Hrvatski demokratski odbor

The Hrvatski demokratski odbor (HDO, Croatian Democratic Committee) was a terrorist organization formed by Croatian exiles.

The German branch of the HDO, which had its headquarters in Münster , was banned on September 7, 1967 by Federal Interior Minister Paul Lücke . In the prohibition order it was stated that the HDO is a foreigners association whose purposes and activities run counter to criminal law and which is directed against the idea of ​​international understanding . According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the HDO had planned attacks on hotels, restaurants, post offices and train stations in Yugoslavia . Members of the group had bought about 40 kg of explosives on March 7, 1967 in Belgium for 7,000 DM .

The HDO ban was the first of a total of four nationwide bans on right-wing extremist organizations for foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany. All four concerned organizations of right-wing extremist Croatian exiles (after the HDO, the HRB followed in 1968 and in 1976 the ENT and its sub-organization Drina ). A total of eleven extremist foreigners organizations were banned (up to 2004), including six left-wing extremists (four Turkish and two Palestinian) and one Islamist. The basis of the prohibitions, the law on associations .

See also

• List of organizations in exile directed against socialist Yugoslavia

literature

• Hans Joachim Schwagerl , Rolf Walther, The protection of the constitution: a manual for theory and practice , 1968, p. 192
• Steffen Kailitz , Political Extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany. An Introduction , 2004, ISBN 3-531-14193-7 , p. 219

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prohibition
2. ↑ Schwagerl / Walther
3. ↑ Kailitz