Franz Xaver Schönhuber , born on January 10th 1923 with Trostberg (Bavaria), and dead on November 27th 2005 with Munich, was a journalist, essay writer, and German Politician .

Career

After having obtained its Abitur in 1942 with Munich, Schönhuber " milite" to youths hitleriennes, adheres to NSDAP, then engages at the 19 years age in the Division S Charlemagne. Decorated with the Cross of iron, he would have been an instructor of division, after being sent to the face.

In the years 1950, it engages among democratic Christians of the CDU - CSU.

After the war, he is journalist and leader-writer in several titles of the German press ( Münchner Abendzeitung , Deutsche Woche , Tageszeitung or " tz" ); before animating some emissions with the Bavarian radio Bayerischen Rundfunk , then local information in 1975.

From 1975 to 1981, he is president of the Union of the Bavarian journalists ( Bayerischer Journalisten-Verband ), and member of the Council of the German Press ( Deutscher Presserat ).

In 1981, following the publication of Ich war dabei ( I was ), he is shown of negationnism with respect to the crimes of the Nazi regime, which justice will not retain. He had on the other hand to resign of several of his media functions, of which presidency of the Union of the Bavarian journalists.

Following a scission with the CDU - CSU, it is one of the cofounders of the German nationalist party Die Republikaner in 1983, and is then the president, posts of which it resigns in 1990 for " to leave the place to the jeunes" .

Elected official member of the European Parliament of 1989 to 1994 with 7% of the voices, and is named vice-president of the technical Groupe European lines between 1989 and 1990.

He is the author of a biography partisane on Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1997, Le Pen, der Rebell ( Le Pen, the rebel ), and attends his conference on December 5th, 1997 with Munich, where this last qualifies the gas chambers of " détail" .

He is candidate with the Bundestag in 1998 pennies the list Deutsche Volksunion and then writes for the nationalist newspaper Deutsche Nationalzeitung.

In 2001, Franz Schönhuber written with Hörst Mahler Schluss put dem deutschen Selbsthass ( to finish of It with the hatred of oneself German ), where it fustigates the " repentance" and the " popular hatred of the nation allemande"

In her work published in 2004 DER missbrauchte Patriotismus in Deutschland und Europa ( the patriotism deceived in Germany and Europe ), Franz Schönhuber denies her nationalist qualification of .

February 13rd 2005, it organizes a meeting of 5.000 people with Dresden to commemorate 60 years after the Bombardement of Dresden.

Franz Schönhuber is invested candidate for Dresden by NPD for the federal elections of October 2nd, 2005, and obtains 2,4% of the voices.

He dies on November 27th, 2005 (at 82 years) with Munich, following a pulmonary embolism.

Works

• Ich war dabei , 1982 (reactualized in 1983 then 1988)

• Freunde in der Not , 1983
• Macht , 1985
• Trotz allem Deutschland , 1987
• In Acht und Round of applause , 1995
• Die verbogene Gesellschaft , 1996
• Le Pen, der Rebell , 1997
• Europas Patrioten , 2000
• Schluss put deutschem Selbsthass: Plädoyers für ein anderes Deutschland (with Hörst Mahler), 2001
• Welche Chance hat die Rechte? , 2002
• DER missbrauchte Patriotismus in Deutschland und Europa , 2004
• Die Volksverdummer , 2005

Biographies

• Kurt Hirsch and Hans Sarkowicz, Schönhuber: der Politiker und the Seine Kreise , 1989
• Karl Richter, Franz Schönhuber: wer STI dieser Mann? , 1992
• Jürgen Schröder-Jahn, Als Franz Schönhuber Bundeskanzler wurde , 1994

External bonds

• Site on Franz Schönhuber