Global InformationUrsula Haverbeck information
Ursula Haverbeck | |
|---|---|
| Born | Ursula Hedwig Meta Wetzel 8 November 1928 Winterscheid (today part of Gilserberg), Hesse, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Activist, author |
| Conviction(s) | Holocaust denial Incitement to hatred |
| Criminal penalty | 2 years imprisonment |
Ursula Hedwig Meta Haverbeck-Wetzel (née Wetzel; born 8 November 1928) is a German right-wing extremist activist from Vlotho.[1][2] Since 2004, she has been the subject of lawsuits and convicted due to her Holocaust denial, which in Germany is a criminal offense.
Her husband was Werner Georg Haverbeck, who during the Nazi period was temporarily engaged in the national leadership of the Nazi Party, founder and director in 1933 of the German Imperial Federation of Nation and Homeland, as well as writer and publisher, historian, folklorist and parson of The Christian Community.[1]
In November 2015, at the age of 87, she was sentenced to ten months' imprisonment for Holocaust denial.[3] Several additional convictions in the fall of 2016 led to further such sentences. She unsuccessfully appealed all sentences, and on 7 May 2018 began to serve her latest two-year jail sentence after being picked up at her home by German police.[4][5][6] Released from a prison in Bielefeld at the end of 2020, she was quickly charged again and was due to face a new trial in March 2022 and was sentenced to one year in prison.[7][8]
- ^ a b Braun, Stephan; Geisler, Alexander; Gerster, Martin (2009). Strategien der extremen Rechten; Hintergründe – Analysen – Antworten [Strategies of the extreme Right; Backgrounds - Analysis - Answers] (in German). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. pp. 250–251, 427–429. ISBN 9783531159119.
- ^ Niedersächsische Verfassungsschutzbericht 2012 [Lower Saxony Protection of the Constitution Report 2012] (PDF) (in German), Hannover: Niedersächsische Ministerium für Inneres und Sport (Lower Saxony Ministry of Interior and Sport), 2012, pp. 87, 102, 105, 107, retrieved 1 August 2015
- ^ URSULA HAVERBECK 10 Monate Knast für Holocaust-Leugnerin (87) Archived 17 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine dated 12 November 2015 at mopo.de, accessed 12 November 2015
- ^ "Handelsblatt explains: How Germany Combats Far-Right Extremism". Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
- ^ "Haverbeck demnächst in Detmold vor Gericht". 27 September 2017.
- ^ The Washington Post
- ^ Michael Klarmann, Holocaust-Leugnerin Haverbeck erneut vor Gericht, endstation-rechts.de, 21 February 2022, accessed 15 March 2022
- ^ "Germany: 93-year-old Holocaust denier sent back to jail – DW – 04/01/2022". dw.com. Retrieved 2 August 2023.