NPD Saxony

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NPD Saxony
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), logo 2013.svg
Chairman Peter Schreiber
Deputy Mario Löffler
Maik Müller
Treasurer Alexander Dent
Honorary Chairman Helmut Herrmann
Establishment date 2nd September 1990
Place of foundation Dresden
Number of members 470 (as of July 2016)
Website www.npd-sachsen.de

The NPD Saxony is the state association of the right-wing extremist NPD in Saxony . In the state elections in Saxony in 2004 , she was able to move into the Saxon state parliament for the first time . With 9.2% of the vote, it achieved the second-highest result that the NPD has ever achieved in state elections. In the subsequent state election in 2009 , the party was able to return to the Saxon state parliament with 5.6%, before the party just failed to pass the 5% hurdle in the 2014 state election . The state chairman is Peter Schreiber.

history

After the fall of the Wall , the NPD sought talks with the NDPD in the hope of gaining access to voters from the former GDR through this party . However, it quickly became apparent that apart from the similarity of names, there was little in common. After it became clear that the NDPD would join the FDP , NPD supporters founded the “Central German National Democrats” (MND) on March 24, 1990. The name NPD was initially deliberately avoided out of concerns about a party ban. The party law of the GDR banned right-wing extremist parties. Therefore, participation in the Volkskammer election in 1990 and in the municipal elections in 1990 was not possible. In August 1990 it was renamed NPD and at the federal party conference in Erfurt it merged with the western party.

The party had only a few members in Saxony and was dependent on support from West German NPD members. The NPD's top candidate for the state elections in Saxony in 1990 , Peter Marx , was a “West Import”. In the state elections, the NPD achieved 0.7%. The state result in the 1990 Bundestag election was even lower . In the state elections in Saxony in 1994 , the NPD did not even run.

State parliamentary group Saxony from 2004 to 2014

In the state elections on September 19, 2004 , the fourth state elections in Saxony after reunification, the NPD was able to increase its result from 1.4% to 9.2% and was thus elected to the Saxon state parliament. It was just behind the third largest party, the SPD (9.8%). The following twelve members moved into parliament, which had 124 members: Holger Apfel , Klaus Baier (until December 21, 2005), Alexander Delle , Jürgen Gansel , Uwe Leichsenring (died on August 30, 2006), Klaus-Jürgen Menzel ( until November 14, 2006), Johannes Müller , Matthias Paul (until November 24, 2006), Winfried Petzold , Mirko Schmidt (until December 17, 2005), Jürgen Schön (until December 23, 2005) and Gitta Schüßler . Later moved René Despang (as of 30 August 2006) and Peter Klose after (from 24 November 2006). The publisher Holger Apfel was elected parliamentary group leader and the entrepreneur Uwe Leichsenring was elected parliamentary director.

Mirko Schmidt left the parliamentary group and party on December 17, 2005, because he no longer wanted to accept the closeness to National Socialism and the authoritarian leadership style. On December 21st, Klaus Baier resigned for similar reasons. Just two days later, Jürgen Schön also turned his back on the NPD. He described the chairman Holger Apfel and his former parliamentary group colleague Jürgen Gansel as representatives of "Hitlerism".

Uwe Leichsenring had a fatal accident in a traffic accident on August 30, 2006. The 13th of the state list from 2004 and thus a successor was René Despang, Johannes Müller became the new parliamentary director.

Klaus-Jürgen Menzel was expelled from the parliamentary group on November 14, 2006 because of financial irregularities. Matthias Paul resigned his mandate on November 24, 2006 after the Dresden public prosecutor's office had initiated an investigation into the possession of child pornography . Peter Klose moved up for him. With Menzel's resignation and expulsion, the NPD parliamentary group only consisted of eight members; of the original twelve MPs, only six belonged to the parliamentary group at the end of the legislative period.

