NPD Hessen

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NPD Hessen
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), logo 2013.svg
Chairman Daniel Lachmann
Deputy Stefan Jagsch , Ingo Helge
Treasurer Stefan Jagsch
executive Director Daniel Lachmann
Establishment date 1965
Headquarters Büdingen
Number of members 250 (as of 2015)
Website npd-hessen.de

The NPD Hessen is the state association of the NPD in Hessen . In the state elections in Hesse in 1966 , she was able to move into the Hessian state parliament for the first and so far only time . The state chairman has been Daniel Lachmann since April 2018.

history

After the founding of the NPD in 1964, regional associations quickly formed. The State Association of Hesse was established in 1965 and Heinrich Fassbender was elected the first state chairman. In Hessen, too, the structures of the dissolving DRP formed the basis of the organization of the new party.

The election campaign for the state elections in Hesse in 1966 was also intensively supported by the other regional associations. The NPD concentrated on the rural areas and the strongholds of the previous DRP. In the state elections, with 7.9% and 8 seats, the party's first entry into a German state parliament. It benefited from the grand coalition governing the federal government . Through this alliance, the CDU had moved into the middle, and the NPD managed to win over dissatisfied voters from the right wing.

The election statistics showed that the voters of the NPD Hessen in this election were predominantly middle-aged men:

Age Men Women total
21–29 years 8.2% 4.7% 6.5%
30–44 years 10.0% 6.4% 8.2%
45–59 years 12.6% 7.7% 9.8%
60 years - ... 8.6% 4.7% 6.5%
total 10.0% 6.0% 7.9%

In the state parliament, the members of the NPD were isolated. For example, the main committee was reduced in size and the D'Hondt procedure was used in appointing the committees , which disadvantages small parties. This also prevented the NPD from participating in the council of elders , the presidium and the broadcasting council of the HR . The work of the party and parliamentary group was soon characterized by controversy, which culminated with the resignation of state chairman Heinrich Fassbender on November 7, 1970.

Previously, however, the party had again celebrated a success in the local elections in Hesse in 1968 and won a number of municipal mandates. However, all but one of the 69 seats in districts and cities in Hesse were lost in the next local election.

The election victory remained an episode. The CDU Hessen pursued consistent opposition policy under Alfred Dregger . Together with the end of the grand coalition, this meant that voters on the right-wing edge turned to the Union and the NPD shrank to insignificance within one election period.

In the local elections in Hesse on March 10, 1989 , the NPD achieved a nationwide success. With the slogan "Frankfurt must remain a German city", the NPD convinced 6.6% of the voters. The NPD particularly addressed younger voters. In the group of 18 to 24 year old male voters, an agreement of 13% was achieved.

In the local elections in Hesse in 1993 , the right-wing extremist voter potential in Frankfurt was no longer exhausted by the NPD, but by the Republicans , who received 9.3% of the vote. The NPD was only elected to the district council in one district, the Darmstadt-Dieburg district , with 5.9% of the votes. The local political focus of the NPD in Hesse was the municipality of Wölfersheim . In 1993 the NPD received 20.9% of the vote there.

A similar picture emerged in the local elections that followed. In the local elections in Hesse in 1997 , the NPD ran in five districts, two independent towns and twelve towns and municipalities belonging to the district and won a total of 30 municipal mandates. The strongholds were Leun (21.5%), Wölfersheim (22.7%) and Ehringshausen (22.9%). The state-wide result of 0.6% was far below the 2001 local elections in Hesse with 0.2%. The NPD ran for candidates in three counties and eight municipalities and has just lost most of its voters in its strongholds.

In the local elections in 2006 , the NPD had 6 seats in district assemblies or urban districts. This result was confirmed in 2011 .

