Club 88

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The Club 88 was a neo-Nazi meeting in Neumünster - Gadeland . It existed from 1996 to 2014. According to the Schleswig-Holstein Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the bar was the central meeting point of the right-wing extremist scene in Neumünster and, thanks to its nationwide popularity, was occasionally used by neo-Nazis and right-wing extremist skinheads from all over northern Germany . The club had been a center for right-wing extremist activities since 1996.

The license holder was Christiane Dolscheid. Her former partner, Frank Rieckmann, also belongs to the neo-Nazi scene. The club was originally run by Dolscheid and Tim Bartling. Both are long-time activists on the scene. Dolscheid is, among other things, an activist with the “Skingirl Freundeskreis Deutschland”. In 2000, at a meeting in Eisenach , the then state chairman of the NPD Peter Borchert referred to the “Club 88” as the example of a so-called “ nationally liberated zone ”. When Bartling withdrew from the public eye around 2001, Peter Borchert took over the role of club spokesman. The club served the Schleswig-Holstein scene as a point of contact and for recruiting young people. The office was viewed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as an essential hub for right-wing radical networks.

The "Club" advertised on T-shirts and in newspapers with the slogan " 88 - the very last resort" (in neo-Nazi symbolism: "Heil Hitler - the very last refuge"). Under this slogan, the Danish nationalist music CD label Celtic Moon released a solidarity sampler in 2003.

The surroundings of Club 88 included parts of the former "Hamburg Storm", for example Steffen Holthusen from Hamburg and Torben Klebe . There were connections to the neo-Nazi scene in Tostedt around the former FAP activist Sascha Bothe as well as Thorsten Heise from Northeim and Bernd Stehmann from Leopoldshöhe.

After peaking in 2002 and 2003 due to heavy media coverage, the number of visitors declined in the following years, with the exception of occasions such as Club 88's annual birthday party on October 1, which was held in 2005 by around 400 people was visited. Fewer than 80 people turned up to celebrate the 15th birthday in 2011.

The club was closed in early 2014.

Titanic restaurant

Many neo-Nazis and skinheads moved from Club 88 to the Titanic restaurant in downtown Neumünster, which was also visited by supporters and members of the bandidos rock group . There are personal overlaps between neo-Nazis and rockers, for example Borchert was promoted to vice-president of the Schleswig-Holstein chapter of the Bandidos.

The Titanic is located near the Aktion Jugendzentrum Neumünster (AJZ), and there were frequent conflicts between visitors to the AJZ and the Titanic.

In spring 2010 the Titanic moved to larger premises in downtown Neumünster.

Borchert and two members of the allied rocker club "Contras Neumünster" were arrested on April 27, 2010 after they knifed two members of the "Red Devils" group, allied with the rocker group " Hells Angels ", on January 14 of that year in a fast-food restaurant in Neumünster injured and robbed, and two days after the arrest, the Schleswig-Holstein interior minister banned the “Probationary Chapter Neumünster (Schleswig-Holstein)” of the Bandidos. The convicted Borchert was sentenced in April 2011 to three years and nine months in prison.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ After 18 years: Club 88 is history. Holsteinischer Courier of April 4, 2014, accessed April 17, 2014
  2. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of the State of Schleswig-Holstein: Verfassungsschutz report 2001 , p. 13ff. ( online ; PDF; 286 kB)
  3. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein: Constitutional Protection Report 2002 , p. 27 ( online ; PDF; 205 kB)
  4. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2001 , p. 14 ( online ; PDF; 286 kB)
  5. ↑ [1] , Hamburger Abendblatt from April 4, 2014
  6. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of the State of Schleswig-Holstein: Constitutional Protection Report 2005 , p. 37f. ( online ; PDF; 436 kB)
  7. ↑ Dörte Moritzen: Titanic: Controversial pub is moving , Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , March 27, 2010
  8. ↑ Is the rocker war over now?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher , April 27, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.shz.de  
  9. ^ "Bandido" Borchert: Walk in Freedom , Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , May 19, 2011

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Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ 10.2 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 17 ″  E