Andreas Mölzer


Born in 1952
Studied history and folklore in Graz
Member of the nationalistic student fraternity Corps Vandalia in Graz


"Deutsche Stimme" (NPD)
1983-1990
member of the editorial board of the right-wing extremist journal Aula


1984
in an article published in the right-wing extremist journal Deutsche Wochenzeitung Mölzer argues in favour of the foundation of Otto Scrinzi's National Freiheitliche Aktion(NFA)


1985 - end of 1990
editor-in-chief of the FPÖ-newspaper Kärntner Nachrichten


1985
lecturer at the 20th Political Academy of the right-wing extremist Arbeitsgemeinschaft für demokratische Politik (AFP) and at a meeting of the neo-Nazi group Verein Dichterstein Offenhausen which was dissolved by state authorities in 1999 because of neo-National Socialist activities according to the law of 1945 ("Verbotsgesetz") banning any National Socialist activities and any revival of the NSDAP in Austria

interview with the right-wing extremist journal Deutsche National-Zeitung (47/1985)


1986, 1987
lecture at the German right-wing extremist group Gesellschaft für Freie Publizistik e. V.

member of the board of authors of the Deutsche Monatshefte (called Klüter Blätter until 1982)


1987
a review of the book "Die Diffarmierten" (covering the history of the RAD - Reichsarbeitsdienst, the National Socialist labour service which organized compulsory labour for all young men since 1935 and in addition for all young women since 1939) is published in an issue of the Kärntner Nachrichten (on April 4th, 1987). The review allegedly violated § 3g of the "Verbotsgesetz" and respectively Art. IX(1) Z 7 EGVG.
"After the interrogation of the editor-in-chief of the 'Kärntner Nachrichten', Andreas Mölzer, who denominated himself as the solely responsible, the Department of Public Prosecution Klagenfurt withdraws the charges concerning § 3 g of the Verbotsgesetz according to § 90 StPO. As a result of the administrative proceedings by the Direction of Federal Police in Klagenfurt against Andreas Mölzer he was fined to pay ATS 3.000 according to Art. IX Abs. 1 Zi. 7 EGVG" (answer by Minister Dr. Franz Löschnak to a question in the National Council by the MP Anschober and friends, April 17th, 1992, no. II-5610 of the annex to the stenographic protocol of the National Council, 18th period of legislation).


1988, 1990, 1992
lecturer in the Neuer Klub which has been classified as "right-wing tendentious"


1989
he runs for the FPÖ in the elections for the provincial parliament of Carinthia


1990
editor of the book "Jörg! Der Eisbrecher" which celebrates Jörg Haider. At the beginning of 1991 he is nominated by order of Jörg Haider "Grundsatzreferent" (advisor in ideological principles) of the Freedom Party (FPÖ) and custodian of the historical ideological publications of the FPÖ in the Freedom Party's Academy (Freiheitliches Bildungswerk, FBW)


1991
he is awarded the Joseph Hieß Memorial Price at a conference of the neo-Nazi group Verein Dichterstein Offenhausen


June 1991
he becomes a member of the Austrian Federal Council


Autumn 1991
due to a personal request of Jörg Haider he is nominated the only politically responsible person ("politisch Gesamtverantwortlicher") for all of the Freedom Party's Academy (Freiheitliches Bildungswerk) (cf. Aula, 11/1991)


February 1992
lecturer at a meeting of the Freiheitlicher Akademikerverband (i. e. an association of academics in the perimeter of the Freedom Party) on the topic "National Identity and Multicultural Society".
The newspaper Der Standard (February 13th, 1992) reported:
"Mölzer is afraid rather that the German nation as a whole ('deutsche Volks- und Kulturgemeinschaft') in Germany and Austria is confronted by an ethnic exchange of population ('Umvolkung')'for the first time in its thousands of years of history'. Until now the 'biological power of the Germans' would have been strong enough 'in order to remain an assimilating factor'. But now Mölzer being staff member of the journal Aula notices an 'overaged and weak national body facing dynamic immigrants'. Hence there could not be taken (into Austria) an 'amorphous mass', the people should 'already be screened abroad'. Otherwise an 'ethnic exchange of population' could take place."


Autumn 1993
now only chairman of the board of trustees of the Freedom Party's Academy (FBW, Freiheitliches Bildungswerk), no longer responsible for the whole of the Academy, loss of his mandate in the Austrian Federal Council as well


1994
together with Lothar Höbelt and Brigitte Sob he publishes the "Jahrbuch für politische Erneuerung 1995" (Annual of Political Renewal 1995) on behalf of the Freedom Party's Academy with the title "Freiheit und Verantwortung" (Freedom and Responsibility).
Concerning an article of Werner Pfeifenberger ("Internationalismus gegen Nationalismus - eine unendliche Todfeindschaft?", Internationalism versus Nationalism - an Endless Deadly Enmity?) a decision of a court of justice agrees with the assessment of a journalist that this text contains "Nazi tones".


