Peter Fitzek

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Peter Fitzek (born August 12, 1965 in Halle an der Saale ) is an activist from the environment of the German Reich Citizens' Movement . He is the self-appointed head of a fantasy state he founded in Lutherstadt Wittenberg , which he calls the “ Kingdom of Germany ”. Fitzek also operated his own bank and several insurance companies for several years without the permission of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) .

Because of his activities, Fitzek is observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony-Anhalt . From June 8, 2016, Fitzek was in pre- trial detention , in particular on charges of serious infidelity , from which he was released in April 2018 after the Federal Court of Justice overturned a conviction by the Halle Regional Court to a prison sentence of three years and eight months had referred back to another hearing. Since September 2018, another conviction to a prison sentence of 2 years and 6 months, among other things for inadmissible insurance transactions, has been final; the sentence has been carried out since the end of October 2018. In February 2019, Fitzek was released prematurely from custody because the pre-trial detention during the proceedings before the Halle district court was counted towards the prison term. Further prison sentences from proceedings for driving without a license and illegal insurance transactions are not yet final.

Life

Fitzek completed an apprenticeship as a chef , later he worked as a kitchen manager, karate teacher and video lender. In 2008 he ran for the election of Lord Mayor of Lutherstadt Wittenberg and received 0.7% of the vote. In the 2009 Bundestag election , Fitzek ran for the Bundestag as an independent direct candidate in the constituency of Dessau - Wittenberg . He also received 0.7% of the vote. Fitzek was married in the early 1990s. This marriage resulted in two children.

"New Germany Association" and "Kingdom of Germany"

Flag of the "Kingdom of Germany"

Fitzek claims to be currently "not identified as a natural person ". On this basis, he claimed to be able to establish his own state within the Federal Republic of Germany, for which purpose he founded the association “New Germany” on July 13, 2009 in Wittenberg.

Association "New Germany"

The aim of the association is to establish Germany within the borders of December 31, 1937 and to create a new constitution. The Basic Law is rejected as an “ instrument of occupation law ”, and the state sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Germany is not recognized. First of all, enough members should be won over so that the association is recognized as a corporation under public law . In Fitzek's imagination, it would then be possible to pass your own laws, assign offices and raise your own taxes. The draft constitution provided for a new form of government for “New Germany”, which was to combine a “direct rising democracy in the organizational form of a soviet republic with a constitutional monarchy ”. After the plan to found a separate corporation under public law had been abandoned due to the lack of popularity, the desired form of government was converted into a "flawless monarchy ".

Wittenberg light center

How such a state should be built up and how it can supposedly function was dealt with in appropriate seminars in the Wittenberg Light Center founded by Fitzek for this purpose and recorded in the form of a draft constitution, a declaration of principles and other texts. In the light center, esoteric and brown esoteric topics were offered in day and weekend seminars . The topics of the seminars were, for example, "How do you create a new state?" And "Training to become a new German state official and international public official" as well as health issues. Part of the center was a small publishing house which, among other things, publishes Fitzek's own publications. The “Engelswelten” shop, which sells esoteric products, was also attached to the light center.

Angel money

The NeuDeutschland association issued “Engelgeld”, a type of internal currency based on existing regional currencies . The term "angel" is an abbreviation which, among others, for " E in N ew G eld E rweckt L ove", " E in N ew G eld E rzeugt L eistungsbereitschaft" and " E in N ew G eld E rschafft L eihmöglichkeiten " stands. Each banknote has a different lettering.

