DVU Bremen

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DVU Bremen
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Chairman Rudolf Bargmann
Establishment date 1987
Place of foundation Bremerhaven
fusion January 1, 2011
(incorporated in: NPD Bremen)
Headquarters Bremerhaven
Number of members 800 (1980s), 230 (2001), 60 (2010)

The DVU Bremen was the state association of the right-wing extremist party Deutsche Volksunion (DVU) in the state of Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . Due to a special feature of the state electoral law, it has been able to send at least one member to parliament since it was founded in 1987 - except for 1995. In 2010 it had 60 members.

History and membership development

The party had the largest number of members in Bremen at the end of the 1980s. The 800 members of the most successful phase have since declined, which was primarily due to the high average age of the party members. In 2001 the party still had about 230 members, shortly before the dissolution there were only 60. The party had a difficult time in Bremen. Events often called for counter-demonstrations, so that general meetings were often held under conspiratorial modalities in the Lower Saxony area . As with all regional associations, the entire organizational and financial power was directed by Gerhard Frey .

Dissolution and merger

The DVU Bremen participated in the merger of the DVU and the NPD, which was decided on January 1, 2011. The DVU was dissolved in Bremen, although only a few members converted to the NPD. In June 2010, the DVU state chairman Hans-Otto Weidenbach resigned from his chairmanship. The last state chairman was then the merger opponent Rudolf Bargmann.

Member of the Bremen Parliament

The DVU Bremen first competed in Bremen in 1987, initially in an alliance with the NPD . In the Bremen citizenship elections of 1987 , 1999 , 2003 and 2007 , the DVU succeeded in moving into the local parliament with one member each due to a special feature in the electoral law, since it jumped the 5% hurdle in the city of Bremerhaven . Only in 1991 did she succeed in overcoming this hurdle in the city of Bremen , so that she moved into the citizenry with six members. MPs were:

  • Hans Altermann (1987–1995, from 1991–1993 DLVH, from 1993 NK)
  • Klaus Blome (1991–1995, from 1993 NK)
  • Marion Blohm (1991–1995, parliamentary group leader)
  • Elfriede Budina (1992–1995)
  • Peter Nennstiel (1991–1995, from 1993 NK)
  • Siegfried Tittmann (1999-2011, independent from 2007)
  • Karl-Heinz Vorsatz (1991–1992)
  • Hans-Otto Weidenbach (1991–1995)

Parliamentary work

From 1987 to 1991 Hans Altermann was the sole DVU member. In 1991, the DVU moved in with five other parliamentarians, including two members of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) with intent and Weidenbach . Altermann left the party and parliamentary group just one month after the legislative period began. He joined the German League for People and Homeland , which he left after a year and a half. Vorsatz, who had already been a member of the NPD for the NPD from 1967 to 1971, died in 1992; for him Elfriede Budina moved up. Weidenbach, a founding member of the DVU in 1987, was also a member of the DVU as an NPD member until the (early) end of the legislative period in May 1995.

From 1993 onwards, Altermann formed the National Conservative Group (NK) with the MPs Blome and Nennstiel who had since left the DVU parliamentary group . Both in the Bremen citizenship and in the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein partially worded motions were submitted, which - as with the two later parliamentary groups - indicates remote control by the federal party.

In 1999 the DVU returned to the Bremen citizenship after a four-year abstinence with the MP Siegfried Tittmann . Tittmann made several motions at each meeting and tried again and again to provoke the other parties, which is why the Landtag Presidium often asked him to moderate his choice of words. In his speeches he often used the phrase "In the name of the German People's Union ..." Shortly after the 2007 election , Tittmann left the party and later founded the voters' association Protest der Bürger, with which he ran unsuccessfully in the 2011 state election.

In 2011, the party no longer took part in the mayor elections.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Bremen 2010 ( Memento from 7 February 2013 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 3.2 MB) Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, p. 25
  2. a b c The Senator for the Interior, Free Culture and Sport, Hanseatic City of Bremen (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2002 . Bremen 2003.
  3. a b The Senator for the Interior, Free Culture and Sport, Hanseatic City of Bremen (ed.): Verfassungsschutz Report 2011 . Bremen August 29, 2012, p. 24 .
  4. The Senator for the Interior, Free Culture and Sport, Hanseatic City of Bremen (ed.): Verfassungsschutz Report 2010 . Bremen April 15, 2011, p. 26 .
  5. Gerhard Hertel: The DVU - Danger from the right wing (= current analyzes. Volume 12). Hanns Seidel Foundation , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-88795-144-1 , pp. 16–18, especially p. 17 with note 22; hss.de ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 149 kB) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hss.de
  6. Jürgen Hoffmann, Norbert Lepszy: The DVU in the state parliaments: incompetent, quarreling, politically incapable. A record of right-wing extremist politics after ten years. Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Sankt Augustin 1998, ISBN 3-931575-77-2 , p. 23.