Baldur Springmann (31 May 1912 â 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.
Springmann is considered an important figure in ecofascist ideology.
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 1 February 1940 of the NSDAP (membership number 7,433,874).
In World War II, 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 âÂÂbiodynamic agricultureâÂÂ.
In the 1970s he was a founding member of the âÂÂGreen List Schleswig Holsteinâ and in 1980 of the federal party âÂÂThe GreensâÂÂ. In the same year, however, he resigned and became involved with the conservative ÃÂDP.
From around 1983, he became active in the German right-wing radical and right-wing extremist spectrum.
Today, Springmann is viewed positively by the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party.
Springmann died in 2003, having drifted to the extreme right.