Citizens' movement pro NRW

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Citizens' movement pro NRW
Logo Pro NRW.gif
photo
Party leader lastly Markus Beisicht
founding February 6, 2007
Place of foundation Leverkusen
resolution March 24, 2019
Headquarters Dusseldorf
Alignment Right-wing extremism ,
right-wing populism ,
nationalism , including
ethnic nationalism ,
Islamophobia
Number of members 500 (as of 2015)
Minimum age 16 years
Website pro-nrw.net

The citizens' movement pro North Rhine-Westphalia (short: pro NRW ) was a right-wing extremist and anti-constitutional German micro-party . She was part of the pro movement . It was dissolved as a party by its members on March 24, 2019 and converted into an association.

history

The party has its origin in the citizens' movement pro Cologne . This was founded on June 5, 1996 and is considered to be the nucleus of the so-called “ pro-parties ”. All of the following parties (pro NRW, pro Germany , various associations) can be traced back to this association or its actors. At that time, Sven Möller, previously a member of the DLVH , was elected first chairman. The association remained largely insignificant until 1999, after which the DLVH officials Markus Beisicht , Manfred Rouhs and Bernd Schöppe joined the association. Judith Wolter , previously a member of the Republicans, became the new chairwoman of the association.

Pro Köln itself has its origins in the right-wing extremist German League for People and Homeland (DLVH), which was founded in 1991 . Markus Beisicht was there a. a. as state chairman responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia. In the constitution protection report of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1994, the party was classified as nationalist , racist and völkisch - collectivist . The party program is linguistically and ideologically closely based on that of the NPD. In 1993 the party put a bounty of 5,000 marks on an asylum seeker in hiding. Those responsible were later prosecuted for this. In 1996 the organization disbanded as a party due to unsuccessfulness. Beisicht, Rouhs and Schöppe switched to pro Cologne.

Pro Cologne developed its activity in 2002 in the Chorweiler district. At that time the city administration was looking for a suitable location to build a mosque . Pro Köln organized a collection of signatures and finally extended this campaign to the entire city area after further locations had been suggested. Shortly before the local elections in 2004, the association submitted 28,000 signatures against the construction projects to the complaints committee of the Cologne City Council. Further campaigns were directed against refugee homes, most of which were inhabited by Sinti and Roma . In the 2004 local elections, Pro Köln surprisingly moved into the Cologne City Council and thus received parliamentary group status. Judith Wolter was elected chairman of the parliamentary group.

After the local elections in 2004, the citizens' movement pro Germany was founded in 2005, and Manfred Rouhs has been the federal chairman since then. It was responsible for the entire federal territory, from May 2015 until its dissolution in November 2017 also for North Rhine-Westphalia. Before that, she had only set up structures in Berlin and a few cities. The citizens' movement pro NRW, which is led by Markus Beisicht, was finally founded in 2007 and has only been responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia since then.

On March 24, 2019, the party was dissolved by its members and converted into an association.

organization structure

In terms of personnel, organization and program, the party was closely intertwined with the citizens 'movement for Cologne and the citizens' movement for Germany . The party board of pro NRW consisted to a large extent of current or former board members of pro Cologne .

In June 2010 the umbrella organization “ Die Pro-Movement (PRO) ” was founded, in which pro Cologne, pro NRW, pro Germany and other small clubs were organized. Since then Markus Beisicht has acted as chairman, Manfred Rouhs was appointed as his deputy . According to the statutes, the purpose of the association is the "Germany-wide coordination and coordination of the political work of the various independent pro-parties and associations in the municipalities and states".

The seat of the party pro NRW is Düsseldorf . The party is divided into the organizational levels of general association, district associations and district associations. Organs of the general association are the party congress (according to Section 9 (1) of the Political Parties Act ), the party executive committee and the party presidium. In addition, there are the party-internal working groups youth per NRW, women per NRW, medium-sized companies, criticism of Islam and Russian Germans per NRW.

In May 2015 an internal power struggle broke out between Pro Köln and Pro NRW. The reasons for this include mutual rivalries between Markus Wiener and Markus Beisicht. The Kölner Stadtanzeiger reported that they were accused of mutually damaging behavior, for example fraud at the expense of taxpayers on the part of the electoral association and the development to the far right on the part of the state party. Both organizations distance themselves from each other. The Kölner Stadtanzeiger reported that Pro NRW is planning to set up a new Cologne sub-organization and will compete with Pro Cologne.

