Posted on 05/13/2025 11:20:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
A self-declared "king" of Germany and three of his senior "subjects" have been arrested and their group banned for attempting to overthrow the state.
Peter Fitzek, 59, was among those arrested in morning raids across seven states on Tuesday, which involved about 800 security personnel.
The government banned their group, the Reichsbürger, or "citizens of the Reich", which seeks to establish the Königreich Deutschland, or "Kingdom of Germany".
Alexander Dobrindt, German's interior minister, accused the group of attempting to "undermine the rule of law" by creating an alternative state and spreading "antisemitic conspiracy narratives to back up their supposed claim to authority".
His ministry announced the dissolution of the group, and accused it of financing itself through "economic criminal structures".
Fitzek, a former chef and karate instructor, calls himself "king" and identified himself to judges as "Peter the First" in a previous court case.
He had himself crowned in 2012 while dressed in ermine robes and brandishing a medieval sword. Since then he has been buying land and property across Germany.
Reichsbürgers have their own currency, flag and ID cards, and want to set up separate banking and health systems.
Fitzek claims to have thousands of followers - or "subjects".
In an interview with the BBC in 2022 he denied having any violent intentions, but also described the German state as "destructive and sick".
"I have no interest in being part of this fascist and satanic system," he told the BBC's Jenny Hill, when she visited his "kingdom" in eastern Germany.
Fitzek has repeatedly clashed with the authorities and refused to abide by German laws, often in what appears to be in a publicity-seeking manner.
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I don’t think there has ever been a “king of Germany.”
Lol! So true.
But the Albanians come up with cooler names like King Zog. What could be cooler than King Zog?
Norton I., Dei Gratia, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than ten nor less than five years, to all persons leading to any violation of this imperial decree. Norton I. Given at San Francisco, CA, this 12th day of August, A.D., 1869 (Quoted in San Francisco Herald, Friday, 13 August, 1869)
I dunno...I could swing with that...
Well, he’s probably an OK sort of fellow if he likes dogs!
Exactly—It is the Muslims who are going to chop off the heads of these German bureaucrats—not some lonely kook calling himself a king.
Well, He did claim to be the sovereign.
Queen Halle Berry.
Dunno. Adolf was also a loon who liked dogs.
Sadly, there was only one King Zog:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zog_I
Of course there’s only one Halle Berry, too.
Exactly.
I'm sure that post #22 does an adequate job of explaining your error, but let me add: ALL of the emperors of the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" (Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation) were first "Kings of the Germans" before the Pope subsequently crowned them emperors (though some were forced to abdicate or died as kings before the coronation).
One famous example is that of Heinrich IV (catchword "Road to Canossa"), who was "King of Germany" for three decades before his coronation as emperor.
Regards,
There was Bavaria’s allegedly “Mad” King Ludwig.
He was nuttier than a Snickers bar.
[I’m pretending to be a Fox reporter, don’t want to get sued)
The German tyros must be eat up with cocaine driven paranoia to expend so much resources to quell such a small group.
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