Heinz Lembke

Who is Heinz Lembke?

Heinz Lembke was a right-wing extremist and very likely a member of the stay-behind network Gladio. Lembke was found hanged in his prison cell one day before his hearing by the federal prosecutor.

In 1959, at the age of 22, Lembke fled from East to West Germany and immediately connected with right-wing extremist organisations. He became a member of the Bund Vaterländischer Jugend and became chief executive in 1960. He appeared at events of the Bund Heimattreuer and Manfred Roeder's Deutsche Bürgerinitiative and became involved in the Deutsche Reichspartei and the National Democratic Party of Germany for which he appeared as candidate. He also organised Wehrsportübungen and became an "avid arms dealer for right-wing terrorists". The bomb planters around Peter Naumann used equipment from Lembke to commit their attacks. Lembke had verifiable contact with the terrorist Deutsche Aktionsgruppe and the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann. Until the day of his imprisonment he was a forest ranger in Oechtringen next to Hanstedt in the district of Uelzen, close by a military training ground.