10 Facts About Michael Koth

Michael Koth was born on 16 October 1955 and is a German National Bolshevik, supporter of North Korea and the Juche ideology, as well as advocate for the Querfront political strategy.

Michael Koth was a member of multiple socialist parties until becoming the leader of the national-communist Workers' Party of Germany.

Michael Koth was born on 16 October 1955 in Berlin-Steglitz, where he grew up as an only child.

Michael Koth played football in Realschule and came into contact with the West Berlin section of the FDJ through his friends, which he subsequently joined on 7 October 1969.

Michael Koth completed his apprenticeship at the Deutsche Reichsbahn, for which he continued to work until being dismissed due to being a member of the far-right KDS in April 2004.

Michael Koth later claimed that he was the last to visit Honecker and his wife before they fled Germany.

Michael Koth joined the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin in 1971, where he later met his first wife during an FDJ meeting in 1974.

Michael Koth additionally helped the NPD to get connections to North Korea, such as when, in 1998, Michael Koth's PdAD and a NPD delegation were invited by ambassador Ri San Yu to attended an event hosted by the North Korean Embassy in Berlin.

Michael Koth was one of the founding members of the Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten, an organisation which aimed to unite the far-left and far-right through the Querfront strategy.

Michael Koth was additionally tasked with running the KDS's publications, including both its newspapers and, most prominently, its YouTube channel under the name "Der Rot-Braune Kanal", which he continued to run even after the KDS had dissolved.