Career
A former German Air Force colonel and a spokesperson for the far-right Deutschland-Bewegung, Mechtersheimer is known for his protest against Germany"s participation in North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Mechtersheimer was also a leading figure in the peace movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and among the founders of the ecopax movement. Afterward Mechtersheimer has organized various movements known for their "stridently nationalist brand of national pacifism". His politics since the 1990s have been self-described as "Nationalpazifismus" (roughly: national-pacifist).