German Pagan Front
The German Pagan Front (DHF) is a right-wing , neo-pagan group that was founded in 1998 as the German section of the All-Germanic Pagan Front . The initiator was the self-confessed neo-Nazi and then drummer of the NSBM band Absurd , Hendrik Möbus . According to its own statements, the German Pagan Front has not been active since 2005.
Self-definition and ideology
According to its own information, the DHF saw itself as an " Indo-European , pagan group". Their declared aim was to live an alleged, reconstructed "Germanic faith". The German Pagan Front saw itself as an alternative to groups with a pagan orientation that did not represent a ethnic element in their worldview.
The members believed that their actions were backed up by Norse mythology and worldview, and that they were living real spirituality. Thus it stood in the tradition of a veneration of supposedly Germanic myths and traditions, which was already practiced by the NSDAP and the Völkische Movement or the Thule Society . At the same time, the DHF claimed to occupy thematic terrain that was already used by the Artgemeinschaft e. V. - faith covenant would be propagated in accordance with the nature of being.
The ideology of the DHF was initially very obviously nationalistic , ethnic-racist and especially anti-Semitic . One of the main goals was to "secure the livelihood of all Germanic peoples". The “ Fourteen Words ” of the American right-wing extremist David Eden Lane formed the leitmotif .
Until 2000, the DHF consisted mainly of Thuringian activists.
Image change
With a change in management in 2001, there was also an attempt to change the company's image. Now the DHF pursued the goal of achieving greater acceptance. Correspondingly, it appeared more moderate to the outside world, but continues to propagate ariosophical and ethnic views. These were expressed "above all in an overestimation of the Nordic ( Aryan ) breed". Nevertheless, by her own admission, she did not want to work politically or to support musically influenced youth subcultures. It is also allegedly not their intention to incite hatred towards foreign belief systems, cultures or peoples.
Political position
The DHF was according to its own description in the free outlines, the districts . In these districts, members, sponsors and friends of the DHF celebrated “old festivals in traditional places to cultivate Germanic mythology and pagan customs” , especially the sun festivals such as solstice celebrations . The solstice celebration on June 22, 2002 at the Rothenburg castle ruins , which had previously also been used by the SS , was mentioned in the constitutional protection report of the state of Thuringia. The DHF was the editor of the magazine Tuisto , which appeared irregularly and saw itself as a magazine for culture, history and neo-paganism.
Admission ritual and murder of Dorit Botts
On August 17, 2001, the then 19-year-old Frank R. stabbed the owner of a military shop in Fulda with 13 stitches before he cut her throat. He stole clothes and cash worth several hundred euros and left 54-year-old Dorit Botts behind so that she bled to death. In a process related to the crime complex, it turned out that Frank R. had committed the murder of Dorit Botts as part of a ritual of admission to the German Pagan Front. According to the statement of the perpetrator Frank R., a friend and band colleague donated him to the murder with the words "Go to Fulda and make the old woman cold".
Web links
- Brandenburg headquarters for political education
- Dangerous ideological mix , Der Spiegel from June 21, 2002
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e f g Constitutional Protection Report of the Free State of Thuringia 2002 - II. Right-wing extremism. Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, 2003, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; Retrieved October 4, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Documentation: 156 destinies in time online