In July we received many inquiries about the father of the Sea-Watch3 captain, Carola Rackete, who is said to be selling weapons. Here is our information about it.

The background is that Captain Rackete was arrested in Italy at the weekend after she brought rescued people ashore. Their choice of either taking the people to Tripoli, which was illegal, or dropping them off in Lampedusa without permission is currently being discussed a lot (more on this at the Tagesschau ).

We received inquiries about articles like these:

“The fact that the father of Sea-Watch3 captain Carola Rackete works as a consultant for Mehler Engineerd Defense GmbH and earns his money from arms sales is just a minor matter and has nothing to do with double standards, right?”

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Father sells guns?

As part of this debate, the post spreads that her father makes “money selling weapons.” Her father, Ekkehart Rackete, 74, is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Bundeswehr and an engineer. He is really a senior consultant, i.e. a consultant at a company called Mehler Engineered Defense GmbH.

According to its own information, this company does not produce weapons , but rather materials to protect people from ammunition and shrapnel, etc. ( source ). You are involved in the development and construction as well as in the testing and testing of the products.

[Addendum July 4, 2019] The company's field of activity also includes the production of protective systems for weapons, tanks and warships.

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These include bulletproof vests, uniforms for bomb defusers, protective systems for weapons and the like. Although these are products from the arms industry, it is not true that he makes money from arms sales.

During his active time in the Bundeswehr, however, he worked in the rocket research department, Focus quotes Ekkehard Rackete here

“My daughter is determined and analytical. “I would have loved to have her as an officer in my rocket research department in the Bundeswehr,” said the retired lieutenant colonel.

"Collective punishment"?

Of course, the question also remains as to what the father's activity actually has to do with the daughter's actions and to what extent she is responsible for them.

It is therefore likely to be purely a stylistic device for forming an opinion if the activities of close relatives are used in this context in order to deliberately discredit a person.

Article image: Press / sea-watch.org


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