The Solingen arson attack (German: Solinger Brandanschlag) was one of the most severe instances of racist violence in modern Germany.

On the night of 28–29 May 1993, four young German men (ages 16–23) belonging to the far right skinhead scene, with neo-Nazi ties, set fire to the house of a large Turkish family in Solingen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

In December 1988, a German extreme-right militant, Josef Seller, set fire to the "Habermeier Haus" building in Schwandorf, Bavaria, killing the Turkish couple Fatma and Osman Can, together with their son Mehmet.

During the three-day riot of Rostock-Lichtenhagen in August 1992, several thousand people surrounded a high-rise building and watched approvingly while militants threw Molotov cocktails.

Mevlüde Genç, 50 years old at the time and the oldest member of the family, was able to climb out of a window and alert neighbors.

[12] According to the confession, Gartmann, Kohnen and Buchholz had clashed with foreigners at a party that night, met up with Reher and then, while drunk, decided to "frighten" some Turks.

[13] Towards the end of the trial, Gartmann withdrew his confession, claiming that it had been issued under duress and that he had been threatened with having to share a cell with Turks.

[16] The memorial services were attended by several high-ranking German officials, with President Richard von Weizsäcker giving the first speech.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl was criticized for not visiting Solingen nor attending the memorial or burial services;[1] he had denounced what he called "Beileidstourismus" ("condolence tourism") of other politicians.

[17] A memorial to commemorate the event was unveiled one year after the attack, in front of the Mildred-Scheel-Schule, a school that Hatice Genç had attended.

[17] One of the recipients was Kamil Kaplan, a Turk who in February 2008 had lost his wife, two daughters and his mother in a fire catastrophe in Ludwigshafen in which a total of nine people had died; right-wing arson had initially been suspected, but the case was later found to have been an accident.

[16] In 2012, Mevlüde Genc was nominated by the CDU state party to be a member of the 15th Federal Convention to elect the next German President.

[19] As of 2008, the surviving victims still live in Solingen, in a house built with donations and insurance money,[17] protected by cameras and special fire windows.