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The Hochschulring Tübinger Studenten (HTS) was most recently a right-wing extremist Tübingen student association, which became known by its members through its connections to the military sports group Hoffmann and terrorist attacks .

history

The HTS was founded in 1968 and was a child of the "Tübinger Color Ring", an amalgamation of various Tübingen associations and fraternities supported by the Tübingen Senior Citizens' Convention (SC). The "Tübinger Farbenring" was previously strongly represented in the student parliament, for example in the winter semester 1961/62, when the Farbenring provided 16 of 35 student council representatives from the ASTA .

In the elections for the 1st student parliament of the University of Tübingen from June 10th to 14th, 1968, the HTS entered the Tübingen student parliament with five votes for the first time. He was able to maintain these five seats in the subsequent elections to the 2nd and 3rd student parliament in 1969 and 1970.

In the years 1970 to 1973 the HTS was a temporary member of the "German Student Union", the later socially liberal university association (SLH).

In 1973 Axel Heinzmann joined the HTS and became its spokesman. In the same year, the HTS left the social-liberal DSU / SLH association and became a member of the Ring of Freedom Students (rfs), where it remained in the 1970s.

In the elections to the 8th student parliament from January 29th to 31st, 1974, the HTS achieved its highest election result with 15 seats.

In 1976 the HTS became a member of the Ostpolitischen Deutschen Studentenbund (ODS), the student union of the Association of Displaced German Students and the "Society for Human Rights" (GFM), the predecessor of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR). In the same year Richard Löwenthal and the dentist Herbert Veigel, whose son Thomas Veigel was a member of the HTS board, were appointed "HTS honorary members".

Axel Heinzmann (4) and Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (5) in the fight in front of the old cafeteria in Tübingen

As a result of the radicalization of the HTS, there were more conflicts at the university in 1976. On November 11, 1976, demonstrators prevented the HTS from giving a lecture with a German-born settler from Namibia.

On December 4, 1976 Heinzmann invited to an event of the HTS in the cafeteria of the University of Tübingen on the subject of "Black Communist Aggression in Southern Africa". Karl-Heinz Hoffmann was to be the speaker . The event began and ended with a mass brawl in which 15 to 20 members of the "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann" beat seven students demonstrating against the event with batons and iron hooks. As a reaction to the incidents, lectures attended by the chairman of the HTS Heinzmann were disrupted and broken off. On December 19, 1976, the university president issued a ban on Heinzmann until the end of the semester.

Under the chairmanship of Heinzmann, the HTS became increasingly radicalized to the extreme right, so that it lost its electoral base among the corporation students and the Tübingen SC stopped its support.

In 1978 it was renamed "Hochschulring Tübinger und Reutlinger Studenten".

Right-wing terrorism

The attack on the Munich Oktoberfest on September 26, 1980 was attributed to Gundolf Köhler , who had contact with Karl-Heinz Hoffmann as a pupil in 1976 and who had been referred to Axel Heinzmann from him regarding the establishment of a military sports group in his region. Heinzmann invited Köhler to the HTS event on December 4, 1976 and witnessed the disputes there. After his enrollment as a student at the University of Tübingen, Köhler sympathized with the HTS and from March 1979 took part sporadically in its events. Koehler belonged temporarily to the military sports group Hoffmann and took part in their paramilitary exercises.

Uwe Behrendt , another right-wing terrorist, was a member of the HTS and the military sports group Hoffmann. In 1976 he ran for the HTS for the student parliament. and was elected to the University Political Committee (HpA) of the German fraternities in June 1976 . On December 19, 1980, Behrendt murdered the Erlangen publisher and ex-chairman of the Nuremberg Jewish Community, Shlomo Levin, and his partner Frida Poeschke.

Content profile

According to Axel Heinzmann, the HTS was founded in 1968 with significant participation from fraternity students and saw itself as an "anti-communist alternative in university politics". In addition, the HTS positioned itself against the "opportunistic politics" of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS).

Under Heinzmann, the HTS supported the South African apartheid regime. "In order to support the defense against communist aggression", several HTS members were temporarily in South Africa for "training".

The organ of the student group was the "HTS-UNI-UHU".

Todays situation

Nothing is known about the whereabouts of the HTS. He has not appeared in public since the 1980s. The last mention was made in the constitution protection report from 1980, where it was informed that the HTS “only consists of a few members”.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Association for Corps Student History Research , Once and Now Volume 34, Aller-Druckerei 1989, p. 180
  2. ^ University archive Tübingen June 1970
  3. ^ For 1970: Thoughts on an overall educational plan, DSU series of publications, 1970, p. 112; For 1973: Deutsche Universitätszeitung united with Hochschul-Dienst, 9/1973 p. 380
  4. ↑ Imprint of the newspaper Student No. 45, from June / July 1974, Tübingen contact address of the rfs is HTS / RFS; For example in 1977, where the HTS described itself as a member of the rfs in 1977, Norbert Plützer, ring of liberal students - rfs - danger from right , In: Unicum, February 1988, p. 10; Or in the newspaper Die Tat of October 17, 1980, where it is reported that the HTS pretends to be a member of the rfs
  5. ^ Current information No. 10 from the President of the University of Tübingen from February 3, 1974.
  6. ^ Rainer Fromm: The "Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann": Presentation, analysis and classification. A contribution to the history of German and European right-wing extremism , Lang 1998, p. 125.
  7. ↑ a b c Michael Wischnath: Student movement and student protest in Tübingen "1968" - a chronicle. Tübingen 2009, p. 59f.
  8. ^ Günther Bernd Ginzel : Hitler's (great) grandchildren. Neo-Nazis: their ideologies and actions. Droste Verlag 1981, p. 33.
  9. ↑ Peter Dudek, Young Right-Wing Extremists: Between Swastika and Odalsrune 1945 to today , BUND Verlag 1985, p. 110
  10. ^ In the right network , Der Spiegel 43/2011, p. 50.
  11. ^ Anton Maegerle: In the brown swamp . Look to the right, October 25, 2011 (fee required)
  12. ↑ Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1976, p. 194
  13. ↑ Axel Heinzmann quoted from the right-wing extremist student magazine Student 1974 from Anton Maegerle, Im braunen Sumpf , Blick nach Rechts of October 25, 2011
  14. ↑ Verfassungsschutz Report 1980, 1981, p. 44.