Community of the New Front

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The community of interests of the New Front ( GdNF ) is a right-wing extremist organization in Germany. In the early 1990s it was one of the key organizations on the neo-Nazi scene.

The community of supporters of the Neue Front was founded in 1984 by the neo-Nazis Michael Kühnen , Thomas Brehl and Christian Worch . After the right-wing extremist Action Front National Socialists / National Activists (ANS / NA) was banned on December 7, 1983, a number of organizations without fixed structures, such as those around the readership of the magazine “ Die Neue Front ” (NF), were set up to issue a follow-up ban prevent. These were then united in the GdNF and the members of the ANS / NA were largely taken over.

The GdNF is openly committed to the 25-point program of the NSDAP and places itself in the tradition of the SA and the “revolutionary” wing of the NSDAP. They consider Adolf Hitler to be the “salvation figure of the Aryan race”.

Because of the dispute about Kühnen's homosexuality , the organization split into two warring wings in 1986, which ended with the departure of the anti-Kühnen wing. As a result, however, the GdNF lost control of the committee for the preparation of the celebrations for the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler and the Freedom German Workers' Party . While the main task of the GdNF was initially to continue the banned ANS / NA, at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s it devoted itself in particular to building organizational structures in the GDR , organizing marches, revisionist campaigns, paramilitary training, and building a so-called SA as well as a provocative public relations work.

After Kühnen's death in 1991, management passed to Christian Worch , Arnulf Priem and Gottfried Küssel . The latter was at the same time chairman of the similarly organized and oriented People's Loyal Extra-Parliamentary Opposition , but had to serve a prison sentence in Austria from 1993 to 1999 for re- activating the Nazis . In 1992 the GdNF still had around 400 members, but it rapidly lost influence. At that time, in connection with the prohibition proceedings against right-wing extremist parties and organizations such as the Freedom German Workers' Party (FAP), a large number of preliminary organizations and parties were founded, including the National Collection , Initiative Volkswille , Deutsche Alternative , Nationale Alternative , Nationale Liste , Deutsches Hessen , Anti- Zionist Action , Anti-Communist Action , National Bloc and others.

literature

  • Antifascist author collective: masterminds in the brown net. A current overview of the neo-Nazi underground in Germany and Austria. A manual. Konkret-Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-89458-140-9 .
  • Karl Kniest: Kühnen as the founder of the organization. In: Karl Kniest: The "Kühnen Movement". Presentation, analysis and classification. A contribution to the German and European history of right-wing extremism. Dissertation at the University of Frankfurt am Main, 2000, pp. 59–129.
  • Michael Schmidt: Today we own the street ... The insider report from the neo-Nazi scene. Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf et al. 1993, ISBN 3-430-18003-1 .