Attila Hildmann

Attila Klaus-Peter Hildmann (born 22 April 1981) is a German vegan cookbook author and far-right conspiracy theorist. He has described himself as "ultra-right-wing" and as a German nationalist. He was repeatedly characterized as antisemitic. He has been wanted with a European arrest warrant by German prosecutors since 2021 and is on the run. Born in West Berlin, Hildmann is of Turkish descent and was raised by German adoptive parents. He studied for a diploma in physics at the Free University of Berlin but failed to graduate.Hildmann became vegetarian after witnessing his adoptive father die of a heart attack whilst on a ski trip in 2000. He attributed the death to excessive meat consumption resulting in hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol). Fearing the same fate and being heavily overweight, he renounced meat and fish products, and began to exercise regularly, losing 35 kg in weight. Over time, he abstained from consuming almost all animal products and became primarily vegan.In 2009, Hildmann wrote his first vegan cookbook. In 2012, his Vegan for Fun was named cookbook of the year by Vegetarierbund Deutschland, the German branch of the International Vegetarian Union.Hildmann appears in YouTube videos and has been featured in numerous television programs and talk shows, including Maischberger, TV total, ZDF's Volle Kanne, SWR's Nachtcafé, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk's daheim + unterwegs. In March 2016, he was a contestant in the TV show Let's Dance.In April 2017, Hildmann participated in the TV show Schlag den Star against Luke Mockridge.