Beate Zschäpe (born January 2, 1975) is a German right-wing extremist and a member of the Neo-Nazi terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU).

In July 2018, she was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the people between 2000 and 2007, as well as her part in two bombings, several robberies, and attempted murders.

She was also found guilty of belonging to a terrorist organization.

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Beate Zschäpe's mother was a citizen of East Germany , who studied dentistry in Bucharest .

According to her mother, Annerose Zschäpe, Beate's father was a Romanian dentistry student.

Zschäpe never met him and his denied being her father until his death in 2000.

^[42] Her mother was unable to practice dentistry because of an allergy and worked in accounts at Zeiss u ntil 1991 when she became unemployed (but did not register as unemployed), ^[43] Living in the neighborhood of Jena , ^[44] Zschäpe's relationship with her mother at best uneasy ^[45] and she spent a lot of time in the care of her grandmother.

Her mother got divorced twice and each time Zschäpe took on the surname of her mother's new partner.

^[0] During the first fifteen years of her life she will be in Jena and its surroundings.

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A school report for her second school year (1982/1983) says, "Beate Strives to achieve good learning outcomes, but oft lacks The Necessary concentration and order... she is Actively Involved and joyfully in Pioneer Life ."

In 1991, after she finished tenth grade (age 15-16), she left her mainstream school, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe School, in the Winzerla district of Jena and began work under a job creation program a s a painter's assistant.

She then went on to do apprenticeship as a gardener , from 1992 until 1996, specializing in vegetable growing .

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In the time around the reunification of Germany in 1989, the politics around Zschäpe were in turmoil and, in contrast to official GDR propaganda, racism was already widespread.

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Aged 14, she joined a youth gang which itself called "The Ticks".

Although the group considered itself politically leftist, there were also completely non-politically oriented members.

When "The Ticks" is scheduled for a meeting of young right-extremists and beat a few of them, she tagged along.

Bravo Magazine (illegal in the GDR).

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Her involvement with the political right began around 1991.

^[1] She met Uwe

Mundlos , the son of a professor at the Jena University of Applied Sciences teaching computer science, who arrived in Winzerla with his family just before the Fall of the Berlin Wall . Uwe

Böhnhardt , the son of a teacher and engineer, became a close friend of theirs. ^[5]

^[6] Criminality (including stealing computers from his school) had left Böhnhardt without qualifications. ^[7]

Both Zschäpe and Mundlos were involved in crime at the time. A

co-accused in the NSU Trial described Zschäpe as an achiever and not one to be subordinated. ^[38]

A letter Zschäpe wrote while in prison was 26 pages long, in legal, clear script without spelling errors.Sketches in

the letter show she was talented in drawing.

On November 8, 2011, Beate Zschäpe tried to turn herself into the police by phone call, she introduced herself saying, "Hello, this is Beate Zschäpe."However, the policeman who answered the call did not recognize her and said he did not know anything about it case.A

few hours later, Zschäpe herself arrived with her lawyer at the police station in Jena. ^[10]

Since November 8, 2011, Beate Zschäpe has been held in custody . On

November 11, 2011, the Office of the Attorney General of Germany started an investigation because of Zschäpe's assumed membership in a terrorist group. ^[11]

On November 8, 2012, one year after the series of murders became known, the Office of the Attorney General pressed charges against Zschäpe and four alleged supporters. "As

a founding member of the NSU...", she what accused of having taken part in the murders of eight fellow citizens of Turkish origin and one fellow citizen of Greek origin in the murderous attack on two police officers in Heilbronn , as well as in the attempted murders by bomb attacks of the NSU at the historic district of Cologne and in Cologne-Müllheim. ^[12]

According to the charge, the NSU was a group of three members who committed crimes together.In this

process, Zschäpe has been in charge of giving the terrorist group the appearance of normality and legality among other things by maintaining an inconspicuous façade at their respective places of residence and by securing their joint flat as a safe haven and headquarters for their actions.In addition, she

has been "responsible for the logistics of the group".Thus she had managed

the stolen money from the robberies and had rented caravans several times, including a vehicle used in one of the crimes, according to the Office of the Attorney General reports in the bill of indictment. After fingerprint analysis ,

evidence of Zschäpe's DNA was posted on newspaper article about the bomb attack in Cologne and the murder of Habil Kilic.In addition, Zschäpe is accused

of having "set the flat in Zwickau on fire, hereby having rendered herself liable for prosecution for the attempted murder of a neighbor and two craftsmen as well as for a particular serious person".The department of public prosecution found

child pornography on her computer .However, this investigation has been adjudicated to

be "no significant weight" in comparison to the penalty for the alleged actions. ^[14]

Whatever the earlier relationship between mother and daughter, in February 2013, her 60-year-old mother, Annerose Zschäpe, told Focus that she thought her daughter was being prejudiced and that her position was not considered objectively.She

said that was part of a statement she misrepresented in the press or taken out of context.There was

a lot she would like to put straight, but did not want to say more before the trial commenced. ^[15]

The NSU Trial began on May 6, 2013 before a Higher Regional Court in Munich dealing with state security cases.

According to the code of criminal procedure, the NSU is locatedin one of the federal states.Five

of the nine murders of immigrants took place in Bavaria.Zschäpe is

defended by Wolfgang Heer (Cologne), Wolfgang Stahl (Koblenz) and Anja Sturm (Berlin). ^[16] Beate

Zschäpe had been imprisoned in the prison in Cologne-Ossendorf ^[17] but had been moved to a prison in Munich. ^[18] She

was dismissed by the court-designated psychologist Henning Sass. ^[19] According

to the Defense Counsel, Zschäpe can not be accused of complicity in the NSU murders.In January 2013,

the Higher Regional Court in Munich proposed the release of Zschäpe's imprisonment because the NSU did not exist anymore. ^[21]

In December 2015 Zschäpe, the only surviving member, broke her silence after two and a half years and made a statement, denying that she had been a member of the NSU;even if they are involved with members, they themselves are not members and disapproved of their actions.Uologis

Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt: They apologized to victims' families, saying that they could not prevent the murders and bomb attacks. Few

took her apology seriously, with what she was trying to do. Bild

ran a headline "Zschaepe's confession - nothing but excuses!"^[22] In September 2017 the prosecutors demanded a life sentence for Zschäpe. ^[40]

On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, Beate Zschäpe was convicted of 10 counts of murder , with additional counts of attempted murder, robbery , arson and belonging to a terrorist organization .

Four men were therefore found guilty of supporting the group in various ways and sentenced to prison terms of between two and a half and 10 years.

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The life sentence for Ms. Zschäpe, handed down by Munich's state court judge Manfred Götzl, came with a judgment of "especially heavy guilt," which bars her from seeking parole for 15 years.Her

punishment is the most severe available to a German court. According

to The Guardian , because of the judgment, while legally possible it is highly unlikely that it would be released in 15 years. ^[24]

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