Horst Jakob Rosenkranz is an extreme right publisher and former politician in Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. He is married to Freedom Party (FPÖ)

Freedom Party of Austria

The Freedom Party of Austria is a political party in Austria. Ideologically, the party is a direct descendant of the German national liberal camp, which dates back to the 1848 revolutions. The FPÖ itself was founded in 1956 as the successor to the short-lived Federation of Independents , which had...

 leader Barbara Rosenkranz

Barbara Rosenkranz

Barbara Rosenkranz is an Austrian politician for the Freedom Party of Austria , currently serving as the Minister of Building Law and Animal Protection of the State of Lower Austria...

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Political Activity

Rosenkranz was a member of the Austrian National Democratic Party (NDP)

Nationaldemokratische Partei (Austria, 1967–1988)

The National Democratic Party was a far-right political party in Austria from 1967 until 1988 when its status was revoked for violating the country's anti-Nazi legislation.- Party History :...

, which was banned for violating the Verbotsgesetz 1947

Verbotsgesetz 1947

The Verbotsgesetz 1947 abbreviated VerbotsG, is an Austrian constitutional law, which banned the Nazi Party and provided the legal framework for the process of denazification in Austria, as well as aiming to suppress any potential revival of Nazism.The law was amended in 1992 to prohibit denying...

 (Prohibition Act 1947) against Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial

Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...

, and the party Ein Herz für Inländer ("A Heart for Natives"). In the 1990 election he entered as a frontrunner for the Nein zur Ausländerflut ("No to the flood of Foreigners") ticket, which he founded with Gerd Honsik

Gerd Honsik

Gerd Honsik is an Austrian writer and lyric poet, and a prominent Holocaust denier.- Life :Honsik was a functionary in the Austrian "Volksbewegung" , also known as "Volksbewegung gegen Überfremdung" and "Ausländer-Halt-Bewegung" , as well as in...

., which was also banned by election authorities in Vienna.
Beginning in the nineties, Rosenkranz overtook the leadership of the Association demanding the whole Truth" (Vereins zur Förderung der ganzen Wahrheit). At the same time he was a representative of the "Critical Democratic" Party and supporter of the nonpartisan "Austria for the Austrians" referendum. He is also the publisher of the magazine Fakten, which was classified as extreme right wing by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance.
Rosenkranz, who describes himself as a "right-thinking person", has withdrawn from public life in recent years and is only rarely seen at official events, although he has appeared at Freedom Party events as a speaker.