Thomas Dienel

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Thomas Dienel (born June 16, 1961 in Weimar ) is a German right-wing activist. According to reports on MDR television , he is said to have been "one of the most active people in East German right-wing extremism " in the early 1990s. Since 1992 he worked as an undercover agent "kitchen" for the Thuringian constitution protection and discredited a. a. political opponents on behalf of the LfV Thuringia.

Career

Dienel was a citizen of the GDR , stood out as a deserving FDJ member and became FDJ secretary. He later became involved in the German Sex League - at times as its "General Secretary" - and then in the NPD Thuringia, of which he was state chairman in 1991. Finally, Dienel founded his own German National Party (DNP) in Thuringia, of which he had been chairman since April 19, 1991. This was an integral part of the neo-Nazi network around Michael Kühnen .

After his first stay in prison for a conviction for sedition , from which he was released on December 22, 1991, he was recruited by the Thuringia Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Dienel publicly denied the Holocaust at an event and said: “ Nobody was killed in Auschwitz . Unfortunately nobody was killed ”(documented by a Spiegel TV recording). In the summer of 1992, one day after the death of the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Heinz Galinski , Dienel threw two halves of the pig's head with a diatribe into the front garden of the Erfurt synagogue . In December of the same year, Dienel in Rudolstadt was the process a. made for sedition. He was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. In the same year Dienel also received money from an RTL team to portray "a cool Nazi military sports group in the new federal states" that was supposedly invented, but was played by real people from the neo-Nazi field of Dienel, Saalfeld, Weimar and Erfurt . The report broadcast on RTL plus / Spiegel-TV in September 1992 triggered horror and a wave of criminal charges at home and abroad. For this, Dienel was sentenced to one year imprisonment in August 1996 for "disrupting public order by faking criminal offenses and threatening violence".

He published the Central German Voice . According to Dienel, this was entirely financed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. With Dienel's help, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution discredited a trade union secretary, Angelo Lucifero, who was active in the field of anti-fascism and who was subsequently not appointed to the supervisory board of the Thuringian Landesbank .

In 1997, Dienel hit the headlines again as an undercover agent for the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution : As a paid informant, he visited the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution from January 1996 to August 1997 a total of 93 times. His salary as a V-man “kitchen” is said to have totaled around 25,000 D-Marks and he is said to have received around 6,800 D-Marks for “food expenses”. Dienel has gone into hiding since he was exposed as an undercover agent.

At the beginning of March 2017 it became known that the Gera public prosecutor's office was bringing charges against Thomas Dienel and thirteen other people, including his long-term friend, right-wing extremist and undercover agent Tino Brandt , who was part of the NSU core trio.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c V-Mann Thomas Dienel. The protection of the constitution in Thuringia hired Thomas Dienel as an undercover agent in the mid-1990s. An explosive personality, because Dienel was one of the worst agitators in the East German neo-Nazi scene. Retrieved on May 21, 2015 (from the series "20 Years Ago").
  2. ↑ From the FDJ to the brown swamp. In: MDR.DE. February 21, 2013, archived from the original on May 24, 2015 ; accessed on May 24, 2015 .
  3. ^ The German National Party (DNP). In: Antira.de. Retrieved June 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Holger Elias: Neo-Nazi presented justice in places. The Rudolstadt trial against Thomas Dienel turned into a farce . In: New Germany . December 10, 1992 ( neue-deutschland.de ).
  5. ↑ Wilfried Gloede: From the courtroom. Military sports group an ordered play? New trial against fraudulent neo-Nazis . Free Word, Suhl July 31, 1996, p. 3 .
  6. ^ Spiegel TV Nazis in Erfurt . September 1992 ( youtube.com [accessed July 16, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Wilfried Glöde: Dienel's military sports groups were only faked. Yesterday verdict in the trial against former neo-Nazi boss . In: Free Word . Suhl August 27, 1996, p. 3 .
  8. ↑ [oA]: New revelations of the neo-Nazi Thomas Dienel. Der Spiegel, September 9, 2000, accessed July 15, 2020 .
  9. ^ Patrick Gensing: Militant neo-Nazis. The brown net. tagesschau.de, November 15, 2011, accessed on July 15, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Mammoth proceedings expected: Indictment against Tino Brandt and Thomas Dienel. ( Memento from March 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , March 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Dienel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right activist
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar