The public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt has filed charges against a 22-year-old former Bundeswehr soldier from the Taunus municipality of Glashütten, who is said to have planned a violent coup out of right-wing extremist sentiment.

The authorities accuse him of preparing a serious act of violence that endangers the state, as well as violations of the War Weapons Control Act, the Explosives Act and the Weapons Act, as well as several physical injuries and insults to the detriment of his girlfriend at the time.

Anna Sophia Lang

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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It was also the girlfriend who started the investigation with a criminal complaint for bodily harm.

She had also given the police information that the man, who was still serving as a soldier in the Bundeswehr at the time, was hoarding weapons and had written a manifesto.

Also accused are his 64-year-old father and 21-year-old brother.

You are accused of aiding and abetting all allegations.

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According to a statement from the public prosecutor's office, the main defendant was last stationed as a staff service soldier with the rank of private corporal in Pfullendorf.

As a teenager, he began writing the manifesto in February 2016, which dealt with a "civil war against the war of annihilation of the Jews".

He had planned to set up a combat organization based on the National Socialist model in order to first conquer Germany and later the whole world “using weapons and explosives”.

The plan is said to have included “cleansing” the conquered areas of refugees and migrants, and prisoners should be “eliminated in a media-effective manner”.

By July 2020 at the latest, the man is said to have been determined to put his plans into action.

His father and brother are said to have known and approved of this.

They are also supposed to bring with him "a large number of short and long guns, grenades and ammunition that require a permit, as well as various explosives," "to implement the plans" in the house they share in Glashütten, in three garages on the property and on two of their father's garden properties also in the Hochtaunus kept explosives”.

As the public prosecutor's office continues to write, a large part of the objects was hidden at great expense.

They were seized during searches in spring and summer 2021.

According to a spokeswoman, most of the weapons do not come from Bundeswehr stocks.

The men were arrested at the end of February 2021 and have been in custody since then.

As the spokeswoman said, the soldier was released from service shortly afterwards in April 2021.

He wanted to pursue an officer's career.

The Bundeswehr did not want to provide any information on request.

A spokesman referred to the ongoing process and data protection.

The “Special Operations Training Center” is located in Pfullendorf, where the man was stationed.

It is the Bundeswehr's central training facility "for the national special forces and specialized forces".

Civilian applicants who want to join the Special Forces Command (KSK) begin their training there.

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The case of the soldier from Glashütte initially lay with the public prosecutor's office in Hanau, because initially there was a suspicion of incitement to hatred.

However, when the suspicion of terrorism arose on the basis of the manifesto, the authority in Frankfurt, which is responsible for such procedures in Hesse, took over.

The indictment goes to the State Protection Chamber at the Frankfurt Regional Court, which must decide whether to open the main proceedings.

Prosecutors say the trial could begin in June.