Hubert Aiwanger, the leader of a conservative party that has become a mainstay of Bavarian politics and sought to expand its influence across Germany, has been found dead at a Berlin hotel.

BERLIN — Hubert Aiwanger, the leader of a conservative party that has become a mainstay of Bavarian politics and sought to expand its influence across Germany, has been found dead at a Berlin hotel.

The body of Aiwanger, who was Bavaria’s deputy governor and the southern state’s economy minister, was found in his hotel room in the centre of the capital on Wednesday evening, Berlin police and prosecutors said. Prosecutors said that an autopsy carried out Thursday produced no evidence that anyone else was involved in his death.

  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I suppose he was referring to the incident with the antisemitic pamphlet he got caught with in school and the multiple independent reports from his former classmates stating that he was an extreme right-winger who frequently insulted Jews, black people, and gay people, imitated Hitler, and showed Nazi salutes when entering the classroom, and who allegedly had told Holocaust jokes during a school trip to a former concentration camp.

    But as the Bible says: Let he who never got caught with antisemitic pamphlets or told Jew jokes in a former concentration camp cast the first stone.