Reinhard Uhle-Wettler

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Reinhard Uhle-Wettler (* 1932 in Kiel ) is a Brigadier General a. D. the Bundeswehr and the younger brother of Lieutenant General a. D. Franz Uhle-Wettler . Uhle-Wettler is assigned to the so-called New Right due to his political activities .

Military background

Uhle-Wettler was born in Kiel in 1932 as the son of an officer. After graduating from high school in 1953, he first went to the merchant marine . From 1955 to 1956 he worked for the Federal Border Police. During his military career he was a. a. from 1972 as commander of the paratrooper battalion 261 in Lebach, from October 1, 1982 to September 30, 1985 as commander of Panzerbrigade 12 in Amberg, in the Federal Ministry of Defense and most recently as deputy commander of the 1st Airborne Division in Bruchsal. His last rank was that of brigadier general.

Speaker and publicist

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The retired general was chairman of the State and Economic Policy Society (SWG) in Hamburg. This non-profit association sees its focus on “ conservative educational work” for the “pre-political area” and offers lectures with Hans-Helmuth Knütter and the series Deutschland Journal. Questions at the moment . One of the better known authors of this publication is Alfred Mechtersheimer .

He was a member of the Democratic Reform Working Group (AKDemo), which was active until 2003 . AKDemo fought against the “omnipotence of the parties” because it “abuses and seriously damages our parliamentary representative democracy”. It is their job to "lay the truth on the table in a non-conformist way, because indoctrination of opinion has dire consequences".

The retired soldier is best known for his numerous articles in conservative publications, such as the journals Germany in History and Present , which is published by Grabert Verlag in Tübingen , Signal , Nation and Europe , New Order , the East Prussian Gazette and in military journals and the US Military Encyclopedia.

He was one of the signatories of the Appeal of the 100 , a resolution in which “the paragraph on sedition, which criminalizes public denial of the Holocaust ” was opposed . The appeal was published as an advertisement in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on May 17, 1996. Up to 500 people from the conservative to right-wing extremist spectrum took part in the campaign.

In addition, Uhle-Wetter gave a lecture at the Germany Movement , the Society for Free Journalism , the German Cultural Association Austria , the New Club Vienna and the Committee for Fraternity Work .

In 1996 he wrote in No. 44 of the magazine Deutschland in Geschichte und Gegenwart that there would be an “relentless war out of the dark against Germany with all forms of deception, deceit, bribery, betrayal, seduction and psychological warfare, as well as violence of all kinds up to murder and hot war ”. The NSDAP fought “for people and nation and against Versailles ”. The present day is about “replacing the domestic collaborators and opportunists and countering the foreign blackmailers and oppressors with wisdom and a cool head.” Regarding the Holocaust, he says: “We still have to this day - unlike for expulsion and prisoners of war no official documentation about the mass murder of the Jews. None of our governments would be allowed to do this - without internationally organized punishment. But why is it not possible to set up an international, neutral commission to document the so-called obviousness of the terrible events? "

In 1998 he published an anthology as a commemorative publication entitled Risk Truth in the right-wing extremist Arndt Verlag in Kiel, “in honor” of the Holocaust denier David Irving . In the foreword of the volume, Uhle-Wettler writes that in German history “an official historical image is established and made politically binding on the basis of the historiography of the victorious powers of the Second World War. Sole blame for the Second World War and all related crimes will be imposed on the defeated German people. ”The publisher is also promoting a video documentation of a rousing speech by the ex-military“ against contemporary do - gooders ”entitled Germany besides short. A plea for walking upright .

Uhle-Wettler initiated a resolution against the opening of the Wehrmacht exhibition in Kiel, which was published in January 1999 as an advertisement in the Kieler Nachrichten . This resolution was described as being comparable to other actions of a campaign by the New Right against the exhibition. In the right-wing extremist nation and Europe , in 2000 he commented on the revision of the Wehrmacht exhibition entitled Victory of Truth, Embarrassment of the Left .

In 2003, in his capacity as SWG chairman, he expressed his solidarity in an open letter to the CDU / CSU parliamentary group with Martin Hohmann , who was expelled from the party for a speech criticized as anti-Semitic. On his website he wrote: “The 'controversial' because unadjusted member of the Bundestag Martin Hohmann is said to be 'shot down' in his constituency on October 3, 2003 for his allegedly anti-Semitic speech on the Day of German Unity. To this day, no voice of rank has been heard trying to do justice to the affected, long-serving and very successful member of the CDU. Hohmann is a reserve officer, which most of his critics cannot say of himself. In addition, he is a professed Christian, which also does not apply to many of his critics. "

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  1. ↑ Wolfgang Gessenharter , Thomas Pfeiffer: The new right - a threat to democracy? VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4162-9 , p. 66.
  2. ↑ Andreas Angerstorfer, Annemarie Dengg: Right structures in Bavaria 2005. A documentation with a focus on Upper Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Lower Bavaria . Bayernforum of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Munich, September 2005, ISBN 3-89892-416-5 , p. 33.
  3. ^ In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 17, 1996.
  4. ↑ Thomas Pfeiffer in The New Right in Germany . Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.), 2003, p. 120.
  5. ↑ Anton Maegerle in: Germany in history and present , No. 44. Martin Finkenberger, Horst Junginger (Ed.): In the service of lies. Herbert Grabert (1901–1978) and his publishing house. Alibri, Aschaffenburg 2004, ISBN 3-932710-76-2 .
  6. ^ Anton Maegerle : Bundeswehr and rights . In: grandstand. Journal for the Understanding of Judaism. 49th year, issue 196, 4th quarter 2010, pp. 121–132, here p. 127 (PDF) .
  7. ↑ Thomas Pfeiffer in Die Neuerechte in Deutschland , Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Hg), 2003, p. 122.
  8. ^ Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution : Right-wing extremist revisionism. A topic of today. ( Memento of November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 2001, p. 27 (PDF; 987 kB). Retrieved December 22, 2015
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SURNAME Uhle-Wettler, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel