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THE RIGHT
Party logo of the party THE RIGHTS
Sascha Krolzig
Party leader Sascha Krolzig , Sven Skoda
vice-chairman Michael Brück , Kevin Koch
founding May 27, 2012
Place of foundation Hamburg
Headquarters Thusneldastr. 3

44149 Dortmund

Alignment Right-wing extremism ,
ethnic nationalism ,
anti-Semitism ,
neo-Nazism
Number of members around 600 (as of 2018)
Website die-rechte.net

DIE RECHTE - Party for Referendum, Sovereignty and Homeland Security is a right-wing extremist , neo-Nazi micro - party in Germany. When the party was founded on May 27, 2012, former members of the now-defunct right-wing extremist German People's Union , which merged with the NPD in May 2012, were mainly involved. The neo-Nazi Christian Worch, known from comradeship circles, played a central role from the foundation to the rupture and subsequent withdrawal at the federal party conference on October 28, 2017 . Because of this and other personal overlaps, various groups accuse her of being a successor organization to the banned neo-Nazi National Resistance Dortmund (NWDO) in the Ruhr area .

Content profile

Official party logo

The party sees itself as an alternative to existing right-wing extremist parties in Germany and states that it is “less radical than the NPD”, but “more radical than the REPs and the PRO movement ”, without giving any further reasons for this. The party program was basically taken over from the no longer existing DVU . However, various political observers classify the right as openly neo-Nazi and even more radical than the NPD.

The party speaks out against parliamentarism and in favor of more direct democratic elements. Your central demands have a völkisch-nationalistic background like the change of the asylum policy, the abolition of the tolerance of refugees or the acceleration of deportations .

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution sees both the ideology and activities of forbidden neo-Nazi comradeships continued in the party and states that there is an "ideological affinity to historical National Socialism and an aggressive and combative demeanor".

The sociologist Hendrik Puls described Dierechte as a “representative of the type of neo-Nazi movement party”, whose practice goes beyond the parliamentary framework and is characterized by “constant protest mobilization”.

history

The party was founded in 2012 by the neo-Nazi Christian Worch, together with many members of the DVU who joined in protest against the merger of the DVU with the NPD. Already in May 2012 it was announced from circles of the dissolved DVU that the foundation of a new right-wing party in competition with the NPD was planned. In June 2012 the statutes and the program of the party were submitted to the federal returning officer for examination. On October 13, 2012, the second federal party conference of Dierechte took place in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .

In January 2013, the Dortmund public prosecutor's office came to the conclusion that the establishment of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional association did not offer any reason for an investigation. A violation of the association ban for the Dortmund National Resistance , which was pronounced in August 2012, was examined . The "hard core" of the NWDO around Dennis Giemsch , Michael Brück and Siegfried Borchardt had reorganized into a regional association of the party founded on September 15, 2012.

On July 5, 2014, the 5th federal party conference took place in Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia), where Christian Worch was re-elected as federal chairman. Ingeborg Lobocki resigned her offices as deputy chairwoman and treasurer for health reasons. Tatjana Berner was elected to succeed her as treasurer.

On January 13, 2016, it became known that the party's websites on the social network Facebook had been deleted for violating the terms of use.

On October 28, 2017, Worch was confirmed in his office as party chairman at the federal party conference of the small party with 78.4% of the valid votes. Subsequently, however, there was a motion from the Thuringian regional association, in which it was demanded that the federal party congress should resolve “that the party Dierechte is fully committed to the German national community .” Worch made “a counter-speech and stated that he was facing the motion mainly for legal, but also for political reasons ”. It came to a head because the majority of the members did not follow Worch, but the Thuringian regional association. Worch then resigned the conference presidium and left the party congress. He then stated "that he would resign from his position as federal chairman on October 31 and justify this in an internal circular". At the beginning of January 2019, however, Worch returned to the federal executive committee as treasurer and assessor at the federal party conference.

Worch's provisional successor was the Dortmund neo-Nazi squad Christoph Drewer, who had several criminal records. On April 1, 2018, Michael Brück and Sascha Krolzig were elected as federal chairmen with equal rights at a federal party conference .

For the election campaign for the European elections in 2019 has the rights to detainees at the time, repeatedly convicted 90-year-old Holocaustleugnerin Ursula Haverbeck set up as a top candidate.

On April 20, 2019 ie on Adolf Hitler's birth, participated rights alongside right-wing extremist organizations from Bulgaria, France, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland to the Alliance was established "Fortress Europe". In this context, the party announced that it would henceforth have a foreign representative.

At a right-wing extremist demonstration in Kassel on July 20, 2019, after the murder of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke by a right-wing extremist, people from the area around the party from North Rhine-Westphalia carried a banner with the slogan "End press hate speech and ban fantasies: National counter-ovensive" with himself. The word "Gegenofenssive" was an allusion to the abbreviation of the National Socialist " Schutzstaffel " (SS) with the double letter "S" . On the other hand, the word component "ofen" alluded to the Nazi concentration camps .

