Udo Pastörs

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Udo Pastörs (2013)

Udo Michael Wilhelm Pastörs (born August 24, 1952 in Wegberg ) is a German neo-Nazi and politician ( NPD ) who belongs to the NPD state association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . From 2006 to 2016 he was a member of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament and at times the party's federal chairman.

Pastörs is considered one of the leading cadres within the right-wing extremist scene in Germany . Criminal investigations were repeatedly initiated against Udo Pastörs . It is because of sedition and Holocaust denial several times legally convicted and represents openly racist and anti-Semitic views. His political positions are based on historical National Socialism .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a watchmaker , he worked for four years as a contract soldier in the Air Force (Bundeswehr). Subsequently, he acquired the master craftsman's certificate in his craft at the watchmaking school . After that Pastörs was active as a merchant in the gold trade for a few years. According to his own information, in an interview with Stern magazine, he is said to have twice visited the colonia Dignidad settlement of German descent in Chile , which was co - founded by old Nazis and which became known worldwide for its human rights violations and serious child abuse . According to the interview, Pastörs “ learned a lot ” during these visits and looked at how one could set up a ethnic settlement in Germany. At the end of the 1990s, Pastörs moved from the old to the new federal states . As part of the establishment of new right-wing radical scene structures, he settled in Lübenheen ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ) and ran a watch and jewelry shop there until June 2006. Since then, the rooms have functioned as the constituency office of the NPD.

Pastörs is married and has one child.

Political career

Pastörs has, as he put it in an introductory speech at an NPD party congress, “has been closely connected to the national cause since a young age ”. Udo Pastörs was an active member of the neo-Nazi Wiking Youth , which was banned in 1994 and succeeded the Hitler Youth , and the right-wing extremist DLVH . For example, Pastörs said of Adolf Hitler : "He was a phenomenon, this man, militarily, socially, economically - he rammed insane stakes in almost all areas", and about people with a disability : "Our first focus is on that To be considered healthy and strong. This must first and foremost be encouraged and supported. This is not a selection, but simple logic. "By his own account he was temporarily in the environment rather conservative circles of the CDU actively, the introduction occurred in 2000 as part of the first NPD ban proceedings of the NPD in and spent several years in the NPD district association Ludwigslust active . However, he initially only acted in the background and occasionally appeared as a trainer for the federal NPD and as a speaker at NPD events. Pastörs represented an important figure of integration between the NPD and the militant- neo-Nazi Free Comradeships .

Pastors at a session of the state parliament in Schwerin (June 20, 2013)

Since 2005 he has been the deputy state chairman of the NPD Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. At the state party congress of the NPD on February 5, 2006, he was elected unopposed with 95.35 percent on the state list for the state election. The background was an ongoing investigation against the NPD state chairman Stefan Köster , which led to the fact that he was not available as a top candidate. The choice fell on Köster's deputy as regional chairman, Udo Pastörs. In the course of this nomination, his public presence had increased significantly. In his home town of Lübenheen, he was heavily involved in everyday communal life. He was excluded from the citizens' initiative Braunkohle Nein eV , founded there in 2005 , by a board resolution on October 16, 2006. With the entry of the NPD into the Schwerin state parliament after the elections in September 2006 , Pastörs became a member of the state parliament, and he was also the parliamentary group leader of the NPD.

At the party convention of the NPD in Berlin on April 4, 2009 Pastörs ran against the incumbent chairman Udo Voigt for the office of party chairman, but was clearly defeated in the vote. As the NPD's top candidate for the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2011 , he was re-elected to the state parliament on September 4, 2011. His office manager is Andreas Theißen , who, like Pastörs' wife, is a member of the city council of Lübenheen. On November 13, 2011, Pastörs was elected as one of three deputy federal chairmen of the NPD at a federal party conference in Neuruppin . After Holger Apfel's resignation , Pastörs initially led the party on a provisional basis until he was elected national chairman by the party executive in January 2014. He held this office until November 2014.