This association was also a provider of private signs that were to be used as license plates . The suggested benefit of no longer having to pay vehicle tax is in contrast to the current legal system. The establishment of the "New German Guard", in which former martial artists organized themselves, should replace the police in the future. Peter Fitzek is also chairman of the “Holistic Paths e. V. "

Health insurance

Fitzek's attempt to establish his own health insurance, the NeuDeutsche Gesundheitskasse (NDGK, formerly Der Gesundheitsfond), was stopped by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) on December 1, 2010. The handling of the business carried out and the dissolution of the existing contracts were ordered. Since then, the NDGK, chaired by Fitzek, has not been operated as a health insurance company subject to insurance supervision, but merely as a support fund. This was also prohibited by BaFin in March 2012. Membership in this short-term health insurance company was made according to health exclusion criteria. Visits to selected alternative practitioners and health training courses were included in the scope of services . It was also planned to restrict the free choice of a doctor or alternative practitioner by creating a list of doctors and alternative practitioners who work in the sense of the NDGK and thus Fitzek's ideas of health.

Kingdom of Germany

The group around Fitzek also rented a nine-hectare site on the outskirts of Wittenberg, on which a former hospital is located. On September 16, 2012, he proclaimed the founding of the “Kingdom of Germany” in front of supporters and was appointed “Supreme Sovereign ” in front of around 600 supporters . In addition to operating the hospital, the construction and operation of a kindergarten, a private school and a university were also planned there. The hospital grounds were evacuated by police on May 15, 2017.

Disputes with administrative authorities and criminal proceedings

In April 2011, Fitzek was sentenced by the Dessau Regional Court to 150 daily rates of twelve euros for using an officially unauthorized license plate . The license plate was suitable to give the appearance of an official license plate, it said in the judgment. In the second instance, he was acquitted of the allegation of forgery of documents: the license plate could not be confused with an official license plate.

Fitzek was banned from entering the Wittenberg town hall . He tried to "arrest" one of the workers there and injured her arm. Fitzek was then found guilty of willful bodily harm by the Wittenberg District Court. During the announcement of the verdict, there was an escalation when supporters of Fitzek from the audience tried to "arrest" the judge.

Fitzek is also banned from entering the Friedrich Engels primary school in Wittenberg. He had fought with two teachers present. The reason for this was, in Fitzek's opinion, inadequate sex education classes. As a result of this dispute, the police were called in.

Because of supposed or actual insurance and banking transactions, there are prohibitions by the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority.

On October 17, 2013, Fitzek was sentenced to three months' imprisonment without probation by the district court in Neustadt am Rübenberge for deliberately driving without a license and in view of 31 entries in the federal central and traffic register - among other things for various traffic offenses, dangerous bodily harm and the suppression of documents . The judge saw Fitzek as a “notorious traffic offender ” and certified that he was reigning in a “fantasy world with abstruse political ideas”. The judgment is not yet final .

On April 25, 2013, at the request of the financial supervisory authority BaFin, police officers searched all residential and commercial properties belonging to New Germany. The reason was the suspicion of unauthorized banking and insurance transactions. On March 26, 2014, police officers again searched these objects, open claims should be carried out. In November 2014, Fitzek was charged with violating the Insurance Supervision Act at the Dessau-Roßlau District Court . In early 2015, he was fined 4,200 euros. Fitzek announced that he would continue his unapproved “health insurance ” and that he would bring claims for damages against the Federal Republic of Germany.

On February 25, 2016, Fitzek was sentenced to seven months' imprisonment without parole by the Wittenberg District Court for driving without a license. In March 2016, the Hof District Court also sentenced Fitzek to five months' imprisonment for the same offense. Both judgments are not yet final.

On April 5, 2016, he was sentenced to one year and three months imprisonment by the Dessau District Court for driving multiple times without a valid driver's license. The sentence has not been suspended. Fitzek has appealed the judgment.

On June 7, 2016, the Halle Regional Court issued a pre- trial detention order against Peter Fitzek due to the risk of flight , which was carried out the following day. This was based on several cases of white-collar crime, in particular 27 cases of serious breach of trust with a total loss of more than 1.3 million euros. Because of the expected sentence, he was arrested and taken to pre-trial detention. On March 15, 2017, the LG Halle Fitzek sentenced Fitzek to a total imprisonment of 3 years and 8 months for unlawful banking and breach of trust; the judgment was overturned by the Federal Court of Justice on April 26, 2018 and the matter was referred back to another chamber of the LG Halle for renewed hearing. As a result, Fitzek was released from pre-trial detention because further enforcement was disproportionate.

