Ursula Haverbeck

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Ursula Meta Hedwig Haverbeck-Wetzel (born November 8, 1928 in Winterscheid , Hesse ) is a German National Socialist activist and a Holocaust denier who has been imprisoned since May 2018 .

Life

Haverbeck-Wetzel said he lived in Sweden for four years and then studied education , philosophy and linguistics , including two years in Scotland . In 1970 she married Werner Georg Haverbeck , who worked from 1929 to 1932 in the Reich leadership of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) and from 1933 to 1934 in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP .

Activities for clubs and parties

Activity for clubs

World Federation for the Protection of Life

Ursula Haverbeck was President of the World Association for the Protection of Life, Section Germany from 1983 to 1989 , and in this office she revealed her negative attitude towards the Western system in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Collegium Humanum Association

After the death of her husband in 1999 she took over many of his functions, including the chairmanship of the Collegium Humanum in Vlotho, which was founded with him in 1963 as the "Heimvolkshochschule für Umwelt und Lebensschutz" and has been banned since May 2008 . The “Heimvolkshochschule” became a popular conference venue for four and a half decades. Peace-moving leftists and opponents of nuclear power took part in the events of the Haverbeck couple, as well as ethnic nationalists and right-wing supporters of a new lateral front . Joseph Beuys came to the Haverbecks in Vlotho more than once, and in 1977 so did Rudi Dutschke when it came to founding an ecologically oriented party.

Association for the rehabilitation of those persecuted for denying the Holocaust (VRBHV)

Even before the fall of the Wall in 1989 , she had ties to right-wing political groups such as the NPD with the aim of a large national collection movement in Germany. This orientation intensified in the following years. For example, she became the deputy head of the Association for the Rehabilitation of Those Persecuted for Denying the Holocaust (VRBHV), which was founded in Vlotho on November 9, 2003, the anniversary of the Reichspogromnacht . The chairman is the Swiss Holocaust denier Bernhard Schaub . In addition, almost all known deniers of the Holocaust, including Ernst Zündel (Canada), Robert Faurisson ( neo-Nazi from France), Germar Rudolf , Jürgen Graf , the Austrian neo-Nazi Gerd Honsik , Wilhelm Stuellen , Fredrick Toben (Australia), Andres Studer , Hans- Dietrich Sander , the right-wing terrorist Manfred Roeder , Frank Rennicke and Anneliese Remer contributed to the establishment.

Memorial e. V.

In 1992 Haverbeck founded the right-wing extremist Gedächtnisstätte e. V. in Seevetal . In 2014 the association opened a “Memorial for the German Victims of World War II” in Guthmannshausen . The association is observed by the Lower Saxony constitution protection agency.

Party political engagement

ÖDP

Together with her husband, she was a member of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). Among other things because of her attempts to organize a right-wing party alliance of the ÖDP, NPD and other groups, she was expelled from this party in 1989 at the instigation of the ÖDP regional associations in Bremen and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Lead candidate of the party The Rights for the 2019 European elections

On April 1, 2018, Haverbeck was elected by the right-wing extremist small party Dierechte as the top candidate for the European elections in May 2019 . She had previously refused to go to prison on the grounds of her health. At the end of April 2018, Ursula Haverbeck received the summons to go to prison.

Criminal proceedings

2004

In June 2004 Haverbeck was from Bad Oeynhausen District Court for sedition sentenced (5400 euros in total) to a fine of 180 daily rates to 30 euros. In the Collegium Humanum's in-house magazine , the voice of conscience , she and the magazine's editor, Ernst-Otto Cohrs, denied the Holocaust. The two issues of the magazine in question were confiscated. In the following issue of the Voice of Conscience it was read again that the Holocaust was “a myth!” Wrapped in a quote from the Russian newspaper Russki Westnik , it was claimed that the number of Jewish victims of National Socialism was not six million, but only around 500,000 be. On March 10, 2005, the court dropped a second trial against Haverbeck and Cohrs, however, at the request of the Bielefeld public prosecutor's office, as "it is insignificant compared to another".

2007

Another article by Haverbeck in the voice of conscience (November / December 2005), in which she put forward the thesis that Adolf Hitler was "not to be understood by the believed Holocaust or his alleged obsession with war, but only by a divine mission in the context of world history", brought another trial for sedition and in June 2007 a further fine of 40 daily rates from the Dortmund Regional Court . This resulted in a total fine of 200 daily rates of 30 euros (a total of 6000 euros).

