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Udo Pastörs
Pastörs in 2013

Leader of the National Democratic Party
In office 19 December 2013 – 1 November 2014 Acting: 19 December 2013 – 10 January 2014
Deputy	Karl Richter Frank Schwerdt
Preceded by	Holger Apfel
Succeeded by	Frank Franz
Member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
In office 16 October 2006 – 4 October 2016
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	National Democratic Party List

Personal details
Born	Udo Michael Wilhelm Pastörs (1952-08-24) 24 August 1952 (age 72) Wegberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	National Democratic Party (2000–)
Children	1
Occupation	Politician Clockmaker

Udo Pastörs (born 1952) is a German politician and convicted Holocaust denier. He is the former leader of the far-right NPD, and served as a representative in the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern until 2016.

Pastörs was considered one of the leading cadres within the traditional right-wing extremist scene in Germany until AfD emerged.^[1] Criminal investigations were repeatedly initiated against Pastörs. He was convicted several times for incitement to hatred and Holocaust denial and openly represented racist and anti-Semitic views. His political positions are based on historical National Socialism.^[2]

Personal life

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Pastörs was born on 24 August 1952 in Wegberg, West Germany. He was also member and "Unterführer" of the Neo-Nazi organization Wiking-Jugend.^[3]

His learned profession is that of a clockmaker. He is married and has one daughter with his wife, Marianne Pastörs.

He joined the NPD in 2000. In 2005 he became the leader of the party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He was first elected to state parliament in 2006, receiving 7.3% of the vote. He has been leading the party fraction since 2006.

Controversies

In a speech on 25 February 2009, Pastörs referred to the Federal Republic of Germany as a "Jew republic", to Turkish-German men as "semen cannons", and to Alan Greenspan as a "hook-nose". A local court found him guilty of "incitement of popular hatred" in May 2010, sentencing him to a suspended sentence of ten months and a €6,000 fine.^[4]^[5]

2019 European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR) Decision

On 3 October 2019, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously decided on the case Pastörs v. Germany (application no. 55225/14)^[6] that a decision from the German Courts sentencing him to eight months' imprisonment, suspended on probation, based on the fact that a speech made by German politician Udo Pastörs stating that "the so-called Holocaust is being used for political and commercial purposes", as well as other Holocaust denial comments, incurred in violation of the memory of the dead and of the intentional defamation of the Jewish people was not a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights. Also, the ECtHR also decided by four votes to three that there had been no violation of Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention on Human Rights.^[7]

References

^ Jürgen P. Lang, Bayerischer Rundfunk (29 February 2016). "Partei mit Brüchen: Sammelpunkt für Neonazis". www.br.de (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2024.
^ Schlieben, Michael (18 April 2012). "Der Extreme unter den Rechtsextremen". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
^ "Andreas Theißen - die rechte Hand Udo Pastörs´". Endstation Rechts. (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2024.
^ "Hetze gegen Juden: NPD-Chef Pastörs verurteilt". ARD (in German). Retrieved 5 May 2014.
^ "Bewährungsstrafe im Strafverfahren gegen Udo Pastörs" (PDF) (in German). Amtsgericht Saarbrücken. 7 May 2010. Archived from the original (Press release) on 30 October 2012. Retrieved 5 May 2014.
^ "Pastörs v. Germany", European Court of Human Rights, decided on 3 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
^ "Holocaust denial is not protected by the European Convention on Human Rights", European Court of Human Rights, 3 October 2019. Retrieved 8 October 2019.

External links

Udo Pastörs

(German) Udo Pastörs (Website of Parliament of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
(German) Udo Pastörs (NPD party website)
(German) Udo Pastörs Archived 22 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine (Kandidatenwatch.de)

Criticism

(German) Gernot Knödler: NPD will nicht stolpern. taz Nord vom 17. Juni 2006
(German) Lagebericht Rechtsextremismus März 2006
(German) Focus: NPD-Spitzenkandidat - Hitler als Phänomen gewürdigt
(German) NDR: Staatsanwalt prüft Rede von NPD-Fraktionschef Pastörs; inklusive Link zu einem Radiobeitrag zu Pastörs demokratiefeindliche Rede
(German) Spiegel.de: NPD-Fraktionschef nach Hetzrede im Visier der Staatsanwaltschaft

v t e Chairmen of the National Democratic Party of Germany
Friedrich Thielen (1964–67) Adolf von Thadden (1967–71) Martin Mussgnug (1971–90) Günter Deckert (1991–96) Udo Voigt (1996–11) Holger Apfel (2011–13) Udo Pastörs (2013–14) Frank Franz (2014–present)

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