Udo Albrecht

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Udo Albrecht (born April 13, 1940 in Beyrode in Thuringia , German Reich ) is a German right-wing extremist . Since 1981 he was an agent of the GDR State Security .

Life

Albrecht grew up in Thuringia and fled to the West with his father in 1955. The background to this was the persecution of the family by Soviet authorities due to the Nazi past of father and grandfather. His main residence was Dortmund , his occupation is given as data technician . From 1956 he was imprisoned several times for various theft , burglary and forgery as well as bank robbery and hostage-taking . He was able to escape from detention centers repeatedly. Out of deeply shaped anti - communism , he founded a small group of people 's liberation front in Germany with the declared aim of liberating the country from "occupiers" through guerrilla warfare based on the model of Arab liberation movements. From 1970 onwards, Albrecht and other like-minded people established contacts with the PLO . The former neo-Nazi and later author Willi Pohl described: “He agreed on a mutual cooperation. We were given permission to set up a base on Fatah- controlled Jordanian territory, in return we offered support in the fight against Israel. "

During Black September 1970 Albrecht and others fought on the side of the fedayeen . He was taken prisoner in Jordan and was freed from the hands of the royal armed forces of Jordan by Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski . Before his identity was recognized, he escaped again. In April 1971 he was arrested in Vienna. Previously, together with Willi Pohl, he is said to have supported the hostage-takers of the Palestinian terrorist organization “Black September” in setting up the infrastructure for the 1972 Olympic attack in Munich . Subsequently, Abu Daoud and Pohl are said to have planned his release from prison , but this was prevented by Pohl's arrest in September 1972. After being extradited to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1973, he was able to flee from the Bielefeld prison in 1974 .

In the 1970s Albrecht founded the Wehrsportgruppe Ruhrgebiet and sold with the neo-Nazi Karl-Heinz Hoffmann , the founder of the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann , military vehicles and weapons that fell under the War Weapons Control Act to Lebanon . In 1980 at the latest he put Hoffmann in contact with Fatah . Between 1976 and 1979 he committed several bank robberies, for which he was arrested in 1980. On July 29, 1981, Albrecht managed to escape from prison to the GDR during a local meeting near Büchen on the inner-German border . From there he traveled again to Lebanon. Extensive confessions were made in a trial against the Wehrsportgruppe Ruhrgebiet , in which Albrecht and the other members Joachim Gröning, Franz-Karl Kohnert and Helmut Kimpowski were also accused. Since 1981 he was an agent of the GDR State Security under the code name "König" (XV 5297/81). Albrecht is also said to have contacts with the Federal Intelligence Service . In the autumn of 1981 the State Security gave Albrecht a new identity and let him emigrate to the Middle East, since then, according to official information, there has been no trace of Albrecht. He was most recently suspected in Lebanon.

At the end of March 2019 it became known that the Dortmund public prosecutor had stopped the search for Albrecht due to the statute of limitations. According to information from the Central German Broadcasting Corporation, the Federal Criminal Police Office assumes that Albrecht has been dead for years.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Förster: Target object right: How the Stasi infiltrated the West German neo-Nazi scene. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86153-987-2 , p. 145.
  2. ↑ a b Defendants confess - assaults and weapons smuggling committed: Dortmund "Wehrsportgruppe" smashed - trial began. In: Westfälische Rundschau . November 19, 1981, archived from the original on December 16, 2012 ; accessed on May 23, 2020 (reproduced on braunraus.blogspot.de).
  3. ↑ a b c Dr. Schreck and the neo-Nazis: the strange career of the bank robber Udo Albrecht in the right underground. In: Der Spiegel 37/1981. September 7, 1981, pp. 59-66 , accessed May 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Willi Pohl under the pseudonym EW Pless: Blinded. From the authentic papers of a terrorist. Schweizer Verlagshaus, Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-7263-6217-7 ; quoted from Dr. Schreck and the neo-Nazis: the strange career of the bank robber Udo Albrecht in the right underground. In: Der Spiegel 37/1981. September 7, 1981, p. 66 , accessed May 23, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Hans-Wolfgang Sternsdorff: Chief, I shot the chairman. In: Der Spiegel 47/1984. November 19, 1984, pp. 71-82 , accessed May 23, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Nazi sympathy for Islamism after 1945. Brandenburg State Office for Political Education , April 5th 2011, archived from the original on July 25, 2012 ; accessed on March 13, 2020 .
  7. ^ Regine Igel: Terrorism Lies. How the Stasi acted underground. Herbig, Munich 2012, p. 291. ISBN 3-7766-2698-4
  8. ↑ Terrorists: Analysis changed. In: Der Spiegel 41/1985. October 7, 1985, pp. 46-48 , accessed May 23, 2020 .
  9. ↑ a b Search for Thuringian terrorist Udo Albrecht: After 38 years, the search is over. In: thueringer-allgemeine.de . March 31, 2019, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  10. ↑ The search for Thuringian terrorist Udo Albrecht is ended. In: MDR Thuringia. March 31, 2019, accessed March 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist and agent of the GDR State Security
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Beyrode , Thuringia