DVU Saxony-Anhalt

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DVU Saxony-Anhalt
Chairperson Ingmar Knop
Olaf Rothenberger
Deputy Heiner Höving
Establishment date October 6, 1991
Place of foundation Magdeburg
fusion January 1, 2011
(incorporated in: NPD )

DVU Saxony-Anhalt was the state association of the right-wing extremist party of the German People's Union (DVU) in Saxony-Anhalt . In 1998 the DVU achieved 12.9% in the state elections, which is still the best result of a right-wing extremist party at state level in the Federal Republic of Germany .

founding

The state association of the DVU in Saxony-Anhalt was founded on October 6, 1991 in Magdeburg .

Member of the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt

In the Saxony-Anhalt state election on April 26, 1998 , the DVU received 16 seats.

Parliamentary work

Wolf, who was parliamentary group leader until the end of 1999, was repeatedly accused of verbal derailments. He described the then state government as the " Höppner regime" and homosexuality as "sexual abnormality" . During a debate, the MP Weich stated that the history of the PDS “began with the murderers and terrorists Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg ” .

As early as the beginning of 1999, the parliamentary group began to disintegrate, as a total of four MPs left the group. There had been embarrassing revelations about some MPs: MP Torsten Miksch received criminal proceedings for cruelty to animals because he had thrown his dog into a well, and Büchner had turned out to be a former Stasi employee. Miksch, who remained non-attached until the end of the legislative period , joined the United Rights (VR) party a few months after leaving the parliamentary group . In the period that followed, other members of the parliamentary group resigned or returned to it.

In February 2000, the parliamentary group finally fell out because several MPs had rebelled against the “remote control” by the federal party. Half of the MPs around the parliamentary group leader Claudia Wiechmann then founded a new right-wing party called the Freedom German People's Party (FDVP). The nine former DVU MPs who converted to the FDVP developed a greater activity after separating from the federal party, Claudia Wiechmann in particular regularly took part in parliamentary debates. For the rest of the legislative period, the remaining DVU MPs only played an extra role. However, the FDVP MPs Buder and Czaja returned to the DVU at the end of 2000, and Mokry also left the FDVP parliamentary group at the end of 2001 and from then on belonged to the state parliament as a non-attached MP. At the end of the legislative period, the former 16 DVU MPs were distributed as follows: 8 DVU, 6 FDVP, 2 non-attached. Since the work in the state parliament was predominantly characterized by internal quarrels, which led to the split in the state parliament fraction in 2000, the DVU refrained from running for elections in 2002 .

In mid-2000, investigations into the illegal use of parliamentary group funds were initiated against three parliamentary group members. In December 2005, parliamentary group leader Kannegießer was finally sentenced to eight months in prison for embezzlement and aiding and abetting fraud.

In the election on March 26, 2006 , the DVU ran again, but failed to pass the five percent hurdle with 3.0% . During the election campaign, it was the only regional association of the DVU to have a so-called schoolyard CD entitled Stolz und frei! Rechtsrock, Vaterlandslieder, Deutschlandlied published. In contrast to the schoolyard CDs of the NPD , this contained mostly historical songs as well as contributions by right-wing extremist songwriters and no right-wing rock .

resolution

In 2010 the regional association only had 30 active members. The association appeared in public during a funeral march on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the bombing of the city of Dessau and on the occasion of the state party conference on April 25, 2010 in Calbe . The DVU decided to leave the 2011 state elections in Saxony-Anhalt to the NPD and to support the right-wing extremist party's election campaign. In contrast to other state associations, the Saxony-Anhalt state chairman Ingmar Knop , who was confirmed in office for the third time at the state party conference, extensively supported the merger efforts with the NPD at the federal level. The second chairman Heiner Höving also supported the merger. Both were also elected to the NPD federal executive committee. When Knop finally switched to the NPD at the merger convention on December 29, 2010, the regional association ceased its work.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Parliament of Saxony-Anhalt (fifth electoral period): Answer of the state government to a small question from MP Gudrun Tiedge (Die Linke). KA 5/6537. Printed matter 5/1374 of July 1, 2008.
  2. ↑ Toralf Staud : Eine desolate Truppe , Die Zeit , 17/1999.
  3. ↑ Suspended sentence for ex-DVU parliamentary group leader ( memento of September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), netzeitung.de, December 9, 2005.
  4. ^ Verfassungsschutz Berlin : Right-wing extremist music . Ed .: Senate Department for the Interior and Sports Department of the Protection of the Constitution. Berlin November 2012, p. 47 .
  5. ↑ Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): Constitutional Protection Report Saxony-Anhalt 2010 . 2011, p. 57 ( sachsen-anhalt.de [PDF]).
  6. ^ Ministry of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): Constitutional Protection Report Saxony-Anhalt 2011 . 2012, p. 55 ( sachsen-anhalt.de [PDF]).