Uwe Mundlos

Uwe Mundlos (11 August 1973 – 4 November 2011) was a German neo-Nazi, right-wing terrorist and serial killer. Together with Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe, he formed the nucleus of the terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU), which was responsible for 10 murders, 43 attempted murders, 3 explosive attacks, and 15 bank robberies in Germany between 1998 and 2011. He died. presumably by suicide, after a bank robbery led to his discovery by police.

Early life and education

Mundlos was born and grew up in the East-German city of Jena. His brother was disabled. His mother was a saleswoman. His father, Siegfried Mundlos, was a mathematician at the University of Jena. Beginning in the early 1990s, he served as a Professor of Computer Science at the Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena.

The Mundlos family home was a plattenbau on Max-Steenbeck Street in the Winzerla area of Jena. As a youth, Mundlos1was a member of the Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation and the Free German Youth. Until the summer of 1989 he attended the Magnus Poser Polytechnic School. Mundlos had good school grades, especially in science.

After Mundlos left school after tenth grade, he did a data-processing apprenticeship at Carl Zeiss AG. He later tried to do his "Abitur" exams at Illmenau College.

Political development

From before the unification of Germany in 1990, Mundlos had become a right-wing skinhead. From 1988 he began to go to school with "short-cropped hair and jumper boots". After the unification of Germany, he became more radicalised. In September 1991 he opened the "Winzerclub", which became a focal point of the Jena Neo-nazi scene. It was there that Mundlos often met with the later NSU-members and supporters Uwe Böhnhardt, Beate Zschäpe, Ralf Wohlleben, Holger Gerlach and Andre Kapke.