Horst Jakob Rosenkranz (born 16 April 1943 in Harmannsdorf,Lower Austria) is anextreme right publisher and former politician inAustria.[1] He is married toFreedom Party (FPÖ) leaderBarbara Rosenkranz.
Rosenkranz was a member of the AustrianNational Democratic Party (NDP), which was banned for violating theVerbotsgesetz 1947 (Prohibition Act 1947) againstHolocaust denial, and the partyEin Herz für Inländer ("A Heart for Natives").[1] In the 1990 election he entered as a frontrunner for the Nein zur Ausländerflut ("No to the flood of Foreigners") ticket, which he founded withGerd Honsik.,[2] which was also banned by election authorities in Vienna.Beginning in the nineties, Rosenkranz overtook the leadership of theAssociation demanding the whole Truth" (Vereins zur Förderung der ganzen Wahrheit). At the same time he was a representative of the "Critical Democratic" Party[3] and supporter of the nonpartisan "Austria for the Austrians" referendum.[1] He is also the publisher of the magazineFakten, which was classified as extreme right wing by theDocumentation Centre of Austrian Resistance.[4]Rosenkranz, who describes himself as a "right-thinking person", has withdrawn from public life in recent years and is only rarely seen at official events, although he has appeared at Freedom Party events as a speaker.[5]
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