On March 13, 2017, the Wittenberg District Court sentenced him to a total imprisonment of 2 years and eight months for driving without a license in 27 cases and insulting in 2 cases. The judgment is not final.

In an appeal procedure, Fitzek was sentenced by the Dessau Regional Court in August 2017 to a prison term of 2 years and 6 months for illegal business with the “NeuDeutsche Gesundheitskasse” and two cases of driving without a license. An appeal against this judgment was rejected by the OLG Naumburg in April 2018. Fitzek turned against this with a successful hearing complaint, which led to another rejection of the revision on September 5, 2018. The sentence has been carried out since the end of October 2018; Fitzek was released from custody in February 2019 due to the offsetting of pre-trial detention after the end of the proceedings for unlawful banking and breach of trust. And in April he announced that he wanted to get back into banking.

On July 5, 2019, Fitzek was sentenced by the Hof Regional Court in an appeal procedure to a five-month prison term for driving without a license, the total penalty for further proceedings before the Dessau Regional Court for illegal insurance transactions and driving without a license for a total of 2 years and 6 months rise up. The verdict is not yet legally binding.

reception

Fitzek's activities are monitored by the constitution protection authorities in Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg and classified as unconstitutional. As an absolutist ruler who sees himself as sent by God, Fitzek postulates totalitarian claims. With his productions and monetary events, he financially exploits his followers and supporters. In addition, the basic anti-Semitic content of the health views propagated by Fitzek is emphasized. In some cases, Fitzek expressed himself in a decidedly anti-Semitic manner, e.g. B. attempted the racist stereotype of a supposedly special nose shape of the Jews against a former supporter and justified his regional currency with anti-Semitic interest rate criticism. As a “ guru ” he also practices a personality cult .

According to Publikative.org , Fitzek's supporters include conspiracy theorist Jo Conrad .

