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The scholar [[Cas Mudde]] described Frey as "One of the most influential people in the German post-war extreme right scene" and a "multi-millionaire media czar who owns and publishes several newspapers".<ref name="Mudde2002">{{cite book|author=Cas Mudde|title=The Ideology of the Extreme Right|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spT-NgRm3f8C&pg=PA60|year=2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6446-3|page=60}}</ref> |
The scholar [[Cas Mudde]] described Frey as "One of the most influential people in the German post-war extreme right scene" and a "multi-millionaire media czar who owns and publishes several newspapers".<ref name="Mudde2002">{{cite book|author=Cas Mudde|title=The Ideology of the Extreme Right|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=spT-NgRm3f8C&pg=PA60|year=2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-6446-3|page=60}}</ref> |
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An opponent of Israel, Frey used the term [[desk murderer]] (''Schreibtischtäter'') for people who support the country as, in his view, they thereby became accomplices in crimes committed there.<ref name="Neuezz2017" >{{cite news |last=Jahr |first=Christoph |date=17 January 2017|title=Die Täter hinter den Tätern|trans-title=The culprits behind the culprits|url=https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/schreibtischtaeter-die-taeter-hinter-den-taetern-ld.140108|language=German |work=[[Neue Zürcher Zeitung]] |location= |access-date=16 October 2018 }}</ref> |
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Gerhard Michael Frey (18 February 1933 – 19 February 2013) was a German publisher, businessman and politician. He was the chairman and main financial backer of the right-wing party Deutsche Volksunion, which he founded in 1971. He resigned as chairman in January 2009.[1]
Gerhard Frey was born in 1933 in Cham. He was married to Regine Frey, with whom he has four children.[1][2] His daughter Michaela (born 1965) is an attorney, his son Gerhard Jr. (born 1969) is a lawyer. Frey died 2013 at age 80 in Gräfelfing near Munich.[3]
The scholar Cas Mudde described Frey as "One of the most influential people in the German post-war extreme right scene" and a "multi-millionaire media czar who owns and publishes several newspapers".[4]
An opponent of Israel, Frey used the term desk murderer (Schreibtischtäter) for people who support the country as, in his view, they thereby became accomplices in crimes committed there.[5]
References
- ^ a b ""Frey-Partei" ohne Frey / Der DVU-Vorsitzende ist abgetreten". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 13 January 2009, page 6.
- ^ "Ehepaar Frey spendete DVU mehr als eine Million Mark". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 31 March 1994, page 2.
- ^ tm/rc (AP, AFP, dpa) (23 February 2013). "Far-right financier Gerhard Frey dies". DW. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Cas Mudde (2002). The Ideology of the Extreme Right. Manchester University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-7190-6446-3.
- ^ Jahr, Christoph (17 January 2017). "Die Täter hinter den Tätern" [The culprits behind the culprits]. Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 16 October 2018.
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