Germany arrests self-declared 'king' and bans his extremist group

BBC ^ | May 13, 2025 | Damien McGuinness

[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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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: kingdomofgermany; monarchies; monarchist; monarchy; nazioccultism; nazism; peterfitzek; reichsburger; satanism

[Red Badger]

The US and UK have more crazy people, but Germans have the best crazy people.............

[Tell It Right]

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".

Then arrest the Muslims.

[Telepathic Intruder]

[Red Badger]

Yep!...................

[tumblindice]

That’s pretty much what Paul Johnson said in his book Art, talking about a self-portrait by Albrecht Dürer, his haunted eyes.
The Germans: always moving East & West, constantly searching for shaven women and a good, square meal that isn’t bloody sausages and sour cabbage.
Merkel may have done more damage to Europe than you-know-who. hmmm rant over

[Larry Lucido]

Fitzek, a former chef and karate instructor

He specialized in chops.

[sjmjax]

Sounds a bit like the German version of our “Sovereign Citizen” movement.

[MtnClimber]

But, but, but...they IDENTIFIED as the rulers of Germany.

[Red Badger]

Yeah, well his goose is cooked now!................

[dfwgator]

Should have kept the Kaiser after WWI, would have saved the world a lot of grief.

[Justice]

LOL

[Leaning Right]

> identified himself to judges as “Peter the First” <

Dumb guy. You can only be Peter the First after there’s a Peter the Second.

So if he really wants to go around calling himself Peter the First, he’s got name as his successor another guy named Peter, then abdicate.

👑

[sphinx]

This sounds like arresting the “King Baldwin III” of your local “Ye Olde Renaissance Faire.”

They sound like dangerous insurrectionists but are probably easier to arrest than the Muslims or local Revolutionary Communist cells.

I wonder if King Peter tried to lay a mace to the arresting gendarmes, but since it was rubber, they were eventually able to subdue him.

[Seruzawa]

In the US we just give these nuts a soapbox and a place in the town park and chuckle. Europeans can’t stand it.

[Leaning Right]

> Should have kept the Kaiser after WWI… <

You betcha. But Wilhelm II made the same egotistical mistake as did Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II and Italy’s Victor Emmanuel III.

They all abdicated too late to save their monarchies.

Kinda like Joe Biden did, maybe?

[dfwgator]

Thankfully we wised up after WWII and kept Hirohito. Probably saved Japan from going Communist.

[Deaf Smith]

Reads like the Republic of Texas group in the mid 1990’s.

Note that the leaders of the Republic of Texas were all shot & killed.

[Dr. Franklin]

But he's not Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia

[PGR88]

The Hohenzollern House in Germany and Central Europe is still around.

Friederike Thyra Marion Wilhelmine Dorothea von der Osten, pictured above, is a direct descendant of Kaiser Wilhem II as well as Queen Victoria.

I'd probably go with her, before this self-proclaimed Prince Peter guy.

[dfwgator]

Or Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitzweimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönendanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.