1995
Mölzer leaves the Aula


1995-1997
editor-in-chief of the Austrian issue of the German weekly Junge Freiheit (JF). The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) attests that the JF contributes to the "erosion of the border between democrats and extremists.
It offers a publishing forum for democrats as well as for domestic and foreign right-wing extremists" (Bundesministerium des Inneren (Ed.): Verfassungschutzbericht 1997, Bonn 1998, p. 121)


1996
he is announced as a lecturer at the meeting of the Kulturwerk Österreich - Landesgruppe Kärnten, a foundation of the right-wing extremist and long-time party official Otto Scrinzi


Since 1997
editor-in-chief of the weekly Zur Zeit (ZZ) that succeeded the Austrian edition of the Junge Freiheit


1997
In number 7/97 (December 5th-11th) of Zur Zeit the theologian Robert Prantner claims that it would be a forgery of history to deny certain jewish crimes on Christians, like murders on christian children. Furthermore Prantner sees Jews responsible for the death of Jesus Christ. According to Prantner the "Weltjudenheit" (World Jewry) would refuse to ask forgiveness for these crimes until today.
Immediatly after the publication of the article that Mölzer didn't consider as anti-Semitic the DÖW sent a report to the Public Prosecutor and the Press Council. Whereas the latter condemned Prantner's anti-Semitic comments on March 11th, 1998, the Public Prosecution Office Vienna did not see sufficient reason for prosecuting because of incitement to hatred ("Verhetzung") according to the Austrial penal code.


May 1997
lecturer at the provincial diet fraction of the party Die Republikaner in Stuttgart. Die Republikaner were characterized as "right-wing extremist" by the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) (Der Republikaner 6/97, p. 4)


1999
Number 23/99 (June 4th-10th, 1999) of Zur Zeit contains an article that crudely plays down the crimes of National Socialism, denies the responsibility of Nazi-Germany for the Second World War, calls Adolf Hitler a "great social revolutionary" and his deputy Rudolf Heß a "venturous idealist", and questions the Holocaust which could allegedly "only be explained quasi-religiously" by calling it a "dogma" and "myth". In addition the author claims the impossibility of "mass gassings with Zyklon-B" in the National Socialist concentration- and extermination-camps.
Due to an information laid by the DÖW the author is convicted because of violation of the "Verbotsgesetz" (law banning National-Socialist activities) in 2001. The proceedings against Mölzer concerning suspicion of violation of the same law is ended in 2000. According to the answer by the Minister of Justice Böhmdorfer (FPÖ) to a question in the National Council it would not have been assured that Mölzer had read the incriminated article prior to its printing.


April 17th, 1999
At a meeting of "German" Burschenschafter (= members of nationalistic student fraternities) in Salzburg Mölzer presides a discussion on the future of the fraternities. Participants are the German neo-Nazi Jürgen Schwab (aB! Thessalia zu Prag, Bayreuth and aB! Germania, Graz), and the chairman of the German right-wing extremist party Die Republikaner Rolf Schlierer (aB! Germania, Gießen)


1999-2001
Advisor for cultural affairs of the Carinthian Provincial Governor Jörg Haider


2001
lecturer at the annual congress of the right-wing extremist Deutsche Konservative. (Berliner Brief 37/March 2001).

Zur Zeit is granted a subsidy of 800.000 ATS by the Austrian government by means of the "Presseförderung", i. e. a subsidy by the state to periodical papers.


November 2001
To mark the fourth anniversary of Zur Zeit (ZZ) representatives of several European right-wing and far right-wing parties gather at castle Kranichberg (Gloggnitz, Lower Austria) for a meeting on "Europe's Right-Wing Parties and the Media" (Europas Rechtsparteien und die Medien). Mölzer presides a discussion of:
  • Bruno Mégret, leader of the right-wing extremist Mouvement National Republicain (MNR), a separatist group that emerged from Le Pen's Front National
  • Filip Dewinter, leader of the right-wing extremist Vlaams Blok
  • Alfred Mechtersheimer, leader of the Deutschland-Bewegung, which the annually report 2003 of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution Nordrhein-Westfalen accused of maintaining points of view that "give reason for suspecting the existence of right-wing extremist efforts"
  • István Csurka, anti-Semite and leader of the Hungarian Magyar Igazság és Élet Pártja (MIÉP).
2002
lecturer at the meeting of the youth organization of the right-wing extremist Vlaams Blok in Tyrol

lecturer at a meeting organized by representatives of the German right-wing extremist groups Gesellschaft für Freie Publizistik (GfP), Deutsche Liga für Volk und Heimat, and Nation&Europa-Freunde. Due to his appearance at right-wing extremist groups in Germany Mölzer's name is mentioned in the section on right-wing extremism of the report 2002 of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Zur Zeit is granted a subsidy of approximately 75 500 EUR by the Austrian government by means of the "Presseförderung"

Participant in a meeting of right-wing populist and right-wing extremist parties (including Vlaams Blok) in Carinthia


2003
Zur Zeit is granted a subsidy of approximately 64 000 EUR by the Austrian government by means of the "Presseförderung"


2004
Mölzer gives an interview to the journal Deutsche Stimme which is published by the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschland (NPD), an organization closely tied to neo-Nazism (no. 1/2004, on the topics "Drittes Lager, Globalisierung und europäische Zusammenarbeit").

Interview with the right-wing extremist journal Der Eckart, No. 6/2004. To the position of Germany in the European Union Mölzer stated:
"In its beginning the European integration was a project of the victorious Allies that had its starting-point in the belief that regarding power politics Germany should be permanently kept down." (originally: "Die europäische Integration war also in ihren Anfängen auch ein Sieger-Projekt der Alliierten, das davon ausging, dass man Deutschland auf Dauer machtpolitisch niederhalten müsste.")


June 2004
Mölzer elected MEP

Since 1983 Mölzer has published articles in the following right-wing extremist journals:
Nation Europa, Deutsche Annalen, Die Kameradschaft, NHB-report (journal of the Nationaldemokratischer Hochschulbund, a student organization of the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands), Junge Freiheit, Staatsbriefe, Aula.


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