Peter Kienesberger

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Peter Kienesberger (born December 1, 1942 in Wels , Upper Austria ; † July 14, 2015 in Ebermannstadt ) was an Austrian publisher and right-wing extremist activist who lived in Germany. Because of its involvement in violent attacks of the Liberation Committee South Tyrol , he was in 1967 in Italy several times in the absence of a life sentence convicted.

Life

Peter Kienesberger grew up in Gmunden , Austria . In the summer of 1961, at the age of 18, he went to Innsbruck and joined the South Tyrol Liberation Committee (BAS). In September 1961 he took part in an attack by Georg Klotz on the Rabenstein dam in the Sarntal . As a result, he was involved in numerous BAS actions and attacks. A television appearance by Kienesberger together with Norbert Burger in the program Monitor on June 29, 1966 led to an upset between the Federal Republic of Germany and Italy.

In June 1966, Kienesberger was, together with Norbert Burger, one of the four founders of the right-wing extremist National Democratic Party (NDP).

After his arrest in 1967 he was featured in police reports as a "student". Due to other activities, he was described as a member or as a member of the Brixia fraternity.

Kienesberger was brought into connection with an attack on the Porzescharte in Italy and in 1967 a court in Florence sentenced him to multiple life imprisonment in absentia. Before the Austrian courts, Kienesberger obtained an acquittal in the same matter after a first conviction.

After the criminal prosecution, Kienesberger moved to Germany as a result of his BAS activities, where he, referred to by the weekly newspaper Die Zeit as a “business graduate”, lived in Nuremberg from the 1970s and worked as a publisher and journalist . According to the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution , he spread right-wing extremist ideas through his "Book Service South Tyrol".

With a two percent stake, Kienesberger was a partner in Junge Freiheit Verwaltungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH in Potsdam and thus co-editor of Junge Freiheit .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Freedom fighter Peter Kienesberger dies ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Franz Hetzenauer: The Klaus era. In: Robert Kriechbaumer: From the point of view of contemporaries and in caricatures by Ironimus. Volume 2. Böhlau 1999, p. 210.
  3. ↑ Brigitte Bailer, Wolfgang Neugebauer: The FPÖ: from liberalism to right-wing extremism , In: Documentation archive of Austrian resistance (ed.): Handbook of Austrian right-wing extremism. Deuticke, Vienna 1993, p. 330
  4. ↑ Rainer Fromm , Barbara Kernbach , Europe’s brown seed: the international entanglement of the right-wing radical scene , Aktuell Verlag 1994, p. 247
  5. ^ Associated Press, Innsbruck, report of October 13, 1967 published in the Hamburger Abendblatt, among others. Independently of this, a report in the Utrecht Nieuwsblad of October 11, 1967, page 7
  6. ^ Rudolf Lill, Südtirol in der Zeit des Nationalismus , UVK Verlagsgesellschaft 2002, p. 311
  7. ↑ Hans Karl Peterlini, second-hand bombs. Between Gladio and Stasi: South Tyrol's Abused Terrorism , Edition Raetia, Bozen 1993, p. 81
  8. ↑ Gerald Steinacher, Leopold Steuer: In the shadow of the secret services: South Tyrol 1918 to the present. StudienVerlag 2003, p. 238
  9. ↑ Claus Gatterer, Die "Braunen" von Südtirol , In: Die Zeit, September 25, 1964 No. 39, p. 11
  10. ↑ Information for the Protection of the Constitution Bavaria, 1st half 2001, p. 14
  11. ↑ Federal Constitutional Protection Report 1980, p. 43
  12. ^ Frank Böckelmann: Who owns the newspapers? The ownership and ownership structure of daily and weekly newspaper publishers in Germany , UVK Medien 2000, p. 404
personal data
SURNAME Kienesberger, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian publisher
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Wels (city)
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 2015
Place of death Ebermannstadt