Kuhle Wampe motorcycle club

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The motorcycle club Kuhle Wampe ( MC Kuhle Wampe ) is an umbrella organization of 40 local motorcycle clubs in different cities, organized in 7 German regions, and since 2015 also in Austria, in which the approx. 360 members are also politically active in addition to motorcycling.

Foundation and political engagement

After the first club with this name was established in 1976, motorcyclists from various groups in the anti-fascist scene founded the current association in Dortmund- Eichlinghofen in 1978 , which, in addition to motorcycling, also set itself the goal of social engagement. For example, the association supports the anti-nuclear movement and is committed to combating discrimination . The association is a founding member of the Federation of European Motorcyclists Associations (FEMA) , the European motorcyclist lobbying association in Brussels. In addition to the MC Kuhle Wampe, only the MC Friedrich Angels (Berlin) is known as a left-wing political motorcycle club in Germany. It is named after the film Kuhle Wampe or: Who Owns the World? , which takes place in a Berlin tent city called Kuhle Wampe , which, like many other colonies in the late 1920s, served as accommodation for working-class families who were unemployed as a result of the global economic crisis . The umbrella organization works politically independently, most of the members are non-party, even if individual members belong to parties like DKP or Die Linke . In September 2008 the club took part in the campaigns under the motto “We stand across” in Cologne, with which an anti-Islamization congress planned for right-wing extremists and populist groups in the city was prevented.

The political actions in which the club was involved also included the demonstrations around the G8 summit in Heiligendamm 2007 and the G7 summit in Elmau 2015 , at which the club set up the protest camp in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, as well Part of the camp logistics took over.

Motorcyclists also took part in the actions against the Rudolf Heß memorial services by neo-Nazis in Wunsiedel in 2005 and 2006. A motorcycle convoy of Kuhle-Wampe members from all over Germany to the former prisoner-of-war camp Sandbostel , which was followed by a wreath-laying ceremony in front of the camp church in memory of the victims of National Socialist rule, and with which efforts to build a memorial were supported, was declared there in 2008 as "Sensational action" considered.

In 2016, the MC appeared as part of a counter-event to the NPD in Einbeck , and in 2018 at a protest against the march of " Republicans " in Göttingen- Süd.

For many years, the MC Kuhle Wampe has organized its large central summer meeting, a public meeting with camping and live music in Lauenberg near Dassel.

publication

The club publishes the quarterly magazine Megaphon , which contains travelogues, motorcycle tech articles, book reviews, and reports on meetings and political actions.

badge

Deviating MC Kuhle Wampe patch, at a demonstration against nuclear power in Berlin

The badge is a back patch and shows the symbol of a five-pointed star on a red background, which encloses a stylized yellow motorcycle helmet; an outer ring with a black background (motorcycle tires) bears the yellow lettering “Motorradclub Kuhle Wampe”. Individual clubs in the Kuhlen Wampe also have their own different motifs.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pascal Beucker: Carnival of Unculture , taz from September 19, 2008, accessed online on December 27, 2008
  2. ^ Herbert Frangenberg: With belly dance and blockades , ksta.de from 16./18. September 2008, accessed November 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ Peter Bürger: Antifascism with fun effects , Telepolis from September 21, 2008, accessed on December 23, 2008.
  4. ↑ Peter Carstens: Cat and Mouse game about Heiligendamm . FAZ , June 7, 2007, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 .;
  5. ↑ Linda Wurster: Bikers, peasants and blockers: The many faces of the G7 protest , focus-online from June 4, 2015, accessed online on June 9, 2015
  6. ^ Rudolf Stumberger: Black and red flags in front of the Zugspitze , new Germany from June 6, 2015, accessed online on June 9, 2015
  7. ↑ Issio Ehrich: G7 summit in Bavaria: Mud battle before the storm on Elmau , n-tv from June 7, 2015, accessed online on June 9, 2015
  8. ↑ Jürgen Fliege and Joachim Gauck come to Wunsiedel ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2006 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. , Evangelical Press Association for Bavaria, July 20, 2005, accessed on December 27, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.epv.de
  9. ↑ Harald Jäckel: The preliminary end of the brown spook in Wunsiedel: Political messages between colorful balloons and sausages , Frankenpost from August 21, 2006, reproduced on the website of Monika Lazar Member of the Bundestag, accessed on December 27, 2008
  10. ↑ “Kuhle Wampe” commemorates the victims of fascism  ( 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. , Documentation and Memorial Sandbostel e. V., accessed December 27, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.verein-dokumentationsstaette-sandbostel.de  

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