In the local elections in Hesse in 2016 , the NPD achieved an average result of 0.4%. It was able to win 16 mandates in four municipalities ( Altenstadt : 4 (10.0%), Büdingen : 4 (10.2%), Leun : 3 (11.2%), Wetzlar : 5 (7.7%)) and five mandates in three districts ( Main-Kinzig district : 1 (0.9%), Wetterau district : 2 (2.2%), Lahn-Dill district : 2 (2.0%)). The AfD did not stand for election in the four communities . In the city of Wetzlar, Rainer Przybylski was elected an honorary city councilor by the city council.

In state elections the party did not happen a long time, achieved in the 1990 results in tenths of a percent, but was able to establish around since 2008 with results of 1% of the valid votes cast at a low level. In the state elections in 2013 , the NPD managed to jump over the 1% hurdle, which is important for party financing .

Election results in state elections from 1966

State election results
year be right Seats
1966 7.9% 8th
1970 3.0% 0
1974 1.0% 0
1978 0.4% 0
1982 n / A 0
1983 n / A 0
1987 n / A 0
1991 n / A 0
1995 0.3% 0
1999 0.2% 0
2003 n / A 0
2008 0.9% 0
2009 0.9% 0
2013 1.1% 0
2018 0.2% 0
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people

Member of the state parliament

Group leaders

  • Heinrich Fassbender, until June 10, 1969
  • Werner Fischer, June 10, 1969 to July 14, 1970
  • Ulrich Kaye, from July 14, 1970

Chairperson

Former state chairman Marcel Wöll (2007)
Period Surname
1965 to November 7, 1970 Heinrich Fassbender
1970 to 1973 Horst-Jürgen Fuhlrott
1973 to 1980 Matthias Quintus
1980 to 1981 Karl Philipp
1981 to 1987 Erich Gutjahr
1987 to 1991 Hans Schmidt
1991 to 1994 Winfried Krauss
1994 to 2000 Hans Schmidt
2000 to 2003 Thomas Hantusch
2004 to 2006 Hans Schmidt
May 2006 to April 2008 Marcel Wöll
2008 to 2012 Jörg Krebs
2012 to 2014 Daniel Knebel
2014 to 2015 Stefan Jagsch
2015 to 2018 Jean-Christoph Fiedler
since April 2018 Daniel Lachmann

literature

  • Robert Ackermann: Why the NPD cannot be successful - organization, program and communication of a right-wing extremist party . Budrich, Opladen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86388-012-5 .
  • Uwe Hoffmann: The NPD. Development, ideology and structure (= European university publications. Series 31: Politics. Bd. 396). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1999, ISBN 3-631-35439-8 (also: Marburg, Univ., Diss., 1998).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Structure overview NPD state association Hessen. In: npd-hessen.de. NPD-Landesverband Hessen, accessed on April 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Hesse 2015, page 36 (PDF)
  3. ^ Fischer, Election Handbook for the Federal Republic of Germany; quoted from: Hoffmann, Die NPD, 1998, page 454.
  4. ↑ Hoffmann: Die NPD, 1998, pp. 403-404.
  5. ^ Hoffmann, Die NPD, 1998, page 459.
  6. ^ Hoffmann: Die NPD, 1998, pages 247 and 458.
  7. ↑ Benno Hafeneger: Politics of the "extreme right". An empirical study using the example of the Hessian municipal parliaments. Wochenschau-Verlag, Schwalbach / Ts. 1994, ISBN 3-87920-499-3 , page 9.
  8. ↑ Analysis of the Hessian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution on the 2001 state election (PDF; 344 kB).
  9. ↑ Hess. State Statistical Office: Municipal results of the 2016 municipal elections
  10. ↑ Hess. State Statistical Office: community results of the 2016 district elections
  11. ↑ City of Wetzlar: Magistrate newly constituted , June 21, 2016
  12. ^ Results of the state elections in Hesse .
  13. ↑ Hoffmann, Die NPD, 1998, page 453.
  14. ^ Elections in Germany .
  15. ↑ State Returning Officer Hessen ( Memento from June 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ).
  16. ↑ Preliminary result: State of Hesse .
  17. ^ Final result: State of Hesse .
  18. ↑ Hoffmann, Die NPD, 1998, page 450.