Attila Klaus-Peter Hildmann (born 22 April 1981) is a German

vegan Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal product—particularly in diet—and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. An individual who follows the diet or philosophy is known as a vegan. Di ...

cookbook author and far-right

conspiracy theorist A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that invokes a conspiracy by sinister and powerful groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.Additional sources: * * * * The term has a nega ...

. He has described himself as "ultra-right-wing" and as a

German nationalist German nationalism () is an ideological notion that promotes the unity of Germans and German-speakers into one unified nation state. German nationalism also emphasizes and takes pride in the patriotism and national identity of Germans as one nat ...

. He was repeatedly characterized as antisemitic. He has been wanted with a European arrest warrant by German prosecutors since 2021 and is on the run.

Biography

Attila Hildmann kocht auf dem Veggie Street Day Dortmund 2010-08-14 (bearbeitet)

Born in

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

, Hildmann is of Turkish descent and was raised by German adoptive parents. He studied for a diploma in physics at the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

but failed to graduate. Hildmann became

vegetarian Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, insects, and the flesh of any other animal). It may also include abstaining from eating all by-products of animal slaughter. Vegetarianism m ...

after witnessing his adoptive father die of a heart attack whilst on a ski trip in 2000. He attributed the death to excessive meat consumption resulting in

hypercholesterolemia Hypercholesterolemia, also called high cholesterol, is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood. It is a form of hyperlipidemia (high levels of lipids in the blood), hyperlipoproteinemia (high levels of lipoproteins in the blood), ...

(high cholesterol). Fearing the same fate and being heavily overweight, he renounced meat and fish products, and began to exercise regularly, losing 35 kg in weight. Over time, he abstained from consuming almost all animal products and became primarily vegan. In 2009, Hildmann wrote his first vegan cookbook. In 2012, his ''Vegan for Fun'' was named cookbook of the year by Vegetarierbund Deutschland, the German branch of the

International Vegetarian Union The International Vegetarian Union (IVU) is an international non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote vegetarianism. The IVU was founded in 1908 in Dresden, Germany. It is an umbrella organisation, which includes organisations from ...

. Hildmann appears in

YouTube YouTube is a global online video platform, online video sharing and social media, social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by ...

videos and has been featured in numerous television programs and talk shows, including ''

Maischberger ''maischberger. die woche'' ("maischberger. the week"; from 2003 to 2016: ''Menschen bei Maischberger'', "People at Maischberger"; from 2016 to 2019: ''maischberger'') is a German weekly talk show named after the show's host Sandra Maischberger ...

'', ''

TV total ''TV total'' is a German late-night television comedy talk show which originally aired from 8 March 1999 to 16 December 2015 on ProSieben, hosted, created and produced by entertainer Stefan Raab. Following a six-year hiatus, it was revived on 10 ...

'',

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

's ''Volle Kanne'', SWR's ''Nachtcafé'', and

Westdeutscher Rundfunk Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (''West German Broadcasting Cologne''; WDR, ) is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the conso ...

's ''daheim + unterwegs''. In March 2016, he was a contestant in the TV show ''Let's Dance''. In April 2017, Hildmann participated in the TV show '' Schlag den Star'' against

Luke Mockridge Lucas Edward Britton Mockridge (born 21 March 1989) is a comedian and television presenter living in Germany. He holds Canadian and Italian citizenship. Early life Mockridge is son of the Canadian actor and comedian Bill Mockridge and the Ital ...

Controversies and conspiracy theories

In 2015, Hildmann commented on the

European migrant crisis The 2015 European migrant crisis, also known internationally as the Syrian refugee crisis, was a period of significantly increased movement of refugees and migrants into Europe in 2015, when 1.3 million people came to the continent to reques ...

, stating: "Integration in Germany is a sensitive issue because of the German past, resulting in a current self-mutilation of German values and culture." This remark was criticized by

Bayerischer Rundfunk Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...

as a "symbiosis of right-wing extremism with boundless love for animals." Hildmann spread conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In June 2020, Hildmann shared antisemitic conspiracy theories, calling himself a

and saying that Jews wanted 'to exterminate the German race'. His public sharing of these views have resulted in German police pursuing criminal charges against him and loss of revenue; brands he served as spokesman for have severed ties with him. He has

denied the Holocaust Holocaust denial is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that falsely asserts that the Nazi genocide of Jews, known as the Holocaust, is a myth, fabrication, or exaggeration. Holocaust deniers make one or more of the following false statements: ...

