German social movement
German Social Movement , or DSB for short, was the name of a political group in Germany . It was based in Wiesbaden and existed between 1951 and 1967. The founder and chairman was Karl-Heinz Priester .
history
prehistory
In October 1950 Karl-Heinz Priester met in Italy at a congress of the neo-fascist MSI with the Swede Per Engdahl, who headed the New Swedish Movement from Malmö . Engdahl planned to unite all right-wing national parties and movements that emerged after the end of the war under his leadership. In 1951, the priest became the “German spokesman” for the European Social Movement (ESB).
founding
The movement was founded on March 29, 1951 in Frankfurt as the German section of the European Social Movement (ESB). Politically, both the ESB and the DSB are in some excerpts closely aligned with the national-European concept of the early beginnings of the “Mussolini movement” ( Ur-Fascism ) in Italy.
In 1952, the DSB began working with the German Association founded by August Haussleiter . In 1953 the DSB entered the political grouping umbrella organization of the National Collection , in which the German Community, the German Block and numerous small groups were represented in addition to the DSB , but the DSB withdrew from the DNS before the federal election.
The DSB eventually also worked with the Franco party ruling in Spain and supported the Arab independence movements.
In 1960 Priester planned to create a joint party for all right-wing parties represented in the Federal Republic, which was now to be called the Collection of Loyalists . In the middle of the preparations, he suffered a stroke at Pentecost 1960.
Priester supported the German Reich Party until his death because his own DSB was officially non-partisan. Priest forced the establishment of an emergency community of the loyal to the Reich , which, however, did not go beyond the planning status. But just because of this planning, the DSB and its chairman priest became well known in the media: The Hessian attorney general Fritz Bauer announced in front of the national and international press that 800 right-wing organizations in Germany were planning to create an "emergency community of loyalists" under the leadership of the DSB “To build up.
A little later, Bauer had to revoke this statement and correct it to the effect that there were only 800 addresses that were available to the Public Prosecutor's Office and that were invited to the founding meeting of this emergency community.
The German National Right, headed by Leuchtgens and a priest, officially pretended to be “radical right” and anti-communist, but at the time it was American-directed and promoted. The DRP was thus drawn into the American Ostpolitik of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Priester died in April 1961 and his DSB now became completely insignificant, since the DSB members meanwhile mostly belonged to the German Reich Party.
The members of the DSB joined the NPD in 1964 with the dissolution of the German Reich Party and the DSB ceased all activities. Nevertheless, the DSB was still observed by the German protection of the constitution.
In 1967 the DSB was dissolved and its assets passed to the NPD.
literature
- Hans Frederik (Ed.): NPD - Danger from the Right? , Publishing House Political Archive Munich-Inning 1966
- Stöss, Richard; From nationalism to environmental protection; Opladen 1980