| Nikolai Nerling | |
| Birth Date: | 26 August 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Vastorf, Lower Saxony, Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| Occupation: | right-wing extremist, anti-Semite and Holocaust denier |
| Known For: | Video-Blog hate speech |
| Notable Works: | various forms of Volksverhetzung |
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").[1] After he downplayed the Holocaust publicly at the Dachau concentration camp memorial, he was fined in December 2019 for hate speech.[2] [3] [4] Nikolai Nerling is considered a networker within the neo-Nazi and Holocaust denial scene.
Nerling worked as a teacher at a primary school in Berlin. Nerling was dismissed from the state of Berlin in 2018 because of his right-wing extremist internet videos. Nerling shoots a video, among other things, on Querdenker-demonstrations and events. He interviews participants or other alternative media makers like Heiko Schrang.[5]