2009

In June 2009 Haverbeck-Wetzel was found guilty by the Bad Oeynhausen District Court of insulting Charlotte Knobloch , chairwoman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. According to Mindener Tageblatt of July 1, 2009, Haverbeck-Wetzel wrote, among other things, that Knobloch should not interfere in “internal German affairs”, but “return to her country of origin in Inner Asia”. Her letter also contained threats such as “Prepare for Truth Day. It is near and unstoppable ”and“ Carry on as before, then another pogrom could occur that would be horrific. ”Haverbeck-Wetzel was sentenced to a fine of 2,700 euros.

2010

At the beginning of October 2010, Haverbeck was sentenced to a six-month suspended prison sentence before the Munich I Regional Court for sedition.

2014

In November 2014 Haverbeck filed a complaint against the Central Council of Jews . She accused the association of "persecuting innocent people". The proceedings were discontinued at the beginning of December 2014. The Bielefeld public prosecutor's office finally examined a case against her for false suspicion.

2015

In 2015 she again denied the Holocaust on the NDR program Panorama and described it as the "most lasting lie in history". Because of these statements, she was convicted again before the Hamburg District Court . The prosecutor spoke of a "fanatical blindness" of the accused. Haverbeck wanted to have the proceedings terminated. Haverbeck repeated her statements before the local court and wanted to “prove” with the help of the Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf , whom she wanted to summon by the court, that no one had been gassed in Auschwitz . The court denied the request and did not suspend the ten-month prison sentence, as previous convictions had not prevented Haverbeck from denying the extermination of the Jews again.

2016

In February 2016, in a letter to the Mayor of Detmold, she claimed that the Auschwitz extermination camp was “clearly recognizable” as a labor camp. The background was the trial in Detmold against the former SS guard Reinhold Hanning . This procedure only serves to refute the thesis of the labor camp, said Haverbeck. Hanning was sentenced on June 17 to five years in prison for an accessory to murder on 170,000 counts. The Detmold public prosecutor brought charges against Haverbeck in the local court for sedition. Haverbeck called the corresponding § 130 StGB a "law to protect a lie". On September 2, 2016, Haverbeck was sentenced to eight months in prison. On October 11, 2016, Haverbeck was sentenced again to a prison sentence of eleven months without parole before the Bad Oeynhausen district court . Against the judgment Haverbeck put revision one.

On November 21, 2016, the district court sentenced Verden Haverbeck to two and a half years in prison without parole for denying the Holocaust in several articles for the magazine “ Voice of the Reich ”. The appointed public defender tried to get his appointment at the beginning of the process. The § 130 StGB cited against his client for incitement to hatred violates the fundamental right of freedom of expression ( Art. 5 GG ). Haverbeck announced that he wanted to appeal.

2017

On February 17, 2017, the Detmold District Court sentenced her to ten months in prison for sedition and denigration of the memory of the deceased. After her conviction in September 2016, she distributed documents in which she again described the Holocaust as a propaganda lie. In the appeal proceedings , the Detmold Regional Court confirmed the judgment against Haverbeck on November 28, 2017 and laid down fourteen months in prison. She wanted to appeal this judgment to the Hamm Higher Regional Court .

On October 16, 2017, the Berlin-Tiergarten District Court sentenced Haverbeck to a prison sentence of six months for incitement to hatred, which was not suspended. The subject of these proceedings were statements by Haverbeck during a public event in a Berlin restaurant on January 30, 2016. She had repeatedly asserted there that the Holocaust did not occur. Haverbeck also appealed in this case, but failed.

Imprisonment

Demonstration on November 10, 2018 in Bielefeld with banners "Freedom for Ursula"

After Ursula Haverbeck did not appear at the prison in Bielefeld-Senne on May 2, 2018 , the public prosecutor in Verden issued an enforcement arrest warrant . The international Auschwitz Committee called for her to be searched for "with urgency" and criticized the fact that the judiciary had "left her on a much too long leash in recent years". Haverbeck was arrested on May 7, 2018 in her home in Vlotho and imprisoned in the Bielefeld-Senne correctional facility. On May 9, 2018, Haverbeck was transferred to the Bielefeld-Brackwede prison. In front of the building on May 10, 2018, there were gatherings of around 350 sympathizers from the environment of the party Die Rechts and around 600 counter-demonstrators. On August 3, 2018, the Federal Constitutional Court declined to accept a constitutional complaint against the detention. The court said that the criminality of Holocaust denial was compatible with the fundamental right to freedom of expression. On September 24, 2019, the Hamm Higher Regional Court confirmed the decision of the Bielefeld Regional Court to reject Haverbeck's application for suspension of her prison sentence on probation. The district court saw "no favorable prognosis". The OLG Hamm rejected a reduction in liability on December 10, 2019.