Under the heading “National Solidarity”, the 2020 party in Dortmund offered a “shopping aid during the COVID-19 pandemic ”. At the same time an appeal was made to the “Volksgemeinschaft”. After several parades by the party had been legally prohibited in the early days of the corona crisis , the party announced that it had been able to hold a small rally in Worms on May 1, with which it had also "sent a message against the corona craze" .

organization structure

Party presidency

The current party chairmen are Sascha Krolzig and Sven Skoda, the vice chairmen are Michael Brück and Kevin Koch. The assessors are Leon Dreixler, Markus Walter, Christian Worch , Christoph Drewer and Alexander von Malek.

Regional associations

There are regional associations in Baden-Württemberg , Berlin , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse , Brandenburg , Lower Saxony and Bavaria . Dennis Giemsch is the chairman of the NRW regional association. The state association of Hesse is led by the former NPD officials Pierre Levien and Duancon Bohnert, the state association of Brandenburg by Klaus Mann, a former DVU official. The chairman of the Bavarian regional association is Philipp Hasselbach .

In January 2014, Levien resigned from his post with The Right . In March, the State Association of Hesse announced the end of its activities, the party was "seen as a failure in Hesse". In addition to the failed admission to the 2014 European elections, the main cause is suspected to be disputes between Levien and his successor Bernd Hilpert.

Members

At the end of 2013 the party had 494 members. The largest regional association by far is located in North Rhine-Westphalia with around 280 members.

Christian Worch was a member of several neo-Nazi organizations that were later banned . Ingeborg Lobocki and Martin Ziegler were previously members of the DVU . Furthermore, a “considerable part” of the state association of North Rhine-Westphalia consists of former members of forbidden comradeships , including the state chairman Giemsch and the deputy chairmen Sascha Krolzig and Michael Brück. Brück was also a member of the HNG, which was banned in 2011 .

Elections and mandates

The right was approved by the federal electoral committee on July 5, 2013 for the 2013 federal election as a political party for candidacy. The party, which only ran in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), got 2,245 second votes, which was the lowest second vote result of all the participating parties.

In the state elections in Hesse in 2013 , the party entered constituency 42 (Main-Kinzig III) with the direct candidate Pierre Levin. This received 300 votes (0.4 percent).

The party had a Kreistags- and a City Council mandate in Verden and the city of Verden (Aller) , Lower Saxony, after the NPD politician who held these mandates, 2012. The rights had converted. At the beginning of 2015, however, this mandate was withdrawn from him. From 2014 to 2016, the rights also had a city council mandate in Bautzen after an NPD city councilor had switched to the right.

The planned participation in the 2014 European elections failed in March 2014, as around 1000 did not reach the required 4000 supporter signatures. In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia on May 25, 2014, the party won a seat on the city council of Dortmund , which was initially held by Siegfried Borchardt . In addition, a seat in the city council of Hamm was won.

When participating in the elections, the party placed a conspicuous focus on Baden-Württemberg ; In the 2017 federal election , too , it only ran a state list in this federal state, but only received 2,054 second votes (0%).

In the European elections in Germany in 2019 , the party received 24,627 votes, or 0.1%. In the citizenship election in Bremen 2019 , which was taking place at the same time , she only ran in the Bremerhaven area and achieved 627 votes (0%).

Observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution

In the 2012 report on the Protection of the Constitution , the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution devoted an entire chapter to the party. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution sees the party as politically between the NPD and the pro-movement . It is ideologically the successor to the DVU and could serve as a catch basin in the event of an NPD ban. He further states “that the political activities of the party (...) have so far primarily focused on measures to achieve party status , such as B. the obviously desired voter turnout [bezögen]. A serious activity as a party in the current founding phase [is] not yet to be determined. "

The members of the party were "still counted as neo-Nazis" by the NRW Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 2014. Its active district associations are seen in ideological and personal terms and also with regard to their activities as a continuation of forbidden comradeships. This applies in particular to the Dortmund district association, where increasing aggressiveness was found. Overall, the party is characterized by an “ideological affinity to National Socialism and an aggressively combative demeanor”.

public perception

"Rathaussturm"

After the party had won a seat on the Dortmund city council in the local elections on May 25, 2014, around 25 neo-Nazis, including the elected Siegfried Borchardt, tried to storm the election party in Dortmund's town hall on election night, where they stood on T -Shirts partly openly in solidarity with the forbidden NWDO. Several people were injured. Right-wing member Daniel G., who injured a counter-demonstrator with a thrown beer bottle, was later sentenced to one year and ten months in prison without parole.

anti-Semitism

In November 2014, Dennis Giemsch, as a party representative in the Dortmund city council, asked the city administration how many people of the Jewish faith were resident in Dortmund and in which districts they were registered, which caused widespread outrage. The President of the Central Council of Jews , Dieter Graumann , felt himself reminded of the "worst times" by the request, the motivation was obviously "hideous and perfidious anti-Semitism ". Mayor Ullrich Sierau announced that the request would be passed on to the police state security .

In 2017, the Baden-Württemberg regional association wrote on its website on the occasion of the runoff election between Marine Le Pen from the FN and Emmanuel Macron for the French presidency in an anti-Semitic, conspiracy - ideological way of “nationalism vs. Rothschild ”(the name of the banking family stands in right-wing extremist scene jargon for an alleged Jewish, dangerous banking and financial power in the world.). It goes on to say that “politicians of the internationalist unity parties” are merely “puppets of the economy and high finance”, which in turn ties in with the fiction of an alleged Jewish world conspiracy .

During a demonstration on May 1st in Erfurt under the motto “Social justice for all Germans”, the party also carried a banner with the inscription “ Whether Dortmund, Erfurt or Buxtehude : The enemy is and remains capitalism ”. The anti-Semitic allusion is obvious, since the expected rhyme of the word “Buxtehude” (against the background of a right-wing extremist demo) suggests the word “ Jew ” - which is noticeably missing . Such codings, which are common within the right-wing extremist scene, serve the spreaders of such slogans to avoid legal consequences.

In 2018, a demonstration was held under the motto "Europe Awake!" (Based on the Nazi propaganda slogan " Germany, awake !") In front of a giant likeness of the former Iranian President and Holocaust denier Mahmud Ahmadineschād and the words "The world without Zionism", who took the title of an anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli campaign run by Ahmadine Shad.

The party's hostility to Israel can be seen in various anti-Zionist statements. In 2019, the regional association of the Jewish communities of Westphalia-Lippe filed a complaint against the party's election posters for the European elections . These posters, which were also used during demonstrations, read: “ Stop Zionism : Israel is our misfortune! "According to the regional association of Jewish communities, the posters are seditious because the phrase" Israel is our misfortune "is a deliberate reference to Heinrich von Treitschke's quote" The Jews are our misfortune " . This sentence, including the exclamation mark, was also used as a regular subtitle on the first page of the Nazi propaganda journal Der Stürmer published by Julius Streicher . The use of this quote, including punctuation marks, thus implies a conscious glorification of National Socialism. In the Hessian city of Neukirchen , Mayor Klemens Olbrich (CDU) had posters with this inscription removed after complaints. After a threat of legal action by the party, which referred to a decision to discontinue the Dortmund public prosecutor's office in February 2019 (which referred to an identical banner at a party rally), the posters were handed over and, according to the party, hung up again, which the mayor denied . The northern Baden community of Pfinztal also filed criminal charges against the party after they had these election posters removed twice. According to an assessment by the Public Prosecutor's Office in Celle in November 2019, however, the posters are criminally relevant, so investigations have been initiated. On the occasion of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 that took place in Israel, the Rhein-Neckar district association of the party also tweeted the sentences “Stop Zionism: Israel is our misfortune - no more” and demanded “Israel zero points, not only at the ESC”.

Before the 2019 European elections , the right drove through Pforzheim with a loudspeaker van . She stopped for a while in front of the Pforzheim synagogue , while radio commercials, etc. a. with the convicted Holocaust denier and National Socialist Ursula Haverbeck . Members of the Jewish community also reported shouts of “Get out of Germany” that party activists chanted in the direction of the synagogue. The party itself denies such calls. The state security started investigations into the aftermath of this incident. Also stop the anti-Semitic campaign poster Zionism: Israel is our misfortune! Stop it! was hung in the immediate vicinity of the synagogue , which sparked protests in the city.

On November 9, 2019, the party organized a rally in Bielefeld under the motto “Freedom for Ursula Haverbeck”. 232 right-wing extremists, including NPD party members, took part, according to the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Ministry, 14,000 people demonstrated against it. In the words of Burkhard Freier , the head of the North Rhine-Westphalian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, this meeting "fits seamlessly into a strategy of maximum provocation and intimidation below the criminal liability limit". The rights referred Haverbeck the Internet as a victim "of those in power" and campaigner for a "non-existent freedom of expression in Germany". According to the FAZ , when choosing the rally date November 9, the party was not concerned with the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years earlier, but with exploiting the date of the anti-Jewish November pogroms in 1938 for their own purposes. According to Freier, "a clear limit has been exceeded" because the party is "very aggressively making a commitment to historic National Socialism".

In the only edition of Reconquista magazine published in 2019 , which has been published since 2016 and in whose imprint the address of the Dortmund district association of the party is given, the classic anti-Semitic conspiracy myth was taken up, according to which "people of Jewish origin or religion [...] have always been ever behind all fronts at the same time "," sat at the cabinet tables in London, Paris and Washington as well as in the central committee of the CPSU "during the Second World War, and are now responsible for refugee migration as well as for Islamist terrorism.

Participation of members in terrorist activities

In October 2015, the Bavarian police in Nuremberg and Bamberg unearthed a neo-Nazi terror cell that included several right-wing members. Weapons, explosives and swastika flags were confiscated and several suspects were arrested. Worch, as party chairman, saw no reason to distance himself from the suspects and did not see a possible judicial conviction as a reason for a party expulsion procedure.

Party of the same name

Do not confuse the party with the 2005 founded by Falk Janke Brandenburg Minor party 's rights are obtained there at the local level with the CDU formed a coalition.

Web links

Press reports

Individual evidence

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