Borussia Front

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The Borussen Front is an association of supporters of Borussia Dortmund . In particular, her proximity to the right-wing extremist scene made her one of the most notorious groups of football fans and hooligans in the early 80s . The Borussen Front became known nationwide in September 1983 through an article in Stern for which the investigative journalist Gerhard Kromschröder had mixed with the extremists.

Former leading members of the Borussia Front such as Siegfried Borchardt have repeatedly been sentenced to fines and imprisonment for bodily harm and vandalism. The club management had previously distanced itself from the front several times . Their clothes can still be seen today, but runes and forbidden symbols are not used.

Back then, the Dortmund fan project tried to convey new or different perspectives to the members of the group, especially through work projects in the club environment. This approach is highly praised by the Dortmund social administration. The fan project is financed by the state and still lives today from the reputation of having "eliminated the Borussian front". At least as important was the active Dortmund fan scene, which has fought against racism in the stadium for years .

For some years now the group has been much more active again and celebrates itself as a resurrected "legend". Due to the stadium bans of some members, the Borussen Front does not appear openly at games in the Bundesliga, but instead switches to lower-class games in the upper and association leagues . In the 2005/06 season she was mainly to be found at games of the DSC Wanne-Eickel , and in June 2006 she was responsible for massive riots at the game of the second Dortmund team at Westfalia Herne . In 2012 the front celebrated its 30th anniversary and has been more active since then. She tries to recruit youngsters, especially among young fans with a stadium ban. At the Borussia Dortmund friendly match in Marl, its members chanted "High national solidarity". Before the Champions League final in 2013, 50 people were arrested, some of whom had previously unrolled a banner that read 30 years of Borussenfront Dortmund .

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Literature and videos

  • Gregor Schnittker, Ulrich Hesse: "Our whole life" . The fans of BVB. 1st edition. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-7307-0014-3 , p. 128-140 .
  • State Center for Political Education (ed.): "They are just like that" . 1983. VHS video film, 14 minutes. ( Table of contents )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Pauler: Old Borussia make front in Wanne-Eickel. In: taz.de. June 3, 2006, accessed May 30, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Rafael Buschmann: Incident in Donetsk: Right-wing extremists attack the Dortmund fan project. In: Spiegel online. February 16, 2013, accessed May 30, 2013 .
  3. ^ Torben Börgers, Philipp Hennig, Andrej Reisin: Rights Hooligans. The underrated problem. In: ndr.de. December 11, 2012, accessed May 30, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Video How right is the German fan scene? (December 16, 2012)  in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 2, 2013. (offline)
  5. ↑ Splinters to the final. In: sportschau.de. May 26, 2013, archived from the original on August 27, 2013 ; Retrieved May 30, 2013 .