Political content

pro-NRW demo on October 12, 2013 in Rheydt opposite the Ar-rahman mosque.

The main theme of the association is the rejection of " Islamization " and " foreign infiltration " mainly by Muslim migrants . She describes herself as " critical of Islam ". The predecessor organization pro Köln has been criticized by various critics of Islam, such as Ralph Giordano , and referred to as a “local variant of contemporary National Socialism”. In an interview with Junge Freiheit , chairman Markus Beisicht affirmed that they were “not an anti-mosque-building citizens' initiative, but a right-wing party project that only comes along in this guise”.

The association has planned various initiatives against the construction of minarets and mosques , taking as a model the referendum initiated by politicians from the SVP and the EDU in the Swiss minaret dispute. According to the party, this ban on minarets should be implemented through a European citizens' initiative . She also calls for a complete ban on immigration and the deportation of offenders without a German passport.

Further election campaign topics in their basic program “7 points for North Rhine-Westphalia” and their election programs in 2010 and 2012 included a zero tolerance strategy, especially in so-called “ethnic and social hot spots”. The party also calls for a headscarf ban in public institutions, the deportation of so-called “ hate preachers ” and the fight against so-called “Islamic parallel societies ”. In health and social policy, they advocate an unspecified “miners' pool”, but advocate private health insurance and oppose the illegal use of health insurance cards , whereby, according to the program, multiple uses are particularly common by “foreign groups”. Also, no incentives should be created for “immigration into the social network of the Federal Republic”. The party wants to make abortions more difficult.

Furthermore, she calls for a "construction West", among other things by supporting coal mining, and warns against "environmental protection experiments". The tripartite education system should be retained and the " elite support " expanded. German language promotion should begin in kindergarten; Ethics, “ civics ” and history for the “Christian-Occidental teaching of values” are introduced as compulsory subjects. Citizens with a migration background with less good language skills should be taught in separate classes, and NRW wants to employ fewer social workers in schools. In cultural policy, she advocates the promotion of “ high culture ” and opposes the support of “avant-garde projects” which, according to Pro NRW, are of no interest to “ordinary people”. In particular, she turns against the media that allegedly convey a "worldview shaped by multi-cultural illusions" and "left ideology". The WDR should be committed to "political and ideological neutrality". In addition, more “ direct democracy ” is called for through referendums, but the local right to vote for “those foreigners who do not belong to the European Union” is rejected. In terms of foreign policy, pro NRW takes the position that the Federal Republic should reintroduce the Deutsche Mark and describes the European Union as "EU extremism".

Location in the right-wing extremist milieu

Members and senior management

The political scientist Christoph Butterwegge ( University of Cologne ) wrote in 2007, the staff of Pro Köln and pro NRW consists mostly of "old fighters of right-wing parties." Pro NRW is (as of 2010) grassroots and bourgeois; Most of the decisions are made by some functionaries who are or were predominantly active in the right-wing extremist scene. A large part of the members and the majority of the functionaries were (as of 2011) active in the past with the NPD , the DVU and the Republicans .

Contacts of the party chairman of pro NRW and pro Köln , Markus Beisicht , to the right-wing extremist scene led to the party being named in the reports for the protection of the Constitution of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for several years. Beisicht was state chairman of the right-wing extremist German League for People and Homeland (DLVH) and acted as defense lawyer for the nationally known right-wing extremist Axel Reitz , who is also known as "Hitler of Cologne". Beisicht was also the author of the Christian fundamentalist , anti-Semitic and homophobic blog kreuz.net .

The former deputy state chairman of pro NRW, Daniel Schöppe, was also a member and state youth representative of the right-wing extremist DLVH in North Rhine-Westphalia. The district commissioners Nico Ernst and Tobias Nass were members and functionaries of the NPD. In addition, Ernst was active in the marches of the militant neo-Nazi scene and could be found in the vicinity of the neo-Nazi "Kameradschaft Rhein / Ahr". In April 2010 photos of Nass emerged, in which he can be seen with a Hitler beard and activists from the militant neo-Nazi scene.

