Reinhold Elstner
Reinhold Elstner (* 1920 in Czechoslovakia ; † April 26, 1995 in Munich ) was a German revisionist who died as a result of a politically motivated self-immolation and thus became famous.
Elstner was born in Czechoslovakia. At the age of 75, the former Wehrmacht soldier and Sudeten German expellee set himself on fire on April 25, 1995 on the steps of the Munich Feldherrnhalle in protest against the Wehrmacht exhibition . According to a farewell letter interspersed with revisionist ideas, he wanted to set “a visible sign with death in flames as a beacon”. The following day he succumbed to his injuries.
In October 1995 the Austrian terrorist Franz Fuchs used the name Elstner as the sender of a letter bomb addressed to the refugee worker Maria Loley . On April 25, 2004, a group belonging to the right-wing extremist spectrum wanted to carry out a vigil in memory of Elstner at the Feldherrnhalle, but had to move it to another location by order of the Munich city administration . Legal proceedings against this order were unsuccessful. To this day, memorial vigils for Elstner are held annually in Munich on April 25, at which, for example, the neo-Nazi party Der III. Way involved.
Individual evidence
- ^ Olaf Konstantin Krueger: A republic blushes. From the ambivalent relationship to the PDS and Republicans. Augustinus-Buchhandlung, Aachen 1995, ISBN 3-86073-107-6 , p. 51.
- ↑ Andrea Röpke , Andreas Speit : Neo-Nazis in pinstripes. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-467-9 , p. 78.
- ↑ a b Rathaus-Umschau Munich, March 31, 2005, p. 6.
- ↑ Michael Sika: My protocol. Inside views of a republic. 2nd Edition. Np, St. Pölten u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-85326-152-3 , p. 168.
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| SURNAME | Elstner, Reinhold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nationalist and politically motivated suicide |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1995 |
| Place of death | Munich |