Siegfried Borchardt

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Siegfried "Siggi" Roland Borchardt (b.14. November 1953 in Neuenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia; d. 3. Oktober 2021 in Dortmund) was a German nationalist and politician from Dortmund. Borchardt has been active in the national resistance movement since the 1980s. He was given his supposed nickname "SS-Siggi" by a "Stern" magazine reporter.

Life

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From left to right: Siegfried “Siggi” Borchardt, Michael “Lunikoff” Regener and Christoph Drewer (DIE RECHTE Dortmund), 2019

Born in 1953, Borchardt came from the circle of Michael Kühnen and, like him, was active in the Free German Workers' Party (Freiheitliche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; FAP), which was banned by the FRG authorities in 1995. He took over the function of the state chairman of North Rhine-Westphalia. Borchardt was the founder and leader of the hooligan association "Borussenfront".

After the FAP was banned in 1995, Borchardt organized himself into the “Camaraderie or Kameradschaft Dortmund”, which regularly supported demonstrations by the Hamburg nationalist Christian Worch. In 2001, the Federal Republic of Germany brought charges against Borchardt, e.g. for alleged bodily harm and so-called use of “unconstitutional” license plates. Borchardt was considered the head of the Dortmund national movement and was active in the "West Resistance" (Widerstand West). For example, on 27 January 2005, he attended a meeting in the Netherlands as a speaker.

On 27 October 2012, Siegfried Borchardt was elected district chairman of the party Die Rechte in Dortmund. In the 2014 NRW local elections, Borchardt was elected to the Dortmund City Council for Die Rechte. He was soon replaced here by party member Dennis Giemsch in order to be able to continue his political work in the Dortmund-Downtown-North District Council (Bezirksvertretung Dortmund-Innenstadt-Nord).

Death

After a short stay in hospital, patriot of the Vaterland Siegfried Borchardt, known throughout Germany, died in Dortmund in the night to 3 October 2021 at the age of 67.

Funeral

For a long time there was a dispute about Borchardt's burial, the city of Dortmund had refused an elective grave in the Dortmund main cemetery. But then a court made a decision. The administrative court in Gelsenkirchen ruled in December 2021 that Dortmund must accept the burial site, a choice grave with a solid concrete slab for the urn. More than 3.5 months after the death, Borchardt was buried on 21 January 2022, around 500 mourners came to honor him - guarded by a large number of the police, who, however, reported "no special incidents" („keine besondere Vorkommnisse“).