Rainer Sunday

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Rainer Sonntag (* 1955 ; † June 1, 1991 in Dresden ) was a German neo-Nazi .

Life

In the GDR , Rainer Sonntag worked as an unofficial employee of the German People's Police . In the GDR he was still considered a "work-shy dissident" and was therefore expelled.

He came to the Federal Republic of Germany from Dresden in 1987 . There he sought contacts to the neo-Nazi scene around Michael Kühnen , in whose national collection he was considered a top candidate. He first settled in Frankfurt am Main , where he earned his living as a bodyguard for Kühnen and its headquarters in Frankfurt and Langen, but also with prostitutes . As a result of this activity, Sonntag was convicted of illegal possession of weapons and assault .

After the reunification he returned to Dresden, where he represented the seriously ill bold as the leader of the German Alternative . There he founded the National Resistance Dresden (NWD). Sonntag was seen as an integrating figure between the West and East German neo-Nazi scenes and was particularly well respected within the neo-Nazi skinhead scene. In addition, he earned a reputation as a “clean man”, who patrolled the streets of Dresden with like-minded people as a kind of private police. First, he and his followers took action against shell players , then they targeted the drug and red light district .

As a protection racketeer, he harassed the two pimps Nicolas Simeonidis and Ronny Matz on May 31, 1991 together with several neo-Nazis. He gave both of them an ultimatum. During a renewed confrontation in the evening, Rainer Sonntag was shot dead by Simeonidis on Leipziger Strasse in Dresden.

Judgments and revision

The two perpetrators were initially acquitted because they had acted in self-defense . In the appeal , this decision was overturned by the BGH on February 3, 1993 .

The shooter Nicolas Simeonidis was sentenced by the Dresden Regional Court in October 1993 to a five-year prison term for manslaughter . Ronny Matz received a 10-month suspended sentence for complicity.

Aftermath

Subsequently, Rainer Sonntag was seen as a martyr in the neo-Nazi scene. Their followers tried to instrumentalize his memory based on the " martyrs " of the Nazi movement . However, this ultimately failed because of the by no means “clean” lifestyle on Sunday. A demonstration in honor of Sunday 14 days after his death in Dresden's city center, planned at short notice, mobilized 1500 supporters. The right-wing rock bands Landser (in Kanake verrecke ) and Macht & Ehre (in What have you done? ) Referred to Sunday's death.

After Sunday's death, the remnants of the NWD were included in the National List of Saxony and the National Offensive Saxony .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hans-Gerd Jaschke , Birgit Rätsch , Yury Winterberg : After Hitler - Radical right arm . Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-15206-2 , p.  133-137 .
  2. ↑ Hans-Gerd Jaschke , Birgit Rätsch, Yury Winterberg : After Hitler - Radical right arming . Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-15206-2 , p.  126 .
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Wagner (Ed.): Handbook for right-wing extremism . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-499-13425-X , p.  133 .
  4. ↑ Revenge for Rainer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1991, pp. 86 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Judgments . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1992, pp. 296 ( online ).
  6. ^ Karlsruhe: judgment overturned . In: FAZ , February 4, 1993, p. 4
  7. ^ Thomas Schade: Tatorte; Dresden criminal cases from 5 decades . Edition Sächsische Zeitung , Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-938325-08-7 , p. 200-201 .
  8. ↑ Guilty verdict in sawed-off shotgun slaying of German neo-Nazi leader. November 1, 1993, accessed June 17, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen : Devil and Beelzebub in panic . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1992, pp. 107-111 ( online ).
  10. ^ Rainer Fromm , Jan Peter : After Hitler - Radical right arm arm . Three-part television documentary, 2001 for the MDR . DVD UAP Video GmbH 2006.
  11. ↑ Toralf Staud , Johannes Radke : New Nazis - Beyond the NPD: Populists, Autonomous Nationalists and the Terror from the Right . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2012, ISBN 978-3-462-04455-3 , pp.  55 .
  12. ^ Peter Schlobinski : On the use of language by right-wing radical music groups. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Michael Tewes, formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 20, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / michael.tewes.phil.uni-hannover.de
personal data
SURNAME Sunday, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist and pimp
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1991
Place of death Dresden