Klaus Kunze

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Klaus Kunze (* 1953 in Bahrendorf ) is a German lawyer , local researcher , genealogist and author. He is considered the protagonist of the New Right .

Life

Klaus Kunze passed his Abitur in 1972 at the Hölderlin-Gymnasium in Cologne. He then joined the police force and was last employed in 1975 as chief sergeant in Cologne police headquarters. In 1974 he began studying law at the University of Cologne at the same time . Since 1976 he has received a grant from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation . He was active in the Cologne fraternity Germania and was involved in the university policy committee of the German fraternity . In 1977 he was one of the co-founders of the extreme right-wing ring of Freedom Students . He was also a correspondent for the extreme right-wing magazine student there . In 1979 he passed the first state examination and in 1981 the second state examination.

As a lawyer he first settled in Göttingen , then from 1984 in Uslar . Among other things, he defended neo-national socialist activists, representatives of right-wing parties, some revisionists and in spectacular murder trials such as in 2008 against the quadruple murderer “Black Widow” and in 2010 in the Jeetzel murder case. Among other things, he was listed on a lawyer list of the now banned aid organization for national political prisoners and their relatives . Armin Pfahl-Traughber does not see him as a neo-Nazi , but as a lawyer who has a certain political-ideological proximity to his clientele. As legal counsel for the Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck , he tried to bring the client's “ metaphysical world of thought” closer to the court and audience and to convince them that his client was not “close to National Socialism ” and that her admiration for Rudolf Hess would be based on purely “personal relationships”.

Kunze himself joined the Republicans , for whom he ran in the Lower Saxony state election in 1990 . He was also state press spokesman for a while. As an author, he wrote for the central organ, The Republicans . He also represented the Republicans in various proceedings against the Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

In 1977 he began to work as a journalist after he had published a fan magazine for science fiction as a teenager . In particular, he operated local history research and genealogy . His contributions have appeared in various specialist journals. From 1989 onwards, his works were more politically influenced and appeared in, among others, Junge Freiheit , Nation and Europa und Deutsche Geschichte . As a speaker he appeared at an event organized by the Society for Free Journalism in 1996 and spoke about freedom of expression in Germany.

The other works after 1998 deal mainly with genealogy, in particular in 2000 a work on the personal history of the glassmakers in the Weserbergland, 11 regional historical personal encyclopedias, a local chronicle and a book about butterflies in the Bramwald. In it, the author describes the “small, often inconspicuous world of the butterflies” “in a loving language adapted to the delicate beings” and with “detailed, colored images”.

In 2017 he published about the poet Karl Henckell as a protagonist of the labor movement .

At the Lower Saxony state senior championships in apparatus gymnastics on April 28, 2014, Klaus Kunze was national champion in the age group of 60 to 64 year olds and defended this title on April 26, 2015 in Oker. At the German Senior Championships on May 17, 2014 in Sulzbach, he took 5th place in the same age group (M60) and on July 4, 2015 at the German Senior Championships in Pirna, 3rd place. He again achieved 3rd place in apparatus gymnastics on May 5, 2018 among the over 65s in Essen and 5th place on May 18, 2019 in Bühl.

Viewpoints and reception

While other authors of the New Right often maintain an essayistic style, Kunze develops relatively closed and systematic representations, especially on the subject of parliamentarianism and party state criticism. In addition, Kunze stands out in that he uses classics such as Robert Michels and Carl Schmitt for his arguments. His main works include the political books Der totale Parteienstaat (1994) and Courage for Freedom - Call for Order (1995). In these books he represented the idea of ​​a strong power state based on the Prussian model.

“With the idea of ​​the Prussian, the absolute republic, the model of a strictly disciplined power state, which is only not up to date at the moment, a state that is not loved and for which only a few long, but which one day will be the ultimate ratio could be if the alternative to it is only chaos. "

- Klaus Kunze : The total party state

Alice Brauner -Orthen states: “The right-wing lawyer Klaus Kunze has theoretically reworked decisionism for the New Right. He argues for the decisionist as a realist who does not serve ideals, in contrast to the normativist, who believes in the classification of humans in a cosmos filled with a metaphysical order. He creates the norms that apply to the decisionist himself 'voluntaristically': that is, by force of his will. He does not know any beyond and does not feel subject to any 'nature of his being'. No social order arises by itself, so he must always find and maintain order himself through a conscious decision of the will. 'They both oppose order to chaos: the normativist the prescribed order corresponding to his beliefs and the decision is an order for which he has freely chosen.' Kunze turns against any form of metaphysical being, including religion, and consequently rejects the validity of universal values. For Kunze there is no right to God or a normative order of creation. 'All right is therefore a general order that results from a human value concept, is positively influenced by a ruling power and enforced with state sanctions.' "

