Thomas Brehl

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Thomas Brehl (born January 1, 1957 in Fulda ; † December 2010 in Langen ) was a German neo-Nazi . He was co-founder and head of the Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten (KDS).

Youth and education

After completing secondary school in 1973, he aimed to graduate from high school, but had to break off his training due to the death of his father in 1974 and applied to the Federal Border Police (BGS) in Fulda. In his autobiography, he describes how during his time at the BGS he "started a small NS cell with some other comrades ", celebrated in a "private apartment decorated with posters and swastika flags" and occasionally with SA - and SS - Uniforms marched into the tribal disco. After another party, which ended violently, he was arrested and shortly afterwards resigned from the BGS.

Political career

Brehl was first noticed at the beginning of the 1980s as a letter writer in the magazine MUT (1981) and the neo-Nazi publications Zentralorgan , Hamburger Sturm and Recht und Truth . At the same time, Brehl, who was active in the field of Wiking-Jugend (WJ), founded the Nationale [n] Aktivisten , which in January 1983 joined the National Socialist Action Front of the then leading German neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen to form the National Socialist Action Front (ANS / NA) merged. Brehl became division manager south .

In 1984 Brehl in Tann formed an alliance with the WJ “Führer”, Wolfgang Nahrath . Brehl was also significantly involved in the committee he co-founded in 1984 to prepare for the celebrations for the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler (KAH) and headed the " Wehrsportgruppe Fulda". After the ANS / NA was banned in 1983, Brehl, Kühnen and Christian Worch founded the successor organizations of the New Front (GdNF).

After the Austrian neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel was sentenced in September 1993 to ten years imprisonment for re-activating the Nazis, Brehl and Frank Hübner founded a “National Initiative Freedom for Gottfried Küssel”. In 1996, in the neo-Nazi magazine Free Voice, he called for solidarity with the imprisoned "boss" of the NSDAP structural organization , Gary Lauck .

In 1999 Brehl and other neo-Nazis founded the right-wing Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten (KDS), which wanted to integrate left-wing extremist movements by means of a cross - front strategy . At the same time, the KDS appealed to Joseph Goebbels , Friedrich Engels and Ernst Thälmann and declared Jassir Arafat , Kim Jong Il and Saddam Hussein to be "contemporary role models in the liberation struggle". Brehl became the head of the "organizational management" and called himself the "chief of staff". He called his domicile in Langen the “main command post”.

On April 27, 2002, Brehl took part in a KDS delegation that visited the Iraqi embassy in Berlin on the occasion of Saddam Hussein's birthday. In the following years, the neo-Nazi was one of the personally invited guests of the Iraqi ambassador Shamil A. Mohammed.

In 2004, Brehl, like the rest of the KDS leadership, was trying to get closer to the NPD , although in 2003 he had taken a stand against the party in the right-wing extremist magazine Recht und Truth . He expressly welcomed the arrival of KDSler Norman Bordin in October 2004.

At a meeting of the KDS on February 4, 2006 in Leverkusen, Brehl left the organization management at his own request. He was succeeded by the neo-Nazi Thomas Gerlach .

Brehl was sentenced to one year imprisonment with probation in 1992 by the State Security Chamber of the Frankfurt Regional Court for founding a prohibited organization.

Thomas Brehl was found dead in his apartment on December 31, 2010. His friend Axel Reitz announced on January 1, 2011 that Brehl had died of a bladder infection. In an interview with Philip Schlaffer in 2020, Reitz claimed that Brehl had been homosexual all his life.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NPD blog: Neo-Nazi Thomas Brehl has passed away
  2. ^ "Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten" (KDS) dissolves. Protection of the Constitution Berlin , July 28, 2008, archived from the original on December 11, 2010 ; accessed on January 14, 2017 .
  3. ^ Andreas Förster: Neo-Nazis rely on radicalization of the NPD. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 28, 2004, accessed June 10, 2015 .
  4. Ex Nazi - Gay | V-man | NSU | Axel Reitz Interview | 2nd part YouTube.