Kiel list for restriction of foreigners
The Kiel List for Limitation of Foreigners , or KLA for short , was a political group founded in 1981 that won 3.8% of the votes in the local elections in Schleswig-Holstein in the state capital of Kiel the following year . Immediately after its founding, it appeared as a right-wing extremist association in the constitutional protection report of Schleswig-Holstein.
Establishment and dissolution
The list was constituted on November 5, 1981 in Kiel and had about 30 founding members. Just a few months later, she ran for local elections on March 7, 1982 and gained 3.8% of the vote. Leading heads of the group were former NPD members, other people were previously non-party. Several functionaries of the German Unitarian Religious Community (DUR) also stood as candidates , including Fritz Castagne , a former NSDAP member of the Reichstag, head of the Reich Office of the “ German Labor Front ” and, after 1945, long-time editor of the Unitarian papers (formerly Faith and Action ).
In 1986 the KLA disbanded due to increasing protests and internal disputes and almost completely joined the party " The Republicans " (REP).
aims
The self-declared task of the list was, according to the then candidate Fritjof Berg, “with your participation in the election and the objectives expressed in your name, set a nationally perceptible signal against the danger of foreign infiltration, which was no longer foreseeable at that time , whereby you emphatically on the potentiation of this danger indicated by the decline in births and the tendencies towards denationalization. ” At the same time, new right-wing extremist associations also emerged in other places in the Federal Republic of Germany, which also dealt with the issues of“ foreign infiltration ”and“ foreigner repatriation ”. B. the "Action Foreigners Return - People's Movement Against Foreign Immigration and Environmental Destruction" (AAR) (founded in 1977), the " Citizens' Initiative Foreigners Stop " in North Rhine-Westphalia (founded in 1980) or the "Hamburg List for Foreigners Stop" (founded in 1982).
Protests against the KLA
Their public appearance led to several counter-actions and events by anti-fascist groups and initiatives. In 1984 the KLA had a direct mail distributed in which foreign residents were defamed as “bogus asylum seekers”, “criminals”, “illegals” and “parasites”. Furthermore, “environmental pollution, unemployment, crime and drug deaths” were blamed solely on the foreign population and the German population was called upon to vigilante justice with the words “let's take matters into our own hands” . As a result, several mail carriers in Kiel refused to deliver the documents. However, they were forced to do so by the Deutsche Bundespost under the threat of dismissal without notice, because "the delivery of a consignment in accordance with the postal regulations would not violate human dignity" . This instruction and the lack of a response to an open letter to Post Minister Christian Schwarz-Schilling led to several debates in the German press. One MP from Kiel said that it was "outrageous that German officials are being forced to spread the slogans that in 1933 (...) plunged Germany and the world into ruin."
swell
- ^ Letter to the editor on: "The Ignored Truth" by Karlheinz Weißmann. Young Freedom No. 16, 2006
- ^ Gerhard Hertel: The DVU - Danger from the right wing . current analyzes 12. Hanns Seidel Foundation. PDF document (119 KB) ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Richard Stöss: Right-wing extremism in a united Germany . PDF document
- ^ Post promotes Nazi propaganda. Postmen have been resisting in vain for nine years. anti-fascist news 1993 (txt file)
literature
- Kiel list for the restriction of foreigners: Committed to the future. KLA, Kiel 1983.
- Volker Lassen, Max Oberberg, Holger Otten: Legal opinion. Is the Kiel List for the Restriction of Foreigners (KLA) a banned organization, whose nomination is to be rejected by the municipal election committee of the city of Kiel for the local elections in 1986? Kiel 1986.
- Heinz Sahner, Peter Mnich: The Greens in Schleswig-Holstein and the "Kiel List for Limiting Foreigners". An analysis of the elections up to 1982. Institute for Sociology, series of publications: Sociological work reports, Volume 10, Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel 1983.