A Segway-driving druid who carries a tribal spear has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of having plotted attacks on Jews and Muslims.

The self-proclaimed Jew-and-immigrant-hating 62-year-old identified only as Burghard B - was one of two people arrested in raids on properties in six different federal states in Germany. 

As well as the two men arrested, police said they also seized weapons and quantities of ammunition and explosives.

Several of those targeted were considered to be part of the Reichsburger - Citizens of the Reich - movement, a largely hidden extremist group whose members reject the legitimacy of the German authorities and instead insist that the German Reich's 1919 pre-Weimar borders remain in effect.

Bearded Burghard is a well-known figure under his alias Druid Burgos von Buchonia, and is often spotted on his Segway delivering rebel-rousing speeches blaming Jews, refugees and the Bilderberg group for all the world's problems.

The Bilderberg Group is an association of 120 to 150 people, primarily European and North American business and financial experts, as well as academics and politicians, who meet regularly behind closed doors, sparking many allegations by conspiracy theorists.

Frequently seen in his white cloak holding the ceremonial spear in his hand, the druid from the town of Schwetzingen in the south-western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg is said to be one of the leaders of the shadowy Reichsburger movement.

He has gone on record saying: 'My self-esteem tells me that I have to destroy the Jews and Muslims before they destroy my clan or my family.'

The extremist druid regularly spouts his hate on online forums, with local media reporting that even days before his arrest he had threatened attacks.

He wrote: 'Pork heads to every synagogue, mosque, and kebab place. 

'Slaughterhouses can deliver them.'

The other man who was arrested is said to be 57-year-old Karsten R, who was taken into custody in the German capital of Berlin.

He is an online friend of Burghard B on Nazi forums, reports said.

Heavily tattooed Karsten R has also spouted anti-Semitic hatred online.

On one occasion he wrote: 'Over and over again, it is the s****y Jews who stretch out their greedy paws to seize everything, things that they have neither worked for, nor created, and that would never normally belong to them in any way.'

Together with five others, Burghard B and Karsten R are suspected of founding a right-wing terrorist group.

Federal Minister of Justice Heiko Maas said: 'This is an important signal against the right-wing extremist scene in Germany.'

According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the dangers of the extremist Reichsburger movement have intensified considerably in recent months.

It is estimated that there are over 10,000 members of the Reichsburger movement in Germany.