Fraternity of Normannia Jena
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| University location: | Jena , Germany | |||||
| Founding: | December 14, 1999 in Jena | |||||
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black-white-red (from below)
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The Burschenschaft Normannia zu Jena is a student union founded on December 14, 1999 at the University of Jena . The founding members were eleven students who had previously been excluded from the Jenensia fraternity in Jena . The Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution sees the fraternity as a "collecting pool for right-wing extremist students and neo-Nazis ".
Color
The band of boys wears the colors black-white-red (read from below) with golden percussion . Black and red are traced back to the colors of the flag of the original fraternity. According to Normannia Jena, white is considered to be the "color of innocence, purity, noble disposition and the Germanic principle (strictly Christian-patriotic direction within the early fraternity movement)". The motto is “Firmly in loyalty!” The Normannia fraternity is striking .
Prehistory and foundation
The fraternity Normannia zu Jena emerged as a spin-off from the fraternity Jenensia. At the end of the 1990s, it organized several events with right-wing conservative to right-wing extremist speakers, including Alfred Mechtersheimer , Rolf Sauerzapf and Father Lothar Groppe . On December 1, 1999, right-wing extremist Peter Dehoust gave a lecture on "Reparation and no end?" In addition to representatives of other fraternities, well-known Thuringian neo-Nazis such as Tino Brandt from Rudolstadt - at the time employees of the right-wing extremist “ Nation and Europe ” publishing house from Dehoust in Coburg and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia -, Jörg Krautheim from Gera and André Kapke from Jena as well Other activists of the comradeship network “ Thuringian Home Protection ” (THS) took part, who had taken over the “protection of the event”. Also some THSler, so the environment of the National Socialist underground , were themselves members of the fraternity "Jenensia". That of vehement protests by anti-fascists , trade unions and churches accompanied appearance of Dehoust caused an uproar in the university town. Under pressure from the old gentlemen of Jenensia, among whom are several politicians from the CDU and FDP, eleven active lads resigned and on December 14, 1999 founded the Normannia zu Jena fraternity. Peter Dehoust has been an old man since it was founded. The right-wing conservative politician and former Berlin Senator for the Interior, Heinrich Lummer (CDU) , was the keynote speaker at the founding event .
Fraternity house
From 2002 to 2006 the fraternity had its own fraternity, the so-called Wilhelmsburg. The house was acquired in June 2002 by the Jena republican party member Wilhelm Tell and the association “Jenaische Burse e. V. "made available. The members of the association included Peter Dehoust, the former REP board member Klaus Weinschenk, the house owner Wilhelm Tell and the state chairman of the Thuringian REP, Heinz-Joachim Schneider, as well as Dirk Metzig, who is now a leading member of Normannia. The student apartments are advertised in the nationwide right-wing extremist newspaper " Nation und Europa ". In spring 2006, the landlord, Tell, resigned from the fraternity due to numerous attacks by suspected anti-fascists. Since then, the fraternity has regularly used the so-called Brown House in Alt-Lobeda for their events.
Assessment of the protection of the constitution and the police
The Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution describes the fraternity Normannia zu Jena as " right-wing extremist " or " collecting pool for right-wing extremist students and neo-Nazis ". According to the office, the composition of the “Jenaische Burse” association alone suggests that a hinge has arisen between right-wing conservative students and the Thuringian neo-Nazi scene. The President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution assessed the establishment of the fraternity as “ a sign of an intellectualization of the right-wing extremist scene. “The former head of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Helmut Roewer , cited Normannia in 2000 as an example of academic approaches in Thuringian neo-fascism. The spokesman Dirk Metzig was noticed by the Thuringian police in 2001 because of “close contact with leaders of the right-wing scene”. Well-known right-wing extremists such as the former songwriter Martin Rocktäschel lived in the fraternity house , who was mentioned by name in a report by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
According to the Thuringian state government of July 15, 2009, Normannia has “evidence of right-wing extremist activities”. Due to its connections to the right-wing extremist scene, the Normannia Jena fraternity was still under observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 2016.
activities
The fraternity organizes lectures and celebrations at which representatives of the politically right-wing spectrum such as Alfred Mechtersheimer appear as speakers. In addition, the Normans (mostly in color) take part in political demonstrations and rallies such as the so-called “Hero's Commemoration” in close proximity to the military cemetery in Halbe . The fraternity was advertised in the regional neo-Nazi school newspaper “Mitteldeutsches Sprachrohr”, which was supported by the NPD district chairman Ralf Wohlleben .
Normannia Jena was a member of the fraternity .
credentials
- ↑ a b Akrützel No. 226, p. 3 (PDF; 6.5 MB)
- ^ How a fraternity in Jena became an obviously right-wing extremist organization Thüringer Allgemeine October 15, 2012
- ↑ Burschenschaft seeks asylum. Republican Tell throws "Normannia" out of Wilhelmsburg , Akrützel No. 226 of May 11, 2006, p. 3. (PDF file; 6.24 MB)
- ^ Fraternities in Thuringia (PDF; 159 kB), answer of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior of July 1, 2011 to the small inquiry 1402
- ↑ Monthly reports of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution 2000
- ↑ Sven-Uwe VÖLKER, Roewer called on Eisenacher: Hold against it - the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution reported on right-wing extremism (Thüringer Allgemeine, May 17, 2000)
- ↑ Jörg Schindler, Stramme lads. Right-wing extremists and student connections maintain - more or less openly - diverse relationships (Frankfurter Rundschau of March 15, 2005, p. 3, edition: S Stadt)
- ↑ Small question to the Thuringian Parliament, electoral period 4, No. 2870
- ^ Jena Burschenschaft continues to be targeted by the protection of the constitution . Thüringer Allgemeine, March 2, 2016 (accessed February 5, 2017).