Anton Maegerle

Anton Maegerle is the nom de plume of the German journalist Gernot Modery. He is also the author of books about far-right politics, right-wing radicalism, the New Right, and right-wing policy in general.

Since Neo-Nazi activists have issued death threats against Maegerle, his true identity is secret and he and his family live under police protection. Only very few personal details of his life and career are known to the public. He was allegedly 40 years old in 2002, and lives in a village in Southern Germany, where he always lived except when he was studying social science. During the time of his studies, the German right-wing party The Republicans was founded. He describes this occasion as the “priming” for his activism. He himself is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). After finishing his studies he moved home and started to make his inquiries. His neighbors deemed him to be unemployed because they never saw him working, until he was visited by the police because he had received several threats. His articles and books are published under his pseudonym.

Maegerle started collecting information on the right-wing party The Republicans in 1983, and observes right-wing extremists as well as right-wing conservative circles in Germany and abroad. Maegerle's database contains some 550,000 items and data on ca. 17,000 individuals, and is said to be one of the largest of its kind, providing information to journalists and governments agencies including the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In 2001, he published a book against right-wing extremism in Baden-Württemberg together with the president of the Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Helmut Rannacher. Maegerle also collects information on right-wing extremist, xenophobic and anti-semitic acts of violence, regularly publishing chronicles of such events.

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