Alfred Mechtersheimer (13 August 1939 – 22 December 2018)[1] was a former Bundestag member, a politician and author of the "Neue Rechte" (New Right).[2] A former German Air Force colonel and a spokesperson for the far-right "Deutschland-Bewegung" (Movement for Germany), Mechtersheimer was known for his protest against Germany's participation in NATO.[3]

Mechtersheimer was a leading figure in the peace movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and one of the founders of the ecopax movement. Consequently, Mechtersheimer's political career has seen him move from Bavarian CSU to the Greens in the 1980s. Later he distanced himself from the Greens as well, for their, he thought, lack of patriotism. Afterwards Mechtersheimer organized various movements known for their "stridently nationalist brand of national pacifism".[4] He called his politics since the 1990s "Nationalpazifismus"[5] (literary 'National- pacifism').

References

  1. ^ "Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestages und Personenverzeichnis" (PDF). bundestag.de (in German). 2019-10-10.
  2. ^ Anne Fuchs; Mary Cosgrove; Georg Grote (2006). German Memory Contests: The Quest for Identity in Literature, Film, and Discourse Since 1990. Camden House. p. 274. ISBN 978-1-57113-324-3. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  3. ^ Fabian Virchow (2004). "Civil War as Race War: How the German Far Right Perceives the War in the Balkans". In Neil Winn (ed.). Neo-Medievalism and Civil War. Taylor & Francis. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-7146-8570-0.
  4. ^ Jonathan Olsen (1999). Nature and Nationalism: Right-Wing Ecology and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Germany. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-312-22071-6.
  5. ^ "Schillernder Wanderer", Der Spiegel, 27/1993, p. 73 (05.07.1993)


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