Combat 18 Pinneberg

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Combat 18 Pinneberg was a neo-Nazi group from Pinneberg near Hamburg that existed from 2001 to 2003, some of whose members planned and committed various crimes , including acts of terrorist violence, until they were arrested . The name alludes to the British neo-Nazi terror group Combat 18 , the German arm of which the Pinneberger group saw itself as.

history

The group was active in the Hamburg-Pinneberg and Schleswig-Holstein area between 2001 and 2003 and had an estimated 20 to 30 members. Its leader was Klemens Otto, who was classified as a well-known northern German neo-Nazi at the time.

In 1998, the Pinneberg District Court sentenced Otto to imprisonment for dangerous bodily harm because he and three skinheads beat a Togolese almost to death at the Pinneberg train station . The sentence was suspended because Otto declared that he had distanced himself from the neo-Nazi scene. After that, however, Klemens Otto often appeared in neo-Nazi marches under the banner of the "Hamburg Storm" with the addition "Pinneberg" and maintained good contacts with the Hamburg neo-Nazi leader Thomas Wulff . He became the leader of the " Kameradschaft Pinneberg", which also became known through threats against trade unionists and anti-fascists , and belonged to the neo-Nazi network Blood and Honor , which was banned in Germany in 2000. It was also put on record in 2001 with violence against police officers.

The group first appeared in public through patches on bomber jackets , graffiti and banners. She later published her own propaganda brochures and leaflets. However, their focus was on violent and terrorist activities. In the middle of 2000 there were first indications of this group when death threats against a head of IG Metall from Elmshorn surfaced from the area around the “Kameradschaft Pinneberg”. The abbreviation “C18” was noticed during color attacks on the publishing house of the Pinneberger Tageblatt and the Jewish cemetery in Neustadt in Holstein .

At the group meetings, after later investigations, acts of violence were discussed and punitive actions against alleged “traitors” were planned. Many of its members trained in various martial arts. As part of the Anti-Antifa , they kept dossiers on "enemies of the movement" and threatened them. Some of the violent activities are also directed against one's own scene. The group of right-wing rock traders extorted protection money and apparently wanted to establish a monopoly on trading in right-wing extremist music and devotional items.

On October 28, 2003, the police with 300 officers searched around 50 apartments and meeting points in Neumünster , Kiel , Hamburg , Husum , Rendsburg , in the Itzehoe area and in the Pinneberg district on suspicion of the formation of a criminal organization, arms trade , CD trade and protection racket . Among other things, she secured six firearms. Arrest warrants were issued against the five main suspects, including Klemens Otto and Peter Borchert .

Legal proceedings

In March 2005, the trial against the five imprisoned members began at the Flensburg Regional Court . The prosecution accused them of forming a criminal organization , violating the gun law and extorting predatory acts . However, the court did not consider the formation of a criminal organization to be fulfilled; The public prosecutor and the defense agreed to only deal with extortion, bodily harm and illegal CD trading. On April 25, 2005, four of the defendants were sentenced to suspended sentences and fines, and a fifth was acquitted.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heike Kleffner : Schleswig-Holstein: Right with a terror tendency taken. In: The press review in a click to the right. Taz , October 29, 2003, accessed January 15, 2006 .
  2. ↑ Toralf Staud : Combat 18 - Pinneberg: A well-organized neo-Nazi group. Die Zeit , July 17, 2003, accessed on January 15, 2006 (Die Zeit No. 30/2003).
  3. ↑ Peter Müller, Andreas Speit : Naivety towards the right. Taz Hamburg, February 4, 2000, accessed on October 22, 2010 (“Reprint” at Nadir.org).
  4. ↑ B. Without: Terror Methods. In: Issue 17/24. August 2000. bnr.de , August 23, 2000, accessed on October 22, 2010 ( subject to a charge ).
  5. ↑ Hamburg Ministry of the Interior and Sport, June 29, 2001: Increasing use of violence in the skinhead and neo-Nazi scene ( Memento from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Peter Müller: Right-wing extremist collecting mania: Dossiers about anti-fascists: Itzehoer Staatsschutz ensures extensive neo-Nazi material and warns those affected. Taz , August 27, 2001, accessed October 22, 2010 .
  7. ↑ Peter Müller, Andreas Speit : "There will be deaths". Nazi color attack on the Pinneberger daily newspaper. Taz , June 21, 2001, accessed October 22, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Hamburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Verfassungsschutzbericht 2003, p. 151, ZDB -ID 1214920-2
  9. ↑ Peter Müller, Andreas Speit : Schleswig-Holstein: Police blow up Otto dispatch. In: The press review in a click to the right. Taz , October 29, 2003, accessed January 15, 2006 .
  10. ↑ Andreas Speit: Weapons for the "national struggle": "Combat troops" in court. Taz , March 31, 2005, accessed October 22, 2010 .