NSU committees of inquiry

NSU investigation committees are parliamentary committees in Germany that are supposed to clarify the acts of murder and violence of the right-wing extremist terrorist organization National Socialist Underground (NSU), their supporters and the behavior of federal and state authorities in the NSU complex. The German Bundestag and eight state parliaments to date have set up such committees between February 2012 and April 2018, sometimes several times in successive legislative periods. They complement the criminal proceedings against Beate Zschäpe and four NSU supporters, who were sentenced to prison terms by the Munich Higher Regional Court in the NSU trial in July 2018 after being charged by the federal prosecutor's office .

Timeline

The specified period corresponds to the date of the establishment by the parliament until the last day of the session. The expected next election date is noted as the end of the currently running investigation committees, which in practice may differ.

First Bundestag Committee (17th Bundestag)

Emergence

With the discovery on 4./8. November 2011, that a hitherto unknown terrorist group with the self-designation "National Socialist Underground" had committed a seven-year series of murders , considerable years of investigative errors of the security authorities became known. It was initially considered particularly serious that the federal and state police and the protection of the constitution had apparently not observed the right-wing terrorists for years. In this context, the author Tanjev Schultz speaks of a failure of the state . At the end of November 2011, all parliamentary groups in the Bundestag apologized in a joint declaration to the victims' members for such failures and mishaps. Based on this, after weeks of conflict over the correct methodology, they decided on January 13, 2012 to set up an eleven-member commission to politically deal with these errors and omissions quickly, comprehensively and thoroughly. In addition, a four-person commission made up of two experts each from the federal and state governments was agreed without restricting the mandate of the committee of inquiry.

Establishment and members

The committee was set up on January 24, 2012 at the request of all parliamentary groups represented in the Bundestag in 2012 ( CDU / CSU , SPD , FDP , Greens and Left ). These included the following eleven members of the Bundestag :

Surname Political party comment Sebastian Edathy SPD Chairman Stephan Stracke CSU Deputy Chairman Clemens Binninger CDU Tankred Schipansky CDU Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker CDU from January 16, 2013 replaced by Armin Schuster Eva Högl SPD Sönke Rix SPD Serkan fools FDP Hartfrid Wolff FDP Wolfgang Wieland Green Petra Pau The left on January 31, February 21 and April 25, 2013 represented by Halina Wawzyniak

assignment

The committee should answer questions such as:

• What information did the security and investigative authorities have from 1992 to 2011 about Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos and Beate Zschäpe, the acts attributed to them and their supporters? * What information would the authorities have had, how they should evaluate and react to it?
• Did errors or omissions by federal authorities favor the formation of the NSU network and make it difficult to prosecute and investigate the crimes?
• What role did informants play in the NSU environment?
• How was the procurement of weapons, explosives and false identities easier for the NSU and its environment?
• Was evidence or references to the NSU and the surrounding area prematurely destroyed by the authorities due to the applicable regulations?
• What changes in the structure, cooperation, powers and qualifications of the security and investigative authorities in the federal and state governments are necessary in order to combat right-wing extremism more effectively?
• How can investigations help avoid suffering for victims of extremist crimes and their families more effectively?
• How can and must the fight against right-wing extremist violence be improved through education and awareness-raising among the responsible bodies?

Demolition of the work

The committee began its work on January 27, 2012 and presented its final report on August 22, 2013. The former Federal Minister of the Interior Otto Schily (SPD) acknowledged in advance that he was jointly responsible for errors following the series of attacks by the National Socialist Underground. He told the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel in April 2012 that he and the state interior ministers were politically responsible for a slow investigation after the series of attacks. In particular, after the bomb attack in Cologne in June 2004, there were misjudgments. The former interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Fritz Behrens , contradicted this representation before the investigative committee.

The former Bavarian Minister of the Interior Günther Beckstein (CSU) took protection of his country's offices during a questioning before the investigative committee in May 2012 and stated that he did not see any failures.

