Ricarda Riefling

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Ricarda Riefling, 2018

Ricarda Riefling (born December 1, 1983 in Peine ) is a German trained social assistant, studied cultural studies (BA), right-wing extremist politician and member of the board of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). From 2007 to 2012 she was married to the comradeship leader Dieter Riefling . She is the mother of four children and has three children with Dieter Riefling.

Political career

Since 2002, Riefling has been a member of the right-wing extremist Association of German Women (GDF) and a former activist of the now banned Brown Cross .

In 2006 she joined the Ring of National Women as a freelance activist.

She was federal chairwoman of the Ring Nationaler Frauen (RNF) until May 2017 and joined the NPD Lower Saxony in the same year. In 2008 she became chairwoman of the NPD sub-district Oberweser and state chairwoman of the RNF in Lower Saxony and was thus also represented on the NPD state executive committee. In the same year she was elected to the national board of the Ring Nationaler Frauen (RNF), the women's organization of the NPD, as an assessor.

In 2009 Riefling was elected directly to the state board of the NPD Lower Saxony at the Lower Saxony state party conference. She ran as a direct candidate in Hildesheim for the federal election as well as in number 3 on the Lower Saxony state list.

In 2010 she was elected deputy federal chairman of the RNF and in 2011 as an assessor in the new federal executive committee of the NPD under Holger Apfel .

In 2012 Riefling resigned from the Lower Saxony state board of the NPD after internal disputes. In the same year she moved to Pirmasens in Rhineland-Palatinate , where she has since lived with Markus Walter, the NPD state chairman for Rhineland-Palatinate.

In 2013 Riefling was elected deputy chairwoman of the NPD district association West Palatinate. They were also elected to number 1 in the state list for the federal election in Rhineland-Palatinate. Since July 20, 2013, Riefling has also been deputy state chairwoman in Rhineland-Palatinate. In March 2014 Ricarda Riefling was elected national chairwoman of the Ring Nationaler Frauen.

Activities in the sports club

In 2007 the NDR reported on Riefling's voluntary work at TSV Coppengrave. There Riefling was active as a swimming instructor. After a hate speech in Bad Nenndorf, Lower Saxony, her work as a volunteer citizen became known on the one hand and her neo-Nazi activities on the other. The sports club parted ways with Riefling.

Web links

Commons : Ricarda Riefling  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Ricarda Riefling, NPD - EU. In: parliamentwatch.de . Retrieved April 25, 2019 .
  2. Armin Lehmann : Women in the neo-Nazi scene: "I am the weapon". In: tagesspiegel.de . November 30, 2011, accessed April 25, 2019 .