Bückeburg trial

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The Bückeburg trial was a court case in 1979 against several right-wing extremists from the military sports group Rohwer as well as from the environment of the military sports group Werwolf and the national socialist action front around Michael Kühnen . This was the first time that right-wing extremists in Germany were convicted as terrorists .

The trial was opened in May 1979 before the Third Criminal Senate of the Higher Regional Court of Celle in Bückeburg . During the 40-day trial against the defendants Michael Kühnen, Manfred Börm , Lothar Schulte , Lutz Wegener , Uwe Rohwer and Klaus-Dieter Puls , twelve experts and 132 witnesses were heard. Among them was the American neo-Nazi Gary Lauck , who was wanted by the German law enforcement authorities, but who was granted immunity for his entry. Evidence was provided in the process that robberies to raise funds were also among the activities of the groups.

On November 22, 1977, two defendants had attacked a barracks in Wentorf near Hamburg and captured the HK G3 assault rifle belonging to the guard. In December, the group attacked a building contractor in Cologne and robbed a savings bank in Hamburg . In February 1978, a heavily armed attack on Dutch soldiers took place at the Bergen military training area , during which Börm and four other defendants captured four Uzi submachine guns and ammunition. The group subsequently planned the liberation of Rudolf Hess , the murder of Beate and Serge Klarsfeld and an attack on the memorial in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .

The judgments were made on September 13th. In the case of Schulte, Wegener, Röhwer and Puls, the court saw membership in a terrorist organization as proven. They received prison terms of between eight and eleven years for various assaults and acts of violence. Börm, who was involved in fewer actions by the group, was sentenced to seven years in prison, among other things for membership in a criminal (non-terrorist) organization.

The 24-year-old Kühnen received four years imprisonment for crimes of sedition , incitement to racial hatred and the glorification of violence. It was established that the Action Front of National Socialists founded by Kühnen was a successor organization to the NSDAP .

literature

• Hans Robinsohn : No Weimar Judgment? About the Bückeburg trial of six neo-Nazis . In: Operations . No. 42, No. 6, 1979, ISSN  0507-4150 , p. 23.

Web links

• Neo-Nazis highly punished , Die Zeit (No. 39), September 21, 1979.
• Philipp Schnee: The almost forgotten “Stammheim from the right” on Deutschlandfunk Kultur on September 18, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ American Jewish Yearbook, 1981, p. 210.
2. ↑ Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Right-wing radicalism: marginal phenomenon or renaissance? . Fischer-Verlag, Frankfurt, 1980, pp. 9-40.
3. ↑ Andrea Röpke, Andreas Speit: Blood and Honor: Past and Present Right Violence in Germany . Ch.links Verlag, 2013, p. 14f.
4. ↑ Deutschlandfunk / Oliver Tolmein : The verdicts are pronounced in the first German trial against neo-Nazis, September 13, 2004.