On Friday evening it became public that charges were being brought against René Schimanek, the former office manager of National Council President Walter Rosenkranz, on suspicion of Nazi reactivation. The public prosecutor’s office (StA) Krems took the public display of a so-called Irminsul on the death notice of René Schimanek’s father, Hans Jörg Schimanek Senior, who died in 2024, as the reason for the indictment. The Irminsul is a symbol that the SS also used.
