Alfred Vierling (/viːrlɪnŋ/; born 3 July 1949) is a Dutch politician and activist. In the 1980s he was active as a politician in the
far-rightCentre Party and
Centre Democrats. In the 1990s he briefly served as a municipal councillor for the latter and was co-founder of the
nationalistDutch Block. 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 nationalists.
Politics
Vierling was active in the 1980s in the Dutch far-right nationalist Centre Party[1][2] (for which he won 134,877 votes during the European elections in 1984)[3][4] and Centre Democrats, for which he wrote a report on immigration and integration.[5][6][7]
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,
Horst Mahler and
Guillaume Faye.[14]
Later Vierling had ties with white nationalist movements such as
Voorpost[1] and Erkenbrand.[1][15]
Other activities
Vierling has long been an environmentalist[16] as well as an animal protector.[17] He was active in board of the Reinwater foundation (an activist group for protecting the river
Rhine)[18] until 11 July 1979,[19] he was active as representative of
Milieudefensie to the
European Environmental Bureau in Brussels[20] and he was president of the Ecological Movement in the Netherlands until 12 February 1983.[21][22]
He has been scientific collaborator at
Leiden University (International Environmental Law), the
Free University of Amsterdam (Nuclear Strategies) and UNISA,
University of Pretoria (Asian Studies). Also he has been Secretary of the Dutch Inter-Ministerial Commission for Migrants from
Suriname and the
Dutch Antilles before he became active in the anti-immigration Centre Party/Centre Democrats.[23]
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 in
The Hague.[24]
In the July–September 2010 issue no 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.[25]
Vierling is openly gay[26] and defends homosexuality.[27]
Gallery
Vierling is removed from the
Almere municipal council chambers during the installation of two Centre Party council members in 1984