Next mega fuss about Martin Hinteregger (29)!
Eintracht’s defender is organizing a football festival in his home village of Sirnitz (Carinthia/Austria) next week. Hobby footballers compete against each other at the Hinti Cup, live bands are supposed to play, even DJ Ötzi comes.
But now it comes out: Hinteregger is working on the organization with a well-known right-wing extremist from Austria. His name: Heinrich Sickl. Together with him and another shareholder, Hinteregger founded “Hinti Event GmbH” in the run-up to the event, each bringing in 12,000 euros. Hinteregger does business with right-wing extremists. What a scandal! Eintracht is currently advising how to deal with it. According to “Kurier”, the Austrian Football Association (ÖFB) is also demanding a statement from the national player on the events.
Who is Sickl? The former Graz municipal councilor of the right-wing populist FPÖ has been connected to right-wing extremism for decades. At the age of 17 he was already a member of the banned German neo-Nazi organization “Nationalist Front”. Sickl also has a direct line to the “Identitarian Movement”, which he supported with donations and where he was also involved as a steward at demos.
In addition, Sickl is said to have organized events as chairman of the “Free Association of Academics” together with Götz Kubitschek’s right-wing extremist “Institute for State Politics”. Kubitschek is a central figure of the New Right.
Karl Dreisiebner is the leader of the Greens parliamentary group in Graz and knows Sickl from his time (2018 to 2021) in the municipal council. Dreisiebner to BILD: “We in Graz and Styria know that Mr. Sickl maintained a close connection to the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement. He has a long personal history with them and has even rented rooms to the right-wing extremist association. I doubt that he suddenly no longer has any contact with this club, which is being monitored by state security. He is well known in the far-right scene.”
The Sickl family is well known in Hinti’s home village of Sirnitz (almost 300 inhabitants). Sickl’s mother, former federal minister of the FPÖ, is the owner of Albeck Castle and regularly organizes events there. Heinrich Sickl has been involved since 2021.
How does Hinteregger feel about his partner’s connections? Did he know? The defense attorney hasn’t commented yet…
