Dieter Stein (born 1967 in

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) is a German

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and founder of the right wing newspaper ''

Junge Freiheit The ''Junge Freiheit'' (JF, "Young Freedom") is a German weekly newspaper on politics and culture that was established in 1986. It has been described as conservative, right-wing, nationalistic and as the "ideological supply ship of right-wing pop ...

''. He is associated with the German New Right. Stein grew up in

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and

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and studied

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and

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from 1989 to 1993. In 1986, Stein founded the ''Junge Freiheit'' as a reaction to the "dominance of the leftist '68 generation". In 1990, Stein founded the ''Junge Freiheit Verlag GmbH'', a

for his newspaper. He became the

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of the company. The newspaper has been published in

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since 1994. ''Junge Freiheit'' is now the largest explicitly conservative weekly in Germany. An analysis by German press agency dpa, which was published in ''

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'' called the paper "the ideological mothership" of right-wing populism in the country. Since 2007, Stein has been the chairman of the Foundation for Conservative Education and Research (Förderstiftung Konservative Bildung und Forschung, FKBF), a research foundation that has set up the

Bibliothek des Konservatismus The Library of Conservatism (German: Bibliothek des Konservatismus (BdK)) is a specialized scientific library and think tank in Berlin. Its focus is non-fiction literature by conservative, right-wing and libertarian authors from the 18th to the e ...

, Germany's largest library of literature by conservative, right-wing and libertarian authors from the 18th to the 21st century with more than 30.000 publications in their catalogue stock.Förderstiftung Konservative Bildung und Forschung, https://www.bdk-berlin.org/stiftung/ Stein is married and has 4 children.

Works

*Dieter Stein: ''Phantom 'Neue Rechte' - Die Geschichte eines politischen Begriffs und sein Mißbrauch durch den Verfassungsschutz". Berlin, 2005. *Dieter Stein (ed.): ''Rettet die deutsche Sprache. Beiträge, Interviews und Materialien zum Kampf gegen Rechtschreibreform und Anglizismen''. Berlin, Oktober 2004. *Dieter Stein: ''Für eine neue Nation. Nachdenken über Deutschland''. Edition JF, Berlin 2014,

References

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