Jürgen Hans Paul Rieger (11 May 1946, Blexen,

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– 29 October 2009) was a

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lawyer, avowed anti-semite, and deputy chairman of the

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(as of October 2009), known for his

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. Rieger represented

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former SS Police Leader of the

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district in

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, in his trial for war crimes in Hamburg District Court. Wigand was subsequently found guilty in December 1981, and sentenced to 12.5 years. Rieger was convicted among other for

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, incitement of the people (''

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''), and the use of prohibited symbols. Rieger joined the NPD in 2006, and became Hamburg chairman in 2007. He worked in the Heathen '' Artgemeinschaft Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft'' over many years. In the 1990s he was active in the now-suppressed

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and Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. He was an important figure for the NPD, because of his several party donations, the total amount was €500,000. On 29 October 2009, Rieger died in Berlin from a

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. It is alleged that he used the

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Jörg Rieck for some of his publications, including in his contribution to the "programmatic" book of the

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, ''Das unvergängliche Erbe''. Rieger was editor of the pseudoscientific racialist ''

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'', sister journal to Roger Pearson's ''

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''. He was organiser of annual

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commemorations in

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last existing state of his Website at the Internet Archive
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