Koneuwe
Republic of Koneuwe is the name of a micronation that was founded by the Swiss citizen Bruno Fabbri in his Zurich apartment and became famous in the early 1970s. It is not known whether the construct ever owned or claimed its own territory. The syllable short word Koneuwe stands for the leitmotif " Communism - neutral - western ."
The republic appeared mainly through the issuance of fantasy passports. Passports of the Republic of Koneuwe are listed by the European Union on the list of fantasy documents in which visas cannot be entered. In 2005, an ICAO working group recommended that fantasy documents such as passports of the Republic of Koneuwe be confiscated or marked as invalid.
As a curiosity, a Berlin recreational soccer club was appointed to the national team of the republic in 1974 and its chairman was appointed Minister of Sports by Koneuwe. Also in 1974, the French police arrested a person on suspicion of fraud who posed as the "Grand Duke of the Principality of Freedomland Count Othmar di Schmieder Rocca-Forozata" and claimed to be the head of the state "Principality of Freedomland and Republic of Koneuwe". A micronation on the Spratly Islands , founded in 1956 by the Filipino entrepreneur Tomás Cloma and nowhere recognized, became known as “Freedomland” . It is unclear whether there was a connection between Fabbri, the alleged Grand Duke, and the micronation Freedomland.
Web links
- Entry in the Swiss Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Breathe in fairly . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1974 ( online ).
- ↑ Information Concerning The Non-Exhaustive List Of Known Fantasy And Camouflage Passports, As Stipulated By Article 6 Of The Decision No 1105/2011 / EU. (PDF) European Union, March 15, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Technical Advisory Group On Machine Readable Travel Documents - Sixteenth Meeting. (PDF) ICAO, September 2005, accessed on March 29, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Page 16. In: The Ottawa Journal. August 8, 1974, accessed March 29, 2018 .
- ^ Report on the "International Conference on East Sea Disputes" from 25.-26. July 2014. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Ton Duc Thang University , Ho Chi Minh City , published on the website of the University of Economics, Moscow , 2014, formerly the original ; accessed on March 29, 2018 (English). ( 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.
- ↑ Wolfgang Bethge: Alleged states in the Spratly archipelago. Retrieved March 29, 2018 .