Bernhard Falk, former Vice President of the Federal Criminal Police Office , criticized the investigative committee on June 14, 2012 for the fact that the investigations were "bungled" in terms of criminal matters. The BKA should have taken over the case as early as 2006 in view of the "dramatic aggravation" after the renewed murder cases. Such an application had been made to the Federal Ministry of the Interior , but the decision was made at the Conference of Interior Ministers to leave responsibility at the state level and to set up a "steering committee" in Bavaria. The BKA was only assigned "a minor role".

"Operation Rennsteig"

In July 2012, journalistic research made it known that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) and the Thuringian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution had recruited V-people under the code name Operation Rennsteig between 1996 and 2003 in the milieu of the far-right Thuringian Homeland Security , to which the later NSU members also belonged. It was also discovered that the BfV had created 35 potential files, but a BfV employee in Section 2B destroyed (shredded) at least seven of them on November 11, 2011. There were also suspicions of manipulation of data.

Thereupon Heinz Fromm , then President of the BfV, admitted a “considerable loss of confidence” for his authority. He admitted that in 2011 comprehensive record groups about undercover agents have been deleted in the scene for technical reasons shortly after flying up the right-wing terrorist cell end and asked on July 2, 2012, at its displacement in the early retirement of 31 July 2012. Federal Interior Minister Hans -Peter Friedrich (CSU) accepted the request. The presidents of the state offices of Thuringia ( Thomas Sippel ) and Saxony ( Reinhard Boos ) also resigned.

Before the committee of inquiry, Fromm testified on July 5, 2012 that the incident had "led to a serious decline in the reputation of the BfV", "the consequences of which for the functioning of the office cannot be foreseen". He was "duped" by his own employees and did not rule out the possibility that a section head wanted to cover up something. For the deletion of files, he has "no convincing explanation". In addition, he criticized as "not useful" that although his authority had to inform the Thuringian constitutional protection about the V-men it had deployed, this did not apply the other way round. He only found out from the media that the State Office had a central figure in the Thuringian Homeland Security as an informant. The head of unit who ordered the shredding and against whom disciplinary proceedings were initiated has been secretly interrogated. After the hearing, all the representatives of the five parliamentary groups criticized the fact that the BfV apparently had "no clear rules on deletion periods". In a non-public survey, Fromm confirmed the existence of a follow-up operation called “Operation Saphira”, which the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution carried out together with the Thuringian LfV. Accordingly, after the "Operation Rennsteig" was completed in 2003, the BfV recruited additional neo-Nazis as informants. A total of around 25 right-wing extremists were contacted between 2003 and 2005.

In July 2012, two families of the murder victims filed criminal charges against the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The suspicion is fraudulent in office.

In July 2012, the committee summoned the following five witnesses in addition to Fromm on “questions about the role of the protection of the constitution”: Edgar Mittler, chief detective commissioner a. D., Markus Weber, chief detective, Josef Rainer Wolf, senior public prosecutor a. D., Bert Gricksch, Kriminaloberrat, Wolfgang Cremer, former head of the right-wing extremism department at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Colonel H., head of the department for countering extremism and terrorism at the MAD.

In autumn 2012, Thuringia's Interior Minister Jörg Geibert made extensive files with unredacted documents from the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution available to the investigative committee. These documents also reveal the names of employees of the German constitutional protection authorities who are responsible for deploying undercover agents.

Edathy complained in February 2013 that the Federal Ministry of the Interior refused to provide any comment or information on a source about the undercover agent "Corelli" and did not even want to confirm his existence. After Edathy had threatened the Federal Constitutional Court, the deputies were able to question the superior of "Corelli" in a closed session.

