Alfred Vierling (; born 3 July 1949) is a Dutch politician and activist. In the 1980s he was active as a politician in the

far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

Centre Party and Centre Democrats. In the 1990s he briefly served as a municipal councillor for the latter and was co-founder of the

nationalist Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation,Anthony D. Smith, Smith, A ...

Dutch Block The Dutch Block (, NB) was a Politics of the Netherlands, Dutch nationalism, nationalist political party espousing an Opposition to immigration, anti-immigrant program. It was founded by Alfred Vierling, Ton Steemers en Hans Lindenburg, modeled on ...

. In the 2000s and later he was an activist, writer and video maker and he was involved with and collaborated with groups and individuals, some of which were

white nationalist White nationalism is a type of racial nationalism or pan-nationalism which espouses the belief that white people are a Race (human categorization), raceHeidi Beirich and Kevin Hicks. "Chapter 7: White nationalism in America". In Perry, Barbara ...

Politics

Vierling was active in the 1980s in the Dutch far-right nationalist Centre PartyCentrumpartij (CP, CP'86) - Partijgeschiedenis
''University of Groningen'' (for which he won 134,877 votes during the European elections in 1984)Vierling nr. 1 CD-Europa
''Het Vrije Volk'', 5 April 1984Europees Parlement 14 juni 1984
''Kiesraad'' and Centre Democrats, for which he wrote a report on immigration and integration.Hoe heeft het integratiedebat zich in Nederland ontwikkeld?
pp.7-8, Van der Brug et al., ''

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

'', Politicology Department, ASSR/IMES)Rapport "Centrumdemocratisch beleid ter bescherming van het Nederlands staatsburgerschap"
(1985)
Archived
on 7 November 2021. In 1990 Vierling was elected in the

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

Schiedam Schiedam () is a large town and municipality in the west of the Netherlands. It is located in the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area, west of the city Rotterdam, east of the town Vlaardingen and south of the city Delft. In the south, Schi ...

,'Eenmalig en expres stoel naast Vierling genomen'
''Het Vrije Volk'', 3 May 1990Gallerij van extreem-rechtse raadsleden
''Het Vrije Volk'', 31 May 1990 he was a council member until October of that year.CD-Vierling uit raad Schiedam
''Nieuwsblad van het Noorden'', 11 October 1990Notulen van de gemeenteraad van Schiedam van 22 oktober 1990
(archive) In 1992 he co-founded the Dutch Block.Vierling kaapt partijnaam gebundeld extreem-rechts
''Het Parool'', 15 September 1992Hollands Blok naar Vlaams model
''Trouw'', 15 September 1992 Since then he is active for several "eurocentrist" (European identity advocating) groups, wrote articles for various magazines and websites and made a video interview series with far-right figures such as

David Duke David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American politician, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the ...

, Horst Mahler and

Guillaume Faye Guillaume Faye (; 7 November 1949 – 6 March 2019) was a French political theorist, journalist, writer, and leading member of the French New Right. Continuing the tradition of Giorgio Locchi, his various articles and books sought to posit Isla ...

.The Transnational Relations of the Contemporary Russian Extreme Right
Miroslav Mareš and Martin Laryš, ''Europe-Asia Studies'', Vol. 67, No. 7 (September 2015), pp.1056-1078 (23 pages), published by ''Taylor & Francis, Ltd.'', retrieved from ''JStor'' Later Vierling had ties with white nationalist movements such as

Voorpost Voorpost (" outpost, picket") is an ethno-nationalist ('' volksnationalist'') group founded in Flanders, Belgium, by Karel Dillen in 1976 as a splinter from the Volksunie. Voorpost pursues the irredentist ideal of a Greater Netherlands, a natio ...

and Erkenbrand.The Influence of Erkenbrand: A Hyperlink Network Analysis of the Dutch Language Right-Extremist Network
pp.49-50,52,74-80,82, Ralph Verwegen, ''Leiden University'', 2021

