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Brothers Aiwanger - nonsensical leaflet - SPD - smear campaign journalism - anti-Semitic PR

In the school year 1987/88, a nonsensical flyer typed with a typewriter circulated in the school toilet of the Burkhart-Gymnasium in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg, calling for participants to take part in a competition: "Who is the biggest traitor to the fatherland?" , there was "a free flight down the chimney in Auschwitz" to be won, or a life sentence "in a mass grave, a bullet in the neck, a year in Dachau, a beheading by guillotine". [1]

The leaflet may have been a reaction to a student competition on German history, organized by then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker.

One or more copies were found in the school bag of student Hubert Aiwanger (11th grade) during a search in the secretariat.

Aiwanger was appointed director. The disciplinary committee, which according to the school rules consists of the director, his deputy and seven teachers elected by the college, decided in favor of detention in Aiwanger's case. He was threatened with the police if he did not clarify the matter. His parents were not involved in the matter. As a way out, he was offered to give a presentation. He did this under pressure. That was the end of the school thing. This committee included possibly the Latin and German teacher Franz Graf. [2] According to Apollo News, Graf ran for the Social Democrats in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg in 2020.

Hubert Aiwanger's brother Helmut, who was 13 months older, also attended school. [3]

The leaflet was archived in the Dachau concentration camp memorial site as part of Roman Serlitzky's student work “Last Homeland Steinrain? On the history of the Jewish cemetery near Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg” or “EVACUATION MARCHES Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg Documentation”, for which he received second prize. (Tutor: Franz Graf). [4] “Roman Serlitzky said “world” that he had the flyer received a copy from his teacher. "I hadn't heard anything about the flyer at school beforehand. I didn't and don't know anything about the authors." School had partnerships with French and Polish schools, they didn't want to attract too much attention so as not to jeopardize the partnerships." [5]

Teacher Graf collects old documents - even if the files should actually end up in the trash [6], he was involved in the trade union, gave lectures at official SPD events and was involved in SPD working groups. [7] He often appears with the Secretary General of the Bavarian SPD, Ruth Müller. A younger classmate and former mayoral candidate of the Free Voters Dr. Johann Kirchinger reports that for years teacher Graf has been bragging about the fact that he has the only copy in the village." "He peddled the story everywhere here. He really told everyone whether they wanted to know – or not." According to Kirchinger, the teacher said that it was Hubert Aiwanger who wrote the leaflet. [8 ]In 2008, when Aiwanger and his party entered the Munich state parliament for the first time, party friend Jutta Widmann, who also came from Ergoldsbach in Lower Bavaria, made representations to his former teacher; Apparently to find out whether her boss was in trouble from this side.

Bavaria's Vice Prime Minister and Free Voters leader Hubert Aiwanger delivers his famous "Erdinger Speech" at a demonstration in mid-June 2023 ("Now the point has been reached where the silent large majority of this country must finally take back democracy. And those in Berlin say you've got your ass open up there, ladies and gentlemen.") against the Berlin Heating Act [9] "I'm fed up when you get up in the morning, open the newspaper or turn on the radio and it comes only left-green gender gaga towards us", he shouted – and got applause. That must have annoyed Teacher Graf. State elections in Bavaria 2023is in October. Before the leaflet affair, the polls of the deputy prime minister of the state of Bavaria had risen sharply.

Serlitzky reports: “My former German teacher came to see me eight weeks ago and asked me to write down a three-liner in which I confirm that Hubert Aiwanger is the author of the anti-Semitic leaflet. He commented on this request with the following words: 'It's time that we overthrow this brown sock now,'" the 52-year-old told FOCUS online. [10] The news portals Focus Online and Apollo News unanimously report that Graf repeatedly noticed at high school reunions that he questioned his former students intensively about their memories of Aiwanger. [11]

Dirt campaign journalism 2023
On August 25, 2023, Katja Auer, [12] Sebastian Beck, [13] Andreas Glas, [14] Johann Osel [15] and Klaus Ott started a smear campaign about Hubert Aiwanger and the leaflet in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. [16] Aiwanger's abbreviated denial remains hidden behind the paywall. [17] Media critics say: The SZ does not say a word about the relevance of a 35-year-old leaflet. At the end of the text, the authors try a common trick by writing: “Aiwanger was repeatedly accused of moving far to the right edge. In addition, fairness of scale differsJournalism by PR: It must not be about a campaign, but only about an offer of orientation. [18]

