Thomas Adolf

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Thomas Adolf (* 1958 ) is a German right-wing extremist .

Adolf grew up mainly with his grandmother in Hagen, Westphalia ; the mother, who had several criminal records, left the boy neglected and disappeared in 1969 without a trace. After 1969 he lived with an uncle in the Rhineland . He became a member of the Young Socialists . At the end of the 1970s, Adolf was a sympathizer of the Red Army parliamentary group . In 1977, a later discontinued case was initiated against him for membership in a terrorist organization and “arson agreement”. He then fled abroad, where he claims to have worked as a mercenary for the military dictatorship in Argentina and the regime in Rhodesia .

Right-wing activism

In the 1980s, Adolf returned to Germany and worked as a taxi driver in Cologne, where he frequented right-wing extremist circles. In 1994 he ran for the German League as a candidate for local elections. The leaders of the German League from Cologne at the time, for example Manfred Rouhs , are now active in the pro-Cologne citizens' movement. Adolf considered himself to be the leader of an "SS Götterdämmerung" division that he had founded, but which presumably had no other members apart from himself. Due to his activities, also in the area of ​​the Sauerland Action Front , the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution tried in the early 1990s to win Adolf as an informant. In 1996 the effort was halted when the authorities considered that he was unsuitable because of "his past, character and behavior".

Murders in Overath

On October 7, 2003, with the help of his then 19-year-old girlfriend, Adolf murdered a lawyer, his wife and adult daughter in his law firm in Overath . All three people were shot at close range with a pump gun ; the brutality of the act attracted nationwide attention. Adolf was sentenced to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Murders of Overath: "I'll take two or three with me" . Stern, October 23, 2003
  2. ↑ a b "I would do it again anytime" . World, December 14, 2004
  3. ↑ a b Training in Killing . Spiegel, 43/2003, October 30, 2003
  4. ↑ Triple murder in Overath: The trail leads to the Nazi camp . Hagalil, October 15, 2003
  5. ↑ Knowing that he is "right and dangerous" . taz, December 15, 2004
  6. ↑ Lifelong for triple murder in Overath  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . RP online, December 15, 2004@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rp-online.de  
personal data
SURNAME Adolf, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH 1958