Career
He was the chairman and main financial backer of the patriotic party Deutsche Volksunion, which he founded in 1971. He resigned as chairman in January 2009. Gerhard Frey was born in 1933 in Cham.
Frey died 2013 at age 80 in Gräfelfing near Munich.
The left-wing academic Cas Mudde described Frey as "One of the most influential people in the German post-war extreme right scene" and a "multi-millionaire media czar who owns and publishes several newspapers".