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Aktion Sauberes Deutschland (ASD) was a small German right-wing extremist organization founded by Ernst Tag .

background

Ernst Tag, a former NPD functionary from Weidenthal , distanced himself after Michael Kühnen's arrest in 1984 due to his more or less public commitment to homosexuality . Tag tried to get his supporters on his side and founded his own, as yet nameless neo-Nazi group, which Markus Mössle also belonged to. Tag polemicized so much against Kühnen that on January 15, 1987 he was expelled from the Aid Organization for National Political Prisoners and Their Relatives (HNG).

He then decided to found his own aid organization. In 1986 he founded Aktion Sauberes Deutschland, the structure of which he used in 1987 to found the International Aid Committee for National Political Persecutees and Their Relatives (IHV). Ernst Tag acted as head of organization. The first local groups were formed in Kaiserslautern and Grenzach (under the direction of Christoph Bauer). From 1989 further local groups were added in Pirmasens (head: Markus Walter), Bad Dürkheim, Leinefeld (head: Michael See) and Mühlhausen (Thuringia, head: Michael Neubauer). Tag also claimed to have set up groups in Hanover, Husum, Ludwigshafen, Otterberg, Solingen, Weil am Rhein and Worms.

Ernst Tag was arrested on February 23, 1989 and remained in custody until 1992. During this time the organization was largely inactive. In 1994 the Busenberg Jewish Cemetery was desecrated by neo-Nazis. In December 1997, the police identified seven suspects, six of whom belonged to the right-wing extremist Action Clean Germany , including Alexander Larras, local group leader from Göppingen. In the subsequent process, Larras distanced himself from the right-wing extremist scene and came out as an informant for the protection of the constitution .

In 1994 there was a break between Tag and his functionaries Michael See and Michael Neubauer, who accused him of an authoritarian leadership style. See then founded Aktion Volkeswille (AVW) and Neubauer founded the Freundeskreis Nationaler Sozialisten (FNS), both of which made use of the structures of the ASD and later merged as FNS / AVW. Michael See, who wrote for both the IHV and the HNG periodicals, was later exposed as an undercover agent for the protection of the constitution.

An official dissolution of the ASD is not known, but no further activities are known since mid-1990.

Periodicals

The ASD published the irregularly appearing magazine Der Schulungsbrief . This was published by Christoph Bauer. In addition, from March 1994 the sun banner by Michael See appeared, which was also assigned to the IHV. See later published it as a magazine of his DHS.

ideology

Tag saw himself as a national socialist and had sought greater influence in the neo-Nazi scene since 1986. He also converted his house in Weidental into a national training center. In 1987, after the death of Rudolf Hess , he renamed it "Rudolf-Hess-Haus". The ASD defined itself as a national-socialist movement, the aim of which was to found a political elite of the German people. The ASD also defined itself through its anti-Semitism and anti-communism . After a relatively strong start, Tag was relatively isolated in the neo-fascist scene in Germany in the mid-1990s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Stöss : The Extreme Right in the Federal Republic of Germany , Springer Verlag, pp. 171-172. ISBN 9783322941640
  2. ^ A b c d e Mecklenburg, Jens .: Handbook of German right-wing extremism . Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 216 f . ( apabiz.de [accessed on April 18, 2019]).
  3. ^ Ministry of the Interior and for Sport Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 1987 - Rhineland-Palatinate . Mainz August 1988, p. 95 f .
  4. ↑ Otmar Weber: "Like a white lily in its first blossom ..." The Jewish cemetery in Busenberg. Verlag Geiger-Druck, Dahn 1998, ISBN 3-00-003507-9 . P. 324ff.
  5. ^ V-man portrait: Michael See / von Dolsperg. In: NSU Watch. February 10, 2015, accessed on April 18, 2019 (German).
  6. ^ Ministry of the Interior and for Sport Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 1986 - Rhineland-Palatinate . Mainz June 1987, p. 109 .