Other activities

Onafhankelijke_Pers_De_Ommekeer_22_juni_2015

Vierling has long been an environmentalistHet gaat niet om verschillen, maar om bundeling van krachten
''Nederlands Dagblad'', 22 February 1983 as well as an animal protector.Ritueel slachten moet blijven
''de Volkskrant'', 6 December 1984 He was active in board of the Reinwater foundation (an activist group for protecting the river

Rhine The Rhine ( ) is one of the List of rivers of Europe, major rivers in Europe. The river begins in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in the southeastern Swiss Alps. It forms part of the Swiss-Liechtenstein border, then part of the Austria–Swit ...

)Drs. Vierling en zijn machtsgrepen in het milieu
Kees van der Hoeven, ''NRC Handelsblad'', 12 February 1983 until 11 July 1979,Letter from Vierling to ''NRC Handelsblad''
19 February 1983 he was active as representative of Milieudefensie to the European Environmental Bureau in BrusselsTussen activisme en advisering: de Nederlandse milieubeweging naar Europa
Emiel Geurts, pp.17-18, ''University Utrecht'', 15 June 2020 and he was president of the Ecological Movement in the Netherlands until 12 February 1983.Ecologische Beweging probeert zich te zuiveren
Cor Schoenmaker, ''De Waarheid'', 15 February 1982Goed en kwaad
Gjalt Zondergeld, published by Garant (2002), page 54 He has been scientific collaborator at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince of Orange as a Protestantism, Protestant institution, it holds the d ...

(International Environmental Law), the Free University of Amsterdam (Nuclear Strategies) and UNISA,

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria (, ) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and ''de facto'' capital of South Africa. The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johan ...

(Asian Studies). Also he has been Secretary of the Dutch Inter-Ministerial Commission for Migrants from

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and the Dutch Antilles before he became active in the anti-immigration Centre Party/Centre Democrats.Biography on Vierling's official website
/ref> On 12 October 1999 Vierling submitted a complaint against three members of the Dutch government regarding war crimes committed by it within the framework of NATO bombings on Yugoslavia at the

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes in the Yugoslav Wars, war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to tr ...

The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...

.Denouncement of NATO/Dutch war crimes
(1999)
Archived
on 7 November 2021. In the July–September 2010 issue n^o 4 of ''Ab Aeterno'' (Journal of the Academy of Social & Political Research) Vierling published an article about the Netherlands in world context entitled ''The Netherlands, a Failed State in a Failed Continent''.''The Netherlands, a Failed State in a Failed Continent''
/ref> Vierling is openly gayInterview with Gaie FranceArchived
on 7 November 2021. and defends homosexuality.
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20090323014058/http://www.alfredvierling.com/homosexdef.html archive

Gallery

File:Almere, installatie 2 CP-raadsleden Vreeswijk en Fresco Partij ideoloog vierl, Bestanddeelnr 932-8341.jpg, Vierling is removed from the

Almere Almere () is a Planned community, planned List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Flevoland, Netherlands across the IJmeer fro ...

municipal council chambers during the installation of two Centre Party council members in 1984 File:TV-uitzending Centrum Partij , heer Vierling aan het woord (fractiemedewerker Ja, Bestanddeelnr 932-8633.jpg, Alfred Vierling in a

party political broadcast A party political broadcast (also known, in pre-election campaigning periods, as a party election broadcast) is a television or radio broadcast made by a political party. In the United Kingdom the Communications Act 2003 prohibits (and previou ...

for the Centre Party in 1984 File:Tweede Kamer Janmaat met rechts drs. Vierling (fractiemedewerker), Bestanddeelnr 932-9714.jpg, Vierling with Hans Janmaat, leader of the Centre Party, in 1984 File:Euro-Rus 2008.jpg, Vierling next to

at Euro-Rus in Dendermonde, Belgium in 2008

References

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