Udo Voigt

I record Udo Voigt because history demands it, not because I admire him. As the long-serving leader of Germany's far-right, neo-Nazi NPD and later a Member of the European Parliament, he represents a politics I find indefensible. He was educated and articulate, but intelligence in service of revisionism and hatred only makes such a figure more troubling, not more respectable. My honest take is that documenting people like Voigt matters as a warning, a reminder of how extremism dresses itself in respectability. I keep the facts straight and withhold any sympathy; some legacies deserve scrutiny, never celebration.

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Name (English)

Udo Voigt

Name (Japanese)

ウド・ヴォイト

Reading

うど・ゔぉいと

Born

April 14, 1952 – July 17, 2025

Origin

Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Occupation

politician / political scientist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo%20Voigt
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57447

Tags

• North Rhine-Westphalia
• politician
• political scientist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.