Action New Rights (Germany)

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The Action New Right (ANR) was a spin-off from the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and existed from 1972 to 1974. The ANR is considered to be the “original cell” or the “beginning” of a new right in Germany.

history

The founding of the ANR was a consequence of the internal party crisis of the NPD, which began after the Bundestag election campaign in 1969 and expressed itself through struggles for direction and increasing radicalization. The national chairman of the NPD Bavaria, Siegfried Pöhlmann , wanted to collect the actionist potential that arose in the course of the Aktion Resistance and use it for a renewal of the “old nationalism”.

Pöhlmann was one of the most important rivals of the federal chairman Adolf von Thadden , whom he attacked in 1971 because of his overly legalistic course, which, according to Pöhlmann, had caused the NPD's falling popularity. At the Holzminden party congress of the NPD in 1971, Pöhlmann was defeated by Martin Mußgnug , whom Thadden, who had recently resigned, had proposed as the new chairman. Pöhlmann then left the NPD with his wing and founded the ANR.

founding

The New Rights Campaign was founded on January 9, 1972 in Munich by Pöhlmann, who had spectacularly resigned from the party shortly before at the party congress of the Bavarian NPD regional association on the same day after a battle speech. In addition to about a third of the NPD delegates from the party congress, a total of about 460 delegates from all over Germany took part in the subsequent ANR founding event in the Augustiner basement in Munich .

In addition to numerous members of the Bavarian NPD and the Young National Democrats , twelve organizations with a total of 400 members and seven different publications took part in the ANR, according to the Federal Constitutional Protection Report from 1972, including Friedhelm Busses Party of Labor / German Socialists , the Young Forum working group around Lothar Penz and Henning Eichberg , the wing of the Independent Workers' Party (UAP) around Wolfgang Strauss , the Berlin Extra-Parliamentary Cooperation (APM) around Sven Thomas Frank and other “popular socialist” or “ national revolutionary ” groups.

Internal conflicts

In the ANR, three different currents of the then new right gathered, which subsequently vied with one another for ideological supremacy within the organization: young intellectuals from national revolutionary grassroots groups, national conservative NPD functionaries and representatives of a Hitlerist tendency. The internal wing struggles were intensified in January 1972 by the entry of the ANR into the Freedom Council (FR), a rallying movement initiated by Gerhard Frey and Alfred E. Manke , the protest actions against the impending ratification of the Moscow Treaty and the Warsaw Treaty by the German Bundestag (national revolutionary and neo-Nazi forces, both inside and outside the ANR, rejected Pöhlmann's participation and instead organized their own demonstrations against the Eastern Treaty with the UAP and the Blue Eagle Youth under the leadership of Wolfgang Strauss). The internal differences increased when, from April 1972, Pöhlmann had the official ANR body Law and Order (RuO) relocated by Frey for financial reasons . Frey and his organizations were considered by the national revolutionaries and militants to represent the conservative "old right", from which they had deliberately separated. Representatives of the national revolutionary wing then founded the magazine Neue Zeit , which was headed by Wolfgang Strauss and in which Strauss, Henning Eichberg, Uwe Michael Troppenz under the pseudonym Michael Meinrad, Wolfgang Günther under the pseudonym Gert Waldmann and Fritz Joss wrote the most important articles.

At the first ordinary federal congress of the ANR on January 6th and 7th, 1973 a board was elected, which consisted of representatives of all rival factions. Pöhlmann was confirmed in his office. Peter Stöckicht and Helmut Heinze became board members . Georg-Wilhelm Burre became the general secretary, Rüdiger Schrembs took over the ideology division, Richard Vahlberg took over the training division and Friedhelm Busse took over the strategy division. Manfred Clench became federal treasurer. At the federal congress it was decided to leave the Freedom Council . With the inclusion of Lothar Penz and Hans Amhoff on an enlarged board, the national revolutionaries prevailed in the ANR. Penz and Amhoff were also responsible for the training area of ​​the ANR. In June 1973 the contract with Frey on the magazine Law and Order was terminated and instead the magazine Neue Zeit was elevated to the official ANR magazine as an "organ for European socialism".

This new development led to renewed tension in the summer of 1973. In protest against the strengthening of the national revolutionaries, Peter Stöckicht and Friedhelm Busse resigned their offices and thus initiated the exodus of the militant and “people's socialist” faction from the ANR.

Decay

But the disputes between the two remaining factions continued to escalate and, after legal disputes and mutual exclusions in February 1974, resulted in a split between the supporters of Pöhlmann and the national revolutionary supporters of General Secretary Georg-Wilhelm Burre. Pöhlmann kept the name ANR by court order.

On March 2, 1974, the ANR elected a new board headed by Pöhlmann at its federal congress in Gerolzhofen . At the same time, the supporters of Burres met in Würzburg and provisionally constituted a national revolutionary organizational structure (NRAO; the NRAO split again shortly after it was founded, its larger wing gathered under the influence of Eichberg as a cause of the people / NRAO ). This split weakened the ANR considerably, as most of the active forces remained with the National Revolutionaries and ANR activities subsided. Pöhlmann tried unsuccessfully to establish the ANR as a party.

Content profile

The ANR policy statement was written by Henning Eichberg and appeared in early 1972 in the national revolutionary journal Junge Forum . In this manifesto of a European movement , the essential points of orientation of a “new right” were postulated: the idea of ​​an anti-Marxist and anti-capitalist “European socialism ”, the demand for the “creation of a community of achievement” that is not based on equal opportunities for every individual in society, but rather based on the "equality of opportunities for all", the support of an anti-imperialist "liberation nationalism" and the declaration of war against the " re- educators" and an "educational dictatorship" for a "great power Europe" to be created. The main slogans could be read in the membership card of the ANR: "Fight communism - fight materialist capitalism - for a new order - community interest comes before profit interest, work comes before capital."

Known members

See also

literature

  • Margret Feit , The New Right in the Federal Republic. Organization, ideology, strategy , Campus Verlag 1987, chapter 3.9 The “Action New Rights” , pp. 42–47.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alice Brauner-Orthen : The New Right in Germany: Anti-Democratic and Racist Tendencies , Leske & Budrich 2001, p. 18.
  2. ^ Rainer Benthin , The New Right in Germany and its Influence on the Political Discourse of the Present , Peter Lang Verlag 1996, p. 27.
  3. ^ Paul Hoser: Right-wing extremism. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . February 3, 2014, accessed February 25, 2015 .
  4. ^ Gideon Botsch : The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 until today . Scientific Book Society , Darmstadt 2012, p. 66f.
  5. ↑ Uta Döring, fear zones: right-dominated places from a medial and local perspective , Springer Verlag 2008, p. 65.
  6. ↑ a b Gideon Botsch : The extreme right in the Federal Republic of Germany 1949 to today . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2012, p. 70f.
  7. ↑ Young Forum, 1/1972, pp. 15-18.
  8. ↑ Annette Linke, The multimillionaire Frey and the DVU: data, facts, background , Klartext Verlag 1994, p. 89.
  9. ↑ Thomas Grumke , Bernd Wagner , Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus , Springer Verlag 2013, p. 273