Kampfgruppe Priem

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The Kampfgruppe Priem was a neo-Nazi military sports group that operated in West Berlin in the 1970s and existed until 1984.

history

The combat group was officially launched on January 17, 1974 and entered in the register of associations at the Freiburg District Court on September 19 of that year . The founder of the group was Arnulf Priem . Other activists were NPD members Wolfgang Rahl and Alexander Hensel , who, like Priem, had both been ransomed by the Federal Republic after convictions in the GDR , and Erwin Schober, a member of the NPD youth organization Young National Democrats . The combat group was initially active in Freiburg im Breisgau and held shooting and sports exercises. She was extremely violent in public, drawing attention to herself through fights, swastika graffiti and attacks. Among other things , armed with bicycle chains , she carried out an attack on Antifa members who protested against the showing of the film Europe in Flames .

The combat group maintained contacts with the right-wing terrorist Manfred Roeder and the military sports group Hoffmann .

In 1978, after Priem moved to West Berlin , the combat group was entered in the local telephone directory. Their activists dug for weapons of the Wehrmacht on Brandenburg scenes during the Second World War . During a house search in 1979, SS uniforms , steel helmets and a machine gun were found in Priem's ​​apartment . Priem received a suspended sentence. In 1982, two men carried out an explosive attack on a house inhabited by migrants in Bellermannstrasse in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen . In court, the perpetrators testified that they met through the Priem combat group. After more weapons were found and Priem's ​​suspended sentences in the early 1980s, the combat group disbanded in 1984. Most of its members switched to the youth organization Wotans Volk , which Priem had founded in 1987.

aftermath

Even after the fighting group was disbanded, Priem remained in contact with the illegal arms trade and hoarded military material in his apartment. In 1986 a middleman Priems, a shopkeeper from Berlin-Kreuzberg , was arrested after selling a submachine gun to a member of the right-wing scene .

Various armed acts of violence were committed in the vicinity: In 1985, the banker Ulrich Jahnke was shot in a robbery. One of the perpetrators, a member of Wotan's people, had previously shot a police officer and killed a pensioner in another robbery. On August 13, 1994, the police stormed Priem's ​​apartment on Osloer Strasse in Gesundbrunnen. 26 neo-Nazis (including cadres such as Oliver Schweigert and Frank Lutz ) had holed up there, allegedly for fear of an attack by the Antifa. The neo-Nazis had shot at unpopular journalists from the roof of the house with steel balls. The police seized knives, striking tools, four air rifles , seven gas pistols, a Molotov cocktail and 200 grams of explosives. Priem was sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for making anti-constitutional statements, possessing weapons and “forming an armed band”. The neo-Nazi Kay Diesner , who injured a bookseller with a pump gun in February 1997 and shot a police officer while trying to escape, was among the 26 people and is considered Priem's ​​political pupil. Also one of those entrenched in Priem's ​​apartment was Detlef Nolde, who in April 1997, together with the long-time FAP activist Lutz Schillock, killed two members of the right-wing extremist Comradeship Wittenberg in an internal dispute .

On June 15, 2012 there was another raid on Priem, who now lives in Berlin-Moabit . SEK officials found several weapons, including two machine guns.

literature

  • Antifa Commission of the Communist League (ed.): How criminal is the NPD? Analyzes - documents - names. Buntbuch, Hamburg 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anton Maegerle : Weapons found in an old "comrade" . Website look to the right , June 15, 2012. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Burkhard Schröder : The network of Berlin neo-Nazi terror . In: taz , August 4, 1997. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
  3. ↑ Tobias Pflanz: Priem confirms the allegations . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 17, 1995. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ Anita Katzbach: Tord and Motschlag. Announcement of the verdict in the Nolde-Schillock trial ( memento of February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Jungle World , December 4, 1997. Retrieved August 11, 2012.