Siegfried Borchardt

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Siegfried "SS-Siggi" Borchardt in April 2005

Siegfried Roland Borchardt , called SS-Siggi (born November 14, 1953 in Neuenkirchen (Steinfurt district) ) is an activist from the spectrum of neo-Nazi Free Comradeships and a former functionary of the Freedom German Workers' Party, which was banned in 1995 . In the local elections in 2014 won it as the leading candidate of the party 's rights a seat in the city council of the city of Dortmund , but from which he resigned after two months.

Life

Siegfried Borchardt is a trained industrial clerk and was initially an apolitical youth who spent his free time as a spectator in football stadiums. A phase of unemployment and involvement in the hooligan scene followed, where he made contact with Michael Kühnen .

In 1982 Borchardt founded the Dortmund football fan club Borussenfront , which gradually drifted into the right-wing extremist scene. The preferred field of action of Borchardt's Borussenfront was the north of Dortmund around Borsigplatz , where riots regularly broke out. Among other things, foreigners were chased through the neighborhood. From that time, his nickname derived Siggi from Borsigplatz or SS -Siggi . In a conversation with a journalist from Spiegel TV in 2014, Borchardt said that he does not agree with the nickname SS-Siggi given to him by a journalist; he would rather be called SA -Siggi . In the documentary Die are just as by Ulrich Leinweber from 1983, Borchardt (then nickname Sid ) and other members of the Borussen front had their say, as did supporters of the Schalke Mighty Blues on the other side .

Parallel to his activities on the Borussen Front , Borchardt became comradeship leader of the Action Front National Socialists / National Activists and later district leader in the committee for the preparation of the celebrations for the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler (KAH). From 1984 onwards, together with other ANS / NA cadres, he set up the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association of the Freedom German Workers' Party (FAP) . He ran for the FAP in the local elections in 1984 and was its top candidate for the state election in 1985. In 1988 Borchardt became regional chairman of North Rhine-Westphalia and deputy federal chairman of the FAP. He ran for the FAP in 1989 in the election to the European Parliament. The Borussen Front, which also consisted of FAP members, served as hall protection for events of the NPD , distributed propaganda material and was responsible for riots against dissenters and foreigners.

In the 1980s, Borchardt was convicted of various offenses. He was in custody from August 1985. Due to several incidents, including the attacks on counter-demonstrators on April 28, 1984 in Drabenderhöhe / Wiehl and on Bonner Punks on September 1, 1984, on July 22, 1986 in Bonn there was a conviction in Bonn of two for serious breach of the peace and dangerous bodily harm Years and six months imprisonment. Since pre-trial detention was counted, he was released in early 1987. Further convictions and prison terms followed between 1989 and 1992.

After the FAP was banned in 1995, Borchardt organized himself into the “Kameradschaft Dortmund”, which regularly supports demonstrations by the Hamburg neo-Nazi Christian Worch . Borchardt was friends with Michael Berger, who murdered three police officers in June 2000 . After the murders, the Dortmund Comradeship distributed stickers with the words “Berger was a friend of ours. 3: 1 for Germany. KS Dortmund ". In 2001, Borchardt was again on trial in connection with typical criminal offenses (including bodily harm, use of anti-constitutional symbols ). Borchardt is considered to be the head of the Dortmund neo-Nazi scene and is still active in the " Resistance West ". On January 27, 2005, for example, in the Netherlands he took part as a speaker at a meeting of openly neo-Nazi associations, some of which were banned in Germany ( Blood and Honor , Racial Volunteer Force ). The information portal Blick nach Rechts reported in 2011 activities of the “remains of the former Borussian front” under Borchardt.

At the end of 2012, Borchardt gave up his reluctance to engage in public political activity. On 27 October 2012, he was appointed district chairman of the newly founded in Dortmund district association of the party 's rights selected. Since then he has headed the substitute organization for the Dortmund National Resistance, which was banned shortly before . In the local elections on May 25, 2014, Borchardt won a seat on the Dortmund city council for the party. Two months later, he informed Dortmund's Lord Mayor Ullrich Sierau in writing that he would resign from his council as of July 31, 2014. Borchardt gave health and time reasons for this decision. He intends to continue exercising his mandate as a member of the North City District Council . Dennis Giemsch , who previously belonged to the forbidden Comradeship National Resistance Dortmund (NWDO), is moving in for him .

According to the assessment of the political scientist and constitutional protector Thomas Grumke , Borchardt is considered a veteran of West German right-wing extremism, but was unable to exert any significant influence beyond North Rhine-Westphalia due to a large number of criminal proceedings and prison sentences that noticeably restricted his activities.

literature

  • Thomas Grumke, Bernd Wagner (ed.): Handbook right-wing radicalism. People - organizations - networks. From neo-Nazism to the middle of society. 2nd Edition. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3399-5 , pp. 239 and 240.
  • Jens Mecklenburg (ed.): Handbook of German right-wing extremism. Elefantenpress, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 445.

Individual evidence

  1. Titus Simon: Raufhändel and rampage. Social history of aggressive youth cultures and educational efforts from the 19th century to the present. New edition. Juventa-Verlag, Weinheim et al. 1996, ISBN 3-7799-0255-9 , p. 202.
  2. Der Spiegel , No. 25, June 19, 2000, p. 38.
  3. A neo-Nazi fights his way through SS-Siggi in the Dortmund city council , Spiegel TV June 16, 2014
  4. "They are just like that" - how a documentary about right-wing Ruhrpott hools polarizes to this day , watson.de, accessed on October 9, 2019
  5. ^ Rhein-Sieg Anzeiger , July 23, 1986, p. 5.
  6. ^ Commemoration of police officers murdered by neo-Nazis . Die Zeit, malfunction report, May 22, 2015
  7. ^ WDR : "SS-Sigi" in front of the court ( memento of January 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), January 13, 2001
  8. Borussenfront on the march , report on bnr.de, accessed May 14, 2011
  9. Article on RuhrBarone by Stefan Laurin
  10. Reference to: derwesten.de , accessed on May 26, 2014
  11. Was SS Siggi's departure from the council a negotiated game?
  12. ^ "SS-Siggi" resigns - The right-wing top squad Giemsch moves up in Dortmund city council. Right end of the line , July 4, 2014, accessed on July 4, 2014 .