Peter Dehoust

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Peter Dehoust (born May 30, 1936 in Heidelberg ), pseudonym Peter Degner is a German publicist and one of the most important publicists on the German right-wing extremist scene.

biography

Dehoust grew up in Heidelberg and graduated from high school there. He studied law and journalism in Heidelberg and Munich . During his studies in 1956 he was a co-founder and chief ideologist of the right-wing extremist Association of National Students (BNS). This group, founded together with Peter Stöckicht and Martin Mußgnug , was one of the most radical right-wing extremist student organizations at the end of the 1950s and was banned nationwide in 1961. In Heidelberg, Dehoust pursued the goal of achieving recognition of the BNS as an academic group at the university. He was editor of the BNS organ Student in the People and from June 1961 to 1978 editor of the successor magazine Deutscher Studenten Anzeiger (DSA), which was renamed after the BNS ban , where he worked as an editor until 1971.

From 1960 to 1964 Dehoust was active in the DRP . 1966 began its activity in the NPD .

In 1968 Dehoust became a district board member of the NPD in Bayreuth , in 1970 first chairman of the NPD district association in Coburg . In 1970 he ran for the NPD Bavaria as a candidate for the state election . After Arthur Ehrhardt's death in 1971, Dehoust became editor-in-chief of the magazine Nation und Europa (NE) and published numerous articles here in the following years, some of them under the pseudonym Peter Degner. He is also a partner in the "Nation Europa" publishing house.

In 1972 he became a board member of the NPD regional association of Bavaria. In 1972 he founded the German-European Study Society (DESG), an important group of the New Right, with other members of the Young Forum working group and the NPD . As a functionary of the NPD he tried in particular to intensify contacts between circles close to the NPD and the Union parties . To this end, he founded the Southern Africa Aid Committee (HSA) in 1976 , on whose board he is still active today.

In 1978 Dehoust was deputy NPD district chairman in Upper Franconia and ran again in the Bavarian state elections . In 1979 he was chairman of the Federal Foreign Policy Committee of the NPD and member of the board (deputy chairman) of the Society for Free Journalism (GfP). From 1985 he participated in the efforts to form a unified right-wing electoral front, which in 1991 resulted in the formation of the German League for People and Homeland (DLVH); At the founding event of the organization then still operating under the name of German Alliance - United Rights , he appeared as a speaker on January 18, 1991 in Munich-Großhadern. Dehoust is an assessor on the board of the DLHV. He is also the chairman of the United Rights Association , an advance organization of the DLVH.

Since 1988 Dehoust has acted as the publishing director and editor of the magazine and owner of the Deutsche Buchversandes. Dehoust initiated the acquisition of the magazine Deutsche Monatshefte in 1989. After Adolf von Thadden and Harald Neubauer were accepted into the editorial team of NE in 1992, Dehoust holds 57% of the shares. In 1995 he was convicted of sedition in Coburg .

From 1989 to 1991 he was a partner in the Nation-Europa-Freunde association.

In 1996 Dehoust was awarded the Ulrich von Hutten Medal for his life's work by the right-wing society for free journalism (GfP) .

In 2001, the city council of Coburg declared Peter Dehoust an undesirable person in the city.

Publications

  • Peter Dehoust (Ed.): The Sieger Tribunal: Nuremberg 1945/46; thirty years after that . Lectures and work results of the contemporary history congress of the Society for Free Journalism on May 21-23, 1976 in Kassel. 2nd edition, Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag , 1976.
  • ders .: The Germans in the world. Germans abroad in the struggle for self-preservation. Lectures and work results of the Society for Free Journalism. Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag, 1977.
  • ders .: Treason and resistance in the Third Reich. Lectures and work results of the contemporary history congress of the Society for Free Journalism from May 26th - 28th 1978 in Kassel . Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag, 1978, ISBN 3-920677-01-3 .
  • ders .: Causes and outbreak of the Second World War. Presentations u. Work results d. Contemporary history congress of the Society for Free Journalism (Leoni) v. August 31 to September 2, 1979 in Kassel. Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag, 1979.
  • ders .: The future of the German people. From a biological and political point of view. Lectures and work results of the congress of the Society for Free Journalism (Leoni), from 29th to 31st August 1980 in Kassel. Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag, 1980.
  • ders .: The German question in the world of tomorrow. Presentations u. Work results d. Germany Polit. Congress d. Ges. Für Freie Journalistik from October 7th - 9th 1983 in Kassel. Coburg: Nation-Europa-Verlag, 1983.
  • ders .: The overthrow of the empire: war, betrayal, trials; revisionist theses on contemporary history . Documentation of the three contemporary Kassel congresses organized by the Society for Free Publication, Nation Europa Verlag, 1984. ISBN 3-920677-00-5 .
  • ders .: Courage to change spiritually. Presentations u. Work results d. Germany Polit. Congress d. Ges. Für Freie Journalistik from September 28-30, 1984 in Kassel. Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag, 1984. ISBN 3-920677-01-3 .
  • ders .: Hypocrites, executioners, scoundrels: the Nuremberg Trial 50 years ago . Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag, 1996. ISBN 3-920677-14-5 . (see Nuremberg Trials ).
  • Peter Dehoust: Ignatz Bubis: the truth; his life, his secrets, his power , Coburg: Nation-Europa-Verl., 1998. ISBN 3-920677-26-9 . (see Ignatz Bubis ).
  • Peter Dehoust: Forced Laborers - Lies & Truths , Coburg: Nation-Europa-Verlag, 2000, ISBN 392067748X . (see Nazi forced labor ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Yearbook Extremism & Democracy , Volume 12. Bouvier, Bonn 2000, p. 311.
  2. ^ "Major inquiry from the Left Party: Right-wing extremism and democratic resistance " die-linke-thl.de of December 2, 2005