Art community - Germanic faith community with a way of life in keeping with the nature

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The species community - Germanic faith community for a way of life according to the nature of the e. V. is a religious- folk , German-believing- neo - pagan , right-wing extremist , all-Nordic and northern religious, neo-Nazi organization in Germany . It represents ethnic, racist , revisionist and anti-Semitic ideas.

The species community has around 150 members nationwide. Its legal form is that of a registered association with its seat in Berlin-Charlottenburg . It was founded in 1951 by Wilhelm Kusserow . From 1989 to 2009 it was headed by Jürgen Rieger .

history

The species community was founded in 1951 by the former SS member Wilhelm Kusserow in the tradition of the German and Germanic, New Germanic Nordic religious community , whose leader Kusserow was previously, under the name Confidence Circle of Free Faithful Companions . Since 1957 it has been a registered association under the name Artgemeinschaft .

The history of the species community is shaped by several mergers and divisions. In 1965, the Nordic Religious Community, founded in 1954 by Norbert Seibertz, and in the 1980s the Nordungen founded in 1924 joined the species community. After Kusserow was deposed by younger members in 1980, he left the species community and founded the Faith Faith Irminsul loyalty group with his remaining followers . Guido Lauenstein became the new head . From 1989 until his death in 2009 it was directed by Jürgen Rieger, an opponent of Kusserow. The dismissal of Kusserow was not associated with a content reorientation. Only the internationally common name Ásatrú was introduced. In 1989, the name of the association was expanded to include the addition of the Germanic Faith Community for a way of life in keeping with its nature . Under Rieger, the species community tried to become the legal successor to the old Germanic religious community and led a legal dispute with the Germanic religious community Géza von Neményis on this issue . The courts decided in the first and second instance in favor of the GGG Neményis.

One of the forerunners of the species community is above all the Nordic religious community , which was founded in May 1928 after a community under this name had already left the German religious community in 1927 and attempted to unite various Nordic groups, including those next to the north also owned the Germanic faith community of Ludwig Fahrenkrog and parts of the German faith community of Otto Sigfrid Reuters with Norbert Seibertz. The Nordungen , which, along with Norbert Seibertz, played a key role in the founding, withdrew in 1932. The Nordic denomination should have had about 1,000 members.

In 1932, the Nordic religious community joined the Nordic-Religious Working Group , whose leaders were Norbert Seibertz and Kusserow, and which aimed to gather the Nordic-Religious of all communities in order to fight for equality in the state. Right from the start, it placed itself on the same line as National Socialism . In Christianity she saw a "dangerous gateway for Asianism, Judaism and Marxism ". After the Nordic-Religious received no support from the NSDAP as part of the new religious policy , the Nordic-Religious Working Group finally became a member of the German Faith Movement Working Group founded in July 1933 , which was led by Jakob Wilhelm Hauer , where she was the radical wing and spoke out against the participation of the free religious . The hoped-for radical fight against the Christian denominations, however, was not the goal of the Hauer's movement, but their equal rights with the churches as a third denomination . Despite the radicalization of the Working Group on the German Faith Movement , it resigned after the decision was made to found its own organization for the German Faith Movement in May 1934. Under Seibertz, who worked closely with Kusserow, the Nordic religious community reorganized in October 1934. Their newspaper was the Nordische Zeitung , which violently polemicized Hauer and accused him of his earlier collaboration “with the Jew Martin Buber ”. The badge of the Nordic denomination was the silver Hagal rune on a blue background. After 1945 the successor organizations were the species community founded by Kusserow in 1951 and the Nordic religious community founded by Seibertz in 1954 . Attempts to unite with the species community failed. After Seibertz's death, the Nordic religious community joined the species community.

organization

The species community was led by the Hamburg lawyer Jürgen Rieger from 1989 until his death in October 2009. In addition, Rieger was regional chairman of the Hamburg NPD, deputy NPD national chairman and was active in the neo-Nazi scene and right-wing extremist networks .

At the regional level, the species community is divided into so-called “companionships”. Membership is regulated according to racist aspects, i. H. only people from the north can become members. The members belong to different currents of the right-wing scene, from militant neo-fascists to representatives of the new right . The journalistic organ of the group is the Nordische Zeitung, which appears in a small edition for members, in addition one book series, two series of publications as well as some individual texts are published.

Clothing as worn by right-wing extremist skinheads is frowned upon, at least at public events. The North Rhine-Westphalian Office for the Protection of the Constitution warns against underestimating the importance of the species community in the right-wing extremist scene because of the small number of members and marginal external impact, as there are personal interdependencies and connections to the right-wing extremist spectrum, in particular to the Free Comradeships .

The main suspect in the murder case, Walter Lübcke, was a member of the species community, but was excluded because of outstanding membership fees.

Known members

Beliefs and Ideology

Volkish "creed" and racism

The species community sees itself as a religious community of people who are of the Nordic-Germanic nature ("predominantly Nordic-Fälischer human species") and who want to confess religiously to the "species" ( race ) postulated in the publications of the community . It is not based on Germanic polytheism , but rather, like other German believers , cultivates a species-specific monotheism and describes its "Nordic-Germanic paganism" as a belief in species . The association refers to "Germanic moral laws ". Jürgen Rieger called for a “moral law of our kind”, which prescribes the “choice of spouses of the same kind, the guarantee of children of the same kind” and “hardship and hatred of enemies”.

