20 Facts About Lutz Bachmann

Lutz Bachmann was born on 26 January 1973 and is the founder and leader of the Pegida movement, a far-right German political organisation linked to the anti-Muslim counter-jihad ideology.

Lutz Bachmann has a long history of criminal convictions, and was banned from entering the United Kingdom in 2018.

Lutz Bachmann was a chef and graphic designer, and played professional soccer for teams in Dresden and Dusseldorf.

Lutz Bachmann has a criminal record for sixteen burglaries, dealing cocaine and assault.

In 1998, after Lutz Bachmann had been sentenced to several years in prison, he fled to South Africa but was deported back to Germany.

Lutz Bachmann is the owner of a public relations and advertising company in Dresden that he founded in 1992, and has been a publicist for nightclubs.

In January 2014, Lutz Bachmann was one of 500 helpers, who was awarded the Saxon Flood Helper Order at a public event by Dresden's Lord Mayor Helma Orosz on behalf of the Saxon Prime Minister Stanislaw Tillich.

Lutz Bachmann started Pegida in October 2014 to protest plans to add 14 refugee centres in Dresden, Germany.

In mid-January 2015, Lutz Bachmann was criticised after a photograph surfaced showing him with a mustache and hair style similar to Adolf Hitler.

The Sachsische Zeitung later reported that the moustache was added after the photo was taken, with Lutz Bachmann asserting that it was a "forgery".

In 2016, Lutz Bachmann was charged with incitement of racial hatred.

In October 2016, Lutz Bachmann moved to live in the south of Tenerife where he was declared persona non grata by the authorities of that island.

Lutz Bachmann has set up the new party Liberal Direct Democratic People's Party.

In January 2017, Lutz Bachmann had to answer to the Dresden Regional Court because an aid organisation had sued him due to reputational damage.

In March 2018, Lutz Bachmann received a penalty order from the Dresden District Court for sedition and violations of the Assembly Act.

Lutz Bachmann had published a speech by Akif Pirincci on the internet, for which Pirincci was later convicted.

Lutz Bachmann had posted the photo of an innocent young Muslim man with a migration background due to a chance name resemblance on Facebook and accused him offender.

Lutz Bachmann defended himself by simply making an assumption and did not make any factual claims.

Lutz Bachmann then announced in a video message that the speech he wanted to hold was that of the head of the Austrian Identitarian movement, Martin Sellner.

Lutz Bachmann then read the Sellner speech in Dresden on a Pegida Monday demonstration.