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The Deutsche Kolleg (DK) is a German neo-Nazi association in Würzburg .

history

The association emerged in 1994 from a former " Young Freedom Reading Group Berlin" headed by Helge Drescher . Reinhold Oberlercher , who today heads the DK together with Uwe Meenen, was co-initiator of the college .

Between the mid-1990s and 2003, Horst Mahler led the association together with Oberlercher. When Mahler, in addition to his commitment to the DK, founded the “ Association for the Rehabilitation of Those Persecuted for Denying the Holocaust ” at the end of 2003 , this was the reason for internal differences with Oberlercher, who on the website of the German College did not have any “daily politics” and no discussions about the Wanted to accept the obviousness of the Holocaust. Since then, the two heads of the Deutsches Kolleg have gone their separate ways, but are still in contact and refer each other to their propaganda materials on the Internet.

In February 2004, Mahler, Meenen and Oberlercher in Berlin were due sedition charged. The reason was a jointly published call on October 15, 2000 for the "uprising of the decent", in which, among other things, the ban on all Jewish communities in Germany, the expulsion of all asylum seekers , "all foreigners who have become unemployed" and a number of further measures were demanded. Mahler was sentenced to nine months in prison without parole.

Content profile

The association described itself in a manifesto as a “study and combat community”. In its function as "sovereign" of the German people and "shield and sword" of the German Reich, the DK sees itself legitimized to "execute judgments" against "enemies of the Reich ... physically" and to "take them militarily under resolution and fire". Because of its “intellectual character”, however, the college declared that it “waived the exercise of this material part of state authority”.

Horst Mahler and Reinhold Oberlercher published together with Günter Maschke on December 24, 1998 on the website of the Deutsches Kolleg and in the right-wing extremist journal Staatsbriefe 1/1999 a "Canonical Declaration on the Movement of 1968" , in which they gave the 1968 movement a national revolutionary interpretation . They asserted that the movement of 1968 stood up neither for communism nor for capitalism, neither for third-worldly nor Eastern nor for Western concepts and power interests, but "solely for the right of every people to national revolutionary and social revolutionary self-liberation" .

The "Reich constitutional draft" published in 1999 by the association for the establishment of a " Fourth Reich ", on which the members were sworn in, shows that a revision of the historical image is being carried out in favor of Germany and the " lost eastern territories ... home to the Reich " are being brought should. The extent of these plans becomes clear when Vienna is explicitly named as the capital of the empire, Berlin as the main district, Zurich as the seat of the Reichsbank and Rotterdam as the main port of the empire.

According to the 2002 report on the protection of the constitution , the “ agitation of the 'German College' ... is characterized by aggressive anti-Semitism and racism ”. Mahler titled one of his essays with the final solution to the Jewish question , and the DK further openly calls for the “expulsion of the non-white races from the temperate climate zone”.

On December 14, 2003, Horst Mahler published an announcement by the Reich Citizens' Movement .

Because of the existing intellectual potential and their claim as pioneers, Oberlercher and Mahler are viewed critically in the right-wing extremist scene. According to the Hamburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Mahler too often gets lost in " conspiracy-theoretical absurdities" and Oberlercher lacks the ability to present his thoughts in a generally understandable form, while both origin-related borrowings from left-wing phrasing can be seen in the target group would hardly be welcomed.

The task of the association is to establish a "distance college" with which the "elites" should be drawn. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg considers the " Deutsche Akademie " and the " Deutsche Studiengemeinschaft " to be the "most important examples of circles ... that are committed to right-wing extremist theory and strategy formation" and which are similar in structure to the German College .

organization

The association has around 50 permanent members and had its own rooms for ideological and linguistic training for a short time when Meenen ran a book shop in the traditional working-class district of Zellerau in 2006. The Deutsche Kolleg is based in Würzburg , and the postal address given is a post office box in the " German Reich ".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Network against Nazis: What kind of flag with a cross is that at Pegida and Co.? January 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b First page of the "Proclamation of the uprising of the decent", October 2000 ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of Brandenburg from 2002 (p. 148) (PDF; 2 MB)
  4. ↑ apabiz: "Profile: Deutsches Kolleg (DK)", 1996
  5. ↑ a b State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Hamburg: Deutsches Kolleg. July 11, 2005.
  6. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Hate speech on the Internet? June 11, 2001.
  7. ↑ Der Tagesspiegel: Incitement to the people: Nine months for Horst Mahler. January 13, 2005.
  8. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2005 of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Hamburg, April 2006, p. 193 f.
  9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Yearbook Extremism & Democracy. Volume 22, Bouvier Verlag 2010, p. 247.
  11. ↑ Horst Mahler, Günter Maschke, Reinhold Oberlercher: "Canonical Declaration on the Movement of 1968". In: State letters. 1/1999, p. 16; The quote was published in at least three secondary sources, here Klaus Biesenbach: To the idea of ​​terror. Volume 2 of On the Presentation of Terror: The RAF Exhibition. Steidl Verlag 2005, p. 135.
  12. ↑ Reinhold Oberlercher: Reich constitution draft of November 9, 1999, p. 4.
  13. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2002, September 2003, p. 93.
  14. ↑ Niklas Günther, Sönke Zankel: Abraham's grandchildren Jews, Christians, Muslims and the Shoah. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006, p. 75.
  15. ^ Deutsches Kolleg: Caricatures of the racial struggle. April 6, 2006, p. 3.
  16. ↑ Annunciation of the Reich Citizens Movement
  17. ↑ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg: "Theory and Strategy Education in German Right-Wing Extremism." 2003 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Michael Kraus: Stammtisch and right rock concerts. In: Junge Welt from April 26, 2006, p. 15.

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