Udo Pastörs (born 1952) is a German politician and convicted Holocaust denier.
Pastörs was considered one of the leading cadres within the traditional right-wing extremist scene in Germany until AfD emerged.
He was convicted several times for incitement to hatred and Holocaust denial and openly represented racist and anti-Semitic views.
[4][5] On 3 October 2019, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously decided on the case Pastörs v. Germany (application no.
55225/14)[6] that a decision from the German Courts sentencing him to eight months' imprisonment, suspended on probation, based on the fact that a speech made by German politician Udo Pastörs stating that "the so-called Holocaust is being used for political and commercial purposes", as well as other Holocaust denial comments, incurred in violation of the memory of the dead and of the intentional defamation of the Jewish people was not a violation of Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the European Convention on Human Rights.