 2017. Retrieved September 13, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: The dispute over the children's channel contribution continues: material for the agitators and haters . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed on September 13, 2018]).
  24. ↑ Nora Frerichmann: The waste paper on August 17, 2018: Defended or run down? | MDR.DE . ( mdr.de [accessed on September 13, 2018]).
  25. ↑ Conspiracy Theory: Why Is QAnon So Dangerous? Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Janich, Oliver
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, journalist and politician (Party of Reason)
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd January 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich