Jens Pühse (born 22 January 1972) is an

extreme right-wing 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 ...

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politician from

Wilhelmshaven Wilhelmshaven (, ''Wilhelm's Harbour''; Northern Low Saxon: ''Willemshaven'') is a coastal town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the western side of the Jade Bight, a bay of the North Sea, and has a population of 76,089. Wilhelmsh ...

. He is a member of the German National Democratic Party (NPD). In 1987 he became a member of the Junge Nationaldemokraten (JN), but he left the organization in 1990 because he perceived it to be too liberal. Subsequently, he joined the

Nationalistische Front The Nationalist Front (German ''Nationalistische Front'') was a minor German neo-Nazi group active during the 1980s. Founded in 1985 by Bernhard Pauli, the group, which had no more than 150 members, was characterized by its support for Stra ...

(NF) until it was banned by the government in November 1992. In 1994 he came back to JN and he became the leader of NPD Freising in 1997. In the 2004 Landtag election in

Saxony Saxony (german: Sachsen ; Upper Saxon: ''Saggsn''; hsb, Sakska), officially the Free State of Saxony (german: Freistaat Sachsen, links=no ; Upper Saxon: ''Freischdaad Saggsn''; hsb, Swobodny stat Sakska, links=no), is a landlocked state of ...

he acquired 6.3% of the votes.

References

* Tonträger für Deutschland. "Das NPD-Bundesvorstandsmitglied Jens Pühse ist vor Gericht noch einmal günstig davongekommen." Jungle World vom 31 March 1999. https://web.archive.org/web/20070930033540/http://www.nadir.org/nadir/periodika/jungle_world/_99/14/22c.htm 1972 births Living people People from Wilhelmshaven {{Germany-NPD-politician-stub