Oliver Janich
{{Short description|German journalist and author (born 1969)}}
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|birth_name = Oliver Markus Raoul Janich
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Oliver Markus Raoul Janich{{Cite web |title=German wanted in his country arrested in Romblon |url=https://mb.com.ph/2022/08/19/german-wanted-in-his-country-arrested-in-romblon/ |access-date=2024-11-25 |website=Manila Bulletin |language=en}} (born 3 January 1969) is a German far-right conspiracy theorist, former journalist, author and banned YouTuber.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rnd.de/politik/qanon-der-aufstieg-einer-gefahrlichen-verschworungstheorie-ORTPE4D5YRFRZKVTMJBTFADJTY.html|title=Qanon – der Aufstieg einer gefährlichen Verschwörungstheorie|date=11 April 2020 }} He is the founder and former president of the libertarian minor party, Partei der Vernunft (Party of Reason).[http://www.fair-news.de/pressemitteilung-18932.html Partei der Vernunft gegründet] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529052608/http://www.fair-news.de/pressemitteilung-18932.html |date=29 May 2014 }} {{in lang|de}}, 4 June 2009.
Investigations and conspiracy theories
Janich worked as an editor for the German magazine Focus Money where he was effectively let go in 2010 for advertising his own political party, the Party of Reason, in the magazine.{{Cite news|last=Eder|first=Sebastian|date=7 December 2016|title=Das Internet nach Freiburg: Der Hass kennt keine Grenzen|language=de|work=FAZ.NET|url=https://www.faz.net/1.4563061|access-date=1 September 2020|issn=0174-4909}}
= Investigations against Janich for alleged stock market manipulation =
Together with two friends from the time he studied economics, Janich was part of a network of stock traders and stock market journalists ("Bosler-Clique") who systemically raised the share prices of rather unknown listed companies, whose shares had previously been bought by people in their network, by promoting the purchase of the companies shares. In September 2010, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Munich ordered a search of the offices and apartments of approximately 30 suspects including Janich. The ringleaders of the conspiracy, of whom Janich was not one according to findings from the trial, were convicted in 2012. Several stock market journalists had reduced their sentences by admitting their crimes and only received suspended sentences at most.{{Cite web|last1=Deckstein|first1=Dinah|last2=Grill|first2=Markus|last3=Pauly|first3=Christoph|date=15 November 2010|title=AFFÄREN : "Bullshit mit Bildchen" – Der Spiegel 46/2010|url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-75159725.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101173148/https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-75159725.html|archive-date=1 January 2011|access-date=1 September 2020|website=www.spiegel.de}}{{Cite web|last1=Deckstein|first1=Dinah|last2=Neumann|first2=Conny|date=20 March 2012|title=Urteil im Insider-Prozess um SdK-Affäre um Straub und Bosler – Der Spiegel – Wirtschaft|url=https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/urteil-im-insider-prozess-um-sdk-affaere-um-straub-und-bosler-a-822498.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623082839/https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/urteil-im-insider-prozess-um-sdk-affaere-um-straub-und-bosler-a-822498.html|archive-date=23 June 2012|access-date=1 September 2020|website=www.spiegel.de|language=de}}{{Cite web|last=Reimann|first=Annina|date=20 March 2012|title=Die Urteile helfen Anlegern wenig|url=https://www.wiwo.de/finanzen/geldanlage/sdk-affaere-die-urteile-helfen-anlegern-wenig/6351990-all.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304063337/https://www.wiwo.de/finanzen/geldanlage/sdk-affaere-die-urteile-helfen-anlegern-wenig/6351990-all.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|access-date=1 September 2020|website=}}
