Fraternity

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The Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft in DB and DBÖ (BG) is an amalgamation of currently 36 fraternities from Germany and Austria , each of which belongs to one of the associations German Burschenschaft (DB), German Burschenschaft in Austria (DBÖ) and Conservative Delegate Convent (CDC). The Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG) represents a völkisch nationalism and is classified as right-wing extremist . A few fraternities organized in the BG are observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

history

The Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft in DB and DBÖ (BG) was founded on July 15, 1961 at the house of the Munich Burschenschaft Danubia under the leadership of the Burschenschaft Alania Aachen of 42 fraternities from the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Austria. This was done in response to a boys' day that had taken place shortly before in Nuremberg , on which the motions for the reunification of the two associations Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB) and German Burschenschaft in Austria (DBÖ) had not found the required majority. Contrary to the rejected application, the founding members of the BG “ de facto achieved the reunification sought ”. The founding protocol of the BG begins with the words: “The fraternities of the fraternity are committed to the popular concept of fatherland as the historical fatherland concept of the original fraternity” .

With the Historical Compromise in 1971, the BG's goal of admitting Austrian fraternities to the DB was achieved. In return, the mandatory principle as an association principle of the DB was abolished. The BG adheres strictly to the mandatory censorship and represents a strict unity of associations. In the following years and decades, many (founding) fraternities left the BG because it had fulfilled its task in their eyes.

Political classification

The fraternity community is the organizational center of fraternities from the right-wing extremist environment. She represents a folk nationalism. Among other things, the connection of Austria is repeatedly called for. In the publication “Fraternities and National Identity”, warnings are given against “foreign infiltration” and demands that any further influx of “people from other cultural areas” be prevented. With Henning Eichberg one of the leading proponents wrote the ethnopluralism several times in the fraternity Lichen leaves. The BG founded the right-wing extremist magazine “student” and organizes seminars that use right-wing extremist terminology and provide a stage for right-wing conservative to right-wing extremist speakers such as Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing and Franz Schönhuber .

The BG dominated the German fraternity from the eighties, so that the liberal-conservative fraternities finally resigned in 1996 and gathered in the new umbrella organization Neue Deutsche Burschenschaft (NDB). The fraternity member and NPD functionary Jürgen Schwab commented that the German fraternity has now "largely shrunk to health from liberal tumors", and in almost all DB connections the association brothers are now "nationally oppositional".

Criticism of the BG is also regularly ignited in public at the membership of fraternities with links to right-wing extremism, some of which (insofar as they are based in the Federal Republic of Germany) are also under observation by the German constitutional protection authorities . Four of the Federal German BG fraternities were named by them in connection with right-wing extremism. The fraternity Frankonia Erlangen , the fraternity Germania Hamburg , the fraternity Danubia Munich and the fraternity Teutonia Prague in Regensburg (today Würzburg) were mentioned by name. Several Austrian fraternities such as the Vienna academic fraternity Olympia were also under observation by the local Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism and were also mentioned in German reports on the protection of the constitution.

Regardless of this, some of the BG fraternities are repeatedly criticized for ethnic regulations. For example, the old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks in Bonn demanded German ancestry as a prerequisite for admission to the German fraternity and the exclusion of the Mannheim fraternity Hansea from the German fraternity due to a member of Chinese origin.

reception

Critics like Andrea Nahles describe the BG as a “völkisch combat group” and its program as “clearly oriented towards biology, folkish and Greater German. Almost all components of a right-wing extremist worldview can be found in the fraternity worldview ” . On March 27, 2006, the SPD party executive decided unanimously the incompatibility of simultaneous membership in a BG fraternity and in the SPD.

In August 2014, the fraternity was discharged from the Dresden Academic Ball because of extremism.

Member associations

Germany

Austria

  • Academic fraternity Allemannia Graz
  • Graz academic fraternity Arminia
  • Carniola fraternity in Graz
  • Academic fraternity of Graz Cheruskia
  • Graz academic fraternity Frankonia
  • Akad. Fraternity of Germania zu Graz
  • Innsbruck academic fraternity Brixia
  • Academic fraternity Suevia Innsbruck
  • Academic fraternity leather Leoben
  • Fraternity of Germania Salzburg
  • Academic fraternity of Alania zu Vienna (old men’s association)
  • Academic fraternity of Aldania
  • Vienna academic fraternity Albia
  • Vienna academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia
  • Viennese academic fraternity Gothia
  • Viennese academic fraternity Libertas
  • Vienna academic fraternity of Moldavia
  • Fraternity Nibelungia Vienna
  • Vienna Academic Fraternity Olympia
  • Vienna academic fraternity of Silesia
  • Vienna academic fraternity of Teutonia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich Heither, Michael Gehler, Alexandra Kurth, Gerhard Schäfer: Blood and Paukboden. A history of the fraternities . History series Fischer-Verlag, 1997, p. 231 f .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Dietrich Heither: Burschenschaften. Right networks for life , In: Braun et al. (eds.), Right Networks - A Danger, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2004.
  3. ↑ "The protection of the Constitution also has its sights set on the 45 or so national leagues, among other things because they quite openly rejected parliamentary democracy." Quoted from Boys Preserve Unity - and Right List , November 24, 2012, Die Welt
  4. ↑ a b Right-wing extremists infiltrate fraternities. June 22, 2001, accessed on July 15, 2011 : “The right-wing extremist author and NPD functionary Jürgen Schwab received a forum in the Teutonia House. And in the Frankonia Erlangen fraternity, disputes raged between a democratic and an extremist wing. "
  5. ^ Fraternities: Legal action not excluded. June 22, 2001, accessed on July 15, 2011 : “The members of the Germania Hamburg fraternity are apparently also open to right-wing spinning. The protection of the constitution has been observing the connection for some time. "
  6. ↑ BM f. Interior, Group C, Department II / 7: Right-wing extremism in Austria. Annual management report 1994. Vienna 1995, p. 11 .
  7. ↑ BM f. Interior, Group C, Department II / 7: Right-wing extremism in Austria. Annual management report 2000. Vienna 2001, p. 12 .
  8. ↑ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Hamburg (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 1996 . Hamburg 1997, p. 116 .
  9. ^ "There are no limits to the geographical imagination" , Telepolis, June 28, 2011; Accessed August 11, 2011
  10. ↑ The party executive has spoken: Either a social democrat or a fraternity. March 28, 2006, accessed on May 17, 2011 : “First Hü, then Hott, now Hü again - under pressure from the Jusos, the SPD finally reached an incompatibility resolution: Anyone who is a member of a fraternity of the right-wing" Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft " , cannot belong to the party. "
  11. ^ Colette M. Schmidt: Fraternities in Germany on the sidelines. In: derstandard.at . August 22, 2014. Retrieved August 22, 2014 .

literature

Critical literature

Literature from the environment of fraternities

  • Hans Georg Balder: History of the German Burschenschaft , WJK Verlag, Hilden 2006, ISBN 3-933892-25-2
  • Erhard Drechsel: Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft in DB and DBÖ: Goal setting, self-image and development , ed. by the fraternity of Cimbria Munich on behalf of the BG, Munich 1976.
  • Sonja Kuhn: The German Burschenschaft - a group in the field of tension between traditional formalism and traditional foundations - an analysis for the period 1950 to 1999 . Diploma thesis in the degree program in Education, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Bamberg. Edited by the old gentlemen's association of the fraternity Hilaritas Stuttgart. Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-00-009710-4

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