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  1. ↑ Order of January 30, 2018 of the Higher Regional Court of Celle (Az 3Ss50 / 17, rejection of the appeal)
  2. ^ A b Robert Bongen: Platform for Holocaust Deniers? In: ndr.de . July 29, 2015, accessed May 8, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Christina Hebel: Holocaust denier spoke at NPD event. In: Spiegel Online . April 23, 2015, accessed April 24, 2015 .
  4. ^ A b c Anton Maegerle: One lie too many. In: Jüdische Allgemeine , January 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ Norbert Frei: Holocaust denial is not an opinion, but a criminal injustice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 22, 2018.
  6. ↑ Jürg Altwegg: Noam Chomsky and the reality of the gas chambers. In: Zeit Online . November 21, 2012, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  7. ^ Matthias Popien: The dispute over Sayn-Wittgenstein is entering a new round. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 29, 2018.
  8. ↑ Jürgen Wüst: Conservatism and Ecological Movement: an investigation in the area of ​​tension between party, movement and ideology using the example of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). IKO 1993, p. 165.
  9. ^ Letters from the regional associations from 1988–1989.
  10. ↑ Jennifer Marken: Shoah denier Ursula Haverbeck as the “top candidate” for the European elections. In: Belltower News . April 4, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Haverbeck, who denies the Holocaust, before entering custody ( Memento from June 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ a b Ten months imprisonment for Holocaust denier. In: Jüdische Allgemeine . November 13, 2015, accessed May 5, 2018 . Julian Feldmann: Holocaust denier Haverbeck condemned. In: NDR panorama . November 12, 2015, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  13. ↑ New trial against 87-year-old Holocaust denier. In: Welt Online , August 30, 2016, accessed May 8, 2018.
  14. ↑ Detmold: Eight months imprisonment for Holocaust denier. epd report in: Jüdische Allgemeine , September 2, 2016, accessed on May 8, 2018.
  15. ↑ Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck has to go to prison for 11 months. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . October 11, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Two and a half years imprisonment for Holocaust denier. In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . November 21, 2016, archived from the original on November 21, 2016 ; accessed on May 8, 2018 .
  17. ^ Julian Feldmann: New prison sentence for Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck. In: Spiegel Online , February 17, 2017.
  18. ^ Prison sentence for Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck. In: Zeit Online , November 28, 2017, accessed May 8, 2018.
  19. ↑ Haverbeck, who denies the Holocaust, fails with a request for revision. In: Mindener Tageblatt . February 13, 2018, accessed May 5, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Haverbeck, a Holocaust denier, condemned. In: Jüdische Allgemeine , October 16, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2018.
  21. ↑ Haverbeck, a Holocaust denier, arrested. In: Spiegel Online , May 7, 2018.
  22. ↑ Haverbeck, a Holocaust denier, arrested. In: NDR.de . May 7, 2018. Retrieved May 7, 2018 .
  23. ↑ Ursula Haverbeck is now in a closed prison. In: New Westphalian. May 9, 2018. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
  24. ^ Large numbers of police at rallies. In: Westfalen-Blatt . May 10, 2018. Retrieved May 11, 2018 .
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  26. ↑ pda: No parole for Ursula Haverbeck - Holocaust denier from Vlotho (90) has to stay in prison. In: https://www.westfalen-blatt.de/ . Westfalen-Blatt , October 8, 2019, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  27. ↑ https://www.radioherford.de/nc/nachrichten/kreis-herford/detailansicht/keine-bewaehrung-fuer-ursula-haverbeck-aus-vlotho.html
  28. ^ Publishing house for the Evangelical Academics in Germany
personal data
SURNAME Haverbeck, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grave, Ursula (maiden name); Kobow, Ursula (former name); Haverbeck-Wetzel, Ursula Meta Hedwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German right-wing extremist and Holocaust denier
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterscheid , Hessen