Association of German National Socialists

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Association of German National Socialists (BDNS) was the name of a neo-Nazi group in Hamburg that was banned by the Federal Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1969 before the association was officially founded.

history

In the autumn of 1968, the 29-year-old engineer Wolf-Dieter Eckart, who lives in Hamburg and who had attended the Pentecost meeting of the Federation of Heimattreuer Jugend that same year , called for the establishment of an “anti- Cominternbund ” in the Deutsche National-Zeitung , to which he received numerous answers National Socialist people received. Deviating from his original plan, Eckart decided to found an open National Socialist organization with this group of interested parties.

To prepare for the foundation, a six-person working group drew up the statutes for the “Bund Deutscher Nationalozialisten” in West Berlin in February 1969 . According to the initiators, the goals of the federal government should be the establishment of “Friends of National Socialist Germans”, the promotion of the “exchange of views with people who are interested in National Socialism” and the fight against communism . The Berlin police did not intervene, although they had been informed by the Hamburg police. In a BDNS advertising letter, Eckart unequivocally propagated the organization's ideological and programmatic objectives: "True to the words of our Führer, the sacrifice of our soldiers [...] will sprout the seeds of the radiant rebirth of the National Socialist movement and thus the realization of a true national community." In Hamburg, immediately after the conference in Berlin, an investigation was initiated under Section 86 of the Criminal Code for the dissemination of propaganda by unconstitutional organizations .

On April 29, 1969, two days before the official founding meeting scheduled for May 1, 1969, the Federal Minister of the Interior banned the organization. According to the Spiegel , despite the ban, five interested parties met in Bispingen , including Eckart, and agreed to continue working illegally.

In 1969 Eckart founded the "Friends of the NSDAP " as a successor organization to BDNS, and from 1974 he was responsible for the newsletter of the Friends of the NSDAP . In addition, he was editor of the National Socialist German Intelligence Service, first published in 1967, at least until autumn 1976 . In 1976 he was sentenced to eight months probation and a fine of DM 3,000 for continued Nazi propaganda ; After an appeal at the Federal Court of Justice , the court reduced the fine to DM 1,000. The prosecutor dropped the charge of continuing the BDNS because it could be proven, but it also “failed miserably”. In 1980 Eckart was sentenced again to two years in prison for Nazi propaganda.

reception

According to Bernhard Rabert , the acquaintance with Eckart was a decisive key experience for Michael Kühnen's political development . Kühnen, who became a member of Eckart's “Circle of Friends of the NSDAP” in mid-1976, described the BDNS as the “first National Socialist organization of the new generation” whose members were not motivated by historical National Socialism in the “ Third Reich ” but by “the repulsive reality this FRG and the longing for a real meaning in life ”.

According to the description in the Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism , this founding of the organization was part of an effort to get the NSDAP re-approved.

According to Rainer Fromm , the importance of the BDNS lies in the fact that it was "the first openly neo-National Socialist organization after the Socialist Reich Party was banned in 1952". She stands for the “ideological radicalization in the extreme right at the end of the sixties”.

literature

  • Rainer Fromm : The "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann": Presentation, analysis and classification. A contribution to the history of German and European right-wing extremism . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1998, ISBN 3-631-32922-9 , pp. 103-105
  • Jens Mecklenburg (Ed.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism , Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 154 f., Apabiz.de

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prohibition order (version for North Rhine-Westphalia; MBl. NRW, year 1969, p. 1446)
  2. ↑ a b c d Sepp Binder: Brown brother. Hamburger woos new Nazis . In: Die Zeit , No. 16/1969
  3. ^ Rainer Fromm: The "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann": Presentation, analysis and classification. A contribution to the history of German and European right-wing extremism . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1998, p. 104.
  4. ↑ "We stand by Adolf Hitler." Quotes from German neo-Nazis . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1969 ( online ).
  5. ↑ a b American Jewish Year Book , Vol. 78 (1978), p. 418 f., Ajcarchives.org (PDF)
  6. ↑ American Jewish Year Book , Vol. 80 (1980), pp. 215 f., Ajcarchives.org (PDF)
  7. ^ Bernhard Rabert : Left and right-wing terrorism in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1970 to today . Bernard and Graefe, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-7637-5939-5 , p. 312.
  8. ↑ quoted from: Uwe Backes : Extremism and politically motivated violence in a united Germany . In: Birgit Enzmann (Ed.): Handbook Political Violence . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-531-18081-6 , p. 371.
  9. ↑ Jens Mecklenburg (Ed.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism . Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , p. 155.
  10. ^ Rainer Fromm: The "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann": Presentation, analysis and classification. A contribution to the history of German and European right-wing extremism . Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. u. a. 1998, p. 103f.