Horst Mahler
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Horst Mahler (on the left)
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23 January 1936 Haynau, Lower Silesia, Germany |
| Occupation | Lawyer · Political activist |
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Horst Mahler (born 23 January 1936) is a German former lawyer and political activist. He once was an extreme-left militant and a founding member of the Red Army Faction, but later became a Maoist before switching to Neo-Nazism. Between 2000 and 2003, he was a member of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. Since 2003, he has repeatedly been convicted of Volksverhetzung ("incitement of popular hatred") and Holocaust denial and served much of a twelve-year prison sentence.
In April 2017, he was ordered back to prison for a further three and a half years, but on 18 April 2017 left the Federal Republic of Germany, thus avoiding the execution of the sentence.
Mahler was born at Haynau in Silesia on 23 January 1936, the son of a dentist. In February 1945, as the end of World War II in Europe began, the family fled from the approaching Red Army to Naumburg an der Saale. Less than a year later, they moved to Dessau and then, after Mahler's father – a fanatical Nazi and anti-semite – committed suicide in 1949, to West Berlin.
Mahler took his school-leaving exams in Wilmersdorf, Berlin in 1955 and then studied Law at the Free University of Berlin. He joined the Thuringia Association, a right-wing student fraternity, but soon afterwards became a member of the socialist student body SDS.
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