In May 2010 the former candidate for the federal chairmanship of the NPD and later DVU functionary Andreas Molau joined pro NRW. In the future, he will “support” the party's public relations work, according to pro NRW. In March 2011 Molau was elected as an associate judge in the party leadership, as well as Max Branghofer that as a former state chairman of the German People's Union acted (DVU) and Bernd Schöppe (as secretary at pro Köln ), which in the past marches of neo-Nazi scene part would have.

In January 2003, the pro-NRW treasurer and pro-Cologne parliamentary group leader Judith Wolter gave a full-page interview to the NPD party newspaper “ German Voice ” (DS). The deputy chairman of pro NRW, Kevin Hauer, repeated this practice in 2007 and also gave the German voice a full-page interview. Wolter also took part in an event organized by the NPD youth organization “ Young National Democrats ”, where he spoke a greeting. In terms of content, she takes the position that the end of the Second World War - May 8, 1945 - was not a date to celebrate, since "de facto a third of what was then Reich territory" was lost at that time. She has also acted as a lawyer for the right-wing extremist DVU.

In the summer of 2007, the Auschwitz denier Günther Kissel joined the party, which Markus Beisicht expressly welcomed in a press release. Furthermore, the nationwide known neo-Nazi Siegfried Borchardt (called "SS-Siggi") took part in a pro-Cologne torchlight march in January 2002. Photos from the 1980s have also emerged which "are supposed to show the Ehrenfeld pro-Cologne district representative Heinz Kurt Täubner with swastika devotional objects at a birthday party for Adolf Hitler", according to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.

A similar picture emerges with the Jugend pro NRW. The former district commissioner and assessor in the regional executive committee, Tobias Ronsdorf, had set up his own homepage under the heading “Heroes” that read: “All German soldiers of the world wars!”. Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf was to be found under “Books” . Ronsdorf explained that friends had manipulated his page without his knowledge. His brother Jonas Ronsdorf, who was also a member of pro NRW, is the leader of the neo-Nazi comradeship Freundeskreis Rade and took part in demonstrations of the extreme right, during which he publicly paid homage to the Waffen SS and the Volkssturm .

In March 2013 Tony-Xaver Fiedler , a former functionary of the DVU, and Andre Hüsgen , a former functionary of the NPD, were elected to the party executive as secretaries and managing directors. According to the Pro-NRW website, a party congress in September 2013 elected Detlev Schwarz , chairman of the Bonn district association, as the new state manager.

Political classification

The sociologist Alexander Häusler assigns the party to the extreme right, a form of right-wing extremism that would be surrounded by a “ right-wing populist shell”. Häusler uses the term “extreme right” to denote the “far right edge of the political spectrum”. This collective term encompasses the “entire political right wing spectrum” from the “brown zone between right-wing conservative and right-wing extremist circles” to “openly neo-Nazi scenes”. Criteria for classification in terms of content are ethnic- nationalistic , racist and anti-Semitic manifestations, authoritarian political ideas, the rejection of the principle of social equality, discrimination against minorities and the ethnicization or nationalization of social and economic problems. The extreme right stylizes the multicultural society as the central enemy. Campaigns against the construction of mosques and minarets would be used to make a racism charged with cultural and religious beliefs socially acceptable. The political scientist Frank Überall also points out that the party is to be assessed as right-wing radical in any case.

Political scientist Christoph Kopke from the University of Potsdam agrees with Häusler that pro NRW is right-wing extremist and at the same time populist. They would appear to be “serious and bourgeois-democratic”, but incite “against ethnic and religious minorities”.

The constitutional lawyer Ingo von Münch , who u. a. is widely known for its comments on the Basic Law of the Federal Republic , decreed pro NRW also in the area of ​​right-wing extremism. The criminalist Bernd Wagner , who is an expert on right-wing extremism and right-wing radicalism and founded the neo-Nazi dropout initiative Exit Germany , also joins this .

Constitutional Protection Report

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia has been monitoring for Cologne since 2004 and for North Rhine-Westphalia since 2010 , because these groups have “actual indications of anti-constitutional efforts”. Since 2011, both have been officially classified as anti-constitutional , a classification that several courts followed and confirmed the correctness of the constitutional protection reports. This also applies to the youth organization of pro NRW, whose demands would be "in line with the NPD ".

