Nikolai Nerling

{{Short description|German right-wing extremist}}

{{Orphan|date=March 2024}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Nikolai Nerling

| image = File:Nikolai Nerling in Berlin 2020-05-23.jpg

| caption = Nikolai Nerling (2020)

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|08|26}}

| birth_place = Vastorf, Lower Saxony, Germany

| nationality = German

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| occupation = right-wing extremist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier

| known_for = Video-Blog hate speech

| notable_works = various forms of Volksverhetzung

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Nikolai Nerling is a German right-wing extremist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier.

Since 2017, he has been spreading right-wing extremist ideology as a video blogger under the name "Der Volkslehrer". Nerling connects to the ideas of the Reichcitizens, and since 2020 also conspiracy theories of the so-called "Querdenker" movement ("lateral thinker" ).{{Cite web|date=2018-02-07|title=Mobile Verschwörung: Der Berliner "Volkslehrer" in Lüneburg|url=https://www.belltower.news/mobile-verschwoerung-der-berliner-volkslehrer-in-lueneburg-46956/|access-date=2022-02-18|website=Belltower.News|language=de-DE}} After he downplayed the Holocaust publicly at the Dachau concentration camp memorial, he was fined in December 2019 for hate speech.{{Cite web|last=Radlmaier|first=Thomas|title=Dachau: "Volkslehrer" scheitert mit Verfassungsbeschwerde|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/dachau/dachau-volkslehrer-nerling-bundesverfassungsgericht-1.5512426|access-date=2022-02-18|website=Süddeutsche.de|language=de}}{{Cite web|title=Nach Holocaust-Leugnung: "Der Volkslehrer" verurteilt|url=https://www.bige.bayern.de/infos_zu_extremismus/aktuelle_meldungen/nach-holocaust-leugnung-der-volkslehrer-verurteilt/index.html|access-date=2022-02-18|website=www.bige.bayern.de}}{{Cite web|last=Radlmaier|first=Thomas|title=Volksverhetzung: Rechter "Volkslehrer" ist schuldig|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/dachau/muenchen-dachau-prozess-volkslehrer-nerling-urteil-1.5131712|access-date=2022-02-18|website=Süddeutsche.de|language=de}} Nikolai Nerling is considered a networker within the neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial scene.