Action resistance
The action resistance was a right-wing organization that from 1970 to 1971 in the Federal Republic of Germany was.
history
The idea for the Resistance Action arose in the context of the violent demonstrations on the occasion of the visit of the Prime Minister of the GDR , Willi Stoph , on May 21, 1970 in Kassel . The organizers of the demonstration, Bernhard C. Wintzek , Alfred Ernst Manke and Herbert Böhme , formed the so-called Alliance Action W on October 4, 1970 .
Action Resistance was formally founded . V. (AW) by officials of the NPD on October 5, 1970 in Munich . The founding members included Peter Kleist , Linus Kather , Gert Sudholt , Waldemar Schütz and Arthur Ehrhardt as well as Andreas Rau, federal youth officer in the NPD, who led the establishment of the JN . The party executive largely financed the propaganda activities.
Content profile
After the right-wing extremist NPD failed to enter the Bundestag with 4.3% of the votes in the 1969 Bundestag election , the party quickly fell. The NPD tried to prevent a breakup by founding the Aktion Resistance as an extra-parliamentary movement. All activities of this organization were focused on the attempt to stop the Ostpolitik of the then federal government. A number of other right-wing extremist organizations joined the Resistance Action , for example the German Cultural Work of European Spirit (DKEG), the Oder-Neisse Action (AKON), the Association of East German Landowners (GOG) and the Working Group of People's Associations (AVV). Around 3,000 right-wing extremists took part in a founding congress of the Action Resistance on October 31, 1970 in Würzburg . The original Würzburg speeches by Bernhard-Christian Wintzek and Alfred Ernst Manke contained extensive abuse of the then government. At the subsequent violent demonstration, the chants " Walter Scheel and Willy Brandt - traitors on the wall" or "German land is not given away - rather the Brandt is hanged" . The German Social Action (DSA) founded by the former NPD functionary Dierck Schwartländer was one of the hard core of the Resistance Action .
resolution
Since almost all events and demonstrations of the Action Resistance subsequently took place violently (among other things under the slogan “Brandt an die Wand” ), the NPD very quickly distanced itself from this SA-style association. On June 20, 1971, the NPD party executive decided to no longer support the Resistance Action . After this distancing, the organization was dissolved by its founders in the same year.
For the history of militant right-wing extremism and right-wing terrorism , the short episode of the Resistance Action is relevant to the extent that after its dissolution, numerous smaller militant associations and military sports groups emerged that were banned between the 1970s and 1990s (e.g. the military sports group Hengst , the military sports group Hoffmann , Michael Kühnens ANS / NA , Friedhelm Busses VSBD and Manfred Roeders German Action Groups ).
The youth organization of the NPD, the JN, continues to use the name Aktion Resistance to this day.
literature
- Action resistance. An anti-democratic movement represented in documents. Edited by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1971.
- Christoph Kopke : The Action Resistance 1970/71: The "national opposition" between collection and fragmentation. In: Massimiliano Livi, Daniel Schmidt, Michael Sturm (eds.): The 1970s as a black decade. Politicization and mobilization between Christian democracy and the extreme right . Campus, Frankfurt a. M. / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39296-7 , pp. 249-262.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Jung, Eckart Spoo: The legal cartel. Hanser 1971, p. 127.