Leading members of Employee representative Centre automobile – who are sitting in works council at Autobauer Daimler in Stuttgart Untertürkheim – are suspected of having sympathy for National Socialism. This is reported by ARD magazine report Mainz and stern. A few days ago, Stuttgart News had already reported that association wanted to furr expand its influence at forthcoming company election.

For suspicion that several members sit in club with a right-extremist past and still sympathize with Nazism, journalists present numerous clues. According to report Mainz and Stern, for example, former chairman of organisation Zentrum Auto, Andreas Brand Meier, should have sent a photo by mail that shows a swastika and inscription: "The German greeting is called Heil Hitler."

Brand Meier left unanswered questions about e-mail to report Mainz and Stern. The founder of Union, Oliver Hilburger, called e-mail "definitive and clearly a forgery". The recipient of e-mail, on or hand, maintained his accusation against Brand Meier. He submitted a written insurance and also gave entire email traffic price. According to report, recipient of e-mail is a person who has exited centre automobile.

Therefore, Brand Meier is currently running again as a works council at Daimler in Untertürkheim. A few days ago, Stuttgart News reported that Daimler staff was uneasy, because automotive centre wanted to expand its influence in coming company elections. Their leading members have been on right side for some time. Politicians in Baden-Württemberg were also alarmed.

Contacts with NSU supporters?

The newspaper writes about Hilburger, who used to play guitar in Neo band Noie. The band is regarded as an important trailblazer for Ultrarassistische Blood and Honour network in Germany.

According to report Mainz and Stern, Hilburger also had demonstrable contacts with NSU supporters. The Stuttgart news reports that Hilburgers woman had testified last year before NSU committee of inquiry that her husband had been a member of Stuttgart skinhead-troop crusader for Germany in nineties.

Addressed to his past, Hilburger report Mainz and Stern replied: "The 20 years are certainly not completed in one field, and suddenly one is something else. Certainly not. " Next he said, "I can hear your enforcement ' Nazi songs ', so we certainly have a different view."

"Patriotic" works councils are trained in Untertürkheim

About treasurer of Zentrum Automobile, 56-year-old Hans Jaus, in turn, wrote Stuttgart News, he was appointed 1991 to federal treasurer of now banned neo-organization Viking youth. Today school Jaus among or things "patriotic" works councils and have good chances to be elected even in new works council in Untertürkheim. He is ranked third in list of candidates.

The center automobile, which describes itself as "alternative employee representation" in automotive industry, had received ten percent of votes in last operating elections, according to report Mainz, and currently represents four works councils at Daimler main plant in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim. At company election in March, small union with 187 candidates. In addition, she is already represented at BMW in Leipzig and Opel in Rüsselsheim and, according to her own data, maintains contacts with colleagues at Audi.

Date Of Update: 31 January 2018, 12:02