Secret bundling

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Secret bundling was a criminal offense in Section 128 of the old version of the German Criminal Code . The paragraph was incorporated into the Prussian Criminal Code of 1851, adopted into the Reich Criminal Code in 1871 and finally repealed by the 8th Criminal Law Act in 1968. (Similar to 1974 in Austria: §§ 285ff. StG.)

Regulation

  1. Participation in a union whose existence, constitution or purpose is to be kept secret from the state government, or in which obedience to unknown superiors or unconditional obedience to known superiors is promised, is for the members with prison up to six months, for the founders and punish heads of association with prison from one month to one year.
  2. Paragraph 1 does not apply if the association is a political party that the Federal Constitutional Court has not declared unconstitutional.

Legal history / discussion

The paragraph was directed against the Freemasons ( strict observance ). Since the regulation was repealed in 1968, it is hardly known anymore.

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