KTS (Freiburg im Breisgau)

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Receipt of the KTS Freiburg in October 2003

The social center KTS is an institution of the autonomous scene in the district Wiehre in Freiburg .

history

The KTS was established in 1994 in an occupied building in the abandoned Vauban barracks . The Vauban barracks were built in 1938 as Schlageter barracks and taken over by the French army in 1945. This is where today's Vauban district originated .

After the squatting in the 1980s, the autonomous scene in Freiburg had become rather quiet, it experienced a certain renaissance with the construction of the Freiburg Concert Hall (the municipal congress and event center opened in 1996). This major project was controversial among the citizens about its costs, and alternative cultural projects in particular feared disadvantages in the competition for municipal funds because of the construction and maintenance costs. The Konzerthaus advanced to become a symbol of commercialized mainstream culture in the alternative scene.

In contrast, the KTS saw itself with its program of independent concerts, political discussion groups, people's kitchen , info shop and free shop as an alternative antipole.

The name "KTS" stands for " K ulture t reff in S elbstverwaltung" and was in line with the provisional name " K onzert- and T Agung s chosen Tätte" of the Konzerthaus during the planning phase.

After the original domicile on the Vauban site had been vacated by the city, KTS found new accommodation in 1998 in an empty railway building rented by the city. When the lease was terminated by Deutsche Bahn in 2004 due to disruptions to rail operations, the further fate of KTS was uncertain for months. In 2005, after long negotiations between the railway, the city of Freiburg and the Förderverein Subkultur eV, a compromise was found and the continued existence until the end of 2007 was secured. In January 2008, a new, this time open-ended contract was signed.

In the course of the banning of the left-wing radical Internet platform linksunten.indymedia.org, the Baden-Württemberg police searched the KTS on August 25, 2017 for material from the "association", which was now banned. In the KTS, batons, stun guns, twins and butterfly knives were used by the LKA Baden-Württemberg; no firearms secured. Possession of most of the weapons found is not a criminal offense. Although the confiscated items were presented at the Federal Ministry of the Interior's campaign presentation and linked to linksunten.indymedia, it was subsequently unclear where the weapons were found and whether there was a connection. In response to a later request from the daily newspaper , the ministry finally announced: "The weapons finds are accidental finds that play a subordinate role and whose assessment is now a matter for the law enforcement authorities." In addition to technology, large amounts of money were confiscated in the searched apartments and in the KTS. Legal steps have been taken against the measures. Nationwide and also internationally, there were expressions of solidarity with the people and projects affected by state repression.

According to press research from September 2017, the KTS is funded by the city of Freiburg with 282,000 euros per year.

In the Baden-Württemberg Constitutional Protection Report 2018, the KTS is named as the central contact point for the “Autonomen Antifa Freiburg”, which is classified and monitored by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a violent left-wing extremist group.

literature

  • Moritz Eichhorn / Daniel Gräber: Autonomous. Left-wing extremists always find a warm place in Germany, in: FAS No. 35, September 3, 2017, p. 9.

Web links

Commons : KTS  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dpa, Charlotte Janz, BZ-Redaktion, Felix Lieschke & cabu updated at 11:36 a.m.: Ministry of the Interior bans left-wing extremist Internet platform - KTS rooms in Freiburg searched. Badische Zeitung , August 25, 2017, accessed on February 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ "At some point there will be a shot back" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . ( faz.net [accessed August 26, 2017]).
  3. ↑ a b Tobias Schulze: Ban on linksunten.indymedia.org: weapons, weapons, weapons . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 28, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed September 11, 2017]).
  4. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: But no weapons were found in the raid "linksunten". Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ "This is how municipalities justify the financing of autonomous meetings" Die Welt / N24 of September 3, 2017
  6. ↑ Ministry of the Interior, Digitization and Migration of the State of Baden-Württemberg (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Baden-Württemberg 2018 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 9.8 "  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 51.8"  E