Claim: Harald Neubauer was a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany from 1969 to 1981 before he became press advisor of Die Republikaner founder Franz Schönhuber who lost to Franz Handlos in 1985.
Evidence: He was a member of the National Democratic Party of Germany from 1969 to 1972 and again from 1975 to 1981 but became associated with Gerhard Frey and the German People's Union, editing Frey's newspaper Deutschen Anzeigers (1975–1983). 
In 1983 he joined Die Republikaner and became press advisor of party founder Franz Schönhuber the following year. 
He backed Schönhuber in his subsequent power struggle with Franz Handlos and as such when Schönhuber became Chairman in 1985 he appointed Neubauer as secretary.