Songbook of Germania in Wiener Neustadt
The songbook of Germania zu Wiener Neustadt is a songbook published by the Germania zu Wiener Neustadt fraternity in 1997, which also contains a number of anti-Semitic , racist and suspected re-activations under the Prohibition Act .
scandal
In January 2018, Nina Horaczek first reported in the Viennese weekly magazine Falter about a songbook published by the fraternity in 1997, which also contains a number of anti-Semitic , racist song texts that are suspected of being revived under the Prohibition Act (e.g. “Da entered her In the middle of the Jew Ben-Gurion : 'Step on the gas, you old Teutons, we will make the seventh million' "," A slit-eyed Chinese stepped into their midst : 'We are Indo-Europeans too and want to join the Waffen-SS .' ").
The fact that Udo Landbauer , the top candidate of the FPÖ Lower Austria for the state election on January 28, 2018 , had been a member of the fraternity since 2001 and was deputy chairman for two years attracted particular attention in the media . He put his membership "dormant" on January 23rd due to the published songs. He didn't know the songs. He asked for a commission of inquiry to “clarify the scandalous matter completely and comprehensively”. The fraternity suspended the person responsible for the songbook. This would face the authorities. They distanced themselves from the book and would encourage any measure that helps the police with the investigation.
Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen described the print of the songs as “deeply despicable” and stated: “The members of Germania are now suspected of being re-used. Whoever is responsible for this has no place in politics. ”Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz ( ÖVP ) called for consequences and described the published lyrics as“ racist, anti-Semitic and absolutely disgusting ”. For Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache (FPÖ), Landbauer's “red line” had not yet been crossed. On January 24th, the public prosecutor's office in Wiener Neustadt officially initiated an investigation against unknown persons on suspicion of violating the Prohibition Act . The police carried out a search of the house of the fraternity, with 19 song books and folders with documents being seized and handed over to the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter Terrorism for examination .
On August 24, 2018, the public prosecutor's office in Wiener Neustadt announced that the preliminary investigation had been discontinued. No evidence of a “propagandistic reproduction of the text passages relevant to criminal law” could be found, and with regard to the publication and issue of the songbook in 1997, reference was made to the statute of limitations . Landbauer returned to politics shortly afterwards.
In April 2019, the confiscated songbooks were returned to the fraternity after their chairman, under the supervision of a judge, had cut out the incriminated pages from the books.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Falter 04/18: Serious allegations against leading candidates of the FP Lower Austria from January 23, 2018.
- ↑ Die Presse : Landbauer puts "Germania" membership dormant , 23 January 2018.
- ↑ Der Standard : Van der Bellen: "That is deeply despicable" , January 24, 2018.
- ↑ The standard: Landbauer has not yet crossed the red line for Strache, January 24, 2018, accessed on January 25, 2018.
- ↑ Der Standard: Police confiscate Germania song books - responsible person suspended , 25 January 2018
- ↑ Germania song book: Investigations closed. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . August 24, 2018, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ^ Gernot Rohrhofer: Landbauer returns to politics. In: noe.orf.at. August 28, 2018, accessed March 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Songbook Affair: Pages cut out. In: noe.orf.at . April 30, 2019, accessed April 30, 2019.