At the national party convention of the NPD on January 18, 2014 in Kirchheim , Pastörs failed with his plan to lead the party as a top candidate in the upcoming European elections . In a fight for first place on the list, he was defeated by 71 votes to the former party leader Udo Voigt , who received 93 votes. Pastörs then withdrew his candidacy. At the federal party conference in November 2014, Pastörs no longer ran for party chairmanship; Frank Franz was elected as his successor .

In the second NPD ban proceedings , the Federal Council used several anti-constitutional statements by Udo Pastörs as evidence for the intended party ban of the NPD and were included in the application for a ban.

In the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2016 , his parliamentary group missed the re-entry into the state parliament.

Criminal proceedings

Several criminal investigations have been initiated against Udo Pastörs . After Pastörs described the Federal Republic of Germany as a " Jewish republic ", Turkish men as "seed cannons" and the chairman of the US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan as a "crooked nose" in his speech at the political Ash Wednesday of the NPD on February 25, 2009 in Saarbrücken , he was condemned Saarbrucken District court on 6 May 2010 for sedition ( § 130 of the Criminal Code) to imprisonment of ten months, whether to enforce a monetary support ( § 59a para. 2 no. 3 of the Criminal Code) of 6,000 euros for parole was suspended. Pastörs' appeal was rejected on October 19, 2010 by the Saarbrücken Regional Court . In response to its appeal, the Saarland Higher Regional Court confirmed the guilty verdict for sedition on June 28, 2011, but rejected the matter for a new hearing and decision to the regional court, "as the findings on the subjective offense of one of the two alternatives adopted by the regional court aggravating the penalty Incitement to hatred were incomplete and therefore the sentence could not last ”. The regional court dropped these findings in the main hearing on February 22, 2013 and reduced the prison sentence to seven months.

On August 16, 2012, a lay judge at the Schwerin District Court sentenced Pastörs to an eight-month prison sentence for denigrating the memory of deceased in unity with defamation of victims of the National Socialist dictatorship , the enforcement of which was subject to a monetary condition ( Section 59a, Paragraph 2, No. 3 StGB) of 6,000 euros for probation was suspended. After the NPD parliamentary group stayed away from the celebration of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament for Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2010, Pastörs spoke of “ guilt cult ”, “concern theater”, “propaganda lies” and “Auschwitz projections ” in the state parliament session on January 28, 2010 when the leader of the SPD parliamentary group, Norbert Nieszery, named the “annihilation of Jewish Bolshevism ” as one of Hitler's goals , intervening that it was “a good idea”. According to the prosecution, Pastörs indirectly denied the Holocaust . As a member of the state parliament, Pastörs enjoyed indemnity , which basically protects him from criminal prosecution for statements made in the state parliament. This also applies to denial of the Holocaust, but not to defamatory insults; in this respect, the state parliament approved the indictment on January 26, 2011 and the judicial criminal proceedings on February 1, 2012. On March 25, 2013, the district court dismissed Pastörs' appeal; his appeal was rejected as unfounded on August 16, 2013 by the Rostock Higher Regional Court . On January 29, 2014, the state parliament approved the execution of the sentence. This meant that the amount of 6,000 euros was due; In the event of non-payment, Pastörs was threatened with revocation of the suspended sentence ( Section 56f (1) No. 3 StGB ) (with regard to the eight-month prison sentence ). In November 2014, the state parliament of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lifted his political immunity because he politicians of the party Die Linke as " Stasi - pig " had called.

