Committee for Peace, Disarmament and Cooperation
The Committee for Peace, Disarmament and Cooperation (KOFAZ) was an organization of the German peace movement. It was founded on December 7, 1974 as part of the “Congress for Peace, Disarmament and Cooperation” in Bonn - Bad Godesberg .
The KOFAZ had the legal form of an unregistered association . Its most important body was the “office of the KOFAZ”, which could be reached at the address of the Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag in Cologne. The initially eleven office members included Joachim Maske (a publisher's editor), Gunnar Matthiessen , Martin Niemöller , Konrad Lübbert (a Protestant pastor), Horst Trapp (from the board of the German Peace Union ), Mechtild Jansen and Gerhard Kade .
Criticism of the KOFAZ was loud again and again because it had clear connections to West German and East German communists. The SPD punished an activity for the KOFAZ with exclusion from the party. The KOFAZ played a major role in the campaign against NATO's double resolution in the early 1980s.
literature
- Udo Baron : Cold War and Hot Peace. The influence of the SED and its West German allies on the party "Die Grünen", Berlin a. a. 2003. ISBN 978-3825861087
Individual evidence
- ↑ Communiqué of the Congress for Peace, Disarmament and Cooperation in Bonn-Bad Godesberg on December 7, 1974. Online ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the German Electronic Archive.
- ↑ Heike Amos: Die SED-Deutschlandpolitik 1961–1989. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, pp. 420f.
- ↑ Wolfgang Rudzio: The erosion of demarcation. On the relationship between the democratic left and communists in the Federal Republic of Germany, Opladen: 1988. pp. 145f.
- ^ SPD: With expulsion or dismissal from office for party reasoning
