2024-01-22 09:21:00
Many people didn’t notice that the nice dentist thought in a nationalistic way. Not his patients when they came to his practice. Not the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, which gave him a teaching position. Not the former left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht and the former cabaret artist Volker Pispers, who met him for dinner. Gernot Mörig was apparently able to cleverly hide his views.
The first time his civic image was threatened was in 2018, when students caught up with him. However, it has only now finally broken down following the latest research by the media company “Correctiv”. Mörig is one of the initiators of the secret meeting of right-wing extremists, AfD officials and Values Union members. And anyone who looks into their past won’t be surprised.
Mörig was also a topic a few days ago in the discussion group with Markus Lanz on ZDF. Wagenknecht was a guest there once more. And to the astonishment of the audience, she admitted on her own initiative: “This Mörig, for example… I know him.” When she read his name in the newspaper as part of the “Correctiv” research, she was surprised: “ “What, the man?” she asked herself. Mörig wrote her “nice emails” several times.
Pispers: I would never have met him otherwise
About ten years ago, it must have been 2013 or 2014, Mörig even arranged for her to have dinner with a left-wing cabaret artist, which all three attended. Therefore she was “not at all bad faith”. “If someone introduces themselves like that, if someone makes contact in that way, then of course it means that you don’t even think regarding the fact that they’re a right-winger.” In the case of the Austrian activist Martin Sellner of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement – who during the When he presented his “master plan” for “remigration” at the Potsdam secret meeting, it was something different. “He is a well-known right-winger, and if you sit down with him, it is now completely clear that you are moving into a right-wing extremist corner.”
Sahra Wagenknecht, party leader Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht, mid-January in Mainz: Image: dpa
Wagenknecht initially did not want to say who the left-wing cabaret artist was that she and Mörig met at the time. “Correctiv” reporter Marcus Bensmann, also a guest on the ZDF show, then revealed the name; it was Volker Pispers. At the request of the FAZ, Pispers confirmed dinner with Mörig and Wagenknecht. He used to be Mörig’s patient in Düsseldorf. “If I had had even the slightest suspicion that he was moving in right-wing extremist or ethnic circles, I would neither have become his patient nor would I have had any other contact with him,” Pispers told the FAZ. “In my opinion, there is nothing more that can be said on the subject.” He “mightn’t answer the question regarding the time of the meeting with the best will in the world.” He withdrew from the stage in December 2015: “All I can say for sure is that it must have been well before that.”
A student examined Mörig’s past
The former Düsseldorf local boss of the “Rheinische Post” claims to have had no idea of Mörig’s views. A few days ago, Hans Onkelbach reported on the online portal “VierNull” how he and his wife met Gernot and Astrid Mörig by chance a few years ago on the sidelines of the Salzburg Festival. They got along well straight away. “The conversation was lively and interesting.” He later met Mörig a few times following hearing a report regarding a supposedly new treatment technique. “At no time during our meetings did I have the slightest impression that the man might be extreme in his views. “Probably because we didn’t talk regarding politics,” writes Onkelbach.
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