Thomas Wulff

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Thomas Wulff at a demonstration on January 29, 2005 in Kiel

Thomas Wulff (* 1963 in Hamburg , scene name "Steiner" (after the Obergruppenführer of the Waffen-SS Felix Steiner )) is a German neo-Nazi . He is considered an influential person in the right-wing extremist scene, especially in northern Germany . He has been convicted six times of relevant offenses such as sedition and using marks from unconstitutional organizations .

Until March 2014 Wulff was deputy state chairman of the NPD in Hamburg. Then he was elected regional chairman and thus the successor to Torben Klebe . In his introductory speech before this election, he described himself as a National Socialist . On April 7, 2014, the majority of the NPD federal executive board removed him from his position "with immediate effect". Wulff was also no longer allowed to exercise his membership rights. At the end of May, the Hamburg court of arbitration declared the party's interim order from the party's headquarters in Berlin to be ineffective.

biography

ANS, GdNF and establishment of the Free Comradeships (until 1995)

Wulff became active in the Hamburg neo-Nazi scene around Michael Kühnen and Christian Worch in the 1980s . He quickly got involved in the banned ANS or the NSDAP organizational structure and became a member of the GdNF . When in April 1993 the Hamburg neo-Nazi lawyer Jürgen Rieger undertook a convoy with several Wehrmacht vehicles, some of which were marked with SS runes and badges of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" , Wulff was among the participating neo-Nazis. Wulff was the founder and head of the banned Hamburg neo-Nazi party Nationale Liste and organized numerous marches, wreath-laying ceremonies, assemblies and leaflet distribution. After their ban, he joined the Hamburg regional association of the German League for People and Homeland in 1994 and a little later turned against the decision by the DLVH to give up party status and the conversion into an association, because the advantages of party status would be sacrificed such as B. a possible ban only by the Federal Constitutional Court .

Together with his long-time companion Christian Worch, Wulff developed the concept of "Free Nationalists" in the mid-1990s as a reaction to several bans on right-wing extremist associations, with which he wanted to form alliances with regional free comradeships , and explained this concept in an interview with Neo-Nazi magazine Zentralorgan : “It is an alliance structure that always comes into play when various action groups and parties are active on national and social issues in northern Germany. Above all, the name is intended to make it clear that all other national forces can form an alliance under this action name without having to give up their independence. ”In 1994, together with Worch, he founded the North Germany Action Office as a pool of free comrades in North Germany.

Holocaust Denial and National Training Center (1995-2001)

In a publication on the National List he published an article in which he denied the Holocaust and slandered Ignatz Bubis, the then chairman of the Central Council of Jews . For this he was in December 1995 for sedition sentenced deceased to a prison term of six months, defamation and denigration of memories. He also drew press law for an article in the newspaper index of the National List in charge, which stated the truth about Auschwitz should not be said on the basis of thinking prohibitions. The article also referred to the "alleged" mass extermination of Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau . In January 1997, he wrote Unity and Struggle for the JN Postille . Since the November 1999 issue of the Hamburg neo-Nazi magazine Zentralorgan was entitled: “Jews out” and a little smaller “from Austria”, the public prosecutor's office initiated proceedings in January 2000 against Thomas Wulff, Tobias Thiessen , Dirk Sukol and Klaus Bärthel because of production and distribution of this edition. Against Wulff a fine was imposed in January 2001 for insulting a police officer.

In 2001, Wulff and the Lüneburg neo-Nazi Michael Grewe bought the Amholz manor and farm in Teldau near Boizenburg / Elbe ( Ludwigslust-Parchim district ) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , right on the border with Lower Saxony, for 300,000 marks . Here, according to their own statements, the North German Free Nationalists want to build a “national training center” in succession to the Hetendorf neo-Nazi center “Hetendorf No. 13” , which was closed in February 1998, in the Lüneburg Heath .

Joined the NPD (since 2001)

Thomas Wulff at the national party conference of the NPD in November 2006

At about the same time, Wulff, like other neo-Nazis from the spectrum of the Free Comradeships, increasingly approached the NPD . However, this led to a falling out with his long-time companion Christian Worch, who represents a position far removed from the NPD. At a "Gaureffen" of the Kampfbund German Socialists on July 3, 2004 in Leverkusen, Wulff promoted cooperation between the neo-Nazi scene and the NPD. After talks on this topic had already started in November 2003, he and the neo-Nazis Thorsten Heise and Ralph Tegethoff announced that he would join the NPD in September 2004 shortly before the state elections in Saxony in order to contribute to the creation of a “popular front from the right”. All three were supposed to run for the federal executive committee at the NPD party congress in October 2004 in Leinefelde, Thuringia , but Tegethoff and Wulff waived in favor of Heise. A little later, Wulff became a speaker and close confidante of the then NPD party chairman Udo Voigt . During the election campaign for the 2005 Bundestag election , Wulff acted as the NPD's regional election campaign manager for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and took fifth place on the state list for the party.