They would with their statements and claims that "the fundamental law concretized human rights disregard", in particular the human dignity and the prohibition of discrimination . One focus of the campaigns is to “spread prejudices about Muslims in order to arouse or reinforce fears”. Muslims would be portrayed as "undesirable [...] second-class people". The Office for the Protection of the Constitution particularly emphasizes the " analogy of a homogeneous national body , which is actually only common in orthodox right-wing extremism ", which would be "decomposed by a destructive force from outside - here 'multiculturalism'". People of other cultures or religions would be seen "in this sense obviously as a deadly disease " that would "irreversibly damage the immune system of the 'people's body'". These statements would not only deny people of the Muslim faith their basic right to freely practice their religion, but also negate the right to exist and to reside for this population group in all of Europe. Both stand “in stark contradiction” to the free-democratic basic order .

In addition, other people with a migrant background would be “shown to be marginalized as criminals and not integrable” as well as “generally belittled and defamed”. They would stir up “latent fears of foreign infiltration ”, spread “xenophobic resentment” and also not shy away from defaming seriously ill people with a migration background. In doing so, pro NRW would also use invented statistics and surveys to try to substantiate their demands. Both groups would also act against sexual minorities. Homosexuals are "made subtly contemptible" and "belittled by defamatory formulations".

In the 2012 report for the protection of the constitution, pro NRW is mentioned again and for the first time in connection with the right-wing extremist blog kreuz.net . In January 2016, the Berlin Administrative Court rejected a complaint by the party against its mention in the report for the protection of the constitution.

Connections abroad

The party maintains close contact with foreign right-wing extremist small parties. For example, the Czech politician Petra Edelmannová of the paramilitary Národní strana party appeared at a pro Cologne event , which propagated the “final solution to the Gypsy question” in Europe. Furthermore, pro NRW announced the participation of representatives of the right-wing extremist French Mouvement national républicain at an event in 2011, which u. a. calls for the introduction of the death penalty. The Cologne Alliance , to which various civil society groups, including trade unions and churches, belonged, demonstrated against the event. In addition, according to their own information, there are contacts with the British right-wing extremist and racist British National Party and its chairman Nick Griffin , who was convicted of Holocaust denial .

According to reports in the daily newspaper , the authorities have evidence that suggests contact with the Norwegian mass murderer and right- wing terrorist Breivik . In January 2012, the Bochum public prosecutor's office also determined that pro NRW could be described as an “advance organization of right-wing terror”.

Connection to free fellowships

Until it was broken up in April 2012 and seven members were sentenced by the Cologne Regional Court to imprisonment and fines that were partially suspended in January 2014, pro NRW had close contacts with the so-called Freundeskreis Rade . The Freundeskreis Rade is a neo-Nazi comradeship that has been active in Radevormwald for several years and consists of around 20 people. The comradeship organizes Adolf Hitler birthday parties there, takes part in marches of the neo-Nazi scene, distributes propaganda material in the city and defaces public institutions with right-wing extremist symbols such as swastikas . Your logo is a person who murdered another person with a pitchfork . The group is also held responsible for attacks on police officers and migrant citizens who were seriously injured in the attacks. The leader of the comradeship is Jonas Ronsdorf, who was a member of pro NRW. His brother Tobias Ronsdorf was parliamentary group leader of pro NRW in the city council and also a member of the comradeship. Several investigations are running against him, including a. He is said to have attacked and injured a Mediterranean-looking man when he tried to settle a dispute between fellow members of the group and migrants. Other members of the comradeship are also active as members and functionaries of pro NRW, for example as knowledgeable citizens in the committees of the Radevormwald city council and as campaign workers.

On April 25, 2012, during a large-scale raid in several cities in North Rhine-Westphalia, the pro NRW faction office in Radevormwald was also searched in connection with the investigation into the comradeship . The searches are part of an 8-point plan by the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was presented in December 2011. At this presentation, Interior Minister Ralf Jäger described pro NRW as neo-Nazis in pinstripes. The Cologne Police President W. Albers confirmed the close personal and financial ties between the Freundeskreis Rade and pro NRW. In the parliamentary group office of pro NRW several forbidden weapons were confiscated, u. a. also firearms and stabbing weapons . In addition, several members of pro NRW were arrested, including a pro NRW functionary who sits on the Radevormwald city council. The public prosecutor and the police accuse them of forming a criminal organization and of causing bodily harm . The Pro-NRW Council member was from the 27 April 2012 detention dismissed and sentenced by the District Court of Cologne early 2014 to a fine.