The special investigator Bernd von Heintschel-Heinegg certified Corelli aka Thomas Richter membership in the European White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (EWK KKK), an offshoot of the racist secret society Ku Klux Klan , where he was supposed to recruit new members as Kleagle . He described him as the leading head of the right-wing scene in Saxony-Anhalt. Richter is said to have been the editor of the racist newspaper Nationaler Observer and to have written for the magazine The White Wolf . His name was found on the address list of Uwe Mundlos, which Corelli is said to have had direct contact with, which was found in 1998 in a garage in Jena . The 38-year-old at the time of the unmasking and questioning had denied this in 2012. He was in a witness protection program . Thomas Richter was found lifeless in his apartment in Paderborn on April 7, 2014 . He likely died as a result of undiagnosed diabetes . On April 4, the query “Where to go with stomach ache?” Was entered in the Google search program in Richter's apartment.

After Corelli's death, there were a number of uncoordinated government investigations; The BfV experts came to different assessments than those of the LfV Hamburg . In October 2014 the Parliamentary Control Committee appointed former Green MP Jerzy Montag as a special investigator to investigate the NSU case .

Results

On August 22, 2013, the Bundestag committee presented a 1,357-page final report. The main results were:

1. Errors in the investigations: For example inadequate preparation and execution of the searches in Jena on January 26, 1998, "various technical deficits" such as missing inquiries, insufficient evaluation of clues, and a "conviction that organized crime was the background of the acts" .
2. Questionable investigative methods of the state organs: For example, undercover agents were used as journalists.
3. Incorrect treatment of the relatives of the victims: "Relatives were suspected of having in some way caused the acts themselves", "Siblings of the murder victims acted as translators during the interrogations of their parents."
4. “Indisputable failure” of the protection of the constitution: the analyzes were “wrong and grossly trivialized” with “fatal underestimation and trivialization [of] the potential danger [s]” of the trio.
5. V-persons: "The effort and income of deploying V-persons to investigate a danger from right-wing terrorism were (...) in no relation."
6. No evidence of involvement of authorities: The committee found no evidence that authorities had approved or supported the NSU, with the exception of the use of the V-Personen.
7. Role of the politically responsible: "Various mistakes and omissions, regardless of the respective party affiliation": For example, the then Bavarian Interior Minister Günther Beckstein (CSU), despite his suspicion of a xenophobic background, was fobbed off with the police answer that there "currently no clues for [give] ”. The North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Fritz Behrens (SPD) and then Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily (SPD) had not dealt with the background to the nail bomb attack in Cologne. The subsequent Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU), showed “no interest in the investigations into the 'Česká' series of murders” and, despite requests, did not commission the Federal Criminal Police Office to conduct the central investigation in 2006. The former Hessian interior minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) did not give permission to testify in the case of Halit Yozgat, who was shot dead, under the protection of the constitution from the Islamist and in one case right-wing extremist area.

recommendations

Recommendations for the police:

• Racially or otherwise politically motivated violent crime must be thoroughly checked and clearly documented. The motive for crime by victim or witness must be recorded and adequately taken into account.
• Unresolved crimes with suspicion of right- wing terrorism , especially against the NSU, should be promoted as quickly as possible.
• Binding exchange of information between the police and the judiciary
• “Intercultural competence” compulsory in police training
• The diversity of German society should also be reflected in the police.

Recommendations for the judiciary:

• "For the competence of the Attorney General, the legislature should open up greater leeway when it comes to the requirement of a state security reference [...]."
• Evidence of unsolved crimes must be kept until the statute of limitations expires.

