Nikolai Nerling is a German right-wing extremist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier.
Since 2017, he has been spreading right-wing extremist ideology as a video blogger under the name "Der Volkslehrer". Nerling connects to the ideas of the Reichcitizens, and since 2020 also conspiracy theories of the so-called "Querdenker" movement ("lateral thinker" ). After he downplayed the Holocaust publicly at the Dachau concentration camp memorial, he was fined in December 2019 for hate speech. Nikolai Nerling is considered a networker within the neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial scene.
Nerling worked as a teacher at a primary school in Berlin. Nerling was dismissed from the state of Berlin in 2018 because of his right-wing extremist internet videos. Nerling shoots a video, among other things, on Querdenker-demonstrations and events. He interviews participants or other alternative media makers like Heiko Schrang.