Camaraderie gate
The Kameradschaft Tor was an active and influential right-wing extremist comradeship in Berlin from 2001 until it was banned on March 9, 2005 . The main focus of activity was in Lichtenberg and Friedrichshain . Attempts were made to combine actionist behavior and street violence with the ideological background of the völkisch right.
history
Emergence
Members of the future Kameradschaft Tor first caught sight of an event organized by the Berlin Republicans on August 21, 1999 in Friedrichshain. In 2001 they decided to found their own comradeship. The namesake was the " Frankfurter Tor " in Friedrichshain. At this point the comradeship gate was a conventional neo-Nazi comradeship. Its members took part in marches with banners, printed their own T-shirts and ran a website.
In the period 2003/04, however, a discussion began in the right-wing extremist scene, during which the comradeship Tor increasingly oriented itself towards the skater / hardcore punk scene and the autonomists of the 1980s / 90s in terms of clothing style, forms of action and expression . Together with right-wing extremists from other city districts, they gave themselves the designation " Autonomous Nationalists Berlin", which openly called for acts of violence and even more blatantly racist and anti-Semitic slogans were published. The range of right-wing extremist slogans was supplemented by original left-wing extremist slogans such as "Fight the System, Fuck the Law". During this period, the Kameradschaft Tor, in cooperation with the "Berlin Alternative South-East", which was also banned in March 2006, carried out several symbolic squats to underline the demand for a "National Youth Center". So-called anti-anti-fascist work was also expanded and the targeted street violence associated with it was intensified. With smaller actions, such as crossing the Brandenburg Gate or an attempted rally at the memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe , they reached a wider media audience.
A majority of the members settled in the Lichtenberger Weitlingkiez over time . There they tried to achieve political dominance with the help of street violence against migrants and leftists, spraying and demonstrations. In 2005, the Kameradschaft Tor succeeded in blocking the annual Silvio Meier demonstration when it passed through Weitlingstrasse.
The members had good contacts to comradeships in Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony , but also Dortmund and Hamburg. (See also right-wing networks .)
Group of girls
Around 2004 the "girls group KS Tor" was founded, which consisted of about five women and saw itself as a sub-group of comradeship. This had its own banners and its own website on which demonstration reports and texts on cultural topics were published. The women in the comradeship were much more present in public actions at this time. On May 8, 2004, for example, they carried out a disruptive action at the annual commemoration of the Allied victory at the Soviet memorial in Treptow.
Prohibition
After the ban on March 9, 2005 by the Berlin Senator for the Interior Ehrhart Körting , a large number of the activists of the Kameradschaft Tor organized themselves under the name “Free Forces Berlin”. The forms of action have remained the same; but the theoretical background almost completely disappeared. The actions against political opponents continue to dominate, so that as a result of numerous investigations, several of the activists had to serve several years in prison.
See also
List of right-wing extremist organizations banned in Germany
literature
- Andrea Röpke , Andreas Speit (Ed.): Brown comradeships. The new networks of the militant neo-Nazis. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-86153-316-2 .
- Free fellowships. Information brochure from Antifa 3000, Hanover 2002.