Recommendations for the protection of the constitution:

• Information should "be brought together centrally and actually thoroughly evaluated".
• “In the constitutional protection authorities, a comprehensive change of mentality and a new self-image of openness is needed - and no 'slouch attitude' of isolation”, d. H. more knowledge,
• "Clear guidelines regarding the selection and suitability of shop stewards" with regular changes.
• Better control over the protection of the constitution through parliamentary control bodies

Comments on the final report

The Vice-President of the International League for Human Rights Rolf Gössner announced in a press release on the publication of the final report:

“The parliamentary inspectors looked into unbelievable abysses of an organized irresponsibility of the security organs. The judgment is correspondingly devastating across all parties, although, according to a preliminary assessment, the final report cannot by any means answer all the essential questions about the background to the series of murders and does not deal enough with the problem of institutional racism, which is deeply rooted in state action. Despite the findings so far, government politicians and security practitioners still play down the issue of breakdowns, at best of the inability of the authorities; and thereby deny the ideological blinkers and the institutional racism that led to misjudgments, ignorance, discriminatory police investigations in the 'migrant milieu' and the systematic trivialization of the Nazi spectrum - also favored by a one-sided policy of "internal security" for decades. "

- Rolf Gössner : League press release August 22, 2013

Eva Högl , the chairwoman of the SPD in the former NSU investigation committee of the Bundestag, distanced herself from parts of the final report in May 2014; like Petra Pau (chairwoman of the Left Party in the committee) and Clemens Binninger (CDU chairman) she doubted the thesis of the terror trio. You no longer believe that Kiesewetter happened to be a victim of the right-wing terrorists. The contacts between the Ku Klux Klan, the protection of the constitution and the police in Baden-Württemberg, as well as connections to Thuringia, have not yet been clarified.

In June 2013, the NSU committee of the Bundestag was awarded the Genç Prize in the Hope category for its work .

Second Bundestag Committee (18th Bundestag)

On October 14, 2015, all parliamentary groups in the 18th German Bundestag applied for a further NSU investigative committee to be set up in order to clarify open questions regarding the work of the authorities based on the results of the various investigative committees.

On November 25, 2015, the 2nd NSU investigative committee of the German Bundestag met under the name "Terrorgruppe NSU II". The chairman is Clemens Binninger (CDU). Right-wing extremist experts, the ombudswoman for the survivors of the NSU victims, Barbara John , the journalist Frank Jansen and the non-fiction author Dirk Laabs were invited to the hearing. The public sessions ended on March 10, 2017. The current reports of the German Bundestag provided information about the content of the sessions , e.g. Binninger's criticism of the lack of investigations into Zschäpes 42 known cell phone numbers, or surprise at the rapid flow of information from the police during the last bank robbery in Arnstadt. The more than 1800-page final report was handed over to Bundestag President Norbert Lammert on June 27, 2017. According to committee chairman Clemens Binninger, further pressing questions remained unanswered the factions were divided.

Thuringia

First Committee of Inquiry (5th Thuringian State Parliament)

The Thuringian investigative committee "Right-wing Terrorism and Authorities" began its work on February 16, 2012. It had the following members:

Members of the committee of inquiry function Surname Political party Chairperson Dorothea Marx SPD Deputy Chairman Jörg Kellner CDU member Marion Walsmann CDU member Beate Meißner CDU member Martina Renner The left member Katharina König-Preuss The left member Heinz Untermann FDP member Dirk Adams Green member Peter Metz SPD

Four reports were published:

1. the final report of the so-called "Shepherd Commission", appointed by Thuringia's Interior Minister Jörg Geibert , headed by the former federal judge Gerhard Schäfer , who examined the investigative work of the authorities on the right-wing extremist terror trio,
2. the report of the Parliamentary Control Commission of the Thuringian State Parliament
3. the interim report of the Thuringian NSU committee of inquiry, which gives detailed research on 554 pages, and
4. The 1,898-page final report of August 21, 2014, handed over to the President of the State Parliament, Birgit Diezel , after two and a half years of work .

The committee held a total of 68 meetings, heard 123 witnesses and experts, viewed 11,681 files and organized an exhibition about them in the Thuringian state parliament.