Deputy Chairman Kevin Hauer poses Hitler

Deputy pro-NRW Chairman, Gelsenkirchen town council and a member of the Old Breslauer Burschenschaft of Raczeks Kevin Hauer was accused in 2014, on a surfaced on the Internet photo in full regalia with fraternity cap , beer mug and Hitler -Portrait and another in underpants with Hitler salute posing to to have. According to Hauer, the u. a. Images posted on Facebook , which were taken in 1999, were a non-political " joke ". Since the public prosecutor's office could not find out who had put the pictures on the net, and these were originally taken “privately”, criminal proceedings against Hauer for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations were discontinued.

Controversy

Membership numbers, polls and statistics

In the past, the representatives of pro Köln and pro NRW falsified various membership figures , statistics and surveys.

In 2008, 2009 and 2010, for example, incorrect membership figures were shown in the press releases. According to the political reports , in which a party is obliged to provide correct information, the number of members was reported up to about 65 percent higher than was the case in reality. According to the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the number of participants is regularly about three times too high when demonstrations are held. This development reached its climax at an event in 2011, when the representatives of pro NRW spoke of around 2,500 participants, but actually only 300 were present.

Statistics are also being invented and poll results are falsified in order to support political demands. In 2009, for example, statistics from the Berlin State Criminal Police Office were published in a promotional video that allegedly 98 percent of the violent crimes in Berlin were committed by foreigners, most of them Muslims. However, such statistics do not exist. Surveys that make migrants appear violent are also presented, but no source is provided for these surveys.

The former top functionary Andreas Molau confirmed the allegations against pro NRW after leaving . The chairman Markus Beisicht has a "very flexible relationship to the truth," said Molau.

Criticism of the party structure

Former party board members accused the party several times that there was no democracy within the party. The leadership style is "dictatorial". "Only Markus Beisicht, Judith Wolter, Markus Wiener and the brothers Bernd Michael, Daniel and Martin Schöppe" would really count. All other party members are "only water carriers that are exchanged as needed" - said a former deputy party leader.

Other party members who have since resigned made similar statements. The board of directors has "created its own legal system within pro NRW", said a former functionary. The party's statutes would be “trampled underfoot”, all “suggestions for improvement and open criticism were thrown out.” Democracy within the party was only “rudimentary”, and overall the party would be “dictatorial”.

Faking a crime

In April 2012, pro NRW claimed that a citizen with a migration background had carried out a “murder attempt” on one of their campaign workers. According to pro NRW, your campaign worker hung posters in Viersen . He was standing on a ladder and was allegedly hit by a car driver. He was "miraculously unharmed". According to pro NRW, the alleged perpetrator was arrested by the police immediately after the crime. The party chairman Markus Beisicht supported this claim.

When asked by the Viersen police, however, this contradicts them in all forms. There was "no operation," said a police spokesman for Viersen. To be on the safe side, they had also consulted the federal police . Nothing is known of the incident there either. "Nobody was arrested and there is no complaint," said police spokesman W. Theveßen. In the meantime, state security is investigating a member of pro NRW on suspicion of pretending to be a criminal offense .

Riots during the 2012 election campaign

Anti-mosque election campaign posters for the NRW election 2012 before the cath. Church in Cologne-Urbach

As part of the 2012 election campaign, pro NRW exhibited its own anti-Islamic caricatures and the Mohammed caricatures by the Danish draftsman Kurt Westergaard in front of around 25 mosques. Political observers rated the actions as "a desperate call for the attention of a far-right party". Pro NRW is on the verge of bankruptcy with debts of over 240,000 euros and tried everything to overcome the important 1% hurdle in order to receive tax money in the form of reimbursement of election costs. The first pro-NRW demonstrations in Essen and Gelsenkirchen were peaceful, but riots broke out in Solingen and Bonn when Salafists attacked the police officers present. A total of 35 police officers were injured, including two seriously. According to the ZDM, representatives from pro NRW shouted xenophobic slogans at their demonstration. The strategy of pro NRW was to specifically provoke violence and then to gain attention through the riots. The campaign was led by pro-Germany functionary and former DVU member Lars Seidensticker. During a police search of around 50 pro-NRW activists on the occasion of the first demonstration, a knife was confiscated, the use of which is prohibited according to Section 27 of the Assembly Act .

