German cultural organization Austria

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The Deutsche Kulturwerk Austria is a right-wing extremist association from Austria . It emerged in 1992 from the Deutsche Kulturgemeinschaft Österreich , which in turn was a spin-off from the Deutsche Kulturwerk Europäische Geist . The chairman was Otto Scrinzi , the association is based in Graz . Lisbeth Grolitsch is the most important leader .

Since 1992, the German Cultural Association Austria has been organizing the Carinthian Culture Days in Sirnitz every year . The Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior counts the Carinthian Culture Days to the annual right-wing extremist events with international participation that are worth mentioning. At the event, where politicians from the Freedom Party of Austria meet with right-wing extremist functionaries, “nationally-minded people from all parts of the German-speaking area ... to listen to lectures by top-class speakers”.

Speakers at the Carinthian Culture Days included Rigolf Hennig , Rolf Kosiek , Alfred Mechtersheimer , Andreas Mölzer , Harald Neubauer , Barbara Rosenkranz , Jürgen Schwab , Horst Rudolf Übelacker and Reinhard Uhle-Wettler . In 1992, the Spanish neo-Nazi Pedro Varela Geiss , leader of CEDADE , was arrested during the event and expelled from the country.

Together with the sister organizations Deutsche Kulturgemeinschaft Österreich and Freundeskreis Ulrich von Hutten , Deutsche Kulturwerk Austria also organizes events with up to 170 participants in Germany.

Organ of the Association are the Friends of Ulrich von Hutten issued Hutten letters .

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  1. ↑ a b Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2006. Federal Republic of Germany: Federal Ministry of the Interior, archived from the original on August 20, 2007 ; Retrieved February 10, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b c State Security Report 1998. Republic of Austria: Federal Ministry of the Interior, accessed on June 8, 2015 .
  3. ^ Anton Maegerle : "Message to the Nations" . In: look to the right . tape 13/2008 .
  4. ^ Right-wing extremism: Glossary: ​​Kulturwerk Österreich. Federal Agency for Civic Education , accessed on February 10, 2009 .
  5. ↑ a b c d "Culture Days" at Scrinzi. Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , accessed on February 10, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Mölzer. (No longer available online.) Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , archived from the original on May 14, 2013 ; Retrieved February 10, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.doew.at
  7. ↑ Scrinzi invites you. Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , accessed on February 10, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Austria 2007. (No longer available online.) The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, archived from the original on May 13, 2012 ; Retrieved February 10, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tau.ac.il
  9. ↑ Cash injection for "Haus der Heimat". Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , accessed on February 10, 2009 .
  10. ^ Stephan Braun: Right networks - a danger . Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-8100-4153-X , p. 116 .