Second Committee of Inquiry (6th Thuringian State Parliament)

After the Thuringian state elections in September 2014 , the newly formed state parliament decided to continue the NSU investigative committee with the task of "providing thorough and as much clarification as possible, drawing the necessary conclusions and fulfilling the special responsibility that Thuringia has to bear". Since mid-2015, the committee has been dealing in detail with the deaths of Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt on November 4, 2011 in Eisenach-Stregda. The investigative authorities' hypothesis that it was a case of suicide is being checked, as, according to the results of the first Thuringian committee of inquiry, nine indications speak against it.

Members of the committee of inquiry
function	Surname	Political party
Chairperson	Dorothea Marx	SPD
Deputy Chairman	Marcus Malsch	CDU
member	Jörg Kellner	CDU
member	Christian Lord God	CDU
member	Christoph Zippel	CDU
member	Steffen Dittes	The left
member	Dieter Hausold	The left
member	Katharina König-Preuss	The left
member	Birgit Pelke	SPD
member	Bjorn Höcke	AfD
member	Madeleine Henfling	Green

Saxony

First Committee of Inquiry (5th Saxon State Parliament)

On April 17, 2012, the 3rd committee of inquiry of the 5th legislative period called "Neo-Nazi terror networks in Saxony" met in Saxony. It held monthly, non-public meetings. With 19 members, it was the largest committee of inquiry. The Greens have published evidence and small inquiries on their website. The chairman of the first Bundestag committee, Sebastian Edathy, refused to work with the Saxon committee of inquiry in 2012 because the NPD has a seat there. At the end of the legislative period, the committee of inquiry also ended without having submitted a report.

Members of the 3rd committee of inquiry of the 5th legislative period (2012-2014) function Surname Political party Chairman Patrick Schreiber CDU member Thomas Colditz CDU member Iris Firmenich CDU member Sebastian Fischer CDU member Christian Hartmann CDU member Svend-Gunnar fun fair CDU member Aloysius Mikwauschk CDU member Christian Piwarz CDU member Peter Schowtka CDU member Klaus Bartl The left member Freya-Maria Klinger The left member Kerstin Köditz The left member Falk Neubert The left member Sabine Friedel SPD member Karl Nolle SPD member Carsten Biesok FDP member Benjamin Karabinski FDP member Miro Jennerjahn Green member Arne Schimmer NPD

Members of the 1st committee of inquiry of the 6th legislative period (since 2014) function Surname Political party Chairman Lars Rohwer CDU Deputy Chairperson Kerstin Köditz The left member Christian Hartmann CDU member Steve Johannes Ittershagen CDU member Jan Loeffler CDU member Andreas Nowak CDU member Gerald Otto CDU member Christian Piwarz CDU member Patrick Schreiber CDU member Oliver Wehner CDU member Lutz Richter The left member André Schollbach The left member Mirko Schultze The left member Sabine Friedel SPD member Albrecht Pallas SPD member André Barth AfD member Carsten Hütter AfD member Valentin Lippmann Green

Ten witnesses had been heard by the end of October 2013. The Saxon state parliament published two reports in June 2012:

1. "Report of the Parliamentary Control Commission of the Saxon State Parliament on the activities of the protection of the constitution in Saxony in the search for the right-wing extremist terror trio" and
2. "Report from the Ministry of the Interior of the Free State of Saxony to the Interior Committee of the Saxon State Parliament on the case complex of the National Socialist Underground".

The SPD parliamentary group criticized this report for “[k] meager 20 pages”, of which only three dealt with “measures by the Saxon police”, but no analysis was carried out and no connection was established. The belittling message is based on this: “We cannot help it. We didn't know anything. The others are to blame. "

Second Committee of Inquiry (6th Saxon State Parliament)

After the state elections in 2014, another committee of inquiry was set up on the same topic - the 1st of the 6th legislative period. In the meantime, the final report and a minority vote of the left and green groups are available. The committee of inquiry had 18 members.