Web links

Commons : Udo Pastörs  - Collection of Images
Wikiquote: Udo Pastörs  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pastors, Udo . State Parliament MV. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  2. ↑ Philipp Wittrock, DER SPIEGEL: Neo-Nazis: NPD parliamentary group leader after inflammatory speech targeted by the public prosecutor - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
  3. ^ A b c Michael Schlieben: New German Nazis: The extreme among the right-wing extremists. In: Zeit Online. April 18, 2012, Retrieved July 8, 2018 .
  4. ↑ https://www.br.de/nachrichten/inhalt/npd-vorsitzende-100~_image-9_-679275d66594ab39ebf9b5fd5dac56d5314056be.html
  5. ↑ Juliane Bohrer: 60 Years of the Basic Law. LIT Verlag Münster, 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10636-0 , p. 259 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ↑ Information for members of parliament about Udo Pastörs on the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state parliament website
  7. Jump up ↑ Martin Knobbe, Gerald Drissner: NPD: "Diseased germs" - Germany . stern.de. September 7, 2006. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  8. ↑ Almut Knigge: "Is the reputation only ruined ..." . Deutschlandradio Kultur. January 8, 2008. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  9. ^ Pastörs on the website of the Landtag MV, accessed on June 1, 2020
  10. ^ Andrea Röpke : Holidays in the Führerbunker. The neo-Nazi child rearing of the 'Heimattreuen German Youth (HDJ)'. 2nd Edition. Educational Association Work and Life, Braunschweig 2008, ISBN 978-3-932082-32-0 , p. 39 ff.
  11. ↑ Toralf Staud: Udo Pastörs: The true face of the NPD . In: Die Zeit , January 12, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2016. 
  12. ↑ Toralf Staud: Udo Pastörs: Praise for Hitler. In: Zeit Online. January 12, 2014, accessed June 20, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Christina Hebel: Right-wing extremists in crisis: Hardliner Pastörs is the new NPD boss . In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . January 10, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  14. ↑ The general meeting of March 6, 2007 confirmed the exclusion with 51: 4 votes: General meeting of March 6, 2007 . lignite-no.net. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved on May 7, 2016.
  15. ↑ Pastörs is the new NPD chairman. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 10, 2014, accessed on January 11, 2014 .
  16. ↑ Christina Hebel: NPD party conference in Thuringia: Voigt asserts itself as the top European candidate . In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . January 19, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  17. ↑ New NPD boss Frank Franz: Pastörs' legacy prevails . Spiegel Online, November 1, 2014, accessed on the same day
  18. ↑ http://www.nordkurier.de/mecklenburg-vorpommern/npd-liefert-in-mv-viel-futter-fuer-verbotsfrage-294678001.html
  19. ↑ www.bundesrat.de Application for the NPD prohibition procedure
  20. ↑ Incitement against Jews: NPD boss Pastörs condemned . daserste.ndr.de. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  21. ↑ Press release of the Saarbrücken District Court ( Memento of October 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 25 kB) of May 7, 2009
  22. ↑ Press release ( memento of January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) of October 19, 2010
  23. ↑ Press release of the Saarbrücken Higher Regional Court of June 30, 2011, cf. wkdis.de ( Memento from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ↑ Incitement of the people: Less punishment for NPD man pastors. Der Spiegel, February 22, 2013, accessed on February 23, 2013 .
  25. ↑ Schwerin District Court 38 Ls 322/11 = Schwerin Public Prosecutor's Office 111 Js 21811/10
  26. ↑ ndr.de: suspended sentence for NPD politician Pastörs ( memento from January 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), August 16, 2012
  27. ↑ Plenary minutes 28 January 2010 pdf pp. 75 and 78
  28. ↑ Article 24, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  29. ^ On the work of the state parliament in the 5th electoral period , p. 392; Plenary minutes of February 1, 2012 , p. 25 on printed matter 6/275; the state parliament thus followed a resolution recommendation of the legal committee  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.landtagmv.de  
  30. ↑ Higher Regional Court Rostock, decision of August 16, 2013 - Az. 1 Ss 57/13 (62/13) . openjur.de. August 16, 2013. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
  31. ↑ Minutes of the decision on January 29, 2014 page 5 Agenda item 7; the state parliament thus followed a recommendation made by the legal committee
  32. ↑ Investigation for insult: Landtag lifts the immunity of NPD man pastors . In: SPIEGEL ONLINE . November 12, 2014. Retrieved May 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Pastors, Udo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pastörs, Udo Michael Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NPD) and neo-Nazi
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Wegberg