Martin Sellner

Martin Sellner

Martin Michael Sellner (b. 8 January 1989 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian political activist and leader of Identitäre Bewegung Österreich (IBÖ, Identitarian Movement of Austria). He is the co-owner of Phalanx Europa, an Identitarian clothing company of the Neue Rechte and is also a graphic designer and blogger.

In March 2018, he was denied entry to, and deported from, the United Kingdom.

Life

Sellner at Schottentor Station

GI banner on Westminster Bridge, London, 21 October 2017

Martin and Brittany Sellner

Early life and education

Sellner was born in 1989 and raised outside of Vienna in the town of Baden. He became involved in nationalist politics as a teenager. Sellner has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from University of Vienna, with a minor in Law.

Generation Identity and legal problems

Pro-remigration demonstration that was held by Martin Sellner’s group in Vienna in July 2023

In 2012, he co-founded the Identitarian Movement of Austria, also referred to as "Generation Identity" (GI) in Austria, after discovering the French Bloc Identitaire.

In February, 2017, Sellner defended himself against four or five masked assailants at Schottentor Station in Vienna while waiting for a train. Sellner discharged a pepper spray pistol that caused the attackers to flee. Austrian radio journalist Bernt Koshuh witnessed the attack, saying he saw two masked individuals running away from Sellner and posted a picture of Sellner talking to police after the incident.

In May, 2017, Génération Identitaire of France along with members from the Austrian branch were detained for blocking one of the ships of a pro-migrant NGO which was setting sail for Libya to pick up migrants and ferry them to Europe.

Martin Sellner was a speaker at the annual Traditional Britain Group conference in central London on 21st October 2017 where he was very warmly applauded for his work. The American activist Miss Brittany Pettibone accompanied him. Following the conference, a huge Generation Identity yellow banner was hung from Westminster Bridge facing the Houses of Parliament.

However, on 9th March 2018 Martin and his girlfriend Miss Pettibone were denied re-entry to the United Kingdom upon their arrival at Luton Airport, and detained for 3 days. Martin had intended to deliver a speech on the topic of Freedom of Speech. The speech was to be delivered at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park in London, England. Sellner was detained on the vague claim that his presence would not be "conducive to the public good". While detained, Sellner rewrote his speech, to be delivered by Tommy Robinson, on his behalf, to a large crowd. The message was received by an even larger audience than anticipated due largely to the promotion by Lauren Southern who was also denied entry by British Border Police. Southern is a British Subject as a citizen of the Commonwealth of Canada.

A month later, in April 2018, Martin Sellner (travelling with Abel Bodi, a Hungarian Identitarian) was again detained at Stanstead Airport in Essex, as he was traveling to speak in Britain at a private Generation Identity event in London.

In July 2023, a demonstration was held by Martin Sellner’s group in Vienna against mass immigration under the slogan "Remigration".

On 29 January 2024, Sellner entered Germany from Austria in a leased car. The police interrogated Sellner for nearly an hour before releasing him. On 19 March 2024, Sellner was banned from entering Germany for three years. The ban came after it was reported that Sellner had given a speech on "remigration" to politicians from the AfD and the CDU in Potsdam on 25 November 2023. A court in Potsdam revoked the ban in late May 2024 on Sellners application, declaring the original ban unlawful.

On 16 March 2024, Sellner was arrested by Swiss police while he was giving a speech at an event organized by the Swiss Identitarian organization "Junge Tat" in Tegerfelden. After an interrogation, Sellner was released on the condition that he leave the country immediately, which he did.

Hate speech charges

In 2018, a Far-Left Prosecutor in Graz, Austria, raised arrest warrants against Sellner and other Generation Identity activists for an assortment of "crimes" including "hate speech". They were acquitted in court in July 2018. The charges from the case largely stemmed from an action by the group in April of 2016 in which they dropped a banner stating “Islamisation Kills” on the roof of the Graz Green Party headquarters. While the prosecutor in the case attempted to claim the phrase “Islamisation Kills” was hate speech, the judge ruled that the banner was “no criticism of Islam, but of the Green Party and radical Islamism”.

Family

Marriage

In August of 2019, Sellner married Brittany Pettibone, an American nationalist activist and vlogger. The couple had their first child, a son, in 2021.

Writings

• Gelassen in den Widerstand. Ein Gespräch über Heidegger (co-author with Walter Spatz), Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda 2015
• Identitär!Geschichte eines Aufbruchs, Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda 2017
• Bevölkerungsaustausch und Great Reset (co-author with Martin Lichtmesz), Verlag Antaios, Steigra 2022
• Regime Change von rechts. Eine strategische Skizze, Verlag Antaios, Steigra 2023
  • Publisher's foreword: "Martin Sellner has not only read and understood Sharp, but also many other strategic approaches. He brings them together, compares them with his experiences as the head of the Identitarian Movement, analyses the situation and formulates a roadmap for regime change from the right. Key strategy, non-strategy, parliamentary patriotism, militancy, remigration, reconquista - never before has the right of centre thought so systematically and professionally about opportunity, perseverance, bundling and interaction of forces. Sellner invites debate and formulates behavioral principles that everyone who wants to seriously participate in the fight for the good future of our country should adopt."
• Remigration: Ein Vorschlag, Verlag Antaios, Steigra 2024

External links

• Website
• Martin Sellner at Odysee
• Martin Sellner at Gab
• Martin Sellner at Telegram
• Remigration: The Identitarian Solution
• The Specifics of Reconquest Martin Sellner’s Remigration