Doctrine of Faith and Reception of Völkischer Ideologeme

In the "Species Confession" it says among other things:

1. All life works according to natural laws. The divine reveals itself to us in these eternal, iron laws, against which it is absurd to violate. We are committed to a life in harmony with the laws of nature.
2. Struggle is part of life; it is naturally necessary for all becoming, being and passing away. Each and every one of us as well as our entire species are in this struggle. We are committed to this never-ending struggle for life.
3. The kinds of people are different in shape and nature. This difference is a sensible adaptation to the different natural spaces. We are committed to preserving and promoting our human species as the highest goal in life, because it is also a revelation of the divine (...)
12. Man is immortal in descendants and relatives who share his inheritance. Only they can embody our ancestral dispositions. We confess that the highest meaning of our existence is the pure transmission of our life.

The doctrines of the species community represent a life in harmony with the laws of nature and the view that life means constant struggle. Belief in life after death is rejected. Instead, it is taught that everyone lives on in the genetic makeup of their offspring. Therefore ancestor worship is of great importance. Passing on of the genetic heritage of the species (breed) to the offspring could be ensured if the spouses look largely identical, i.e. H. of "Nordic-Fälischer" breed. Racial shame , betrayal and perjury are considered a serious violation of the postulated moral law . Life in harmony with the laws of nature is also understood as the preservation of racial unity.

According to Rainer Fromm , “a belief in gods” is “not a decisive religious criterion” of the species community and is lived differently by the members, but uncompromising respect for the laws of nature is binding . Due to the demand for “defensibility to the point of contempt for death against every enemy of family, clan, country, people, Germanic species and Germanic faith” and the “hardship and hatred of enemies”, Fromm sees the “community of species” “as a kind of esoteric wagon against one lifeworld viewed as hostile ”. Because the species community writes: "In a 'multicultural society' with a multitude of races and peoples that the politicians strive for, we can only preserve our own way of life and our genetic heritage within the framework of our own religious community" (source: Jürgen Rieger, leaflet no . 2), is "the species community not only an esoteric, but also a very political organization."

According to Felix Wiedemann, the reception of the witch and the witch hunt is "clearly based on ancient folk literature: the witch embodies a specific species-specific, Germanic-pagan tradition that wanted to destroy the church." The murdered witches and heretics are victims of forced Christianization.

Rejection of ariosophy

Rainer Fromm writes in the publication Brennpunkt Esoterik on the relationship to ariosophy, published by the Hamburg Ministry of the Interior, “In contrast to other organizations from the neo-pagan spectrum, the species community does not refer to Guido von List and Lanz von Liebenfels . Important theoretical models, however, are Schopenhauer , Nietzsche , Eduard v. Hartmann and Feuerbach , with whose help one would like to counter “Christian morality” with an “ethics based on pagan ideas”. Jürgen Rieger also referred to the criticism of religion by William Stewart Ross and to critics of historical Christianity such as Otto von Corvin and Karlheinz Deschner . Charles Darwin is praised as "the smasher of the biblical creation story".

conspiracy theories

Popular conspiracy theories of a link between Zionism , plutocracy and the striving for world domination are also taken up by the community of species. It combats Jewish and Christian humanistic moral concepts in favor of an alleged "right of the strong" ( social Darwinism ) borrowed from nature and the animal world .

Celebrations and symbols

The species community deals primarily with customs . Mainly Germanic-pagan festivals such as winter solstice, Easter, summer solstice and Thanksgiving, equinoxes in spring and autumn as well as some other holidays are celebrated, numerous people and former activists from the right-wing extremist scene also take part in the annual midsummer celebrations.

" Eagle catches fish " symbol

The widespread pagan symbolism includes the Irminsul , a symbol for the world tree or the world ash Yggdrasil , which carries the roof of the world. It is considered a counter-symbol to the Christian cross and was a symbol of the Association for Research Foundation Deutsches Ahnenerbe e. V. , a pseudoscientific research institution headed by the SS . Today it is the symbol of the pagan-Germanic species community.

Another symbol used by the species community is that of the eagle, which grabs the " Christian fish " (ΙΧΘΥΣ ICHTHYS ) with its claws . The symbol was registered by Rieger for the community of species at the German Patent and Trademark Office as the trademark “ Adler grips Ichthys ” in 2002 and entered in the trademark register under the DPMA register number 302381058 . The symbol is considered in the nationalist right as a defensive symbol of an alleged German paganism against an alleged violence of Christendom that has lasted for over a thousand years.

See also

literature

  • Ingolf Christiansen, Rainer Fromm , Hartmut Zinser : Esoteric focus: Occultism, Satanism, right-wing radicalism. Ed. By the Ministry of the Interior - State Youth Authority, Hamburg 2006, pp. 180–182.
  • Stefan von Hoyningen-Huene: Religiousness among right-wing extremist youth. LIT Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8258-6327-1 .
  • Franziska Hundseder: New Germanic paganism between esotericism and right-wing extremism. In: Matthias Pöhlmann (Ed.): Odin's heirs. New Germanic Paganism: Analysis and Criticism. Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions, EZW -tex 184, 2006, ISSN  0085-0357 , pp. 26–36.
  • Andrea Röpke : Dangerous heathen troops. Look to the right on the website , accessed September 16, 2013.
  • Stefanie von Schnurbein: God comfort in times of change. New Germanic paganism between New Age and right-wing radicalism. Claudius, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-532-64003-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie von Schnurbein: God comfort in times of change. New Germanic paganism between New Age and right-wing radicalism. Munich 1993, p. 46ff.
  2. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior (NRW) ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Constitutional Protection Report 2005. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  3. ^ Kurt Nowak: German Believing Movements. In: Theological Real Encyclopedia . Volume 8. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1981, pp. 556 ff.
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  7. ^ Stefan Kühl: For the Betterment of the Race. The Rise and Fall of the International Movement for Eugenics and Racial Hygiene. New York: Springer Nature 2013
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  21. ↑ Kurt Hutten: Christ or German faith. A fight for the German soul . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1935, p. 15f.
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  35. ^ Register information from the German Patent and Trade Mark Office: Register number: 30238105