Michael Koth

Michael Koth (* in Berlin-Steglitz ) is a German national Bolshevik . He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin (SEW) for about 15 years and for a long time worked as a full-time party secretary in the Steglitz district leadership . Then he was a functionary of other different communist groups. As part of a cross-front strategy, he had been a leader in the neo-Nazi Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten (KDS), which was dissolved in 2008 , and whose website and YouTube channel he then continued. Nowadays it appears as the so - called anti - imperalist platform or anti-imperalist platform Berlin .

Functional of various communist parties

Michael Koth was born in Steglitz . As a student at a secondary school in Steglitz, he came into contact with the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin (SEW) and became a member of the Free German Youth West Berlin (FDJW). He completed his apprenticeship at the Deutsche Reichsbahn , which also operated the Berlin S-Bahn , which operates in West Berlin .

According to his own statement, he was expelled from the SEW in 1979 because of opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev's policies ; However, this year it was not Gorbachev but Leonid Brezhnev who was party leader of the CPSU. Koth switched to the KPD / ML and became its chairman in West Berlin. After the unification of the party, which in the meantime called itself "KPD", with the GIM to form the VSP , Koth led a splinter group in Berlin which again called itself the KPD / ML and claimed to be the successor to the old KPD / ML. This group then joined the Communist Party of Germany (KPD-Ost) in February 1994 , whereby Koth was accepted into its central committee. According to his own account, he was "purged" from the KPD in 1996. The reason for the exclusion from the party were neo-Stalinist statements by Koth (the KPD-Ost, however, refers positively to Joseph Stalin ).

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the turning point in the GDR , Koth moved to Berlin-Weißensee , where he made contact with associations of the former Ministry for State Security and some former representatives of the GDR . Koth often claims that he was the last to visit the former GDR head of state Erich Honecker and his wife Margot in Beelitz before they left for Moscow and in the Moabit remand prison until Honecker left for Chile.

Koth was involved in the "Erich Honecker Solidarity Committee" and was also active in the National Committee Free GDR (NKFDDR), the Committee "Freedom for Erich Mielke " and in the Friends of Sporthaus Ziegenhals. As a board member of a "wall building committee" he advocated the reconstruction of the Berlin Wall .

“National communist” with close ties to the extreme right

At the latest after the exclusion from the party, Koth openly represented national communist and national revolutionary views and approached the extreme right . He was chairman of the German Labor Party (PdAD), which existed from 1995 to 1998 and remained politically insignificant. The Society for the Study and Dissemination of the Chuch'e Ideology in Germany (German-Korean friendship) was closely associated with the party ; both organizations were largely initiated by Koth. The group was oriented towards the Labor Party of Korea , whose policies the PdAD understood as national communist . According to Michael Koth, the PdAD was an organization “in which former FDJ and DKP members as well as national revolutionaries and national socialists were active”.

The group described itself as an "alliance of national communists and national revolutionaries" and saw itself "in the spirit of Straßer , Niekisch and Anton Ackermann ". In the opinion of the political scientist Henrik Steglich, the PdAD was "an obscure small group that mainly appears with hymns to the North Korean dictators Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il ".

The PdAD remained politically insignificant. The party gradually approached the neo-Nazi spectrum, so supporters of the PdAD were often represented at the NPD demonstrations. Among other things, Koth was able to present the PdAD at its own information booth during the Bundestag election congress of the NPD on February 7, 1998 in the Passau Nibelungenhalle. On July 30, 1998, Koth was received by Ambassador Ri San Yu in the diplomatic mission of North Korea in Berlin together with a delegation from the NPD party executive, including Hans Günter Eisenecker , and the NPD regional association of Saxony .

Koth had already attracted attention through close contact with the neo-Nazi scene, as he ran the homepage of the right-wing rocker Arnulf Priem and published it regularly in organs of the NPD. So in 1996 he tried to set up an information table on the sidelines of the Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Demonstration in Berlin together with the editors of the Querfront -Blatt “ Sleipnir ” .

Co-founder and leadership of the neo-Nazi KDS

Michael Koth as a speaker at a neo-Nazi rally on September 1, 2007 in Neuruppin

In 1999 Koth founded the Kampfbund Deutscher Sozialisten together with the neo-Nazis Thomas Brehl (Langen, Hessen), Michael Thiel ( Duisburg ) and Frank Hübner ( Cottbus ). Koth became a member of the organizational management and first secretary of the Berlin / Gau Brandenburg district management. For a while he was also the editor of the KDS magazine “Gegenangriff”. He currently publishes Die Truth as the “organ of the Berlin district management”. He also appears as a speaker at neo-Nazi rallies and demonstrations, most recently on September 1, 2007 in Neuruppin with around 60 participants on the occasion of the attack on Poland in 1939.

strategy

Koth practices the cross-front strategy. He is of the opinion that " international socialism " has failed and advocates a so-called " national socialism ". According to Koth, the SED failed because of the " national question " rather than the social one .

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1. ↑ Antifa Weißensee (2003) ( Memento from December 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ quoted from http://www.heiko-schomberg.de/promotionsweb/doktorarbeit_stand_12042001.html#_ftnref234
3. ↑ labournet.de: Social and legal?
4. ^ Henrik Steglich: The NPD in Saxony. Organizational prerequisites for her election success in 2004. Reports and studies No. 49. Göttingen 2005. P. 77 Note 275.
5. ↑ Antifa Weißensee (2003) ( Memento from December 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ left? Right? - Revolutionary! ( Memento of the original from December 5, 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. Jungle World on March 10, 1999.