In November 2017 Fitzek received the negative Golden Board in front of the head for the biggest pseudoscientific mischief of the year.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ BaFin forbids Peter Fitzek (“Königliche Reichsbank”) to conduct the deposit business and orders the settlement. Consumer information from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of August 8, 2013 (accessed on December 2, 2013).
  3. ↑ BaFin prohibits Mr. Peter Fitzek as the “supreme sovereign” of the unregistered association “Kingdom of Germany” from the insurance business and orders the settlement. Consumer information from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of October 10, 2013 (accessed on December 2, 2013).
  4. ^ A b Sven Rindfleisch: Wiesbaden: Esoterik-Verein develops “Engelgeld” as an alternative currency. In: Wiesbaden Courier. July 20, 2011, archived from the original on July 26, 2011 ; Retrieved December 3, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Michael Hübner: King in jail: Peter Fitzek is in custody. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. June 8, 2016, Retrieved June 9, 2016 .
  6. ^ Press release of the LG Halle from April 9, 2018, No. 014/2018. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Resolution of the 4th Criminal Senate of March 26, 2018 - 4 StR 408/17 -. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ MDR: Peter Fitzek is free again , article from February 11, 2019
  9. ↑ a b c Steffen Könau: 47-year-old founds his own kingdom. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. September 14, 2012, accessed June 9, 2016 .
  10. ↑ http://www.statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/bm08/erg/gem/bm.15091375.ergtab.frametab.html
  11. ↑ http://www.abektivenwatch.de/peter_fitzek-180-26505.html
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  13. ↑ Peter Fitzek: Declaration on the changed civil status. (PDF) November 2, 2010, archived from the original on December 28, 2013 ; accessed on September 4, 2015 (letter to the mayor or the city administration of Wittenberg).
  14. ↑ neudeutschland.org. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
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  21. ↑ a b c Angels with brown speckles: alternative currency advertises right-wing esoteric Reich Citizens' Association. (PDF) In: Märkische Allgemeine. June 12, 2012, archived from the original on May 13, 2013 ; accessed in December 2013 .
  22. ↑ 7 angels. In: http://www.klartext-magazin.de/ . http://www.klartext-magazin.de , September 14, 2018, accessed on September 14, 2018 .
  23. ↑ 5 angels. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
  24. ↑ 10 angels. In: ebay.de. Retrieved September 14, 2018 .
  25. ↑ a b c d e http://www.publikative.org/2012/10/17/der-konig-von-deutschland/
  26. ↑ BaFin prohibits Mr. Peter Fitzek as operator of the "NeuDeutschen Gesundheitskasse" (formerly: "The Health Fund") from operating the insurance business and orders the settlement ( Memento of December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives:@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bafin.de
  28. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ndgk.de
  29. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ndgk.de
  30. ↑ Michael Hübner and Alexander Baumbach: Fantasy State by Peter Fitzek: Eviction in the "Kingdom of Germany". In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. May 16, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2017 .
  31. ↑ Thomas Steinberg: Peter F. was up to wrong things. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. April 7, 2011, accessed December 3, 2013 .
  32. ↑ snow_in_june: Kingdom of Germany. In: Friday . October 20, 2012, accessed December 8, 2015 .
  33. ↑ Broadcast “Exakt” in MDR on July 10, 2013 ( PDF, manuscript ; 75 kB).
  34. ↑ written school ban against Peter Fitzek. (PDF; 42 kB) Archived from the original on May 13, 2013 ; accessed on December 6, 2017 .
  35. ^ District court Neustadt am Rübenberge: Judgment of October 17, 2013, file number: 60 Cs 7231 Js 21262/13 (59/13) , published on OpenJur (accessed on December 2, 2013).
  36. ↑ Michael Zgoll: "King of Germany" must be in custody. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. October 17, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013 .
  37. ^ Investigators search "Kingdom of Germany". In: The world. April 26, 2013, accessed December 6, 2015 .
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  39. ↑ Marcel Duclaud: Raid in the "Kingdom of Germany". In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. March 26, 2014, accessed December 6, 2015 .
  40. ↑ Self-appointed king gets away with a fine. (No longer available online.) MDR, January 9, 2015, archived from the original on August 20, 2015 ; Retrieved December 6, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  41. ↑ Driving without a license: "King of Germany" sentenced to seven months in prison . Spiegel Online, February 25, 2016.
  42. ↑ mdr.de: "King of Germany" must go to prison | MDR.DE. (No longer available online.) In: www.mdr.de. Archived from the original on April 5, 2016 ; Retrieved April 5, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  43. ↑ Arrested "King of Germany": Police overpower Peter Fitzek in Wittenberg. Retrieved September 8, 2016 .
  44. ↑ Spiegel Online: "King of Germany" sentenced to imprisonment , accessed on March 15, 2017
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  46. ^ Press release of the LG Halle from April 9, 2018, No. 014/2018. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  47. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: Trial against Peter Fitzek Self-proclaimed “King of Germany” should go to jail , accessed on March 13, 2017
  48. ↑ Another prison sentence for Peter Fitzek. (No longer available online.) Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , August 10, 2017, archived from the original on December 6, 2017 ; accessed on December 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  49. ^ LTO: OLG: imprisonment for King of Germany . In: Legal Tribune Online . ( lto.de [accessed on May 6, 2018]).
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  52. ^ "King of Germany" founds a bank again. In: mdr.de. April 15, 2019, accessed December 11, 2019 .
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  57. ^ Golden Board for the "King of Germany" . The November 23, 2017 standard .
personal data
SURNAME Fitzek, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German martial artist and esotericist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle / Saale