He currently resides in the Philippines.{{Cite web|last=Borgers|first=Michael|date=18 March 2020|title=Xavier Naidoo – Wechselspiel mit rechten Medien|url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/xavier-naidoo-wechselspiel-mit-rechten-medien.2907.de.html?dram:article_id=472762|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200604212137/https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/xavier-naidoo-wechselspiel-mit-rechten-medien.2907.de.html?dram:article_id=472762|archive-date=4 June 2020|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Deutschlandfunk|language=de-DE}} In August 2022, he was arrested by the Philippine authorities at a resort in Romblon.{{Cite web|last=x rix|first=Matt|date=17 August 2022|title=Verschwörungsideologe Janich festgenommen|url=https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/janich-philippinen-festgenommen-101.html|access-date=17 August 2022|website=www.tagesschau.de|language=de}}{{Cite web|last=x rix|first=Matt|date=17 August 2022|title=Oliver Janich auf den Philippinen festgenommen|url=https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/oliver-janich-auf-den-philippinen-festgenommen-a-963cc52c-57c4-4c59-b235-706c0049de93|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817172747/https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/oliver-janich-auf-den-philippinen-festgenommen-a-963cc52c-57c4-4c59-b235-706c0049de93|archive-date=17 August 2022|access-date=17 August 2022|website=www.spiegel.de|language=de}}
= Conspiracy theories =
As a financial journalist, Janich represented conspiracy theories about 9/11 in several of his articles{{Cite web|last=Afanasjew|first=Nik|date=4 September 2011|title=9/11 – Alles Lüge?|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/verschwoerungstheorien-9-11-alles-luege/4569196.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200522111353/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/verschwoerungstheorien-9-11-alles-luege/4569196.html|archive-date=22 May 2020|access-date=1 September 2020|website=www.tagesspiegel.de|language=de}} and these theories are present in his books as well.{{Cite web|last=Oswald|first=Bernd|date=19 October 2018|title=Was ist dran an Gerüchten zu angeblichem Wahlbetrug?|url=https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/was-ist-dran-an-geruechten-zu-angeblichem-wahlbetrug,R6pR9h3|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201233523/https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/was-ist-dran-an-geruechten-zu-angeblichem-wahlbetrug,R6pR9h3|archive-date=1 December 2018|access-date=1 September 2020|website=}} Furthermore, he spread conspiracy theories about alleged election fraud during the 2018 Bavarian state election without providing any evidence.
Janich published a YouTube video against the appointment of Sinan Selen as Vice President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, claiming that Selen had gotten the job "at the request of the Turkish government".{{Cite web|last1=Steinke|first1=Ronen|last2=Mascolo|first2=Georg|date=6 December 2018|title=Verfassungsschutz – Sinan Selen schlägt Hass entgegen|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/selen-verfassungschutz-1.4240764|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190609160741/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/selen-verfassungschutz-1.4240764|archive-date=9 June 2019|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Süddeutsche.de|language=de}} According to German magazine Spiegel Online, his YouTube videos contain "partly racist statements and employ anti-Semitic conspiracy theories".{{Cite web|last1=Kalisch|first1=Murial|last2=Stotz|first2=Patrick|date=21 May 2020|title=Wer liest das eigentlich? Die geläufigsten Corona-Verschwörungstheorien und die Akteure dahinter – Der Spiegel – Netzwelt|url=https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/corona-verschwoerungstheorien-und-die-akteure-dahinter-bill-gates-impfzwang-und-co-a-2e9a0e78-4375-4dbd-815f-54571750d32d|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=1 September 2020|website=www.spiegel.de|language=de}}
Janich is considered a disseminator of the QAnon conspiracy theories.{{Cite web|last=Huesmann|first=Felix|date=11 April 2020|title="QAnon" – der Aufstieg einer gefährlichen Verschwörungstheorie|url=https://www.rnd.de/politik/qanon-der-aufstieg-einer-gefahrlichen-verschworungstheorie-ORTPE4D5YRFRZKVTMJBTFADJTY.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407183704/https://www.rnd.de/politik/qanon-der-aufstieg-einer-gefahrlichen-verschworungstheorie-ORTPE4D5YRFRZKVTMJBTFADJTY.html|archive-date=7 April 2020|access-date=1 September 2020|website=www.rnd.de|language=de-DE}}
