German councillor Marcel Zech whose tattoo of the Auschwitz death camp is jailed

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Marcel Zech, 27, was seen at Oranienburg swimming pool with the tattoo
Inking shows entrance to Auschwitz and Nazi saying 'Jedem das Seine'
Zech belongs to neo-Nazi National Democratic Party and sits on state council in Barnim, north-east of Berlin

By Julian Robinson and Kieran Corcoran for MailOnline

Published: 10:20 EST, 22 December 2015 | Updated: 16:00 EST, 22 December 2015

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A far-right German politician who has spotted with a concentration camp and a Nazi slogan tattooed on his back has been given a suspended jail sentence.

Marcel Zech, 27, has been charged with incitement after appearing in public with a detailed drawing of the entrance to Auschwitz just above his swimming shorts.

He also has the saying Jedem das Seine ('to each his own') written under the drawing, which was captured by a shocked photographer at a pool in Oranienburg, a town 15 miles outside Berlin.

Tattoo: Marcel Zech, 27, is accused of displaying this tatttoo showing Auschwitz and a Nazi slogan in public at a pool in Oranienburg, 15 miles outside of Berlin

The words were emblazoned over the entrance to the Buchenwald concentration camp and are associated with Hitler's genocidal policies which killed some six million people in the Second World War.

A court handed Zech a suspended six-month sentence.

He is a member of the far-right National Democratic Party, and won a seat on the council of the state of Barnim, which is in north-east Germany and borders Poland.

Zech made the pool visit on November 21, where he was pictured with his tattoo on display.

Local police launched a manhunt at the start of this month to find the man's identity, which led prosecutors in the town of Neuruppin to name Zech on Friday.

Zech has a criminal record for race hate crimes. In June this year he was ordered to pay €360 after posing as a police officer to try to learn the identities of anti-fascist demonstrators who tore down his party's posters in his hometown.

In a 2013 court appearance he was fined €1,200 for assault. He won his council seat in 2014.

He works as a window cleaner and, according to local media reports, has been seen at least once before swimming in a lake with his tattoos on show. On his stomach he has the old Reich eagle tattooed - not a forbidden symbol.

On his left arm he has a black sun, a typical Nazi-era symbol. Germany's Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence agency, lists him as a 'neo-Nazi'.

He belongs to one group which provocatively buried a wooden swastika in the ground opposite the gates of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.