Overview

• On July 18 the Bayerisches Oberstes Landesgericht dismissed Bernd Schreyer’s revision, confirming his conviction for Volksverhetzung remains binding
• Schreyer was fined €4 200 by the Landgericht München I for equating Greens to “the ‘new Jews’” and trivializing the Holocaust
• He plans to file a constitutional complaint at the Bundesverfassungsgericht, arguing his tweet is political expression shielded by free-speech guarantees
• The June 2023 post targeted debate over Robert Habeck’s building-energy law by comparing anti-Green rhetoric to historic Jewish persecution despite no actual heating ban
• Bavaria’s antisemitism commissioner Andreas Franck welcomed the ruling as reinforcing legal boundaries against inappropriate Holocaust analogies in public discourse