Association of National Students

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The Bund Nationaler Studenten (BNS) was a right-wing extremist German student organization founded in 1956 and served to revive and camouflage National Socialist ideologies. The Federation of National Students was banned in 1961.

history

The BNS was founded on June 17, 1956 in Heidelberg as a "non-partisan and non-denominational association of nationally minded students". The founders included the publicist and multi-functionary of the German right-wing extremist scene, Peter Dehoust , the lawyers Martin Mußgnug , Peter Stöckicht and its first federal chairman Otto Jänisch . The establishment was supported, among others, by functionaries of the Association of Expellees , the German Reich Party (DRP) and the Stahlhelm . The background to the establishment was the ban on the Socialist Reich Party (SRP) in 1952 and the attempt and establishment of a legalized organization for right-wing extremist ideologies. According to Margret Feit, the BNS played an important role as a forerunner in the formation of the New Right . In March 1960 the BNS had about 6,000 members according to its own information.

The BNS represented an elitist, völkisch-nationalist political concept. His main strategic goal was the establishment of a "large national party" and the "revival of the German Empire". The BNS saw itself as a cadre forge “nationally minded” academics.

After members of the Berlin BNS regional association took part in a midsummer celebration with swastikas , demands were made in the press in January 1960 for a ban. The Free University initiated disciplinary proceedings against the students . In January 1960, the Berlin Senator for the Interior dissolved the Berlin university group of the BNS. By March 1961, further bans followed by various federal states and various regional presidents. After the ban on March 6, 1961 by the Ministry of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg , the BNS was dissolved nationwide.

After the ban, the active members were able to continue their work in various new organizations. For example at the magazine Deutscher Studenten-Anzeiger (DSA). That was the new name of the BNS organ Student im Volk , which was changed shortly before the nationwide dissolution. The Deutsche Studenten-Anzeiger became the German student newspaper with the highest circulation and was distributed nationwide free of charge. According to the imprint of 1968, the total print run was around 41,000 copies. The Deutsche Studenten-Anzeiger was printed and published by Karl Waldemar Schütz 'National-Verlag GmbH Hannover, the same publisher that published the NPD weekly newspaper Deutsche Nachrichten (until 1973) and the Deutsche Wochenzeitung (until 1986) from 1964 .

BNS activists were also involved in the establishment of the NPD in 1964 and the corresponding university association, the National Democratic University Association (NHB). The Deutsche Studenten-Anzeiger accompanied the founding of the NHB university groups and became the mouthpiece of the NHB. Many members have played an important role for the extreme right to this day or have been able to establish themselves in academic institutions.

The origins of a German-European Study Society (DESG) based in Hamburg and an affiliated publishing house Deutsch-Europäische Studien also go back to the Bund Nationaler Studenten, from which several functionaries came to DESG in 1964, e. B. the co-founder and managing director Heinz-Dieter Hansen, also publisher of the association papers DESG-inform and Young Forum . Hansen temporarily went to the ÖDP and ran for Die Republikaner in Hamburg . From 1994 attempts were made to operate Europe-wide under the label Synergies européennes - European synergies. On the part of the BNS and the DESG, Hansen z. B. Marc Lüdders, an author on Werner Sombart , stands out.

Lecture topics

A central lecture topic was the " war guilt question ", which was vehemently denied. The history revisionist David Leslie Hoggan , author of the book The Forced War , traveled through the Federal Republic for the BNS on this subject in 1960.

Furthermore:

insignia

The logo of the BNS was the Odal rune , which was also used by several Nazi organizations and the Wiking-Jugend as well as the Bund Heimattreuer Jugend .

Memberships

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Manfred Jenke , Conspiracy from the Right ?: A report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945 , Colloquium Verlag 1961, p. 332.
  2. ^ A b Margret Feit: The New Right in the Federal Republic , Campus Verlag Frankfurt / M. - New York 1987, p. 29.
  3. ^ Margret Feit: The New Right in the Federal Republic , Campus Verlag Frankfurt / M. - New York 1987, p. 28
  4. ↑ a b c d Werner Bergmann: Antisemitism in Public Conflicts , Campus, Frankfurt 1997, p. 257
  5. ↑ a b Protection of the Constitution of the State of Brandenburg: Prohibited right-wing extremist organizations (as of April 3, 2013) ( Memento from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 56 kB)
  6. ^ Margret Feit: The New Right in the Federal Republic , Campus Verlag Frankfurt / M. - New York 1987, p. 30
  7. ↑ Chronicle of the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich 1966/1967, p. 79
  8. ^ Karl Dietrich Bracher: The German dictatorship: emergence, structure, consequences of National Socialism , Ullstein Verlag 1979, p. 522
  9. ↑ Friedrich Julius Bröder: A mouthpiece for right-wing radicalism: Die Deutschen Nachrichten , Hase & Koehler 1969, p. 33
  10. ↑ Friedrich Julius Bröder: A mouthpiece for right-wing radicalism: Die deutscher Nachrichten , Hase & Koehler 1969, p. 34
  11. ^ Margret Feit: The New Right in the Federal Republic , Campus, Frankfurt 1987, p. 33
  12. ↑ Ludwig Elm, University and Neofascism: Contemporary History Studies on University Policy in the FRG , Berlin 1972 p. 200
  13. ^ Robert: The "Bund Nationaler Studenten" - Stations of an experiment . In: Peter Dehoust (under the pseudonym Peter Degner, ed.): Will to the future. Testimonies of thinking youth. Druffel-Verlag , Leoni am Starnberger See 1964, p. 186
  14. ↑ BGHR VereinsG § 20 Abs. 1 Nr. 5 Identifier 1 BGH, decision of. October 7, 1998 - 3 StR 370/98

literature

  • Kurt P. Tauber: Beyond Eagle and Swastika. German Nationalism Since 1945 . Wesleyan University Press, Middletown / USA 1967, p. 456 ff.
  • Margret Feit: The New Right in the Federal Republic . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / M. - New York 1987, pp. 29-33
  • Manfred Jenke: Conspiracy from the right? A report on right-wing radicalism in Germany after 1945 . Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1961, pp. 332f.
  • Heinz Brüdigam : The lap is still fertile . Röderberg, Frankfurt a. M. 1964, p. 224ff
  • Roger Klein: Right-wing university groups . In: Dissens Spezial No. 2, Mannheim 1991
  • Jens Mecklenburg (ed.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism , Berlin 1996, p. 155f
  • Anti-fascist press archive and education center Berlin : Profile: Bund Nationaler Studenten (BNS) . Accessed March 21, 2007
  • Federation of National Students: The German nation is alive. World history remains national history . (Declaration by the Federation of National Students on the occasion of the Federal Assembly of Delegates from October 30 to November 1, 1959 in Mainz on the Rhine.) In: Student in the People . No. 7/8 1959/1960, p. 6