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The Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland (JLO) is a right-wing extremist organization.

history

The East Prussian Association of Displaced Persons founded the East Prussian Youth Organization in Würzburg in 1991 as the official youth organization of the Landsmannschaft. It was registered as a registered association (VR 12582) at the Charlottenburg District Court on July 31, 1992 .

At the general meeting in Bad Pyrmont in autumn 1999 , the previous chairman of the Baden-Württemberg regional association, Christian Schaar , was surprisingly elected chairman. As a result, the East Prussian Landsmannschaft separated from the JLO in 2000 as their official youth organization was accused of being close to right-wing extremism and founded the Bund Young East Prussia as their new youth organization . The official reason was the election of the chairmen of the regional associations of Bavaria and Saxony-Lower Silesia to the new board, who were accused of anti-American attitudes (regional association of Bavaria) and contacts with the NPD .

In November 2006, under pressure from the East Prussian Landsmannschaft, the name was changed to Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland .

Self-image

The JLO describes itself as a “youth organization for the displaced”, which protects cultural heritage as “guardian of eastern and all-German interests”. It sees itself as "a community of young people who feel connected to East Prussia through family ancestry, a sense of national solidarity or a commitment to the spiritual and moral heritage of East Prussia". She calls for "comprehensive ethnic group rights for Germans in their ancestral settlement areas" and advocates "a reflection on the positive spiritual and moral traditions of Prussia". Her motto (according to the homepage) is: "We want to go to Ostland!"

Organization, financing

The JLO is divided into a federal association and eight regional associations. In 1991 and 1992 the JLO was funded with federal funds amounting to 11,400 DM (1991) and 21,739 DM (1992).

activities

  • Lecture evenings
  • Demonstrations
  • Trips to Poland (in areas of the former East Prussia)
  • War grave care
  • Memorial events

Right-wing extremism

The JLO is officially non-party. Critics refer to it as the pre-organization of the NPD. The federal chairman of the NPD youth organization Young National Democrats, Stefan Rochow, had previously been deputy federal chairman of the JLO. On the JLO website there are references to a meeting to honor the volunteers on February 11, 2007 in Budapest, in which high-ranking NPD officials such as Udo Voigt took part. The Brandenburg AfD boss Andreas Kalbitz was a member of the JLO and wrote for their newspaper "Fritz".

The annual "funeral march" organized by the JLO for the bombing of Dresden in World War II, which was announced every year by the JLO cadre Alexander Kleber, developed into a central event on the European right-wing extremism scene.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution Brandenburg, Constitutional Protection Report 2002.
  2. ↑ Free State of Saxony, State Ministry of the Interior (Ed.): Verfassungsschutz Report 2010 of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony . 2011, 1.6.1 Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland eV (JLO), p. 30–31 ( PDF [accessed September 14, 2011]). PDF ( Memento from April 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ German Bundestag: Printed matter 13/6654 of December 27, 1996 , question 12
  4. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2002, p. 61.
  5. ↑ ard.panorama March 15, 2007; Archive, video: Risky research-secret recordings of NPD officials
  6. ↑ Kalbitz was targeted by the MAD as a soldier. spiegel.de, November 8, 2019.
  7. ^ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2004 Free State of Saxony . S. 52–54 ( PDF, 1.78 MB [accessed December 8, 2009]). PDF, 1.78 MB ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )