Horst Mahler

Horst Mahler
Mahler in 2001
Born (1936-01-23) 23 January 1936 (age 88)
Haynau, Lower Silesia, Germany
Alma materFreie Universität Berlin
Occupation(s)Lawyer, political activist
Organizations
  • NPD (2000–2003)
  • RAF (1970–1975)
  • SDS (1956–1960)
  • SPD (1956–1960)

Horst Mahler (born 23 January 1936) is a German former lawyer and political activist.[1] He once was a far-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction who later became a Maoist, before switching to neo-Nazism. Between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. Since 2003, he has repeatedly been convicted of Volksverhetzung ("incitement of popular hatred") and Holocaust denial, and he served much of a twelve-year prison sentence.

In April 2017, Mahler was ordered back to prison for a further three and a half years. On 18 April 2017, he fled the Federal Republic of Germany, hoping to avoid execution of the sentence.[2] His attempt to receive political asylum in Hungary was rejected, and he was deported back to Germany, where he was arrested and put back in jail to finish serving his sentence.[3]

  1. ^ (in German) Mahler kein Anwalt mehr, n-tv.de, 19 August 2009.
  2. ^ "Trotz Haftstrafe: Horst Mahler bleibt auf freiem Fuß - Störungsmelder". Störungsmelder (in German). 29 March 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
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