Ursula Haverbeck's husband was Werner Georg Haverbeck, who during the Nazi period was temporarily engaged in the national leadership of the Nazi Party.
20 Facts About Ursula Haverbeck
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Ursula Haverbeck was the founder and director in 1933 of the German Imperial Federation of Nation and Homeland, as well as writer and publisher, historian, folklorist and parson of The Christian Community.
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Ursula Haverbeck unsuccessfully appealed all sentences, and on 7 May 2018 began to serve her latest two-year prison sentence after being picked up at her home by German police.
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Ursula Haverbeck was again convicted on 26 June 2024 and sentenced to an additional 16 months in prison.
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Ursula Haverbeck married her long-time partner Werner Haverbeck, anthroposophic pastor and former SA and SS officer, on 31 July 1970.
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For over fifty years, Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel worked in the political shadow of her husband.
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From 1983 until 1989, Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel was president of the World Union for Protection of Life, and disclosed in this non-governmental position her opposition towards the Western system and the Allied occupation of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Ursula Haverbeck was temporarily a member of the Ecological Democratic Party.
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Well before Germany's reunification in 1990, Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel cultivated connections to neo-Nazi political groups like the NPD with the aim of a major national collective movement in Germany.
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In November 2014, Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel lodged a police complaint against the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
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Ursula Haverbeck accused the council of "persecution of innocent people".
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Ursula Haverbeck described "this Holocaust" as "the biggest and most persistent lie in history".
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Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel published a video on YouTube protesting against the trial of Oskar Groning, the so-called "Accountant of Auschwitz", and distributed leaflets outside the court which were reported to feature Holocaust denial.
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Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel became the subject of a new investigation initiated in June 2015 by the Bielefeld Public Prosecutors Office, in connection with a publication in the journal The Voice of the Empire, prompting Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel's home as well as that of three other accused persons to be searched by the State Criminal Police Office of Lower Saxony for evidence.
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In September 2016, Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel was sentenced to ten months imprisonment for Holocaust denial, without the option for parole, but remained free until an appeal was heard concerning the earlier case.
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In court again the next month, Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel was sentenced in Verden to 2.
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Ursula Haverbeck's attorney appealed the verdict, arguing it violated Haverbeck's right to free speech.
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In February 2022, Ursula Haverbeck again stood trial for incitement to hatred the state court of Berlin, receiving a 1-year sentence.
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Ursula Haverbeck appealed her 2017 Berlin-Tiergarten sentences in April 2022 and unsuccessfully sought a reduction to probation.
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Ursula Haverbeck died on 20 November 2024, at the age of 96.