Working group for democratic politics

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The Working Group for Democratic Politics ( AFP ) is a political party in Austria ; it is also organized as an association under the name Action Community for Politics . Her emphasis is on “ideological-cultural [r] work with a decidedly right-wing extremist tendency”. According to an assessment by the Austrian Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Fight against Terrorism in 2006, it was at that time the “most active reservoir of the organized right-wing extremist scene in Austria ”. For years it also fulfilled an important connecting function in right-wing extremist camps across Europe, above all through events.

The AFP was founded in 1963 under the name Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Politik . In 1973, as a result of a series of events with Manfred Roeder and the resulting legal consequences, the name was changed to Aktiongemeinschaft für Politik . In 1975 it was renamed the Working Group for Current Affairs . Today it operates under the name of the Working Group for Democratic Politics (AFP). Her publications consistently show contributions with neo-Nazi and historical revisionist agitation. A central concern of the AFP is the fight against the Nazi Prohibition Act .

The AFP itself always has only a few activists, but it has had numerous connections to groups, people and publications of the extreme right at home and abroad. As a result, she assumed an integrative role in the right-wing extremist camp. The AFP does not run for elections itself, but calls for support to the FPÖ , to which it maintains good contacts according to the findings of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW). The theoretical pioneer of AFP is the journalist Konrad Windisch, born in 1932 . It organizes readings, concerts, discussion evenings and other events. The AFP's Political Academy took place from 1966 to 2015 , where various right-wing extremist, German national and neo-Nazi personalities met. FPÖ officials also appeared there several times as speakers. This event had an important integration function for the right-wing extremist scene in Austria.

Your organs of publication are the Vienna Observer and the Commentaries on Current Affairs , both sheets continue to appear several times a year (as of 2019). In Vienna- Ottakring , the AFP had premises that were renamed from Freiherr-von-der-Trenck -Heim to Dr.- Fritz-Stüber -Heim in 1992 after the 20-man armed military sports group Trenck under Gottfried there in January of that year Küssel was dug up by the police.

The Federation of Free Youth acted as the youth organization of the AFP. During the observation period relevant to the 2006 report on the Protection of the Constitution, he was increasingly involved in the preparation and implementation of AFP activities, which the Protection of the Constitution saw as a sign of the progress of the generation change among the leading activists of the established right-wing extremist scene. The finding of its central role within contemporary right-wing extremism is now, however, just like the parent organization, outdated: the organization no longer appears in more recent reports on the protection of the constitution.

The answer to a request from the SPÖ National Councilor Sabine Schatz by the then Interior Minister Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) in the first quarter of 2018 could not reveal any current information about the current activities of the AFP.

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  1. ↑ a b c Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Combating Terrorism (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2006 , p. 32f, as of September 27, 2007.
  2. ^ DÖW (Ed.): Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism. 2nd Edition. Vienna 1993, p. 116. Quoted from: Current development tendencies in the right-wing extremist scene in Austria. “Free Comradeships”, Blood & Honor, and the “League of Free Youth” . Anonymized thesis. September 2003, p. 96 (location: DÖW library , Vienna)
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Purtscheller : Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85452-239-8 , p. 89.
  4. ↑ Heribert Schiedel : The right edge. Extremist sentiments in our society. Edition Steinbauer, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902494-25-2 , p. 82.
  5. ↑ Anti-Roeder working group (ed.): Nazi propagandists under the microscope . Reents, Flensburg 1978, ISBN 3-88305-003-1 , p. 194.
  6. ↑ Antifaschistisches Autorenkollektiv (Hrsg.): Masterminds in the brown net - A current overview of the neo-Nazi underground in Germany and Austria. Hamburg 1996 (people, organizations), p. 231f.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Purtscheller: Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network. 1993, p. 91.
  8. ↑ a b Working Group for Democratic Politics (AFP) . Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
  9. ↑ Current development tendencies in the right-wing extremist scene in Austria. “Free Comradeships”, Blood & Honor, and the “League of Free Youth” . Anonymized thesis. September 2003, p. 100 (location: DÖW library , Vienna)
  10. ↑ Current development tendencies in the right-wing extremist scene in Austria. “Free Comradeships”, Blood & Honor, and the “League of Free Youth” . Anonymized thesis. September 2003, p. 96.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Purtscheller: Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network. 1993, p. 90.
  12. ↑ Julia Grillmayr: Hysteria: And laughing the hyena shows her teeth , derstandard.at , March 15, 2017
  13. ↑ Inquiry from the Minister of the Interior (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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