Berlin-Brandenburger Zeitung

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The Berlin-Brandenburger Zeitung - newspaper of the national renewal (BBZ) was a newspaper of the right-wing extremist scene in the Federal Republic of Germany . In the Federal Constitutional Protection Report 1996 it was named as the "neo-Nazi newspaper with the highest circulation". Issues appeared from the beginning of 1993 to 1997, the time of the dissolution of the Free Voting Community Die Nationalen . The website existed until 1999.

history

When the right-wing extremist Free Voters' Community Die Nationalen ran for the Berlin House of Representatives elections in 1992, Andreas Storr published a campaign paper entitled Nationale Nachrichten . From this she developed a little later the newspaper Berlin-Brandenburger Zeitung (BBZ) - newspaper of national renewal . The first edition of the BBZ appears in early 1993, initially with the subtitle "Zeitung der Nationalen". From the beginning, the BBZ served "as a newsletter for the association DIE NATIONALEN (...) only for the cause and not for any particular interests ". Although the BBZ was officially supported by the voter community or the association Die Nationalen e. V. independent, but there were strong personal overlaps and the newspaper served unofficially as a party newspaper. In addition to the detailed appreciation of the party work of the “National”, events of allied right-wing extremist organizations such as the Berlin Cultural Community of Prussia and the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Bildungswerk were advertised or reported about in the newspaper .

From 1995 the newspaper appeared every six weeks. At the same time, the project switched to the publishing house Vortrag-Buch-Reise (VBR-Verlag) , headed by Rudolf Kendzia . Since autumn 1995, subsidiary newspapers of the BBZ have appeared irregularly and mostly on the occasion of the state election campaigns in other federal states, including the Neue Thüringer Zeitung and the Süddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . In addition, a cooperation was agreed with the newspaper Junge Franken, which has been published since 1993 . The editions had a common national part - on average six out of ten pages - only the regional part was different. The Mitteldeutsche Rundschau followed in March 1996, part of which is published for Saxony and another part for Saxony-Anhalt. In West Germany, the Westdeutsche Volkszeitung first appeared in April 1996, for which Rüdiger Kahsner was responsible. The six newspapers were merged in a "National Media Association", which was characterized by its proximity to the NPD. A little later, the BBZ and the other newspapers merged with the NPD party organ German Voice and they now operated as their regional editions.

Editors, contributors and authors

The newspaper was initially published by Die Nationalen , represented by its chairman Frank Schwerdt . The Berlin right-wing extremist Christian Wendt became the chief editor . In addition, the authors and correspondents for the BBZ included Steffen Hupka , one of the former leading cadres of the NF and editor of the newspaper Umbruch as a correspondent for Saxony-Anhalt and Tino Brandt for Thuringia.

In the July – August 1994 edition, Kommando F entered the newspaper as an “editorial staff”. With this editorial section, which, according to its own admission, was made up of “Central German youths” who “belong to different national youth movements”, articles with a strong national revolutionary color appeared for the first time in the BBZ. The tone became openly anti-Semitic and subversive. In the command F were believed to a group of former members of the banned in November 1992 Nationalist Front (NF). In the following issue of September 1994 the “editorial staff” filled almost half of the pages, but the collaboration was terminated in December 1994 and the command was removed from the imprint.

With issue No. 15 of February 1995, the BBZ broadened its editorial and organizational basis. On the one hand, the number of employees was increased to ten and then to over twenty, and on the other, Frank Schwerdt was now the sole publisher. The national party disappeared from the imprint and the subtitle was added to newspaper of the national renewal . In addition, several employees of the former Aufbruch , the "Information sheet of the Freedom German Workers' Party for Central Germany ", d. H. the five new countries in revisionist parlance. To name are u. a. the former federal chairman of the FAP Friedhelm Busse , Michael Dräger from Berlin , who was responsible for the departure , Erhard Kemper and Detlef Cholewa (now Detlef Nolde ), the leader of the Treptow Comradeship.

With the establishment of the subsidiary newspapers, the workforce expanded again. The employees of the regional editions either joined the editorial team or became “correspondents”. In August 1996, the editorial staff of Thule magazine, which had been published since 1994, also joined the group and Thule was discontinued. This was previously issued by the Thule Order, a group of neo-fascists around Christian Malcoci and Jürgen Mosler .

Assessments

  • "The Berlin-Brandenburger Zeitung is a forum that essentially represents National Socialist, ethnic and racist positions." ( APABIZ ).
  • The contributions are characterized by an "abysmal hatred of strangers and asylum seekers", spread an "anti-Semitic mood" and want to "glorify National Socialism" ( Richard Stöss from the Free University of Berlin).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. bbzeitung.com