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Attila Hildmann at a demo in Berlin (archive)
Photo: Christian Mang
Anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, open threats of violence: the former snack bar operator and cookbook author Attila Hildmann has become even more radical in recent weeks after fleeing to Turkey.
As a consequence, some of the last companies that still sold his products are now throwing him out of the range: Amazon and Lieferando.
Until recently, Hildmann had sold vegan cookbooks and groceries such as organic matcha tea at the online mail order company Amazon.
At times, the products were also sent via the Group's own "Prime" offer.
So far, Amazon had refused to remove the author from the range because, in contrast to the other statements by Hildmann, the books did not contain any anti-constitutional content or were indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM).
That has now apparently changed.
"The corresponding products are no longer available," said an Amazon spokesman on request.
Lieferando removes Hildmann snack
The food delivery service Lieferando, which belongs to the Dutch company Just Eat Takeaway, recently ended its collaboration with the cookbook author and former snack bar operator. Last autumn, company boss Katharina Hauke had already indicated a possible expulsion to SPIEGEL. "We are currently discussing in management how to deal with it," said Hauke. Apparently with a clear result: the "Vegan Bio Snackbar by Attila Hildmann" has recently been no longer available in the app.
Hildmann clearly violated the company's terms and conditions, said a Lieferando spokesman.
"We distance ourselves from any non-inclusive behavior." Lieferando and Just Eat Takeaway are inclusive companies that employ open-minded people with a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, religious convictions and ideological ideas "from more than a hundred nations and regions."
Hildmann is currently in hiding in Turkey as a result of an arrest warrant; the Berlin public prosecutor's office accuses him of hating, insulting, threatening and publicly inciting criminal offenses.
He had repeatedly spread anti-Semitic messages on his Telegram channel.
Bad deals
Lieferando and Amazon follow a long line of companies that have distanced themselves from Hildmann for this reason. Kaufland and Vitalia banned the conspiracy theorist's products from their shelves last May, and the juice manufacturer Voelkel stopped producing its energy drink "Daisho". The trading company Tegut followed in June, saying goodbye to the former business partner with clear words: "With the sum total of his statements and actions over the past few weeks, Mr. Hildmann has disqualified himself as a partner for Tegut." discriminatory or offensive statements accepted.
The bookstore chain Thalia, which last July »didn't want to patronize anyone« and accepted that »there are opinions that are not in line with our own values«, has apparently changed its mind. Anyone looking for “Hildmann” on the company's website will now see a message highlighted in blue: “We emphatically distance ourselves from a right-wing and anti-Semitic worldview, such as that represented by Mr Hildmann, among others.” The author is looking for the author's cookbooks vain.