. Hildmann claimed in August 2020 during the closure of the

Pergamon Altar The Pergamon Altar () was a monumental construction built during the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in Anatolia, Asia Minor. The structure wa ...

in Berlin, caused by

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, that satanic rituals were performed at night and that the altar was a "centre of global satanists and Corona criminals".

BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC Here i going to introduce about the best teacher of my life b BALAJI sir. He is the precious gift that I got befor 2yrs . How has helped and thought all the concept and made my success in the 10th board ex ...

noted that several German media sources connected these claims to cases of vandalism against the museum that occurred later, on 3 October, the

national holiday National holiday may refer to: * National day, a day when a nation celebrates a very important event in its history, such as its establishment *Public holiday, a holiday established by law, usually a day off for at least a portion of the workforce, ...

. He has also accused the German government of working in the service of

Bill Gates William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions ...

to promote forced COVID-19 vaccinations and a

surveillance state Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens. The surveillance is often carried out by local and federal governments or governmental organizatio ...

. After being banned from mainstream social media, Hildmann built a network of cross-posting accounts on

Telegram Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas p ...

, and uploads antisemitic videos on "wtube", a hate speech platform hidden by

Cloudflare Cloudflare, Inc. is an American content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company, founded in 2009. It primarily acts as a reverse proxy between a website's visitor and the Cloudflare customer's hosting provider. Its headquarters are in San ...

and evading German judicial authorities. On 29 August 2020, Hildmann was arrested at a COVID-19 conspiracy protest outside the Russian embassy in Berlin after protestors assaulted seven police officers and threw rocks and glass at the embassy and police. In November 2020 Berlin police searched his home and confiscated six computers as well as several cellphones, after taking over investigations from

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a states of Germany, state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an ar ...

authorities. An arrest warrant for slander, harassment and incitement to racial hatred (german: link=no, Beleidigung, Bedrohung und Volksverhetzung) was finally issued in February 2021, but Hildmann had been absent from his home for several weeks at this time. A betrayal of state secrets by an unidentified sympathizer in the judiciary was suspected because of this. Hildmann moved to Turkey in early 2021, evading prosecution in Germany. His

channel was blocked in June 2021 by unknown means, leaving Hildemann unable to communicate with his followers on that platform. In July 2021 WDR and

Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History ...

reported that Berlin authorities were investigating a total of 80 alleged criminal acts of Hildmann. An extradition was considered unlikely due to his dual (German and Turkish) citizenship.

Books

* * *

Norderstedt Norderstedt (Northern Low Saxon: ''Noordersteed'') is a city in Germany and part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region (''Metropolregion Hamburg''), the fifth largest city (with approximately 80,000 inhabitants) in the federal state of Schleswig-Hol ...

: Books on Demand, . * Becker Joest Volk Verlag, . * * * * Attila Hildmann (2015) (in German), ''Vegan for Starters. Die einfachsten und beliebtesten Rezepte aus vier Kochbüchern'', Hilden, Beck Joest Volk Verlag, * Attila Hildmann (2015) (in German), ''Vegan Italian Style. Moderne italienische Küche'', Hilden, Becker Joest Volk Verlag, . * Attila Hildmann (2016) (in German), ''Vegan Smoothies, Shakes, and Ice Cream - Green Smoothies und Superfoods in ihrer leckersten Form aus der Bestsellerküche von Attila Hildmann'', Hilden, Becker Joest Volk Verlag, . * Attila Hildmann (2016) (in German), ''Vegan for Fit Gipfelstürmer - Die 7-Tage-Detox-Diät'', Hilden, Becker Joest Volk Verlag, .

References

External links

Works by Attila Hildmann
at the

German National Library The German National Library (DNB; german: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its task is to colle ...

*
Attila Hildmann
on

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hildmann, Attila 1981 births Living people Chefs of vegan cuisine COVID-19 conspiracy theorists German adoptees German chefs German conspiracy theorists German food writers German Holocaust deniers German people of Turkish descent German television chefs German veganism activists Vegan cookbook writers Veganism in Germany Writers from Berlin