Udo Voigt ( German Udo Voigt ; born April 14, 1952 , Viersen , Germany ) - German right-wing politician , chairman of the National Democratic Party of Germany in 1996–2011, deputy of the European Parliament from the NDPG. Also served as captain and engineer in the German Air Force. [one]
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Biography and political career
Udo Vogt was the only child in the family. His father was a member of the Hitler Youth , a member of the SA , then served in the Wehrmacht and returned from Soviet captivity in 1949. Udo was very respectful of his father [2] . After serving in the German Air Force, he studied from 1982 to 1987 with a degree in political science at the University of Munich . In 1968, he joined the right - wing extremist National Democratic Party (NDP). In 1996, after the arrest of the party’s chairman, Günter Dekkert, on charges of inciting racism, he was elected chairman of the NDP and remained in that post until 2011.
In 2009, his position somewhat weakened due to the fact that the party is experiencing severe financial difficulties due to the payment of a fine of 2.5 million euros to the state [3] . As a result, a new party leader Holger Apfel was elected at the party congress on November 13, 2011 [4] .
From September 2006, a member of the municipal parliament in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick , until 2011 - chairman of the NDP faction [5] . In the 2014 elections, Udo Voigt was elected a deputy to the European Parliament from the NDP, where he became a member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.
Repeatedly subjected to administrative and criminal liability for incitement to insurrection and other violations of the law [6] [7] [8] [9] .
Views
In December 2007, Voigt gave an interview to Iranian television, in which he claimed that the number of victims of the Holocaust is not 6 million, but 340 thousand [10] . He also expressed revanchist demands to return the territories of Pomerania , West Prussia , East Prussia and Silesia to Germany [11] . REPORT MAINZ magazine writes that Voigt does not hide his anti-Semitic , xenophobic and anti-democratic views [12] .
March 22, 2015 Udo Voigt spoke at the International Russian Conservative Forum in St. Petersburg and said that he had nothing to do with neo-Nazism:
I was born in 1952, I don’t walk in Nazi uniform and I don’t want to revive Hitler. This is the past, and I look forward [13] .
Notes
- Ö Röbel, Sven Internal NPD Documents Reveal Chaos: Disabled Unavailable (not available link) . Spiegel Online . The appeal date is February 8, 2008. Archived on January 27, 2008.
- ↑ rechtsradikale: Glatze mit Scheitel (German) . ZEIT ONLINE. The appeal date was July 18, 2012. Archived September 29, 2012.
- ↑ Udo Voigt als NDP-Chef wiedergewählt (German)
- ↑ Machtwechsel bei der NPD
- ↑ Bezirksverordnetensammlung Treptow-Köpenick - Berlin.de Neopr (Not available link) . www.berlin.de. The appeal date is February 8, 2008. Archived on January 5, 2013.
- ↑ NPD-Chef schlug Heß für Friedensnobelpreis vor - Anzeige wegen Volksverhetzung Sueddeutsche.de , 24. August 2007
- ↑ NPD-Chef Voigt zu sieben Monaten verurteilt , faz.net 24. April 2009
- ↑ Landgericht Berlin: Berufungsurteil gegen Verantwortliche des NPD-WM-Planers (PM 26/2011)
- ↑ LG Berlin: Freispruch für NPD-Chef Voigt und zwei weitere Funktionäre im WM-Planer-Prozess (German)
- ↑ Interview von NPD-Chef Udo Voigt mit iranischen Journalisten Löst Empörung aus - REPORT MAINZ (German) . SWR.de (10.12.2007 :). The appeal date was July 18, 2012. Archived September 29, 2012.
- ↑ Antisemitismus und Schwulenhass in der NPD - REPORT MAINZ (German) . SWR.de. The appeal date was July 18, 2012. Archived September 29, 2012.
- ↑ NPD - Rechte und Neonazis formieren sich neu - REPORT MAINZ (German) . SWR.de (2004). The appeal date was July 18, 2012. Archived September 29, 2012.
- ↑ The gathering of the “friends of Russia” in St. Petersburg outraged the anti-fascists BBC Russian (March 23, 2015). The appeal date is March 22, 2015.
Literature
- Toralf Staud. Moderne Nazis. Die neuen Rechten und der Aufstieg der (NPD KiWi 909). Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2005, ISBN 3-462-03638-6 .
- Eckhard Jesse. Biographisches Portrait: Udo Voigt. In: Jahrbuch Extremismus Demokratie | Extremismus & Demokratie. 18. Jg., 2006, ISBN 978-3-8329-2431-7 , S. 207-219.
Links
- BGH-Urteil zu Hotelverbot: Udo Voigt muss draußen bleiben (German) . SPIEGEL ONLINE. The appeal date was July 18, 2012. Archived September 29, 2012.
- : "Ein Verbotsverfahren wird uns kostenlose Werbung sein" - Nachrichten DIE WELT (German) . WELT ONLINE. The appeal date was July 18, 2012. Archived September 29, 2012.