Wigbert Grabert

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Wigbert Grabert (born February 18, 1941 ) is a German right-wing extremist publisher , former owner of Grabert-Verlag, now Hohenrain-Verlag .

Life

Wigbert Grabert studied business administration and economics at the University of Tübingen .

Grabert has been running the Grabert Verlag, founded by his father Herbert Grabert, since 1972 . In 1978 he took over this after the death of his father. Grabert is among other things a member of the Witikobund . At the beginning of 2013 he handed over the management of the publishing house to his son Bernhard Grabert .

Like his wife Marielouise Grabert-Innocenti, he was one of the co-founders of the Thule Seminar led by Pierre Krebs in 1980 , but left it again in 1983.

As one of three shareholders, Grabert co-founded the Hohenrain-Verlag (Tübingen, Zurich, Paris), which is characterized by a similar spectrum of authors as the Grabert-Verlag, as a subsidiary in 1984 . Since then, according to the historian and right-wing extremism expert Gideon Botsch, he has become "the most important publisher of writings that downplayed, relativized or denied the National Socialist crimes".

He is editor of the magazines Germany in History and Present , which was also founded by his father Herbert Grabert, and Euro-Kurier .

He also publishes the series of publications by the Institute for German Post-War History , so far 31 volumes, and the series Publication from University, Science and Research , so far 22 volumes, and the series Kulturkreis 2000 , so far 12 volumes.

At the beginning of March 2013, Grabert was sentenced to eleven months imprisonment by the Tübingen District Court for incitement to hatred, which was suspended and to the payment of 5,000 euros for the Friends of Cancer Children, because he published a book by the right-wing extremist publicist Helmut Schrätze , in which the murder of 33,000 Jews are denied at Babyn Yar in 1941. On August 29, 2014, Grabert was acquitted in the appeal proceedings in which he was defended by Thor von Waldstein , as the court could not identify any intention of Grabert to distribute writings with inflammatory content. In addition, there is nothing in Schröckes' “tendentious book” that “could be criminally relevant”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Agency for Civic Education: Glossary - Right-wing extremism: Grabert-Verlag
  2. ^ Anton Maegerle : Braune Festschrift for long-serving jubilarians . In: Context: weekly newspaper , issue 187 of October 29, 2014.
  3. ^ Gideon Botsch: The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 until today. Series of publications by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Volume 1283 . Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-8389-0283-8 , p. 94.
  4. ^ Raimund Weible: publisher convicted of sedition . In: Südwest Presse , March 7, 2013
  5. ↑ including compensation , Schwäbisches Tagblatt , August 30, 2014, without page (author abbreviation: dhe)
personal data
SURNAME Grabert, Wigbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German far-right publisher
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1941