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Horst Mahler (born January 23, 1936), is a German lawyer and active member within both the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) and the Deutsches Kolleg, an aggressively racist forum calling for a nationalist-racialist and socialist revolution in Germany. Along with Reinhold Oberlecher and Uwe Meenen, he stands against the democratic and liberal ideals of the American and Western Countries. As a former communist extremist activist, he is also firmly opposed against German democratic conservatives. Mahler takes pride in being one of the most aggressive antisemites; one of his openly declared main political and ideological goals is to destroy Judaism, despite his own affiliation with stalinist and maoist Communism and his former admiration for Jewish socialist revolutionaries and ideologians like Karl Marx. Image File history File links Horst_mahler. ... Image File history File links Horst_mahler. ... A screenshot of the Wikipedia website, taken on Debian GNU/Linux running the X Window system A screenshot, screen dump, or screen capture is an image taken by the computer to record the visible items on the monitor or another visual output device, usually this is a digital image taken... January 23 is the 23rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... There is open debate on rather facism is rightwing or not. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818 – March 14, 1883) was an immensely influential German philosopher, political economist, and socialist revolutionary. ...

Early History, the Red Army Faction and Imprisonment

As a young lawyer, Mahler worked within a prominent Berlin law office until his socialist leanings led to involvement with clientele from the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (APO), which in turn ruined his chance for a successful professional career in West Germany.

Dedicated to continuing his work, Mahler jointly founded the first "socialist lawyers collective" and represented several activists within the German student movement of the 1960s. He stepped beyond representation and took a more active stance following the shooting of Rudi Dutschke. Mahler's involvement in the protests against the right-wing newspaper that had fuelled Dutschke's attempted assassination led to an equally unsuccessful attempt to expunge his legal license. After defending Dutschke, Mahler moved on to defend Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. In 1970, he fled to Jordan along with his two former clients and a few others, where they briefly trained for guerrilla warfare with the PLO. On their return, they began a "war on imperialism", having established the communist-extremist organization known as the Red Army Faction. The German student movement was a protest movement that took place during the late 1960s in Germany. ... Alfred Willi Rudolf Dutschke, commonly called Rudi Dutschke (March 7, 1940 – December 24, 1979, Ã…rhus, Denmark) was the most prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. ... Andreas Baader Andreas Baader (May 6, 1943 - October 18, 1977) was the first leader of the German revolutionary organization Red Army Faction, commonly known as the Baader-Meinhof gang. ... Gudrun Ensslin Gudrun Ensslin (August 15, 1940 - October 18, 1977) was a founder of the German terrorist group Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), better known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Guerrilla War redirects here. ... The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) (Arabic Munazzamat al-Tahrir Filastiniyyah منظمة تحرير فلسطينية ) is a political and paramilitary organization of Palestinian Arabs dedicated to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to consist of the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, with an intent to destroy Israel. ... RAF Logo with red star and MP5 The Red Army Faction (in German: Rote Armee Fraktion; RAF), was postwar Western Germanys most active left-wing insurgent organization. ...

Mahler organised several bank raids but was known to be quite a bumbling member of the group (e.g. once when Baader was in police custody but none of the police knew his identity, Mahler rang the police station and asked for information about Mr. Baader, who they arrested yesterday - thereby identifying Baader). Albeit Mahler could arguably be credited with creating the Baader-Meinhof Gang, he conceded leadership to Baader after he confronted him a few times. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. ... Child custody and guardianship are the legal terms used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and child, including e. ...

Later that year Mahler was arrested (along with Ingrid Schubert, Monica Berberich, Brigitte Asdonk and Irene Goergens) after police discovered one of their hideouts in West-Berlin. Mahler was charged with “conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery in connection with the establishment of a criminal association and participation in the same” and sentenced to fourteen years in prison in 1972 (of which he had already served two). The Baader-Meinhof Gang, also known as the Red Army Faction, was one of the most significant terrorist organisations in post-war West Germany. ... Categories: ... The Baader-Meinhof Gang, also known as the Red Army Faction, was one of the most significant terrorist organisations in post-war West Germany. ... The Baader-Meinhof Gang, also known as the Red Army Faction, was one of the most significant terrorist organisations in post-war West Germany. ... Berlin is the capital city and a state of Germany. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ...

It was around this time that Mahler began to shed his revolutionary international marxist beliefs and a new manifesto he composed for the Baader-Meinhof gang expressing his new ideas, which included Maoism, was renounced by the rest of the group. After this Mahler was virtually kicked out of the revolutionary group; a group he helped establish. He was, however, offered the chance to leave prison in 1975 - a demand of the Peter Lorenz kidnappers, but he refused to go. He was released from prison in the early 1980s, was allowed to practice law again and reviewed and changed his political stance. A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. ... Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought (Chinese: 毛泽东思想, pinyin: Máo Zédōng Sīxiǎng), is a variant of Marxism-Leninism derived from the teachings of the Chinese communist Mao Zedong. ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... MacGyver - 1980s hero The 1980s decade refers to the years from 1980 to 1989, inclusive. ...

He came to embrace a synthesis between communism, anti-capitalism, nationalism, fascism and socialism. The class differences should be abolished, the people should be unified in race, traditional religions (Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism) should be abolished or reformed, Jews should be combatted, and a national state on racial, socialist and solidarist foundations should be erected. Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people with around 15 million followers as of 2006. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Protestantism is one of three primary branches of Christianity. ...

The NPD and His New Political Allegiance

His name has resurfaced recently in connection with the neo-fascist and neo-national socialist movement, emerging with ideas about religion, tradition, Jewish conspiracy and the role of foreigners. He has since joined the German right-wing party Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD), which he successfully defended in a trial before the Bundesverfassungsgericht, the highest court in Germany, about the prohibition of the NPD. Mahler's personal political views are however more radical, than those of most NPD politicians. The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... The terms Neo-Nazism and Neo-Fascism refer to any social or political movement to revive Nazism or Fascism, respectively, and postdates the Second World War. ... This proposed logo for the US Information Awareness Office was dropped due to fears that its Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories. ... Categories: Stub | Right-wing populists | German political parties ... The Federal Constitutional Court (in German: Bundesverfassungsgericht) is a special court established by the German constitution, the Grundgesetz (Basic Law). ...

Mahler's license to practice as a lawyer was withdrawn in 2004 and in January, 2005 he was sentenced to nine months in prison for inciting racial hatred. He was chosen by Ernst Zündel to help the defense in his 2005 trial for inciting racial hatred, but on the first day of the trial, November 8, 2005, trial Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen ruled that Mahler could not serve on the defense team. Meinerzhagen also dismissed public defender Sylvia Stolz on the grounds that her written submissions to the court were reflections of Mahler's ideas. Zündel during a court appearance, February 2006 Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (sometimes spelled Zundel or Zuendel) (born April 24, 1939 in Bad Wildbad) is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times for publishing hate literature. ...

As could be expected, these measures were seen by Mahler and his neo-nationalist and neo-socialist adherents to be undemocratical and illegitimate.

Mahler draws considerable support from students, youth and the unemployed living in the territories of the formerly communist East Germany. This article is about the historical state. ...

See Also

• Members of the Red Army Faction

The Baader-Meinhof Gang was one of the most significant terrorist organisations in post-war West Germany. ...

External links

• Horst Mahler's homepage
• baader-meinhof.com, a comprehensive website on the group
• The Baader Meinhof Gang
• anti-Fascist Information about Mahler (German)
• http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/mahler/partone.html