Reinhold Elstner

Reinhold Elstner ( * 1920 in Czechoslovakia; † April 26, 1995 in Munich ) was a German revisionist who died as a result of a politically motivated self-immolation, and thus became known.

Elston was born in Czechoslovakia. At the age of 75 years, the former Wehrmacht soldier and Sudeten German expellees lit on the steps of the Munich Field Marshals' Hall, in protest against the Wehrmacht exhibition, even on 25 April 1995. According to an interspersed with revisionist ideas farewell letter he wanted to put "with the fiery death as a signal that a visible sign." A few days later he succumbed to his injuries.

The Austrian terrorist Franz Fuchs used In October 1995 the name Elstner as the sender of an order to the refugee assistant Maria Loley letter bomb. On April 25, 2004 was one of the extreme right group to be assigned to the Feldherrenhalle perform a vigil in memory of Elstner, but they had to move on the orders of the Munich city administration to another location. A directed against this arrangement judicial procedure was unsuccessful.