Hans-Christoph Berndt

[2] He then spent a year visiting the course for ancient Greek and Latin at the Priesterseminar Erfurt [de] in Schöneiche.

[4] He worked as a clinical pathologist at the Berlin Charité from the mid-1980s, where he was chairman of the staff council of the medical faculty for about ten years.

[10] Berndt is co-founder and one of the two chairmen of the anti-refugee association Zukunft Heimat [de], founded in 2015, which organizes events and demonstrations in Cottbus and the surrounding area.

[4] he association from Golßen, with around 100 members, is classified by the Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution as "proven right-wing extremist" and " influenced by neo-Nazis".

[11] Berndt is considered a networker and has connections to various organizations of the German New Right (Neuen Rechten) such as One Percent for Our Country [de], the Institute for State Policy [de] and the right-wing extremist magazine Compact by Jürgen Elsässer, ll of which are monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

In early May 2020, a few weeks after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Berndt publicly asked at a demonstration whether "anyone has died of Corona at all".

[14] Berndt rejected the wearing of mouth and nose protection to prevent infection as a "symbol of oppression".

[15] Even in December 2020, when the number of new infections in Brandenburg, Germany and worldwide had risen dramatically, he continued to claim that there was no excess mortality.