In his book Courage for Freedom - Call for Order , Kunze argues, according to Armin Pfahl-Traughber , in the spirit of his intellectual role models Juan Donoso Cortés and Carl Schmitt in favor of decisionism and rejects “normativism as intolerant from the start. 'There is no universalizable ethics without metaphysics . But everyone can only create this in himself, which is why it is subjective and relative. So all values ​​only apply after a positive decision for them '(p. 59). If it were possible to elevate such values ​​in the form of state norms to general laws, then one would have successfully asserted one's claim to power. Normativism is therefore regarded by Kunze as a pure expression of the legitimation of power. ”( Armin Pfahl-Traughber :) Kunze rejects the universal validity of values ​​as quasi-religious and interprets them purely functionalist in the power-political sense. A conception of human rights in the sense of natural and thus pre-state rights has no place in this view

"The conquest of the state by the parties as social fighting groups", quoted Pfahl-Traughber Kunze, led to a total seizure of power by the party system and made the state itself largely incapable of action. Kunze called for a "procedure that overcomes the system, because: 'There is no system-immanent way out of the vicious circle of the exercise of power and self-favoring of the parties who have created this system and who, through their representatives in the Bundestag, repeatedly decide on its continued existence.'" Kunze According to Pfahl-Traughber, I pursue a strategy of delegitimation that would consist of defaming or reinterpreting the values ​​of the democratic constitutional state such as the principle of democracy, the idea of ​​equality, human rights, the principle of representation and popular sovereignty.

Critics see in Kunze's position itself an ideology that consists of a “revaluation of values”, attacks the constitutional state and represents a strategy of “overcoming the system”. Within the New Right he therefore took a position that could be assessed as right-wing extremist .

Act

The intention of "overcoming the democratic constitutional state" is formulated by Kunze, so Pfahl-Traughber, clearly and without tactical considerations. Klaus Kunze's contributions to Junge Freiheit were largely responsible for the mention of Junge Freiheit and Kunze as a person in the right-wing extremism category in the reports on the protection of the constitution of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1994 and 1995. Kunze, according to one report, tries to do that in his articles discredit parliamentary system as undemocratic. Junge Freiheit brought an action against this mention before the Administrative Court in Düsseldorf, which initially dismissed the action. The judgment was overturned eight years later by the Federal Constitutional Court. ( Junge Freiheit judgment ) In the judgment of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court of 1997 on Junge Freiheit (1K 9318/96), the court had stated that Kunze's article gave “clues for suspicion of efforts against the principle of democracy ” and for suspicion of xenophobia .

In the opinion of Stephan Braun and Anton Maegerle , Kunze is playing “outwardly the honest man”, but elsewhere would take a stand against “Allied re-education ” and “the dogma of Germany's sole guilt and the uniqueness of its crimes”. He invokes Helmut Quaritsch when he is convinced “that 'the Federal Republic [...] has been in an ideological state of war with the Third Reich since its foundation. That is why all values ​​of that time would be declared unworthy and their opposite to value '. "

Publications

Political / legal / legal philosophical writings

  • The total party state - farewell to the ideal state: The way out of the crisis of the German party system . Deugro, Esslingen 1994, ISBN 3-924396-29-9 . ( online ).
  • Courage to Freedom - Call to Order: Philosophy of Law on the fine line between fundamentalism and nihilism . Deugro, Esslingen 1995, ISBN 3-924396-43-4 ; 2nd, extended edition: HeiKun, Uslar 1998 ( PDF version; 14 MB ).
  • Political processes as a secret matter - system change through reinterpretation: constitutional protection and jurisdiction after the left march through the institutions . HeiKun, Uslar 1998, ISBN 3-933334-05-5 ( PDF version; 15 MB ).
  • The eternally feminine through the ages. From guardianship to genderism . Lindenbaum, Beltheim 2019, ISBN 978-3-938176-71-9 .
  • Wahn Wahnsinn Genderwahn, Entbegrenzte Gesellschaft , Hamburg 2019, Ed. The German Conservatives .
  • Identity or Equality , On the Human Right to Inequality, Lindenbaum, Beltheim 2020, ISBN 978-3-938176-79-5 .

