Baldur Springmann

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Baldur Springmann
Born	31 May 1912 Hagen, Germany
Died	24 October 2003 Lübeck, Germany
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service / branch	Sturmabteilung

Baldur Springmann (31 May 1912 – 24 October 2003) was a German organic farmer, publicist, and neo-nazi politician. One of the pioneers of the environmentalist movement in West Germany, Springmann helped found The Greens before withdrawing to involve himself in right-wing extremism.^[1]

Springmann is considered an important figure in ecofascist ideology.^[2][3][4]

Springmann was born in Hagen in 1912. He wanted to become a farmer after graduating from high school. He completed an agricultural apprenticeship, studied agriculture and used his inheritance to buy a 50-hectare property near Wismar in Mecklenburg.

Early on, Springmann was also active in right-wing radical groups. He was a "lieutenant" in the Black Reichswehr, an illegal paramilitary gang. He was a member of the Stahlhelm and a youth worker at the Reichsnährstand. He was also a member of the SA until March 1934, then of the SS and from 1939/40 of the NSDAP (membership number 7,433,874).^[5]

In WWII he was deployed as a German soldier in air defense. He fled from the Red Army across the Baltic Sea and was therefore not captured.

In the FRG he founded a farm in Schleswig-Holstein and practiced anthroposophical “biodynamic agriculture”.

In the 1970s he was a founding member of the “Green List Schleswig Holstein” and in 1980 of the federal party “The Greens”. In the same year, however, he resigned and became involved with the conservative ÖDP.

From around 1983 he became active in the German right-wing radical and right-wing extremist spectrum.^[6][7]

Today, Springmann is viewed positively by the neo-nazi National Democratic Party.

Springmann died in 2003, having drifted to the extreme right.^[8]