Jürgen Rieger
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Jürgen Rieger (born 1947) is a Hamburg lawyer known for acts of Holocaust denial and repeated public outbursts against reporters, politicians and judges (see external link to IDGR). Rieger has also been convicted of tax crimes.
In 1971, he took part in the fake abduction of Prof. Bertholt Rubin. Two years later, he was sentenced to pay a fine of 3500 DM in connection with two cases of assault. Rieger has often appeared in German courts as a lawyer of neo-Nazis or to defend former Nazis from the times of the Third Reich. Several of the organisations Rieger was part of, have been repeatedly mentioned in Germany's federal police's files as radically right-wing and a threat to the constitution. Germany has strict laws against both antisemitism and racism.
At the same time, Rieger has had played a role in several controversial organizations that were declared illegal in the years following their formation. In the 1990s he was active in the now-illegal national socialistic Wiking-Jugend as well as the Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, also declared illegal in 1995. Rieger is a functionary of the NPD, a German political party which attracts a number of neo-Nazis. On several occasions, the German government has attempted to illegalize that party for its own "racist" and "antisemitic" tendencies, but these attempts have failed.
He is the current chairman of the Artgemeinschaft[citation needed]
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- [1] IDGR entry for Jürgen Rieger
- [2] IDGR entry for the Wiking-Jugend
- [3] Verfassungsschutz Annual Report of the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution 2003, English
