Working group of popular associations
The Arbeitskreis Volkstreuer Associations (AVV) was an umbrella organization of various right-wing extremist associations, with an important integrative function in the right-wing extremist camp in West Germany ; it existed from 1965 to 1979.
history
The working group of people's associations was founded in 1965 by Herbert Böhme and employees of the German Cultural Association of the European Spirit . Böhme headed the AVV until his death in 1971. After that, Alfred E. Manke took over the management. The working group increasingly lost its integrative importance in the 1970s. Remnants of the working group were renamed the Naturpolitischer Volksbund at the end of 1979 .
According to Wolfgang Benz , eighteen organizations belonged to the working group, including Aktion Oder-Neisse , the Bund Heimattreuer Jugend , the Jugendbund Adler , the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten , the “German Cultural Work of the European Spirit” and the German Community . Another extremism researcher, Patrick Moreau , wrote that the AVV in 1971 consisted of 16 organizations representing around 3,500 members.
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Stöss: Party handbook. Westdeutscher Verlag, 1983, pp. 819-820, 832-833.
- ^ Jens Mecklenburg : Handbook of German right-wing extremism. Elefanten-Press, 1996, p. 152.
- ↑ Kurt Hirsch: Report on neo-Nazi activities 1979. PDI-Taschenbuch 6 from 1980, p. 59.
- ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Ino Arndt: Right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic. Fischer Taschenbuch, 1989, p. 283.
- ↑ Patrick Moreau: Les héritiers du IIIe Reich: l'extrême droite allemande de 1945 à nos jours. Verlag Seuil, 1994, p. 169.