Wolfgang Frenz

Wolfgang Frenz (born September 13, 1936 in Barmen ) is a German right-wing extremist political functionary and informant .

Life

Frenz, who was originally a chemical engineer by profession, had been a functionary in right - wing extremist political groups since the 1950s and ran for the German Reich Party on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia for the German Bundestag in 1961 . Most recently he was a functionary in the NPD . From 1961 to 1995 he also worked for the protection of the Constitution in North Rhine-Westphalia as a so-called undercover agent . Frenz is active as a naturopath .

Exposure

Frenz became known by the fact that he was summoned to the Federal Constitutional Court in January 2002 as a person providing information in the prohibition proceedings against the NPD , whereby his underwriting capacity was made known to the constitutional protection authority through the simultaneous transmission of his authorization to testify and he was thus publicly "burned", that is, concealed another Activity was excluded. This circumstance triggered a political scandal after the Federal Constitutional Court now demanded precise information about the quantitative and qualitative enforcement of the NPD with employees of the German constitutional protection authority, which refused them with reference to confidentiality , namely the so-called source protection .

Because of his exposure as an informant for the protection of the constitution, Frenz sued the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for damages in the amount of 40,000 euros, because he blamed the state for loss of income, since since his exposure in his naturopathic practice in Solingen the patients have stayed away and books he no longer wrote would be sold. He justified his complaint with the violation of confidentiality regulations by the state's constitutional protection authority , because they identified him as an undercover agent to the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the latter then disclosed Frenz's previous activity in correspondence with the court. His lawsuit was dismissed in December 2003 by the Düsseldorf Regional Court (Az. 2b O 122/03).

With the unmasking of Frenz in January 2002, the undercover affair got rolling, which ultimately led to the failure of the NPD ban proceedings before the Federal Constitutional Court because the German Federal Constitutional Court feared that undercover agents and, through them, also government agencies significant influence on the right-wing extremist party and its possible unconstitutional behavior. Further undercover activities for among other things friendly but also hostile “services” of other states were not “open to discussion”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frenz, Wolfgang . In: Martin Schumacher (Ed.): MdB - The People's Representation 1946–1972. - [Faber to Fyrnys] (=  KGParl online publications ). Commission for the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties e. V., Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-00-020703-7 , pp. 325 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2014070812574 ( kgparl.de [PDF; 253 kB ; accessed on June 19, 2017]).
2. ^ ^{A b c} Georg Bönisch, Dominik Cziesche, Thomas Darnstädt, Uli Deupmann, Dietmar Hipp, Clemens Höges, Georg Mascolo and Holger Stark: Secret services: embarrassed to the bone . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 2002 ( online - Jan. 28, 2002 ).