Hatvannégy Vármegye Ifjúsági Mozgalom

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Poster with the HVIM emblem

The Hatvannégy Vármegye Ifjúsági Mozgalom ( HVIM for short ; German  "Youth Movement Sixty- Four Counties " or "64 Castle Counties") is a right-wing extremist organization that is active in Hungary and among the Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries.

history

The HVIM was founded in 2001 by László Toroczkai , who handed over the chairmanship to Gyula Györgi Zagyva in 2006 . In the past, the HVIM has carried out actions among the Hungarian minorities in the neighboring countries, such as sending school materials to Hungarian children in Vojvodina (Serbia) or the “House of Hope” project in the areas where the Hungarian minorities live. HVIM has organized the Magyar Sziget Festival in the village of Verőce near Vác every summer since 2001 .

Counties of the Kingdom of Hungary (1884-1918)

The name of the organization refers to the counties (also called “counties” or “counties”; Hungarian vármegye ), into which the countries of the Hungarian crown were divided up to the First World War (actually there were 63 counties and the area of ​​Fiume as Corpus separatum ). In the Treaty of Trianon 1920, two thirds of these areas were separated from the Kingdom of Hungary and integrated into Romania and the newly created states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia . The organization regards this demarcation as illegitimate and still regards the area of ​​the 64 counties as Hungarian territory. National and nationalist movements had repeatedly been mobilized against the Treaty of Trianon since the 1920s, and these also formed the basis for the Hungarian alliance with National Socialist Germany.

Through the violent protests against the social democratic government in Hungary in September 2006 and the attack on the building of the state television and the subsequent reports in the newspapers, the organization became known worldwide. After agitation in Serbia in 2008, Toroczkai was arrested, deported and banned from entry for two years. Toroczkai was also banned from entering Romania and Slovakia.

The chairman of the organization, Gyula Györgi Zagyva, sat in the Hungarian Parliament from 2010 to 2014 , to which he was elected from the list of the right-wing extremist Jobbik party in Csongrád County. Anders Behring Breivik sent his manifesto to HVIM before his terrorist attacks in Oslo and Utøya in 2011 , but the organization distanced itself from his actions. HVIM founder László Toroczkai was elected mayor of the municipality of Ásotthalom (Csongrád county) on the Hungarian-Serbian border in December 2013 .

In July 2015, the HVIM founded a "Battalion of Voluntary Border Hunters" to track down migrants who illegally crossed the border in the Hungarian-Serbian border area. Two members of HVIM have been sentenced to five years in prison by the Romanian Supreme Court and Cassation Court for terrorism for preparing a bomb attack on the celebrations for Romania's national holiday on December 1, 2015 in Târgu Secuiesc , Transylvania . The HVIM member Szabolcs Szalay was invited in April 2016 to an event organized by the Vienna Academic Fraternity of Olympia on the subject of "Revolution in Hungary - a role model for Austria?"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Langebach , Andreas Speit : Europe's radical right. Movements and parties on the streets and in parliaments. Orell Füssli, Zurich 2013, chapter Hungary .
  2. ↑ a b c Again neo-Nazi elected mayor in Hungary, with "left" support? In: Pester Lloyd , December 16, 2013.
  3. ^ A b Hungary: A right-wing radical militia against refugees. In: Die Presse , August 4, 2015.
  4. ^ Hungarian far-right figure attacked in Serbia ( memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), at politics.hu, May 13, 2008
  5. ^ Frank Spengler, Mark Alexander Friedrich, Bence Bauer: The right-wing extremist Jobbik party and the situation of political extremism in Hungary. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, December 18, 2013.
  6. ↑ Ovidiu Posirca: Romania hands jail sentences to two Hungarians on terrorism charges. In: Business Review , July 4, 2018.
  7. ↑ Paul Donnerbauer: "Only death can be the reward for immigrants". In: Vice , April 6, 2016.