Society for free journalism

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The Society for free journalism (GAP) is estimated by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , the largest right-wing cultural association in Germany and was at least in 2005, according Verfassungsschutzbericht from 2006, the NPD close. The contact address is a secretariat with a PO box in Oberboihingen near Nürtingen and is divided into several regional working groups. It mainly includes right-wing extremist publishers, booksellers, editors and writers. The GfP sees its task in “standing up for the freedom and truth of the word”, whereby the GfP assumes that freedom and truth - for example in the field of contemporary history research - are suppressed in Germany.

founding

The GfP was founded in 1960 by former members of the NSDAP and the SS . The former deputy press chief of the NSDAP, Helmut Sündermann , played a special role . Co-founders were also Kurt Ziesel , Erich Kern , Herbert Böhme and Peter Kleist , the former personal advisor to the Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop .

The GfP wrote: "At Whitsun 1960, publishers, editors, writers, booksellers and friends of independent journalism met in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse to unite against a disastrous development." "On the occasion of the Frankfurt Book Fair 1960" is the society for free journalism was founded as a registered association . The society for free journalism e. V. is entered in the register of associations at the Munich District Court under number VR 1008.

Board members

The following persons have exercised or exercised executive board activities since 1991:

Gert Sudholt took over the chairmanship in 1973 and was replaced by Holle Grimm in 1983. 1991-2005 Rolf Kosiek was - a multi functionary in the right-wing spectrum from Nuertingen - first chairman from 2005 to 2010 Andreas Molau Chairman of the GPP and Rolf Kosiek was with the several times for incitement second convicted Gert Sudholt Chairman. With Molau's board of directors, there was a turn to the NPD. Martin Pfeiffer has been chairman of the GfP since May 2010.

Known members

A directory of articles about members of the Society for Free Journalism can be found in the category: Member of the Society for Free Journalism .

collaboration

Right from the start, the GfP worked closely with the Deutsche Kulturwerk Europäische Geist and its subsequent spin-off, the Deutsche Kulturgemeinschaft . Since the 1990s at the latest, the editorial staff of Nation und Europa has had a considerable influence on GfP. The GfP has been working closely with the German Study Association (DSG), a right-wing extremist group, since 2000 .

subjects

Topics of the GfP are in particular the "questioning of the gassing of millions of Jews" (according to Helmut Rannacher , former President of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg; see Holocaust denial ), the denial or relativization of Germany's war guilt, the "foreigner question" "Freedom of Expression for National Journalism" and other revisionist theories and approaches. The main tasks of the GfP include promoting cooperation between right-wing and right-wing extremist publishers and between publishers and authors and providing political and legal support in the event of police or public prosecutor investigations against the authors of right-wing publications. GfP also spreads views such as “' Nigger ' is not a dirty word” (gfp-netz.de of December 17, 2007) in a prominent place on its website - the entry page of its website .

The GfP wants - as it puts it - to make a contribution to a program that contrasts the "daily indoctrination " of a " politically correct thinking that corresponds to the spirit of the times, but which has an effect that destroys its substance and future".

Congresses and publications

The GfP organizes annual congresses in which authors, scientists and politicians from the right-wing conservative to right-wing extremist spectrum take part. They are an important place for strategy discussions, with which the GfP tries to influence contemporary journalism through award ceremonies, among other things. Some speakers were or are members of the NPD, the Witikobund or publish in magazines such as Nation und Europa. Individual CDU members such as Albrecht Jebens or Hans-Helmuth Knütter also gave lectures at the GfP. The lectures at the congresses are published by the GfP in edited volumes. In addition, the Free Forum appears quarterly as an organizational newsletter. As a sign of the GfP's efforts to network with “patriotic forces”, the Bavarian constitutional protection agency assessed the appearance of the former elementary school teacher Nikolai Nerling , who questioned the Holocaust on the YouTube channel “Der Volkslehrer” , disseminated anti-Semitic and conspiracy-theoretical positions and in front of a “ Extinction of the German people ”warns at the 2018 annual congress.

List of speakers

The speakers include a .:

Awards ceremonies

Since 1962, the GfP has been awarding the Ulrich von Hutten Medal at its annual congresses to people who, in the GfP's view, have “been particularly committed to freedom of expression and historical truth in contemporary history”. Prize winners are:

In 2008, the Society awarded its annual journalism prize to the magazine Hier & Jetzt , a quarterly publication of the Young National Democrats .

Affiliate publishers

The Grabert Verlag , the Verlagsgesellschaft Berg and (until it was bought by Dietmar Munier ) the Nation Europa -verlag are closely connected to the GfP, and all of them benefit from it.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ With around 500 members, the still largest right-wing extremist cultural association, the Society for Free Publishing e. V. (GfP), under the leadership of Andreas MOLAU, the deputy editor-in-chief of the NPD newspaper German Voice and temporary advisor to the NPD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament, has maintained the course of rapprochement with the NPD that was taken in 2005. Source: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2006, p. 142 (pdf) ( Memento from 9 August 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gfp-netz.deutscher-netzdienst.de
  3. ↑ Thomas Grumke , Bernd Wagner (Ed.): Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus . Opladen 2002, p. 379.
  4. ↑ http://www.apabiz.de/archiv/material/Profile/GFP.htm
  5. ↑ http://www.netz-gegen-nazis.com/artikel/der-verfassungsschutz-zur-gesellschaft-fuer-frei-publizistik
  6. ^ From: State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Baden-Württemberg via GfP ( Memento from May 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ See "Glossary of Right-Wing Extremism" from the "Federal Agency for Political Education", see http://www.bpb.de/themen/CNCDW9,19,0,Glossar.html#art19 ( Memento from May 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://www.bpb.de/themen/CNCDW9,30,0,Glossar.html#art30 ( Memento from May 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Bavaria 2018, p. 166
  11. ↑ Extremist elementary school teacher sues against dismissal. www.welt.de, June 5, 2018
  12. ↑ Federal Constitutional Protection Report 2018 PDF, p. 62
  13. ^ Society for free journalism: 60 years of the end of the war. Liberation from Liberation , 2005 Congress Protocols; P. 190
  14. ↑ Maria Sterkl: Antisemitische references from among the FP. In: The Standard . July 19, 2017. Retrieved July 21, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Information and purpose of the award taken from the GfP website. Archive link ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ O. V .: Contribution to Here & Now in the net against Nazis
  17. ↑ Poor things: GfP award winner Dr. Angelika Willig in conversation with the NPD party newspaper August 6, 2008 by Mathias Brodkorb
  18. ↑ See Armin Pfahl-Traughber : Right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic . Verlag CHBeck Munich 1999, p. 34.