Initiative community for the protection of social rights

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The initiative community for the protection of the social rights of former members of armed organs and the customs administration of the GDR e. V. (ISOR) was founded on June 6, 1991 in Berlin and entered in the register of associations of the Charlottenburg District Court on April 8, 1992 . It is based in Berlin, in the Neues Deutschland publishing house . He is accused of historical revisionism by scientists and politicians .

aims

The ISOR describes itself as a "social association". It represents the interests of the members of the former special pension systems of the GDR and above all wants to achieve higher pension payments for its members. These claims are justified with the payments made during the GDR era. Since the insured have paid 10% of their salary into these systems, they are entitled, in the opinion of the association, to corresponding credits towards pensions. The main purpose is to help people help themselves in difficult life situations. The association "particularly" represents natural persons who formerly worked for the GDR in the National People's Army (NVA), border troops of the GDR , People's Police , Ministry of the Interior (MdI), staffs, schools, civil defense of the GDR , Ministry for State Security (MfS, AfNS) and customs administration of the GDR . The focus is on the demand for pension entitlements that result from membership in the GDR's special pension system. In order to achieve this, the interest group informed about the objectionable parts of the pension law and brought model lawsuits in court. The non-profit status of the registered association was questioned.

Act

One of the lawsuits supported by ISOR was that the lowering of the pension entitlements of state employees to 70% of the average had to be largely reversed. The costs for this amount to around 50 million euros annually. Since January 1997, only members of the MfS , without differentiating their precise activities, have been affected by these cuts.

structure

According to its own statements, the ISOR had 24,000 members in 2006. The ISOR is managed by a board of directors consisting of 17 members. The board includes a. the state representatives responsible for the new federal states and Berlin. The ISOR members are organized in 188 Territorial Initiative Groups (TIG) (as of April 2007).

Member of other organizations

Political classification

The historian Christian v. In his book Ostalgie oder left alternative - My journey through the PDS, Ditfurth described the close interweaving of the PDS with this "swamp of perpetrators" - "anti-democrats" and "incorrigible Stalinists" as remarkable. The Berlin Senator for the Interior Ehrhart Körting ( SPD ) described the association as a "history revisionist clique" that "retrospectively relativizes and excuses human rights violations by the Stasi". Member of the Bundestag and former Berlin Justice Senator Wolfgang Wieland ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) also joined the charge of historical revisionism . In a column for Deutschlandfunk, Konrad Weiß drew a parallel to the mutual aid community of members of the former Waffen-SS (HIAG) and stated that the ISOR was "structurally and functionally comparable to the HIAG".

In 2008, the Berlin Senator for the Interior, Ehrhart Körting, rejected an observation of the ISOR and comparable organizations by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , which was required by the Berlin CDU . Although these organizations have historically extremely dubious theses, they are not yet extremist. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution also stated in a statement that the association does not endanger the free democratic basic order .

According to a statement by the former Stasi major Horst Eismann, there is “a continuity in cooperation” with the Die Linke party . Gesine Lötzsch , later temporarily chairman of the Left Party, was a guest of ISOR in 2005. According to its own statements, the PDS did not maintain any relations with the association as such. Party members are also members of the association. A report by the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution states that the association is trying “to influence political decision-makers, especially the 'Linkspartei.PDS', so that they can bring the interests of ISOR members into the parliaments”.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hubertus Knabe : The perpetrators are among us. About the glossing over of the SED dictatorship. Berlin 2008, p. 319
  2. ↑ a b c Gilbert Schomaker: SPD member of parliament wants to take action against Stasi association: charitable status is to be checked , Die Welt from August 25, 2007
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel Raid for Pension , July 29, 1991
  4. ^ ISOR social association: statutes. Retrieved June 14, 2018 (see §2).
  5. ↑ Uni, Stasi, NVA: Pension is safe , Die Welt from April 29, 1999
  6. ^ Reports in the Committee for the Protection of the Constitution (VSA) of the Berlin House of Representatives ( Memento from April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), p. 32 (PDF; 284 kB)
  7. ↑ Catholic News Agency (KNA): Party of Socialism Displaced People. Book author examined the SED successor party. March 21, 1998. Retrieved June 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Stefan Strauss: The Office for the Protection of the Constitution looks at former Stasi cadres: Dangerous old men? In: Berliner Zeitung . May 12, 2006.
  9. ↑ Cf. 17th German Bundestag, speech by MP Wolfgang Wieland from January 28, 2010, (text version, PDF; 50 kB) ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  10. ↑ See Konrad Weiß: Politische Stummheit . In: Deutschlandfunk . March 2, 2003.
  11. ↑ Jan Thomsen: GDR Transfiguration conforming to the Basic Law , Berliner Zeitung, June 25, 2008
  12. ↑ Armin Görtz: Stasi pensioners make mobile. Club members want more money, fight against privatization and rely on the left. , Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 10, 2008, p. 3.
  13. ↑ Dietmar Neuerer: Gesine Lötzsch: Lafontaine successor maintains contacts in the Stasi milieu . In: Handelsblatt . January 27, 2010
  14. ↑ See reports in the Committee for the Protection of the Constitution (VSA) of the Berlin House of Representatives, p. 38. PDF ( Memento of April 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).