Stefan Rochow

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Stefan Rochow at the NPD federal party conference in 2006

Stefan Rochow (* 1976 in Greifswald ) is a German politician (formerly NPD ). From 2002 to October 2007 he was national chairman of the Young National Democrats (JN), the youth organization of the NPD, and a member of the party executive committee of the NPD. In April 2008 he left the NPD, in 2009 he converted to the Catholic Church and began to study Catholic theology .

Greifswald and Giessen

As an education student in Greifswald, Stefan Rochow was initially active in the local neo-Nazi scene. Here he was temporarily a member of the Rugia fraternity , from which he was later excluded. He worked closely with the Young Country Team East Prussia (JLO) and the National Democratic University Association (NHB). From 1997 to 2001 he was Deputy Federal Chairman of the JLO. His younger brother Mathias Rochow is also active in the neo-Nazi scene, he is a member of the Pennalen fraternity Theodor Fontane as well as a functionary of the NPD and a national board member of the NHB.

After Jürgen W. Gansel had left the Hessian JN because of his employment with the " German Voice " in Riesa, Rochow moved to Gießen and was elected shortly afterwards on January 19, 2001 in Ehringshausen as the Hessian state chairman of the Young National Democrats to succeed Gansel. Like Gansel, Rochow also joined the Dresdensia-Rugia fraternity , from which he was excluded in 2005.

In August 2002 Rochow was instrumental in organizing the “NPD election campaign tour” for the Hessian state elections. In November 2002 he was elected Federal Chairman of the Young National Democrats at the JN Federal Congress in Kirchhain, Hesse . Rochow was also involved in other right-wing extremist associations. For example, he was presented on the website of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft Hessen as a representative of the Witikobund on the board of the Landsmannschaft.

Group assistant of the NPD parliamentary group in the Saxon and press spokesman in the Schwerin state parliament

From 2004 to 2006 Rochow worked as a parliamentary group assistant for the NPD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament. He focused primarily on youth work. According to his own statement, it was his goal to give young people “ a conscious camaraderie ”, because there is “ the potential of the future. And that's why we deliberately turn to young voters. “In this context, he was particularly committed to the NPD's schoolyard CD project .

In December 2006 he moved to Schwerin as press spokesman for the NPD parliamentary group in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In March 2008, he was replaced in this position by Andreas Molau .

Registrants and speakers at neo-Nazi rallies and demonstrations

Stefan Rochow (second from left) next to the NPD chairman Udo Voigt as a participant in a panel discussion at the “ Press Festival of the German Voice ” on August 5, 2006 in Dresden-Pappritz

Rochow appeared nationwide at right-wing extremist marches and rallies, such as B. at a demonstration of the NPD on November 9, 2002 in Weimar or the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the German Empire by the Young Landsmannschaft East Prussia and the Rugia fraternity on January 18, 2003 in Greifswald, on November 8, 2003 in Dresden or on February 7, 2004 in Verden. On March 29, 2003 he was supposed to appear as a speaker at the “Nationwide demonstration of the National Resistance ” in Hanau , which was organized by neo-Nazi Free Comradeships under the motto “End US tyranny”, but after criticism shortly before, he drew this promise back. In the prevented march of the JN on May 8, 2005, he was again actively involved as a speaker. He claimed that there had been " plans to annihilate the German people " since 1941 and described the " period after May 8, 1945 [as] the darkest period " in German history.

Turning away from right-wing extremism

In April 2008, Stefan Rochow resigned from the NPD, in 2009 he converted to the Catholic Church and since 2011 has been completing a distance learning course in theology at the Catholic Academy Cathedral School in Würzburg . He is now working as a freelance journalist and author. a. for the Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost . He attributes the change in his spiritual attitude to the personality of Pope Benedict XVI. to. Rochow's autobiography was published in spring 2013 under the title “Gesucht Geirrtelte” .

Publications

  • "Wanted, found wrong. An NPD functionary finds Christ. ” , March 28, 2013, Gerhard Hess Verlag, Bad Schussenried, 244 pages, ISBN 978-3873364318

Web links

Commons : Stefan Rochow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Thuringia (2002) ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), with a report on Rochow's activities at the JN
  2. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Schleswig-Holstein (2007) , p. 34
  3. ↑ NPD wants national dictatorship ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ^ Rochow's own biography page
personal data
SURNAME Rochow, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD)
DATE OF BIRTH 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald