European action

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European Action
(EA)
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purpose "Movement for a Free Europe"
Chair: -
Executive Director: Rigolf Hennig (Germany)
Hans Berger (†) (Austria)
Establishment date: 2008/2009
Dissolution date: June 10, 2017
Number of members: approx. 100 (Germany)
Seat : Verden (Germany) / Birsfelden (Switzerland)
Website: European-aktion.org

The European Action (EA) is an internationally active right-wing extremist association of Holocaust deniers that pretends to have disbanded in June 2017, but subsequently continued to appear. It was founded by the Swiss Holocaust denier Bernhard Schaub and was a successor to the banned association for the rehabilitation of those persecuted for denying the Holocaust . After a raid against the European Action on June 23, 2017, it announced with a letter posted on its Facebook page as a link on September 26, 2017 "the dissolution of the European Action in its operational form " based on the joint meeting resolution of June 10, 2017 " known. Between June 10, 2017 and September 26, 2017 there were many more posts on the EA Facebook page. Videos of the European Action can be found in large numbers on YouTube. Most recently, a lecture by Alex Schlimper Area Manager of EA-Thuringia and Bernhard Schaub was uploaded on August 27, 2017 by the European Action Thuringia. At the “Rock gegen Links” concert in Themar (Thuringia) in October 2017, it was documented how the leading German EA squad, Axel Schlimper, attached an EA banner to a tent.

organization

Founded in 2010 by Bernhard Schaub in Switzerland under the name of “Bund Free Europe” at the time, the European Action saw itself as an international association of right-wing extremists of all stripes. You describe yourself as a “Movement for a Free Europe”. Their ideology is based on an extreme form of racism and anti-Semitism as well as various right-wing conspiracy narratives . Your main demands are:

  1. Restoration of free speech
  2. Withdrawal of all foreign troops
  3. Repatriation of non-European immigrants
  4. State self-determination for the Germans
  5. Creation of a European Confederation
  6. Transfer of the monetary and media system into public property
  7. Rebuilding tradition - struggle against decadence and the destruction of nature

The organization allegedly advocated freedom of expression , but was primarily referring to historical revisionism and, in particular, Holocaust denial. In addition, she advocated a European confederation of national and sovereign states under the leadership of the German Reich, which was to be based on the “Führer principle”. Among other things, she called for “the creation of homogeneous national communities in Europe and the expulsion of 'racially foreigners'”. The EA rejected the euro and the European Union . In addition, she considered Germany and Austria to be compulsory states created by the Allies in violation of international law (see also Reich Citizens' Movement ). Among other things, she campaigns for the Holocaust denier Horst Mahler .

The European Action was organized in several bases, which were led by an area manager who in turn was under the direction of the country. In Germany, the European Action had around 100 members. Schaub integrated well-known right-wing extremists into the organizational structure, the German leader Rigolf Hennig was an NPD member . Other German members and activists were Ursula Haverbeck , Thorsten Heise and Gerhard Ittner . In Austria the organization was represented by Hans Berger († 2018), who exercised his position from exile in Birsfelden, Switzerland . According to its own information, the organization had national lines in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. There were branches and information offices in Liechtenstein, Great Britain and France. In addition, contacts were maintained with like-minded people in countries such as Hungary, Bulgaria, Belarus, Spain and Sweden. In France, Michèle Renouf belongs to EA, in Spain Pedro Varela Geiss .

The publication Europa ruft!

A surveillance operation by the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution against the European Action led to a raid on June 23, 2017 , during which 14 objects in Thuringia and Lower Saxony were searched and "several short and long weapons, weapon parts and other weapons" were confiscated. The 13 suspects are said to include Alex Schlimper, EA's Thuringia area manager.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The end of the “European Action”? Antifa information sheet March 3, 2018
  2. ^ Communication on our own behalf.
  3. ^ A b Philipp Dahm: Bernhard Schaub networks Europe's right-wing extremists. In: 20min . November 22, 2011, accessed July 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Thuringia and Lower Saxony, the GSG 9 raid on neo-Nazis , by Matthias Meisner Der Tagesspiegel June 23, 2017
  5. ^ Raid against right-wing extremists in Thuringia Action against "European Action" , Andreas Speit , TAZ June 23, 2017
  6. ↑ Investigation into the formation of a criminal organization: What is the "European Action"? Belltower.News June 27, 2017
  7. ^ EA communication on our own behalf.
  8. ^ Communication on our own behalf.
  9. ↑ Alex Schlimper , Belltower. News January 4, 2019
  10. ↑ The leader of the assembly on May 1st in Erfurt, Axel Schlimper, also had a violent background, said the left-wing member of the Bundestag. The former Thuringian regional director of the now disbanded Holocaust denier network "Europäische Aktion" and his association "Stahlsau" were accused of paramilitary activities. Schlimper is also part of a German-Austrian network with good contacts to a militant neo-Nazi organization in Hungary. (with AFP) Source: Brutal attack in Thuringia With baseball bat and wrench: Neo-Nazis attack journalists , by Matthias Meisner , PNN April 30, 2018
  11. ↑ Dissolved, but still there: A banner of the “European Action” - attached by Axel Schlimper at the “Rock gegen Links” concert in Themar (Thuringia) in October 2017.
  12. ↑ The end of the “European Action”? Antifa information sheet March 3, 2018
  13. ↑ a b Answer of the federal government (printed matter 18/9161) to the small inquiry of June 21, 2016, printed matter 18/8941 : Right-wing extremist tendencies in the so-called Reich Citizens' Movement . German Bundestag - 18th electoral term, July 12, 2016, accessed on July 6, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Hanna Herbst: How crazy is the European action? In: Vice . August 20, 2014, accessed July 6, 2017 .
  15. ↑ a b quoted from the Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2014 . Berlin 2015, p. 173 ( bund.de [PDF]). Constitutional Protection Report 2014 ( Memento from 23 September 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Berger died on August 10, 2018 at the age of 77 in pretrial detention in Vienna's Josefstadt prison. In Kurier from 08/26/2018 Nazi allegations: Suspects die away.
  17. ↑ Weapons discovered during raid against right-wing extremists ( memento from July 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). In: MDR Thuringia . 23rd June 2017
  18. ^ Matthias Meisner : Thuringia and Lower Saxony: large raid of the GSG 9 at neo-Nazis . In: Der Tagesspiegel . 23rd June 2017
  19. ^ Andreas Speit : Raid on right-wing extremists in Thuringia: Action against “European Action” . In: the daily newspaper . 23rd June 2017