An expert is said to have confirmed to the "SZ" that the pamphlet and Aiwanger's thesis at the high school from 1990 were written on typewriters of the same type. According to the report, the capitalized W in both documents has a break at exactly the same point. The capital letter G is also striking. According to the report, it is "slightly offset to the left" on the leaflet, for example at the words "shot in the neck" and "Gestapokeller". In the technical work, the G is also slightly offset to the left, as with the word "community". Aiwanger's brother may have had access to the typewriter. [19]

The reason for the teacher to pass on the explosive information to the school management and the "SZ" was a speech by the school director Claus Giegl at a high school graduation event a little more than two months ago, in which Giegl Aiwanger was a "bad example for democracy". have criticized. [20]

The existence and content of the allegedly anti-Semitic inflammatory newspaper are undisputed. Until then, it is not a question of reporting suspicions. Only when attributing the leaflet's authorship did the newspaper refer to around "two dozen people" with whom it claims to have spoken. [21]

The Bavarian government's number two in charge of the economy condemned a "slander campaign" and immediately denied having written this "disgusting" leaflet, but admitted to knowing the author: Aiwanger was aware of the author, but "neither then nor now was and it's my way of ratting on other people."

A call came in at the Neue Presse in Passau on August 26th. Helmut Aiwanger, Hubert's brother, answered. He wrote the leaflet. [22] Rescue worker Anton Rederer had chatted with Helmut at the campfire 12-13 years earlier about the sins of youth and learned about the leaflet. [23]"I wrote the leaflet as a pointed protest against left-wing teachers." For years they had patronized him. Until this eruption. "I was raised with the fact that I am the son of a farmer." He was described as an animal abuser because they condemned the keeping of animals on farms. Certain teachers also resented his "patriotic attitude." The Burkhart-Gymnasium in Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg was a "left-wing school". "It was totally crazy," says Helmut Aiwanger. [24]At some point he decided to provoke the teachers with a "strongly exaggerated form of satire". "I did not create the document to glorify Nazis, to deny the Holocaust or to stir up hatred and violence." He distanced himself "then as now" from this "unspeakable content". [25] According to the brother, a leaflet could have been found in Hubert Aiwanger's knapsack when he was at school because he wanted to collect it again. "I'm not quite sure anymore," the brother told the newspapers of the Bayern media group on Monday. "But I believe that Hubert collected them again to de-escalate." [26]

After his brother Helmut's statement from the weekend, it's now also about his gun shop in Rottenburg an der Laaber. The Tikvah Institute, led by former member of the Bundestag Volker Beck, which fights against anti-Semitism, has called in the responsible weapons authorities. [27] [28] Co-founded in the summer of 2020 by the journalist Deidre Berger [29], it is funded by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. [30]

Interviewed classmates of Hubert Aiwanger contradicted the alleged boasting with Hitler imitations in the classroom or Jew jokes on class trips. [31] The only named Mario Bauer, who was in the same class with Aiwanger from grades 7 through 9, then one grade below him. In an interview for the ARD political magazine "report Munich", Bauer described that Aiwanger occasionally "gave the Hitler salute" at school and "imitated Hitler's speeches". He also often told jokes about Jews and the Auschwitz concentration camp. [32] Other contemporary witnesses contradicted this account: Christian Augsburger, Georg Weigert, Thomas Hirsch and seven other classmates interviewed by Apollo News did not notice anything right-wing extremist.