The federal chairman of the German police union, Rainer Wendt, and the state chairman of the PG NRW, Erich Rettinghaus, demanded that a party ban be examined. In May 2012, the Central Council of Muslims confirmed that they had reported pro NRW for sedition and disruption of religious practice. The General Secretary of the Central Council, Nurhan Soykan , justified the complaint by saying that something was to be done to counteract the constant provocations.

Internal party dispute

There have been some internal arguments within the pro-parties , both over the expansion of the movement and the leadership style of the boards. In particular, the establishment of Pro Germany caused a dispute between pro NRW chairman Markus Beisicht and pro Germany chairman Manfred Rouhs. It was not just about the fact that, in the opinion of Beisicht, a nationwide expansion of the pro-parties was still too early and the management team at pro Köln did not consider Manfred Rouhs to be suitable to lead and represent such a project. The main disagreement was how to deal with other extreme right-wing parties and associations. Rouhs was initially in favor of a strict separation and distancing from the NPD (although he himself was active for them). Later on, his position changed.

Beisicht also initially strictly refused to work with or support pro Germany. After the founding of pro NRW, there was initially a rapprochement. Manfred Rouhs agreed that there would be no further expansion for Germany until the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010. Rouhs himself was initially elected to the pro NRW board, but received neither a list nor a constituency as a direct candidate. With the accession and massive campaign support of the right-wing extremist German-Swedish entrepreneur Patrik Brinkmann , the strategy of pro NRW also changed. Since Brinkmann wanted to run for the Berlin House of Representatives election in Berlin , pro NRW approached again and announced that pro Germany would fully support the election in Berlin. Brinkmann became the first chairman of the Berlin Regional Association, but resigned a short time later, allegedly after he had learned that a board member of pro Germany was homosexual, and also gave up his candidacy.

Political strategy

General strategy

Christoph Butterwegge assumes that the strength of pro NRW lies in the municipal area. Here she has partially succeeded in bringing her own content to the political center. The party officially differentiates itself from the NPD, but this is only a tactic to win over middle-class voters. At the same time, the party takes on numerous members and officials of the NPD.

In 2006, Manfred Rouhs in Cologne officially presented a strategy paper of the pro-movement on building networks, which was entitled "Building Concept". In this concept, the creation of citizen inquiries is described as the “core work of the citizen movement”. According to this, public petitions are started at the local level on locally controversial topics such as the building of mosques or the opening of asylum facilities , in which signatures are collected. The addresses of the signatories are collected in a card index by the federal or regional association and structured according to members, donors, supporters and interested parties. These people are then regularly supplied with promotional material from the pro movement. As soon as the local topic is exhausted, a new topic from the areas of “multi-culturalism, crime development, corruption and social justice” is sought and a new petition is started with the same procedure.

Staging as a victim

Pro NRW and pro Cologne see their “non-conformist citizens' movement” as victims of the “block wardens of political correctness.” Especially in the media, “dependent or controlled” mass media such as the publishing house Neven DuMont in Cologne ( Express , Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger , Kölnische Rundschau ) either keep the pro-parties dead silent or “consciously stigmatize them with lies or half-truths”. In principle, however, it is left open as to what is allegedly wrong or only partially correctly reproduced in the reporting. Newspaper editors are sometimes attacked personally. In addition to the private media, public media outlets are also being attacked. The WDR is referred to by Pro NRW as "Rotfunk". According to the party, the WDR must again fulfill its legal mandate and report "politically neutral". In the election program for the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia 2010, pro NRW calls for a content-related and personnel reform of West German broadcasting. After the broadcast of a “Monitor” broadcast by WDR, which reported on pro NRW, the party was exposed to a “smear campaign” from a “left-wing broadcast” by the “politically controlled red radio”. In terms of content, however, pro NRW did not go into the reporting. In an interview, Judith Wolter was told that the speech by the German-Swedish entrepreneur Patrik Brinkmann had come from Andreas Molau, who had only recently left the NPD. Molau himself, who was a member of the board of pro NRW, justified his resignation from the NPD by stating that he was against any use of force in the political dispute. Otherwise he did not criticize the content of the NPD. The content of the fact that former NPD and DVU officials were leaving was also not discussed.

