Uwe Behrendt

Uwe Behrendt (born April 1, 1951; dead September 16, 1981) was a German right-wing terrorist. He killed two people and tortued several others. Behrendt was the vice-leader of FRG nazi gang "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann".

Behrendt grewed up in Pößneck in Thuringia and made there 1970 A-levels. After a failed escape attempt in 1973, he sat in the GDR eleven months in Cottbus in custody, was ransomed for 50,000 DM and deported to the West-Germany on 24 July 1974. He studied theology, German studies and medicine in Ulm, Erlangen and Tübingen and undertook journeys to South Africa and the then Rhodesia. He had contacts with various right-wing extremist groups and ran in 1976 for the right-wing Hochschulring Tübingen students (HTS) for the General Student Committee of the University of Tübingen. In HTS were several other membes of Werhsportgruppe Hoffmann, like the terrorist Gundolf Köhler. In June 1976, Behrendt was elected to the University Political Committee (HpA) of the German Burschenschaft.

On December 19, 1980 Behrendt shot and killed Shlomo Lewin and his partner Frieda Poeschke in front of their house in Erlangen with a Baretta submachine gun. Lewin had written critical reports on the "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann" several times. According to Hoffmann's statement Behrendt confessed to him the act. Hoffmann helped Behrendt to cover tracks and burnt parts of his clothes. At the time of the crime, Behrendt lived at Schloss Ermreuth, the private residence of Hoffmann.

After the murder, he left on December 23, 1980, the Federal Republic and held until 25 December 1980 in the then district Pößneck on a kind of Christmas visit to his parents in the GDR. Thereafter, he is said to have returned to the FRG and from there to Damascus in Syria and further to Beirut in Lebanon. There WSG Hoffmann establieshed with the support of Fatah a foreign organization, called "WSG Ausland". In Lebanon, Behrendt allegedly tortured and mistreated other members of WGS Hoffmann gang. One of the members, Kay-Uwe Bergmann, disappeared without a trace. In a Lebanese military camp Behrendt committed suicide on 16 September 1981.[1] Karl-Heinz Hoffmann was convicted for having participated in weeks of violent and tortured retaliation at Kai-Uwe Bergmann. But what exactly happened after his sudden disappearance could not be clarified.

In 2017 the Federal Prosecutor's Office started new investigations about the so called "Lebanon complex". The skull and a few bone fragments of Behrendt, were found on the grounds of the camp in Lebanon.[2]


References
  1. Hans-Gerd Jaschke, Birgit Rätsch, Yury Winterberg, Nach Hitler: radikale Rechte rüsten auf, Bertelsmann 2001, S. 42
  2. https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/politik/spur-nach-beirut/
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