Genealogical works

Other works

  • Fürstenhagen im Bramwald: Sources and representations on the history of the village from the Middle Ages to today. HeiKun, Uslar 1997, ISBN 3-933334-03-9 ( PDF version; 14.1 MB ).
  • Butterfly dreams: butterflies in Fürstenhagen and at the Bramwald. HeiKun, Uslar 2013, ISBN 978-3-933334-24-4 .
  • Pictures of life from the old Weserbergland - people and fates from 500 years. HeiKun, Uslar 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ K. Kunze: The total party state. P. 226 “About the Author”.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Gessenharter, Thomas Pfeiffer: The new right: a threat to democracy? Springer 2004, p. 125, there the right-wing extremist magazine Student
  3. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: "Conservative Revolution" and "New Right". Right-wing intellectuals against the democratic constitutional state . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-1888-0 , p. 170−171 .
  4. ^ "Nonetheless, Kunze cannot be called a neo-Nazi." Armin Pfahl-Traughber: "Conservative Revolution" and "New Right". Right-wing intellectuals against the democratic constitutional state . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-1888-0 , p. 171 .
  5. ↑ Andreas Speit , Andrea Röpke : Mädelssache - women in the neo-Nazi scene. Federal Agency for Civic Education (licensed edition), Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-8389-0146-6 , p. 133.
  6. ^ A b Armin Pfahl-Traughber: "Conservative Revolution" and "New Right". Right-wing intellectuals against the democratic constitutional state . 1998, p. 171 .
  7. ↑ K. Kunze, Freedom of Opinion in Germany (lecture text), http://klauskunze.com/kanzlei/presse/gfp1996.html
  8. ↑ Publishing program. Heikun-Verlag, accessed on May 7, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Karin Hahn: Closer to heaven and its powers than we are: A book about butterflies in the Bramwald. Review in: Sollingkurier, April 2014 edition, p. 28.
  10. ^ Opposite brothers - the industrialist and the social revolutionary, in: Regula Schenkel and Edi Goetschel (eds.), Karl Henckell - literary and social revolutionary, Zurich 2017, pp. 13-30, Monsalvat-Verlag  ( page no longer available , search in Web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ISBN 978-3-9523855-1-7@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / monsalvatverlag.ch   .
  11. ↑ Kunze sovereign senior national champion, Göttinger Tageblatt May 2, 2014, p. 19
  12. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2014 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. , Klaus Kunze turns fifth, Sollinger Allgemeine May 20, 2014, p. 27. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dtb-online.de
  13. ↑ Results list of the German Gymnastics Federation, http://www.dtb-online.de/portal/fileadmin/user_upload/dtb.redaktion/Internet-PDFs/TURNEN/Geraetturnen/Nachwuchs_maennlich/Erresult_Einzel_m_neu.pdf
  14. ↑ DTB-online (results): competition results. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Deutscher Turnerbund, May 6, 2018, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 6, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dtb-online.de  
  15. ↑ WK 21165: Age group M 65-69 (PDF) DTB. May 18, 2019. Retrieved June 11, 2019.
  16. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Conservative Revolution and New Rights. Opladen 1998, p. 170.
  17. ↑ quoted from Armin Pfahl-Traughber: "Conservative Revolution" and "New Right". Right-wing intellectuals against the democratic constitutional state . 1998, p. 173 .
  18. ↑ Alice Brauner-Orthen, The New Right in Germany, Opladen 2001, p. 38.
  19. ↑ Spiritual partisans from the right. In: look to the right . Volume 13, No. 3, February 7, 1996, p. 8.
  20. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: Conservative Revolution and New Rights. Opladen 1998, p. 193.
  21. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber, Conservative Revolution and New Right, 1998, p. 172.
  22. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: The revaluation of values ​​as part of a strategy of the “cultural revolution”. The reinterpretation of the term “democracy” by right-wing extremist intellectuals. In: Wolfgang Gessenharter, Thomas Pfeiffer The new right: a threat to democracy? Springer, 2004, p. 82f.
  23. ^ Wolfgang Cremer: Aspects of the constitutional protection dealings with the new right . In: Wolfgang Gessenharter, Helmut Fröchling (Hrsg.): Right-wing extremism and new rights in Germany. Re-measurement of a political-ideological space? Leske + Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-2053-2 , p. 73 f .
  24. ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber: The revaluation of values ​​as part of a strategy of the “cultural revolution”. The reinterpretation of the term “democracy” by right-wing extremist intellectuals. In: Wolfgang Gessenharter, Thomas Pfeiffer The new right: a threat to democracy? Springer, 2004, p. 82
  25. ^ Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 1995, p. 117.
  26. ↑ Protection of the Constitution of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Klageverfahren der 'Junge Freiheit' . July 2006, p. 54–56 ( nrw.de [PDF]). Legal action of the 'Junge Freiheit' ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / m.mik.nrw.de
  27. ^ Stephan Braun , Anton Maegerle : Lawyers of the extreme right . In: Stephan Braun, Alexander Geisler, Martin Gerster (Eds.): Strategies of the Extreme Right: Backgrounds - Analyzes - Answers. VS Verlag, 2009, p. 399. (Klaus Kunze)
personal data
SURNAME Kunze, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, local researcher, genealogist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Bahrendorf