Party of Reason
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Janich founded the Party of Reason after the proposal to found a party, which he made in a Focus Money column, received positive feedback from his readers.{{Cite web|last=Janich|first=Oliver|date=13 November 2013|title=Börsenkommentar – Neue Partei|url=https://www.focus.de/finanzen/boerse/aktien/boersenkommentar-neue-partei_aid_261298.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313143244/https://www.focus.de/finanzen/boerse/aktien/boersenkommentar-neue-partei_aid_261298.html|archive-date=13 March 2016|access-date=1 September 2020|website=FOCUS Online|language=de}}
On 17 April 2013, Janich resigned as chairman of the party.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=18 April 2013|title=Der Bundesvorsitzende der Partei der Vernunft tritt zurück|url=http://www.parteidervernunft.de/ruecktritt-des-bundesvorsitzenden|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420015637/http://www.parteidervernunft.de/ruecktritt-des-bundesvorsitzenden|archive-date=20 April 2013|access-date=1 September 2020|website=|language=de}}
Political views
Janich supported the Alternative for Germany (AfD) ahead of the 2017 German federal election.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=5 May 2017|title=Warum Sie die Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) wählen sollten|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrLB6nDwfOU&|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Youtube}} In 2018 he compared a documentary of the children's TV-channel KiKa with the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels.{{Cite web|last=Klingenmaier|first=Thomas|date=11 January 2018|title=Streit um Kinderkanal-Beitrag geht weiter: Stoff für die Hetzer und Hasser|url=https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.streit-um-kinderkanal-beitrag-geht-weiter-stoff-fuer-die-hetzer-und-hasser.9c4d3f50-e458-4b4d-baa8-334ff6afebd6.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190319142509/https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.streit-um-kinderkanal-beitrag-geht-weiter-stoff-fuer-die-hetzer-und-hasse|archive-date=19 March 2019|access-date=1 September 2020|website=stuttgarter-zeitung.de|language=de}} Also in 2018, Janich distributed a video that allegedly showed journalists staging images of refugees in a maritime emergency. Journalist Jacques Pezet later exposed the video as fake.{{Cite web|last=Frerichmann|first=Nora|date=17 August 2018|title=Das Altpapier am 17. August 2018: Verteidigt oder verrannt? {{!}} MDR.DE|url=https://www.mdr.de/altpapier/das-altpapier-604.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913150517/https://www.mdr.de/altpapier/das-altpapier-604.html|archive-date=13 September 2018|access-date=1 September 2020|website=www.mdr.de|language=de}} After the 2018 Bavarian state election, the German television channel Bayerische Rundfunk reported on its website that Janich was distributing videos that were alleging fraud during the election without providing any proof whatsoever.
In June 2020, the German TV-program Frontal, showed in a feature on conspiracy theorists, how Janich was talking about tribunals for politicians and journalists, saying that "Many of the people in power today actually belong hanged".{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=18 June 2020|title=Verschwörungstheorie: Warum ist QAnon so gefährlich?|url=https://www.zdf.de/uri/3226d3f9-e4f0-47f0-b1aa-3b0ae11794ec|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=1 September 2020|website=www.zdf.de|language=de}}
Works
- Money-Management. Rationalität und Anwendung des Fixed-fractional-Ansatzes. TM-Börsenverlag, Rosenheim 1996, {{ISBN|3-930851-10-5}}
- Das Kapitalismus-Komplott. Die geheimen Zirkel der Macht und ihre Methoden. FinanzBuch-Verlag, München 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-89879-577-7}}
- Die Vereinigten Staaten von Europa. Geheimdokumente enthüllen: Die dunklen Pläne der Elite. FinanzBuch-Verlag, München 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-89879-820-4}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.oliverjanich.de/ Personal website] {{in lang|de}}
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