German action groups
The German Action Groups were a neo-Nazi terrorist organization.
history
It was founded in 1980 by Manfred Roeder with the aim of carrying out attacks.
In 1980 they carried out a total of five bomb attacks and two arson attacks against institutions and authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany:
- Explosives attack on the Esslingen district office on February 21, 1980 in protest against the Auschwitz exhibition there
- Attack on the home of District Administrator Hans Peter Braun on April 18, 1980 in Esslingen am Neckar
- Explosives attack on the Janusz Korczak School at the end of April 1980 in Hamburg , in which two people were injured
- Attack on the federal assembly camp for asylum seekers in Zirndorf on July 30, 1980
- Arson attack on August 6, 1980 on a hotel in Leinfelden-Echterdingen , where asylum seekers were staying
- Attack on an asylum seeker accommodation in Loerrach on August 17, 1980
- Arson attack on a temporary home for refugees in Hamburg on August 22, 1980 in which the two Vietnamese Nguyễn Ngọc Châu and Đỗ Anh Lân were killed
In early September 1980 the German action groups were crushed by the investigative authorities. Attorney General Kurt Rebmann brought charges against four members of the association at the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court . In 1982, Manfred Roeder was sentenced to 13 years' imprisonment for founding a terrorist organization , some of the other members received life imprisonment . These included: The radiology assistant and lover Roeders, Sibylle Vorderbrügge (born 1956), the doctor Heinz Colditz and the manual worker Raimund Hörnle (both born in 1930).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of the Interior, State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Right-Wing Extremism in Key Words , 2001, p. 28 https://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/233158/54821051d372aa3ead3ca04347a66c08/data/rechtsex-stichwortbroschuere.pdf
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 173 of July 29, 1981, p. 18
- ↑ Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Heimatschutz. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon Verlag Munich 2014, p. 87
- ^ FRN: Demonstration in Halskestrasse in memory of Nguyễn Ngọc Châu and Đỗ Anh Lân. In: www.frei-radios.net. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
- ↑ FRN: In memory of Nguyễn Ngọc Châu and Đỗ Anh Lân. In: www.frei-radios.net. Retrieved September 10, 2016 .
- ↑ Roeder was released again in 1990 because of a favorable social prognosis . See Rand C. Lewis, The Neo-Nazis and German Unification, p. 25 ( online in Google Book Search)
- ↑ Bavarian Journal for Politics and History ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ZEIT article about Vorderbrügge