August 27: Does Bavaria's Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger have a serious problem, or does one of the country's best-known newspapers have one? [34]

August 28: CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann has asked for an explanation. As the deputy government spokesman Wolfgang Büchner said on Monday in Berlin, citing the Chancellor, the first thing to do is to clarify. [35]

September 3: Aiwanger's answers to Söder's 25 questions. [36] Among other things: "I am horrified at how a teacher tries to destroy me politically and personally with a document from my school days and the passing on of information from the protected area of ​​school. The publications from teachers' circles are a massive Violation of the Bavarian service law. I reserve the right to take legal action against the suspicion reporting with predominantly anonymous statements and the omission of exculpatory content." Hubert Aiwanger remains Bavarian Economics Minister. With his refusal to fire him because of the “flyer affair”, Prime Minister Söder drew a lot of criticism – but ultimately the Christian Social acted wisely and responsibly. [37]

All of this distracts from: 12% inflation compensation for citizen income, who gets that through work. Up to 636 euros basic child security. Both supported, for example, by the FDP, which writes in the Bavarian election program "We want a lean and efficient state that handles taxpayers' money carefully". In addition, there is the issue of migration, a huge mountain of debt that the Court of Auditors reprimands, decline as an economic nation, ...

anti-semitic PR
Jews are not mentioned in the nonsensical leaflet.

For Ruth Müller, member of the state parliament and general secretary of the Bavarian SPD - and bosom friend of said teacher Graf - it is clear that further cooperation is difficult.

Lower Saxony's Anti-Semitism Commissioner Gerhard Wegner opens the door to the reawakening of underground anti-Semitic talk, not only in Bavaria," Wegner told the taz. The federal government's anti-Semitism commissioner, Felix Klein, told the taz that remembering the Shoah is an essential part of our open, democratic society." Klein had also suggested a visit to the Dachau concentration camp memorial site as a "good sign". Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish community in Munich, says she declined an apology. Right-wing extremism researcher Miro Dittrich from the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy means things that are tolerated today. Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews, also causes irritation.[38]

Hanna Veiler has been President of Germany's Jewish Student Union since May and is demanding that Söder separate from his deputy. "The decision sends an alarm signal to Jews in Germany and sets standards: "As a politician you can get into positions of power in Germany and keep them, even though you put anti-Semitism into perspective." Laura Cazés from the Central Welfare Office of Jews in Germany (ZWST) said It is "extremely disappointing for many Jewish people in Germany" that the case has now ended without any real clarification and without any consequences for Aiwanger. ... "In Germany we repeatedly experience anti-Semitic acts and the relativization of the Holocaust, and many Jewish people ask themselves: What has to happen so that these do not always become isolated cases, be dismissed as a youthful sin or as a trifle?” The publicist Max Czollek called the process “sobering”. .. The cause was involved in "a movement in society to the right that has probably not existed since 1945". The director of the educational institution Anne Frank criticized a "ritualization of the discussion about anti-Semitism".[39] Veiler started a petition before September 6: "We Jews: Jews in Germany are appalled by the anti-Semitic inflammatory newspaper that the Bavarian Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger is said to have written and distributed during his school days. We demand Aiwanger's immediate leave of absence, until all allegations have been fully clarified!" etc. [40] She too has known for 11 days that her brother had typed it .. to a traitor to the fatherland.

The explanation is not enough for SPD faction leader Florian von Brunn: "It doesn't matter to me whether he wrote it or distributed it - it depends on the disgusting content," he said, according to BR. "Anyone who thinks, writes down and spreads such thoughts must not bear any political responsibility in Germany," said SPD chairwoman Saski Esken. This also applies if Aiwanger did not write the letter himself. [41] According to the Deutschlandfunk reporter Michael Watzke, Söder is said to have said in a speech with "Adolf Hitler-like voice and gestures": "I'm going to hit the table in Munich."

The Bavarian Anti-Semitism Commissioner Dr. Ludwig Spaenle believes that Aiwanger's reaction to the publication of the leaflet and other allegations has long shown him to be unreasonable and that he has not lived up to his role as a role model as Minister of State. In doing so, he harmed Bavaria and the fight against anti-Semitism. [42]

Ramona Ambs, on the other hand, is a bit different : "Anti-Semitism does not necessarily need the word Jew in order to be identified as such. It often works using codes and images..." [ 43] She only assumes that in the World War the Jews were the only leaders were. "And further: "For example, he claimed with Lanz that Germany is only formally a democracy, dominated by left-wing elites and he called for democracy to be taken back... - that's basically anti-Semitism in Newspeak." ???

September 3: Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) is still dreaming of anti-Semitic leaflets. [44] Weren't they the ones who financed and started this wave of anti-Semites?