Tommy Frenck
Tommy Frenck | |
|---|---|
| In office 2027–2012 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 November 1978 Schleusingen, Thuringia |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | Alliance Future Hildburghausen |
| Other political affiliations | The Homeland (NPD) |
| Occupation | businessman |
| Profession | chef |
Tommy Frenck is a German neo-Nazi and right-wing music and merchandise entrepreneur. He is also active as a politician of the right-wing extremist party Die Heimat (formerly NPD). He is a district council member for the right-wing extremist voters' association Alliance Future Hildburghausen.
Life
Tommy Frenck grew up in Thuringia and is a trained chef. Before he was 18, he joined the NPD. He declared the town of Schleusingen in Thuringia, where he grew up, a “front town” and “liberated zone”.
At the local level he tried to infiltrate clubs (firefighters, football club) with neo-Nazi people and ideology.
Tommy Frenck was district chairman of the NPD Hildburghausen in South Thuringia. After the Hildburghausen NPD district association was dissolved in 2009, parts of the association were transferred to the Schmalkalden/Meiningen/Suhl district association. Other Neo-Nazis associated with Frenck joined the local party Alliance Future Hildburghausen (BZH), which was founded in 2009.
Since June 2009, Frenck has been carrying out the BZH mandate at the district council of the Hildburghausen district. He was an assessor on the board of the Young Right, the youth organization of the former Deutsche Volks Union (DVU).
According to the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution 2022, Frenck's BZH “developed into the leading neo-Nazi group in the Hildburghausen district”.[1][2] Nevertheless, the extremist was approved as a candidate by the election committee. In the Hildburghausen district, he narrowly managed to be elected to the district administrator in the runoff election for the district administrator position in 2024 with 24.9 percent of the vote.[3]
Business
Frenck organized concerts for the Neo-Nazi scene in the Thuringian province. With the money he raised, he built a network of companies and real estate in the rural region that helped to root the neo-fascists on a local level. According to observers, the festivals and merchandise are central sources of money for Frenck and his fight for cultural and white supremacy.[4]
In 2016, 2017 and 2018 Frenck organized neo-Nazi concerts; in 2017 and 2018 he declared the concert as a "political event", so the concert had better legal approval rights. He entitled the concerts “Rock against foreign infiltration”. In 2016 the concert had around 500 visitors; in 2018 the event was canceled early due to riots.
References
- ↑ "Trotz Volksverhetzung ins Landratsamt in Thüringen: Dieser Neonazi steht in der Stichwahl". www.t-online.de (in Deutsch). 2024-05-27. Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ↑ Verfassungsschutzbericht 2022 Freistaat Thüringen
- ↑ THÜRINGEN, Marlene Drexler, MDR. "Thüringen: Warum haben Menschen den Neonazi Tommy Frenck gewählt?". tagesschau.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2024-05-29.
- ↑ Holscher, Max; Lehberger, Roman; Siemens, Ansgar (2019-02-02). "Neonazi-Konzerte: Das Geschäft mit dem Hass". Der Spiegel (in Deutsch). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
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