KILLING for WOTAN
English translation of a Der Spiegel article about Hendrik Möbus, an associate of Frodi Midjord and Greg Johnson.
US marshals have captured a cult figure of the German Satanist scene. The murderer and neo-Nazi Hendrik Möbus had been on the run from German civil investigators for almost a year.
The target investigators of the Thuringian State Office of Criminal Investigation had been on the trail of the Satanist for months. Then three weeks ago, with the help of American colleagues, they struck surprisingly: When the fugitive Hendrik Möbus left the property of the prominent US right-wing extremist William Pierce in Marlinton, West Virginia, marshals surprised him and the handcuffs clicked.
Möbus is probably the best known and most wanted Nazi Satanist in Germany. In 1993 he and two friends strangled his classmate Sandro Beyer in Sondershausen, Thuringia - based on the model of their favorite horror film "The Evil Dead".
In black robes and with gruesome music, the trio had previously shocked their classmates. "You can't escape my thirst for blood," shouted the boys, then 17 years old, and: "In the forest, nobody hears the victims scream / Another gruesome deed has been accomplished." For special rituals they retreated to the nearby "Mountain of the Dead" .
Sandro Beyer in particular suffered from Möbus and his cronies. In an interview with a school newspaper, they warned the 15-year-old who was looking for friendship with the group: "Sandro B. definitely does not belong to us." .
Months later, Sandro's body was found in a hole in the ground. The special houses pastor Jürgen Hauskeller confesses: "We did not take the warnings seriously."
From then on, the juvenile perpetrators haunted the media as "satan children". The then 17-year-old Möbus received an eight-year youth sentence in 1994 in the process before the Mühlhausen district court. He was released on parole after five years.
A blatant mistake by the judiciary, as it soon became apparent. Because imprisonment did not purify the Satanists. While he was still in prison, Möbus was able to record and publish a CD and a music cassette with his band »Absurd«. The cover adorns the grave of the murdered Sandro Beyer. "He was murdered by Absurd on April 29, 1993," is written next to it. One of the titles is called "Arson attack".
In the scene, Möbus calls himself Jarl Flagg Nidhögg; In interviews that are published on the Internet and in which Möbus is revered like a hero, he makes no secret of his attitude. So he proclaims that the "white race" has "always distinguished itself from other large races" and that he is fighting against the "disintegration of Germanness". The band's songs are called "Zyklon B" and "Death in the Forest". He mocked his victim Sandro Beyer: "I don't know whether you would have been punished during the Nazi era if you had made pests harmless."
The sentence, after all, alarmed the then Thuringian Minister of Justice Otto Kretschmer (SPIEGEL 50/1998) two years ago: Kretschmer had it checked whether the killer's slogans had "criminal relevance". When Möbus was spotted roaring Sieg-Heil-roaring at a concert in Behringen, Thuringia, the judiciary initiated two proceedings against him - for denigrating the deceased and for using anti-constitutional symbols.
The Tiergarten District Court sentenced Möbus to a year and a half at the end of 1999, and the Eisenach District Court to eight months' imprisonment. Möbus appealed and joined neo-Nazis in the USA.
Möbus is just the best-known figure in a scene that is enjoying growing popularity, especially in the East, and which is sometimes known internationally as "National Socialist Black Metal". Experts have long warned against radicalization of this milieu. The sect representative of the Evangelical Church, Ingolf Christiansen, believes that there are "3,000 to 7,000 Satanists in the Federal Republic of Germany who go beyond animal rituals", and Pastor Hauskeller from Hendrik Möbus' congregation speaks of a "comprehensive social problem". Hauskeller ("The Satanist scene has been booming in Thuringia since the murder of Sandro Beyer") warns against »groups organized in the manner of a liar«. In particular, the connection between Nazi ideology and the cult of Satan is "worrying."
Publications by the Satanists prove the pastor to be right. Möbus entrusted the scene magazine »Stormblast«: »I consider German National Socialism to be the perfect synthesis of the satanic / Luciferian will to power, elitist social Darwinism and Aryan-Germanic paganism." And named in the book "Lords of Chaos" he relied on a guiding principle of the SS: "To give death and to receive death."
Bands calling themselves “Barad Dúr” or “Asaru” explain: “The right solution would be to exterminate 60 to 70 percent of humanity”, “Burning churches is absolutely okay”, and “Murder is good against overpopulation”. Her idol is the guitarist of the Norwegian black metal band "Burzum", Varg Vikernes, who earlier said he would like to become the "dictator of Scandinavia" and who called for church arsonists. In 1994 Vikernes was sentenced to 21 years in prison for the murder of another satan rocker.
In Germany, Ronald Möbus, Hendrik's older brother, takes care of spreading Nazi rock. He relocates groups that sing about euthanasia and racial doctrine and praises their elaborates as "another musical Zyklon B shower": "Kill for Wotan!"
However, Hendrik Möbus was previously responsible for the political organization from America as well. He founded the German section of the »All-Germanic Heidnische Front«, which aims to »become a comprehensive youth movement«. In the long term, the pagans say on their website, their front wants to "unite all Germanic peoples and tribes in a 'Greater Germanic Empire'" and "displace all foreign creeds from our peoples". The skinhead organization Blood and Honor, whose German branch was banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior last week, is pursuing similar goals.
After his release from prison, Hendrik Möbus and his brother apparently visited Auschwitz unmolested. In a barrack of the concentration camp, the two brothers posed for a photo with the Celtic cross flag - material that the police found in a raid in October 1999.
The pithy sayings of Hendrik Möbus must also have impressed the US right-wing extremist William Pierce. He took the towered Möbus under his wing. Pierce is the founder of the racist "National Alliance" and author of the "Turner Diaries", a cult book in neo-Nazi circles that is said to have instigated right-wing extremist bomber Timothy McVeigh to bomb a federal building in Oklahoma City. Over 160 people were killed in the attack five years ago.
With the support of his American mentor, Möbus established contacts with right-wing extremists in the USA and earned his living selling right-wing music.
"Since I've known Hendrik Möbus," Pierce praised his protégé to SPIEGEL-TV, "he has behaved completely correctly and honorably." The German is an "intelligent young man who represents his ideals very resolutely" - in short: "a true one." National Socialist «.
On a website ("Free Hendrik Möbus"), Pierce laments that secret police officers had "twisted his arm behind his back with such force that it broke" when he was arrested. Yet Hendrik is a "calm, gaunt, non-violent intellectual".
Möbus would rather not go back to the land of his ancestors - he has applied for asylum in the United States. Reason: In Germany he is being persecuted because of his political views. But his chances were bad last week. On Tuesday he was transferred to the US Immigration Service INS deportation center in Batavia, New York. Even his public defender expected a speedy deportation.
In Germany, Möbus awaits prison: The verdict of the Tiergarten district court is already final, plus 976 days of residual youth penalty for violating the probation conditions. Eisenach's verdict (eight months) has yet to be confirmed.
Rudolf Lass, President of the Erfurt district court, cannot imagine that Möbus "will be given a discount: He will have to serve the entire sentence." The Nazi Satanist should not be free again until 2006. THILO THIELKE
Hendrik Möbus
1993 murder of his classmate Sandro Beyer in Sondershausen
1994 sentenced to eight years in prison
1998 Early release from prison
1999 convicted
1994 sentenced to eight years in prison
1998 Early release from prison
1999 convicted
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