Harald Neubauer

Harald Neubauer (born December 3 1951 in Hamburg) is a German politician and journalist from the far right scene. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 1994.

Neubauer was trained as an overseas buyer and undertook military service in the Bundeswehr. He was a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany from 1969 to 1972 and again from 1975 to 1981 but became associated with Gerhard Frey and the German People's Union, editing Frey's newspaper "Deutschen Anzeigers" (1975-1983).

In 1983 he joined "Die Republikaner" and became press advisor of party founder Franz Schönhuber the following year. His profile grew after an internal power struggle as he rose to become Secretary-General (1985), regional chairman in Bavaria (May 1988) and federal press spokesman (July 1988). By this time he was considered a front runner to ultimately succeed Schönhuber in the leadership.

Despite being elected to the European Parliament, Neubauer's influence fell along with Schönhuber's and he left the Republicans around the time his mentor lost the leadership (1990). Neubauer went on to become one of the founders of the German League for People and Homeland, forming part of a three man leadership team with Rudolf Kendzia and Jürgen Schützinger.

In 1992 he became co-editor of "Nation und Europa" and is a member of the board of the Gesellschaft für Freie Publizistik, a far right writers and publishers organisation.

With the German League for People and Homeland defunct Neubauer ran on the NPD list in the German federal election, 2005 in Saxony.

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*"This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia".