Safet Babic

Safet Babic (born 1981) is a German politician of Bosnian descent. He has been a candidate for the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in European, parliamentary, state assembly and local elections.

Babic first came to prominence at the University of Trier where, as a law student, he was active in student politics for the NPD. ^[1] From June 2009 till September 2011 he was member of the Trier city council. ^[2]

Biography

Babic's parents are from Bosnia and Herzegovina and came to West Germany in the 1970s as Gastarbeiter. He describes himself as a "European liberation activist of Bosnian origin". Aged thirteen, he began to engage with the political programmes of right-wing parties, right-wing magazines, right-wing music, and he distributed flyers for The Republicans and the German People's Union. ^[3]

After Babic submitted his membership application to the Young National Democrats (JN; now the Young Nationalists  [ de ]), he had to appear before the committee, as his application was not automatically accepted. They ultimately voted seven-to-five in favour of his admission. This lead to a scandal amongst the JN: several of the leading cadre from North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg resigned in protest, along with state chairman Lars Käppler  [ de ] and the entire Saxony state board. Their rationale was, those who fight against multiculturalism cannot be multicultural themselves. According to them, the "principle of lineage" was violated, and continued membership in the organisation would be Volksverrat   [ de ]. ^[4] The JN federal chairman, Sascha Roßmüller  [ de ], defended the organisation's position, saying that they had sought to "integrate positive elements into the Volksgemeinschaft ". ^[5] The JN federal managing director said that Babic had an "extremely Nordic appearance" and was "much more German than some of us". ^{[4] [5]}

Babic's March 2006 lecture of the topic "National democratic Hochschule politics in the Bundesrepublik", delivered to the Ring of Free Students  [ de ] (RFS; the student wing of the Freedom Party of Austria) and the Viennese Burschenschaft Gothia, sparked nationwide discussions in Austria about the RFS' connections to the far-right scene. ^[6]

References

1. Etappensieg gegen einen NPD-Aktivisten
2. Vorl. Ergebnis der Stadtratswahl 2009 - Gewählte Bewerber
3. Stuff, Britta (5 September 2016). "Safet Babic' Eltern waren Gastarbeiter, er wurde NPD-Funktionär". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN   2195-1349 . Retrieved 19 February 2026.
4. "Äußerst nordisches Aussehen". Der Spiegel (in German). No. 26. 27 June 1999. p. 18. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
5. Uçar & Walker 2019, pp. 11–12.
6. "NPD-Funktionär referiert in Wien" (in German). Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. 2005.

Bibliography

• Uçar, Bülent; Walker, Vanessa (2019). "Muslime in Europa: Zur Relation von Integration und Religion". In Kassis, Wassilis (ed.). Antimuslimischer Rassismus und Islamfeindlichkeit (in German). Göttingen: Universitätsverlag Osnabrück. pp. 9–57. ISBN   978-3-8471-0956-3.