During this time, Wulff was often active as a registrant, meeting leader and / or speaker for or at neo-Nazi rallies. B. on March 31, 2003 in Hanau against the US policy in Iraq , on January 31, 2004 in Hamburg against the Wehrmacht exhibition on the crimes of the Wehrmacht , on January 29, 2005 in Kiel on the occasion of the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein Nazi rally on February 13, 2005 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the air raids on Dresden , at the prevented NPD demonstration on May 8, 2005 in Berlin and at the Rudolf Hess memorial march on August 20, 2005 in Peine .

Nationwide media coverage evoked his Internet call to all “National Socialists” to join the WASG . "With the WASG further doors have been opened for national opposition work", it said in a statement that was published on the website of the Social and National Alliance of Western Pomerania . “Now go even more closely into these WASG groups. You will notice that many of them think like us. "

In February 2006, according to internal information, Wulff tried unsuccessfully to gain a place on the NPD list for the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in September 2006 . On July 26, 2008 Wulff attended Friedhelm Busses funeral in Passau. On this occasion, Wulff spread a Reich war flag with a large swastika from the time of National Socialism on Buss' grave. As a result, he was temporarily arrested while leaving the cemetery. In March 2009, the Passau public prosecutor brought charges against the official offense of using symbols of unconstitutional organizations ( Section 86a of the Criminal Code).

In April 2009 Wulff was elected to the "extended party executive" of the NPD at a federal party congress, along with other activists from Freie Kameradschaften . In January 2011, Wulff hit the headlines during the election campaign for Hamburg's citizenship. When a man complained that NPD posters were being placed in front of his shop, an argument broke out. Wulff threatened the man with an ax that the police were able to secure.

Wulff resigned in May 2011 as a member of the NPD federal executive committee. At the end of May 2011, he was elected deputy chairman of the Hamburg NPD regional association.

Exclusion procedure from the NPD

At the instigation of the then incumbent NPD chairman Holger Apfel , whose board had described Wulff as a "rubble troop of incompetent and anti-social self-serviceers", the party executive ran an expulsion procedure against Wulff from 2013 to May 2014. A first attempt on the part of the party had failed due to a formal error. On April 7th, 2014 he was finally removed from office by the NPD federal executive committee around the acting chairman Udo Pastörs "with immediate effect". His membership rights were then suspended. On April 20, 2014, Thomas Wulff filed a complaint with the regional arbitration court of the NPD in Hamburg. In the following May, the arbitral tribunal declared the provisional order of the federal executive committee to be ineffective.

Resignation from all offices and resignation from the NPD

On September 1, 2016, Wulff announced his immediate exit from the NPD and the associated resignation from all offices. As a result of this step, his position on the national board of the NPD became vacant and the Hamburg regional association, of which he was chairman, became a leader. In an interview with the NDR , he gave the reasons for post haggling and the pursuit of financial and personal advantages within the management level of the NPD.

Web links

Commons : Thomas Wulff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ NDR.de: Long Register of Criminal Offenses ( Memento from June 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 2, 2012)
  2. ↑ spiegel.de: NPD head throws neo-Nazi Wulff out of office
  3. ↑ State association overturns federal decision NPD does not get rid of the National Socialists ( Memento from June 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) By Stefan Schölermann, NDR Info May 31, 2014
  4. ↑ NPD: Wulff expulsion stopped for the time being, look to the right June 2, 2014
  5. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Right-wing offensive Right-wing extremists are considering electoral alliance for the Bundestag (accessed on August 2, 2008)
  6. ^ Verassungsschutzgegenrechtsextremismus.de: NPD ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 2, 2008)
  7. ↑ Neo-Nazis are supposed to infiltrate WASG. “Many of them think like us” in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  8. ↑ Robert Andreasch: Buried with a swastika on the coffin: The last FAP boss Friedhelm Busse on netz-gegen-nazis.de (accessed on August 2, 2008)
  9. ↑ mediendenk.com: NPD memorial service with swastika flag - Local - Medienagentur DENK (2008)
  10. ↑ Neo-Nazi Wulff must go to court ( Memento from March 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Philipp Wittrock: NPD in crisis: Voigt's opponents are preparing for the next mud battle. In: Spiegel Online . April 5, 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  12. ^ NPD Hamburg - with violence in the election campaign
  13. ↑ End stop on the right: Thomas Wulff leaves NPD board ( memento of October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 2, 2012)
  14. ↑ End stop on the right: NPD party congress in Hamburg: Thomas Wulff new state vice-president ( Memento from October 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on June 2, 2012)
  15. ↑ Christina Hebel: Right-wing extremist mud battle: NPD leaders want to kick out neo-Nazi Wulff. In: Spiegel Online. October 25, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2013 .
  16. ↑ spiegel.de: NPD head throws neo-Nazi Wulff out of office
  17. ↑ spiegel.de: [1]
  18. ↑ State association overturns federal decision: NPD will not get rid of the National Socialists ( memento from June 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on tagesschau.de from May 31, 2014
  19. ^ NPD: Neo-Nazi Wulff declares resignation , on ndr.de from September 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Wulff, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg