Walter Staffa

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Walter Staffa (born September 7, 1917 in Kremsier , Moravia ; † November 18, 2011 ) was a German right-wing extremist , a functionary in various organizations for displaced persons and local politician in Nürtingen and in the Esslingen district . He was a member of the federal board of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft , the Sudeten German Council and from 1990 to 1996 Federal Chairman of the Witikobund . He was also chairman of the German seminar and board member of theDeutsche Studiengemeinschaft (DSG), functionary in right-wing extremist networks and author of the historical revisionist quarterly journal Germany in the past and present of the Grabert Verlag .

Life

Staffa attended the German State Real Gymnasium in Olomouc in Czechoslovakia , where he graduated from high school in 1936. According to his own statements, he was active in various organizations of the Sudeten Germans, including the German Gymnastics Association in Czechoslovakia , led by Konrad Henlein , and the Sudeten German Wandervogel . As a result, he began studying medicine in Prague. He claims to have been arrested there “because of his commitment to the Sudeten German cause”. After the destruction of Czechoslovakia by the National Socialists, he served in the Wehrmacht , including as a medical officer, and was wounded several times. On January 9, 1946, he was transferred from the Hradecna camp, Sternberk, to the Hodolany internment camp near Olomouc. According to his own statements, he succeeded in forging a note and thus in an expulsion transport to Nürtingen on October 29, 1946 . Staffa then worked as a general practitioner in Nürtingen.

Walter Staffa began to get involved in an "aid association for the new citizens in the district of Nürtingen" - the "new citizens" were Sudeten German refugees. In the following years up to the present, he has held founding and leading functions in numerous organizations and groups in their environment; It was not uncommon for these to be located in the right-wing extremist spectrum or were observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . He was also a local politician in the Nürtingen municipal council and in the Esslingen district council for many years.

His career in local politics spanned 37 years in the Nürtingen municipal council and 30 years in the Esslingen district assembly. In 1959 he succeeded for the first time in being elected to the local council, namely for the "Free Voting Community of Expelled and Damaged Germans". From 1965 he represented the “Voters 'Association of Expellees and Refugees”, from 1971 the “Voters' Association of Independent Citizens”. From 1980 he was also a member of the “Independent Free Citizens” in the Esslingen district assembly. 1996 Walter Staffa withdrew from local politics.

Political positions

His historical revisionist activity was central . Staffa, for example, held the Munich Agreement to be valid under international law in publicly circulated texts and demanded reparations for the Sudeten Germans. He compared the role of the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia with that of the Jews in Nazi Germany. He took the view that after the end of the war there would be “an even greater propagandistic influence on our people” and spoke of “intellectually refined external influences” among German politicians.

In a letter from Vitiko he wrote: “Half a century after the end of the war and the expulsion, published opinion and a large part of the politics dominated by radical left ideologues place Germany and the German people unilaterally and untruthfully under the burden of sole guilt for the crimes against humanity committed in this century . "

In the historical revisionist quarterly books Germany in the past and present of the right-wing extremist publishing group “Grabert-Hohenrain” Walter Staffa was to be found as an important author. “Germany in the past and present” regularly endeavors to render the Nazi past and the German war guilt in a very trivial manner. According to the Federal Agency for Civic Education , it contains articles on contemporary history from a revisionist perspective. In his “Thoughts on the Situation” in 1995, Staffa spoke of “lying propaganda by the victors”. In addition to such statements, Staffa also attracted attention through folk-nationalist activities. He was one of the initiators of a call for “The Identity of the German People”, which was directed against immigration to Germany, “life-threatening communities” (including homosexual partnerships) and the abortion of “unborn healthy children”, since all of this is German People destroy: "The German people" is "seriously threatened in its biological-ethnic existence and its cultural identity".

In 2000 Staffa published an article in the book "The Holocaust of Expulsion ". According to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the title alone is to be rated as increased "secondary anti-Semitism". In this and other publications, Staffa equated atrocities against Sudeten Germans with the crimes of the National Socialists or in their severity. The book was published by the German Voice Publishing House of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). Staffa also published in other right-wing extremist publishers.

Links with right-wing extremists and right-wing extremist organizations

Staffa was an active member of several right-wing extremist organizations observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, and he often held board positions.

In the "Witikobund" based in Munich , in which right-wing extremist efforts were identified and which had been classified as right-wing extremists by the Ministry of the Interior until 1961, he founded the “State Political Working Group” in 1960, a “Nürtingen Debate Group” in 1964 and the “German Seminar” in 1970, whose deputy chairman he immediately became. With the relocation of its headquarters to Nürtingen, he was named its chairman. Via the “German Seminar”, Staffa organized lectures mainly by right-wing extremist speakers. In 1997 he founded an action group of the Witikobund with the right-wing extremists Karl Bassler and Rolf Kosiek in the Nürtinger Haus der Heimat. Later he worked in the "German Study Community" (seat: Leonberg ). Since 2000 he has been a board member of the "German Study Community", which was founded in the same year by well-known right-wing extremists. There was especially close cooperation with Rolf Kosiek, also from Nürtinger.

On January 14, 2007, Walter Staffa was in conversation with Bernd Kallina at the Munich fraternity Danubia .

Walter Staffa operated "massive influence on the actual politics" of the "Sudeten German Landsmannschaft" through the right-wing extremist groups. So "the former Sudetenland should be brought 'home into the Reich' ', or the restoration of the German borders from 1939" should be pursued. Regarding Walter Staffa's thesis, “The cruel process of expulsion may one day hit the expellees themselves,” the Jewish online magazine haGalil noted : “At the same time, the annihilation of European Jews is relativized by making the 'expulsion' of the Sudeten Germans' one of the uniquely terrible and under no circumstances is declared in whatever major crimes to be tolerated in this century. "

His numerous functions and activities in right-wing extremist circles also permeated his local political activities: the “German Seminar”, the “State Political Working Group”, the “Action Group”, the “Witikobund” and the “German Study Community” attempt to influence conservative to right-wing politics and in accordance with their statutes To take statements to “support the opinion-forming process” (DSG), which they refer to internally as the “fight for the heads”.

The German guild shaft led Staffa as a member.

Honors

  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1984, presented in the Nürtingen town hall for many years of voluntary work, including as a local politician)
  • Honorary letter of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft 2004
  • Honorary Chairman of the German Youth of the East, today djo-German Youth in Europe (DJO)
  • Honorary Chairman of the Baden-Württemberg State Association of the Witikobund
  • Badge of honor of the city of Nürtingen (2008, because of many years of voluntary work, especially as a local politician)

Work (selection)

Essays:

  • Walter Staffa, in: Rolf-Josef Eibicht / Anne Hipp (eds.): The Holocaust of Expulsion; German Voice Publishing House ", Riesa 2000
  • Walter Staffa, in: Rolf-Josef Eibicht (Ed.): “The Sudeten Germans and their homeland. Heritage - Mission - Goal. For the discussion about return and reparations "(Gesamtdeutscher Verlag 1991)
  • Walter Staffa, in: Horst Löffler (Ed.): “Sudeten Germans: Incapable of the future? Thoughts, opinions and suggestions put up for discussion ”; 1997
  • Walter Staffa: “Borders, Minorities, Expulsions - Thoughts on a European New Order”, in: Hans-Helmuth Knütter (Ed.): “Europe yes - but what will become of Germany?”, Grabert Verlag , Tübingen 1998
  • Walter Staffa, in: The Witikobund - a national community of ideas "; ( Berg publishing house ).
  • Walter Staffa: Foreword to: Horst Rudolf Übelacker: "The future of Europe and the Sudetenland - contributions from an all-German perspective on questions of law and politics"
  • Walter Staffa, in: “Czechoslovakia. The end of a faulty construction ”(Deutsche Geschichte series, Verlagsgesellschaft Berg ).
  • Walter Staffa: "The Witikobund - a national community of ideas", in: special issue "The Sudeten German Question" of the magazine "Europa - Nationaleuropäisches Forum" (Issue 3/1989).

Monographs

  • Walter Staffa: "Home between Oder and Mohra", 68 pp.
  • Walter Staffa: "My way through the 20th century", Kröning: Whitebooks-Verlag 2004
  • Walter Staffa: “Getting old healthy”, Kröning: Whitebooks-Verlag 2004
  • Walter Staffa: "Youth Movement", Kröning: Whitebooks-Verlag 2004
  • Walter Staffa: "Kommunalpolitik", Kröning: Whitebooks-Verlag 2004
  • Walter Staffa: "Macht vor Recht", Kröning: Whitebooks-Verlag 2004

literature

  • Stephan Braun / Daniel Hörsch (eds.): Right networks - a threat, Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2004
  • Thomas Grumke , Bernd Wagner (Eds.): Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus , Opladen 2002
  • Friedrich Pospiech: Conservative right-wing extremist complicity or: "The case of St. Staffa / Witikobund": (a "political crime") , Esslingen am Neckar 2003, ISBN 3-00-011183-2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He played a key role in shaping the city  ( 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. , Nürtinger Zeitung , November 25, 2011 (full text subject to charge)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / xn--nrtinger-zeitung-jzb.de  
  2. ↑ The quote and all information about Staffa's life before 1946 come from a description in the Nürtinger Zeitung on June 29, 2004, which follows Walter Staffa's remarks.
  3. ↑ See an interview with the also historical revisionist Rolf-Josef Eibicht, archived copy ( memento of October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/13/012/1301273.asc
  5. ↑ http://dipbt.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/13/008/1300895.asc
  6. ↑ Article His 90th Birthday. No clean bill for Dr. Walter Staffa . In: Nürtinger STATTzeitung v. February 3, 2008.
  7. ↑ The Witikobund. Late realization. in: ha Galil http://www.klick-nach-rechts.de/gegen-rechts/2001/04/witiko02.htm from May 25, 2008
  8. ↑ Ulla Jelpke: Verfassungsschutz notes the Witikobund: Condensation of clues for right-wing extremism, in: http://www.klick-nach-rechts.de/gegen-rechts/2001/04/witiko.htm
  9. ↑ The Witikobund. Late knowledge ", in: haGalil from May 25, 2008 http://www.klick-nach-rechts.de/gegen-rechts/2001/04/witiko02.htm
  10. ^ "Theory and Strategy Education in German Right-Wing Extremism", in: Website of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg, Theory and Strategy Education in German Right-Wing Extremism ( Memento from January 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) and "Battle for Heads. Dresden School - the return to normal. Dr. Rolf Kosiek in conversation about the past of the Frankfurt school and the future of the Dresden school ", in: Website of the right-wing extremist" German Voice ": Archived copy ( Memento from December 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Jens Mecklenburg Hg .: Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 328
  12. ↑ http://www.witikobund.de/neuer_vorstand_im_baden_wuerttemberg.pdf  ( 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.witikobund.de  

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personal data
SURNAME Staffa, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Kremsier
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 2011