Horst Jakob Rosenkranz (born 16 April 1943 in Harmannsdorf,

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

) is an

extreme right Far-right politics, also referred to as the extreme right or right-wing extremism, are political beliefs and actions further to the right of the left–right political spectrum than the standard political right, particularly in terms of being ...

publisher and former politician in

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.Rosenkranz im Handbuch des Rechtsextremismus des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen Widerstandes
He is married to Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader

Barbara Rosenkranz Barbara Rosenkranz (née ''Schörghofer''; born 20 June 1958 in Salzburg) is an Austrian politician for the Free List Austria. She was a member of the Parliament of Austria, the National Council of Austria, National Council, from 2002 to 2008, wh ...

Political Activity

Rosenkranz was a member of the Austrian National Democratic Party (NDP), which was banned for violating the

Verbotsgesetz 1947 The Verbotsgesetz 1947 (Prohibition Act 1947), abbreviated VerbotsG, is an Austrian constitutional law originally passed on 8 May 1945 (Victory in Europe Day) and amended multiple times, most significantly in February 1947 and in 1992. It banned t ...

(Prohibition Act 1947) against

Holocaust denial 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: ...

, and the party ''Ein Herz für Inländer'' ("A Heart for Natives"). In the 1990 election he entered as a frontrunner for the Nein zur Ausländerflut ("No to the flood of Foreigners") ticket, which he founded with

Gerd Honsik Gerd Honsik (10 October 1941 – 7 April 2018) was an Austrian writer and lyric poet, and a prominent neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier. Life Honsik was born in Vienna, Austria. He was a functionary in the Austrian "Volksbewegung"

., which was also banned by election authorities in Vienna. Beginning in the nineties, Rosenkranz overtook the leadership of the ''Association demanding the whole Truth" (Vereins zur Förderung der ganzen Wahrheit''). At the same time he was a representative of the "Critical Democratic" Party and supporter of the nonpartisan "Austria for the Austrians" referendum. He is also the publisher of the magazine ''Fakten'', which was classified as extreme right wing by the

Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) was established in 1963. Its main topics deal with research concerning resistance and persecution from 1938 until 1945, exile, Nazi crimes, right-wing extremism after 1945, and victims' repara ...

.''Chamber judgment in the case of Scharsach and News Verlagsgesellschaft mbH v. Austria''
European Human Rights Council Press Release, 13 November 2003 Rosenkranz, who describes himself as a "right-thinking person", has withdrawn from public life in recent years and is only rarely seen at official events, although he has appeared at Freedom Party events as a speaker.Horst Jakob Rosenkranz - Ein Rechtsextremer spielt die "Mutterrolle" 4. März 2010.
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