Pößneck, Thuringia German Democratic Republic (East Germany)
Died
16 September 1981, allegedly by suicide;
probably at or near the “Bir Hassan” PLO training camp near Beirut in Lebanon
Alma mater
Ilmenau University of Technology University of Tübingen
Occupation(s)
Far-right extremist WSG deputy leader Arms dealer
Known for
His (never proven in court) role in the double murder of Shlomo Lewin and Frida Poeschke along with the many questions surrounding it which remain unanswered more than forty years later.
Uwe Behrendt (April 1952 – September 1981) was a German far-right extremist. In 1976 he became de facto deputy leader of the "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann" (WSG-Hoffmann), a network of between 400 and 600 politically like-minded activists and terrorists (according to the perspective of the commentator) which concealed its underlying mission, rather unconvincingly, by presenting itself as a paramilitary sports club. Behrendt was widely considered as the group member closest in terms of (informal) seniority and personal support to the leader, Karl-Heinz Hoffmann. He came to wider attention because of a notorious double murder and questions posed by the subsequent handling of it when, on 19 December 1980, believed to have been motivated by antisemitic race-based hatred, Behrendt murdered a rabbi-publisher (and known anti-fascist) called Shlomo Lewin and Lewin's life-partner, Frida Poeschke in Erlangen. From the perspective of the German legal system, no one was ever convicted in connection with the murder. Behrendt was able to escape to Lebanon where, following further controversy involving allegations of torture and more killing, he is believed to have committed suicide in 1981.[1][2][3][4]
Because evidence was never proven in a court of law that Hoffmann had either mandated the killing or had any prior knowledge of it, Behrendt is classified in public records as a lone killer. Following research undertaken during the intervening four decades by investigative journalists and specialist scholars it has nevertheless become accepted in some quarters that Uwe Behrendt was part of a network of far-right terrorists who were involved in violent attacks and killings in a number of European countries at the time.[5][6]
^Sebastian Wehrhahn; Martina Renner (6 January 2020). ""Ermordet von Händen von Bösewichten": der Mord an Shlomo Lewin und Frida Poeschke". Institut für Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft, Jena. Amadeu Antonio Stiftung, Berlin. pp. 72–92. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^Barbara Manthe (1 February 2019). "The antisemitic murder Germany forgot". Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR). Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^"Erkenntnisse zum Erlanger Doppelmord an Shlomo Lewin und Frida Poeschke" (PDF). Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Abgeordneten Martina Renner, Dr. André Hahn, Ulla Jelpke, Katrin Kunert und der Fraktion DIE LINKE. Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH, Köln. 22 March 2017. ISSN 0722-8333. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^Sebastian Wehrhahn; Martina Renner (18 December 2020). "Spuren nach Ermreuth". Politik / Antisemitismus... Vor 40 Jahren wurde in Erlangen ein antisemitischer Doppelmord verübt. Die Tat gilt als geklärt, es wurde aber niemand dafür verurteilt. Neues Deutschland, Berlin. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^Anton Maegerle (19 December 2020). "Vor 40 Jahren: Antisemitischer Doppelmord". Heute vor 40 Jahren, am 19. Dezember 1980, ermordete der Neonazi Uwe Behrendt Shlomo Lewin, den Vorsitzenden der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Nürnberg, und dessen Lebensgefährtin Frida Poeschke. Institut für Information und Dokumentation e.V., Bonn. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
^Sebastian Wehrhahn; Martina Renner (23 September 2021). "Der braune Faden". Bei rechtem Terror bleibt in der Öffentlichkeit das Bild vom Einzeltäter dominant. Das zeigt auch der Fall des Neonazis Uwe Behrendt. taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH., Berlin. Retrieved 19 July 2022.
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