After the state elections in Saxony in 2009 , the NPD was once again able to move into the state parliament with parliamentary groups. At 5.6%, it achieved a lower result than in 2004, but managed the first re-entry of the NPD into a state parliament. In addition to the previous MPs Holger Apfel (until December 24, 2013), Alexander Delle, Jürgen Gansel, Johannes Müller, Winfried Petzold (died on December 22, 2011) and Gitta Schüßler, the new parliamentary group now also included Arne Schimmer and Andreas Storr . Followers were Mario Löffler (from January 19, 2012) and Holger Szymanski (from January 23, 2014). Holger Apfel was re-elected chairman of the parliamentary group, Johannes Müller remained Parliamentary Director.

Mario Löffler entered the state parliament for Winfried Petzold, who died on December 22, 2011. On December 19, 2013, Holger Apfel resigned from the parliamentary group's chairmanship and left the NPD five days later. After he also gave up his state parliament mandate on January 17, 2014, Holger Szymanski took over, who subsequently became the new parliamentary group leader.

No second re-entry was made for the state elections in Saxony in 2014 . With 4.9% of the vote, the party failed at the 5% hurdle. According to election researcher Matthias Jung , the reason for this was the fact that the AfD took part in the Saxon state elections for the first time .

Background and parliamentary work

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The success in the 2004 election is attributed, among others, to Kerstin Lorenz , who was previously the state chairman of the Republicans in Saxony. She had prevented the Republicans from running for election and called for the election of the NPD, which she then joined the day before the election.

In January 2005, there was a nationwide sensation when the parliamentary group left the hall during a minute of silence for victims of National Socialism and parliamentary group chairman Apfel used the term “ bomb holocaust ” for the air raids on Dresden in a speech . It also became known that the NPD was printing its magazine German Voice Abroad (first in Poland , later in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius ), although it complained that foreigners were taking jobs away from Germans. She justified this by saying that German printers would refuse to print her organ.

In 2005, the NPD wanted to set up a committee of inquiry into what was going on around Landesbank Sachsen , but this failed because the other parliamentary groups did not give them any votes for their motion. At a later point in time, a committee of inquiry with a similar mandate was set up at the request of the PDS parliamentary group.

After the eight-member NPD parliamentary group illegally appeared at a session of the state parliament in Thor Steinar clothing on June 13, 2012 , state parliament president Matthias Rößler made use of his house and police rights, expelled the eight members of the hall and closed them for the three following sessions. This was the first exclusion of an entire parliamentary group in the history of the state parliament.

The NPD MPs often referred to the other five parties in the Saxon state parliament as block parties or system parties , Jürgen Gansel even spoke of the block party cartel in his speech about the bomb holocaust , for which he received a call for order from the then state parliament president Erich Iltgen .

Results of the state elections

Results
State elections
8th%
6%
4%
2%
0%
'90
'94
'99
'04
'09
'14
'19
Results of the state elections
year be right Seats
1990 0.7% 0
1994 n / A -
1999 1.4% 0
2004 9.2% 12
2009 5.6% 8th
2014 4.9% 0
2019 0.6% 0

State chairman

Years Chairman
1990-1993 Jürgen Schön
1993-1996 Thorsten Keil
1996-2009 Winfried Petzold
2009–2012 Holger Apple
2012-2013 Mario Loeffler
2013-2015 Holger Szymanski
2015-2020 Jens Baur
Since 2020 Peter Schreiber

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Left and CDU are shrinking, AfD and Greens are growing. August 4, 2016, accessed June 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ 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 , p. 249ff.
  3. ↑ The first MP of the NPD resigns. sz-online.de, December 19, 2005, accessed on March 8, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Saxony's NPD parliamentary group is shrinking. taz.de, December 22, 2005, accessed on March 8, 2016 .
  5. ↑ The third exit. n-tv.de, December 23, 2005, accessed March 8, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Mannheim election researcher Matthias Jung: "AfD prevents entry of the NPD" , September 1, 2014
  7. ↑ NPD man speaks of Dresden "Bomb Holocaust" , article from January 21, 2005
  8. ^ Results of the state elections in Saxony
  9. ↑ 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 , p. 452.