DVU Brandenburg

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DVU Brandenburg
Chairperson Klaus Mann
Bärbel Redlhammer-Raback
Establishment date 1991
resolution January 1, 2011
Number of members Maximum number: 400 (1999)

The DVU Brandenburg was the regional association of the right-wing extremist party of the German People's Union (DVU) in Brandenburg . In the 1999 state elections, she made it into the state parliament there with 5.3% . In 2004 it was able to increase the result to 6.1%, which is the first and only time that it was able to return to the state parliament of a federal state. Since she only achieved 1.1% in 2009, she left the state parliament.

Member of the state parliament of Brandenburg

In the state elections on September 5, 1999, the DVU entered the Brandenburg state parliament with 5.3% and five members. On September 19, 2004, it was able to increase its result to 6.1% and was then represented in the state parliament there with six members. Members of the Brandenburg state parliament were:

Parliamentary work

Results
in percent
8th%
6%
4%
2%
0%

In contrast to its predecessors in Bremen , Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony-Anhalt , the parliamentary group in Brandenburg remained together until it left the state parliament. Only at the turn of the year 2004/2005 did the media suspect a conflict, as MPs Michael Claus and Markus Nonninger expressed their skepticism about the federal party's plan to work with the NPD in the future. In her self-portrayal, she was happy to point out that she was much more active than the other parties represented in the Brandenburg state parliament. In fact, she tabled numerous bills and other motions, but due to the majority structure, they almost never got through the first reading.

The parliamentary work of the DVU members in Brandenburg was also occasionally criticized as not being competent; For example, in 1999 the application was made to dissolve the “ Brandenburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution ”, although such an office does not exist in Brandenburg . Further demands included, among other things, a " Language Protection Act ", which - since then implemented by the SPD-CDU coalition - " Introduction of the final killing shot in police law " and the " Abolition of the ecological tax ". Political opponents and observers suspect that the faction is primarily trying to paralyze the state ministries with its parliamentary initiatives.

In the course of house searches of members and sympathizers, on the occasion of the prohibition of the neo-Nazi comradeship ANSDAPO in 2005, it turned out that the 21-year-old son of the Brandenburg DVU parliamentary group leader Liane Hesselbarth was a treasurer and assessor of this organization. According to information from the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior, this has a " strong affinity with National Socialism ". As part of the 21 house searches, the police seized weapons, live ammunition and propaganda material. According to the Ministry of the Interior, there were contacts between DVU and ANSDAPO. The latter attracted attention again and again due to crimes such as " robbery and bodily harm and trespassing "

Dissolution and transfer to the NPD

Since its successful years in the mid-1990s, the DVU has lost nationwide attention in favor of the much stronger competition NPD. In Brandenburg, the last stronghold of the DVU, the number of members fell from its peak in 1999 with around 400 members to its low in 2009 with only 150 members. In addition, the NPD broke the so-called “Germany Pact” of 2005 in the state elections in Brandenburg in 2009 and took office in Brandenburg. Both parties clearly failed at the five percent hurdle , the DVU with only 1.1 percent, the NPD with 2.6 percent. There was also a high level of over-indebtedness, which made the party virtually incapable of acting at the federal level. At the last DVU party congress on December 12, 2010, a majority voted for a merger, which was then implemented on January 1, 2011.

The remaining structures of the Brandenburg state association collapsed in mid-2010. The last state chairman, Klaus Mann, headed by Bärbel Redlhammer-Raback , had already toured the Free Comradeships beforehand and allowed right-wing rock concerts to be held on his property in Finowfurt . Of the remaining members, a total of 40 converted to the NPD. Some refused to take this step and remained non-party because they were deterred by a more extreme right-wing ideology of the NPD. Some later joined the party 's rights of Christian Worch one, including Klaus Mann, was the state chairman in Brandenburg. The website stayed online until mid-2011, but was then discontinued.

literature

  • Christian Demuth: Right-wing extremists and right-wing extremist parties in Brandenburg . In: Jakob Lempp : (Ed.): Parties in Brandenburg . be.bra Wissenschaft verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-937233-48-2 , pp. 185–215.
  • Sebastian Rehse: The Opposition Role of Right-Wing Extremist Protest Parties. Between adaptation and confrontation in Brandenburg and Saxony (= studies on parliamentarianism . 8). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2008, ISBN 978-3-8329-3856-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Application of the DVU parliamentary group 3/127 (PDF; 2 kB)
  2. ↑ Motion of the DVU parliamentary group 3/2404 (PDF; 2 kB)
  3. ↑ bill of the DVU Landtagsfraktion 3/558 (PDF; 2 kB)
  4. ↑ Motion of the DVU parliamentary group 3/506 (PDF; 4 kB)
  5. ↑ Application of the DVU parliamentary group 3/1792 (PDF; 4 kB)
  6. ↑ ban on neo-Nazi club - raids in Brandenburg, in: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 15, 2005, p. 4, edition: S City
  7. ^ Right comradeships: Right comradeship forbidden - Investigations against the son of a DVU member, in: Berliner Morgenpost, July 15, 2005, No. 191, p. 19 / Department: Brandenburg
  8. ↑ Land Brandenburg: Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Brandenburg 2009 . Potsdam February 11, 2010, p. 53 ( brandenburg.de [PDF]).
  9. ↑ Andreas Speit: Fighting candidate in Brandenburg election: NPD plunges DVU into severe crisis . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 5, 2009, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed November 5, 2018]).
  10. ↑ a b Land Brandenburg: Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Brandenburg 2010 . Potsdam March 2, 2011, p. 11-14 ( brandenburg.de [PDF]).
  11. ↑ Susann Fischer: NPD swallows DVU. In: Potsdam's latest news . Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Land Brandenburg: Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Brandenburg 2011 . Potsdam March 15, 2013, p. 85 ( brandenburg.de [PDF]).