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|name               = Jürgen Rieger
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|alt                = A middle aged man with a beard.
|caption            = Rieger in 2007
|office             = Deputy chairman of the NPD<br>{{flag|Germany}}
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|birth_date   = 11 May 1946
|birth_place  = Blexen, [[Lower Saxony]]
|death_date   = {{Death date and age|2009|10|29|1946|5|11|df=y}}
|death_place  = Berlin
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|nationality  = German
|party        = [[National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)]]
|children     = Several<ref name=taz/>
|residence    = Hamburg, [[Blankenese]]<ref name=taz/>
|profession   = Lawyer
|website      = [https://web.archive.org/web/20090223010914/http://www.juergen-rieger.de/ juergen-rieger.de/]
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'''Jürgen Hans Paul Rieger''' (11 May 1946–29 October 2009) was a German lawyer ({{lang-de|Rechtsanwalt}}) in [[Hamburg]] as well as deputy chairman of the [[National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD)]] (as of October 2009),<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,657643,00.html |title=NPD-Mann Rieger im Krankenhaus |trans_title=NPD official Rieger hospitalized |language=German |author=Sven Röbel |publisher=''[[Der Spiegel|Spiegel online]]'' |date=2009-10-27 |accessdate=2009-10-27}}</ref> known, as [[left-wing]] media claim, for his [[Holohoax denial|skepticism of the Holohoax]].<ref name=taz>{{cite news |url=http://www.taz.de/regional/nord/nord-aktuell/artikel/1/ein-verehrer-hitlers/ |title=Ein Verehrer Hitlers |trans_title=An admirer of Hitler |language=German |publisher=''[[Die Tageszeitung|taz.de]]'' |date=2009-04-19 |accessdate=2009-10-27 }}</ref>

==Life==
[[File:Jürgen Rieger nah.png|right|315px]]
Rieger represented several [[fascists]], among them [[Ernst Zündel]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210506133236/https://codoh.com/library/document/german-indexing-of-ihr-leaflets-cancelled/en/ German ‘Indexing’ of IHR Leaflets Cancelled]</ref> and [[revisionists]] in German courts. He was the lawyer of [[Arpad Wigand]], former SS Police Leader of the [[Warsaw]] district in [[Occupied Poland]], in his trial for alleged war crimes in Hamburg District Court. Wigand was subsequently found guilty in December 1981, and sentenced to 12.5 years.<ref>Title Tribüne, Volume 26, Issues 101-104 Published 1987 
Original from the University of Michigan Digitized Aug 26, 2008 
Subjects: jews</ref> 

===National advocacy===
Rieger was once convicted for battery, after boldly protecting himself during an [[antifa]] attack, incitement of the people (''[https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung Volksverhetzung]''), after insisting on the right of [[freedom of speech]], and the use of ''prohibited symbols''.<ref name=ndr>{{cite news |url=http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/rieger120.html |title=NPD-Politiker Jürgen Rieger ist tot |trans_title=NPD politician Rieger is dead |language=German |publisher=[[Norddeutscher Rundfunk]] |date=2009-10-29 |accessdate=2009-10-29 }}</ref> In 1995, he was attacked again, this time by several masked criminals with baseball bats, he was hospitalized with a head injury, bruising and grazes.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210506130438/https://codoh.com/library/document/lawyer-attacked-outside-court/en/ Lawyer Attacked Outside Court]</ref>

He was a courageous man of character, always proud to be [[politically incorrect]], and it was his honor to organize the annual [[Rudolf Heß]] commemorations. He was also editor of the biological anthropological ([https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Rassenbiologie ''rassenbiologisch'']) magazin ''Neue Anthropologie''. 

He worked with ''[https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Artgemeinschaft Artgemeinschaft Germanische Glaubens-Gemeinschaft]'' for many years and was a loyal friend to [[Ursula Haverbeck]].<ref name=taz/> In the 1990s, he was active in the 1994 banned patriotic youth organization [https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Wiking-Jugend ''Wiking-Jugend''] and the Free German Workers' Party ([https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Freiheitliche_Deutsche_Arbeiterpartei ''Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'']; FAP), which was banned by the [[FRG]] authorities in 1995.
===NPD===
Rieger joined the NPD in 2006, and became Hamburg chairman in 2007. He was an important figure for the NPD, because of his several party donations, the total amount was €500,000.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/politik/aktuell/?em_cnt=2045076 |title=Das Ende eines Hetzers |trans_title=The end of an agitator |language=German |publisher=German |date=2009-10-28 |author=Jörg Schindler |accessdate=2009-10-29 |publisher=‘‘[[Frankfurter Rundschau]]'' }}</ref>

==Death==
On 29 October 2009, Rieger died in Berlin from a [[stroke]]. His children wrote:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100611141455/http://www.juergen-rieger.de/ Heimseite Rechtsanwalt Jürgen Rieger]</ref>

:''Our statement on the fate of our father, Jürgen Rieger:''
: ''"Because if you feel tied to a star, you don't turn back" (Leonardo da Vinci)''
: ''It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved father. One of his guiding principles comes from Confucius: "He who knows his duty but does nothing shows a lack of courage." He was brave. He didn't spare himself. "People talk about me, but not with me," he often said. However, those who spoke to him discovered a warm-hearted, life-affirming man of brilliant mind and great knowledge. His passionate love for Germany was characteristic of him.''

His friend and comrade-in-arms Thomas Wulff wrote:

: ''Comrades, fellow Germans!''
: ''I have the sad duty to announce to you: THE LAWYER FOR GERMANY – JÜRGEN RIEGER – IS DEAD!''
: ''As late as Saturday, 24 October 2009, Comrade Rieger, following the command of his conscience and with his unshakable faith in Germany, was involved in the political struggle. In the capital of the Reich, [[Berlin]], fate ended this fight late on Saturday afternoon. This afternoon, shortly after 1300 hours, his strong fighting heart stopped beating. Our thoughts are now particularly with Jürgen, as they have been for days. Our sympathy goes to his family and especially to his beloved children, who, although politically completely independent of their father, never betrayed him.''

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20220426052712/https://de.metapedia.org/wiki/Rieger,_J%C3%BCrgen Jürgen Rieger (in German)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20221003222212/https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/20510144/jurgen-rieger-npd-landesverband-hamburg Jürgen Rieger - NPD Landesverband Hamburg (eulogy)]

== References ==
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