Günter Maschke (15 January 1943 – 7 February 2022) was a German political scientist.[1] He was known as a supporter of the Nouvelle Droite.
Biography
An activist within the far-left in his youth, Maschke left Germany to escape military service in France, Switzerland, and Austria. Settling in Vienna, he promoted ideas of the Frankfurt School and organized extra-parliamentary opposition groups. He was arrested in 1967 for protesting against the Vietnam War and fled to Cuba, where he went into exile. There, he served in the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, but was later expelled from Havana for "counter-revolutionary activities".[2] He was then forced to return to Germany and serve a one-year prison sentence for evading military service.