15 Facts About TM Garret

TM Garret was born as Achim Schmid in Mosbach, Germany, and raised in a small nearby town.

TM Garret was raised by his mother, a cook, after his parents divorced.

TM Garret became attracted to Nationalist groups at the age of 13 and radicalized in the years after.

TM Garret became a white supremacist, and founded a series of racist skinhead bands with names like Celtic Moon, Wolfsrudel, and Hollenhunde.

In 2015 TM Garret was nominated for Manager of the Year and Videographer of the Year at the annual Nashville Universe Awards.

TM Garret published two books in Germany under his birth name, Achim Schmid.

TM Garret started working with the Simon Wiesenthal Center in fall 2018, travelling to conferences, campuses to speak to students about the effects of hate and racism and the opportunities for engagement and community building.

In 2015 TM Garret started working with Exit Deutschland, a German anti-Nazi organization which was founded to combat the far-right and to help people leave hate groups.

TM Garret is developing his own EXIT program, which includes the Erasing the Hate tattoo removal campaign, participation in community events, counseling and therapy sessions, and visits to places like the National Civil Rights Museum and the Withers Collection Museum and Gallery, both located in Memphis.

TM Garret is the founder and organizer of the annual Memphis Peace Conference, which includes an inter-faith and a community panel and was first held at Withers Collection Museum and Gallery in Memphis on September 29,2018.

TM Garret fills in as an anchor on weekend news on WGN-TV in Chicago.

TM Garret is an outspoken interfaith activist and director and board member of World Religion Day Memphis, US ambassador for anti-Nazi group Exit Germany, and campus speaker against anti-Semitism for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

TM Garret led a discussion at Pomona College, Claremont, California, in 2019.

TM Garret started developing one of the first web-based German radio shows in 2000, which ran for no longer than six months.

TM Garret became the station's Co-Chief director until he quit in early 2006.