In addition to the media, research institutions, museums and publicists are also accused of being “politically controlled” with a smear campaign against freedom of expression in favor of the old parties. Thus Alexander Häusler indirectly accused of complicity in "left politically motivated crimes". The NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne also accuses pro NRW of being politically abused and thus denigrating the victims of the NS regime. In addition to the above, one also feels stigmatized by the protection of the constitution. Several legal disputes, without exception, led to the fact that the courts upheld the protection of the constitution. Pro NRW / Cologne is clearly anti-constitutional. In addition to direct criticism of the press, science or state organs, pro NRW also poses as a victim without directly addressing reports or events. Terms from the Nazi era are used specifically. Above all, one tries to project the allegations of right-wing extremism onto the opponent.

Elections and mandates

Local elections

Pro NRW ran for the first time in the municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2009 in seven of the 54 independent cities and districts. In addition, pro Cologne ran as in the 2004 municipal elections in Cologne. Pro NRW and Pro Cologne together achieved 0.6% or 41,287 votes nationwide, of which almost half (19,894 votes) fell on pro Cologne. They moved into four district councils and the parliaments of four independent and five district-affiliated cities. In Cologne (5.4%), Gelsenkirchen (4.3%) and Leverkusen (4.0%) they reached parliamentary groups. They obtained further mandates in the district councils of some independent cities.

They each received a further mandate in January 2010 in the city ​​council of Hagen , in March 2010 in the district council of Minden-Lübbecke , in April 2010 in the city ​​council of Hamm through three party changes by the Republicans and in December 2010 in the city council of Ennepetal through a change of the party National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). In March 2011, the party lost two seats due to the resignation of a former deputy party chairman, who is represented in the district council of the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and in the city council of Leichlingen. In January 2013, the party lost two more mandates when a deputy resigned. Chairman, who is represented in the district council of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss and in the council of the city of Dormagen.

K GE LEV BN BM (S) NE (S) GM (S) GL (S) LIP BM (K) GL (K) GM (K) NE (K) Duisburg
2004 4.7% n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A n / A
2009 5.4% 4.3% 4.0% 1.58% 6.0% 4.5% 5.1% 2.9% 1.9% 2.6% 2.0% 1.8% 1.7% n / A
2014 2.59% 4.0% 4.4% 1.58% 5.95% n / A 4.02% n / A n / A 3.09% n / A 1.49% n / A 4.2%
  Entry in fraction strength
n / A not started
(S) City council, NE (S): Dormagen, GM (S): Radevormwald, GL (S): Leichlingen
(K) District council

State elections

Pro NRW took part in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 9, 2010. For this purpose, direct candidates were put up in 53 of the 128 constituencies, and 36 candidates on the state list. With 107,476 votes (1.4%) it clearly missed the 5 percent hurdle . However, with over 1% of the valid votes cast in accordance with Section 18 of the Political Parties Act, the party was able to benefit from state funds .

In the early state elections in 2012 , Markus Beisicht was the party's top candidate. Three days after the dissolution of the state parliament, each NRW presented a short program for election which, according to its own information, was drawn up by a program committee. A few months later, however, it became known that the program had been worked out by former NPD board member Andreas Molau . In the election, the party received 118,326 votes (1.5%).

The party did not take part in the 2017 state election .

European elections

The party took part nationwide in the 2014 European elections . Pro NRW received a total of 54,456 votes (0.2%). In NRW it achieved 0.6% of the vote, in all other federal states less than 0.1%.

literature

Web links

Commons : Citizens' movement pro NRW  - collection of images, videos and audio files
 Wikinews: Pro NRW  - in the news

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2015, page 44
  2. ↑ a b cf. NRW Constitutional Protection Report 2011, pp. 27–37
  3. ↑ a b cf. Häusler (2008), p. 12
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