Bavaria

The Bavarian committee of inquiry "Right-wing Terrorism in Bavaria - NSU" began on July 5, 2012 in Munich. The nine members and three experts selected according to the Sainte-Laguë procedure were:

Members of the committee of inquiry function Surname Political party Chairman Franz Schindler SPD member Winfried Bausback CSU member Otmar Bernhard CSU member Manfred Ländner CSU member Martin Neumeyer CSU member Helga Schmitt-Bussinger SPD member Michael Piazolo Free voters member Susanna thousand friend Alliance 90 / The Greens member Andreas Fischer FDP

expert Surname activity Hajo Funke Political scientist at the Free University of Berlin Steffen Kailitz Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism Andrea Röpke Journalist and political scientist

The two main topics were:

1. Which right-wing extremist structures and activities were identified in Bavaria and across borders between January 1, 1994 and July 4, 2012, and what measures have the Bavarian security authorities taken with what results?
2. Assassinations in Bavaria. The approximately 200 detailed questions can be read on 12 pages.

After 31 partly public, partly secret meetings over a year, a 262-page report, the final report, was submitted to the Bavarian State Parliament on July 17, 2013. According to the report, 55 people were questioned, including 24 not in public.

North Rhine-Westphalia

In June 2014, all parliamentary groups in the NRW state parliament voted for a committee. The impetus for this came from the CDU, according to which "the Bundestag had too little time to deal with the individual attacks". The SPD, Greens and FDP had so far doubted that a committee could lead to new findings. On November 5, 2014, all parliamentary groups agreed to the setting up of a NSU parliamentary committee of inquiry, which primarily targeted the two bomb attacks in Cologne in 2001 and 2004 and the murder of kiosk owner Mehmet Kubaşık in Dortmund in 2006. The aim is to clear up possible mistakes made by the North Rhine-Westphalian security and judicial authorities, ministries and other responsible parties. The chairwoman of the committee was Nadja Lüders until March 2015 . She resigned after it became known that in 1999 she had represented the later police murderer Michael Berger (see Police Murders of Dortmund and Waltrop ) as a lawyer after a dismissal. In April 2015, Sven Wolf was appointed as the new chairman.

Members of the committee of inquiry function Surname Political party Chair (until March 2015) Chair (since April 2015) Nadja Lüders Sven Wolf SPD Deputy Chairman Peter Biesenbach CDU member Walburga Benninghaus SPD member Andreas Bialas SPD member Andreas Kossiski SPD member Thomas Stotko SPD member Ibrahim Yetim SPD member Serap Guler CDU member Heiko Hendriks CDU member Monika Düker Green member Verena Schäffer Green member Joachim Stamp FDP member Birgit Rydlewski Pirates

Baden-Württemberg

Since investigation mishaps and inconsistencies became known in Baden-Württemberg too, in particular in connection with the murder of the police officer Michèle Kiesewetter on April 25, 2007 in Heilbronn (use of genetically contaminated cotton swabs by the forensic investigation; failure to evaluate the private e-mail inbox of the murdered before the data was deleted; failure to comply with witness statements), among others, the Jusos, the Green Youth, and the Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime - Bund der Antifaschisteninnen und Antifaschisten (VVN-BdA) Baden-Württemberg, called for the establishment of a committee of inquiry. Interior Minister Reinhold Gall (SPD) was commissioned to collect all results on right-wing terrorists by the end of 2013. In January 2014, a 169-page report on the contacts of NSU members in the southwest was published, which described Kiesewetter as a chance victim of two right-wing terrorists and found no evidence of an NSU supporter network in the southwest. The SPD had advocated a study commission , while the Greens favored a special committee with the possibilities of reappraisal. The chairman of this study commission, Willi Halder from the Greens, resigned in October 2014 because he had initially only passed an opinion from the state parliament administration to two Green members of the state parliament. After the study commission failed, SPD parliamentary group leader Schmiedel also spoke out in favor of an investigative committee.

First Committee of Inquiry (15th electoral term)

In November 2014, members of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg decided to set up a committee of inquiry ("The processing of the contacts and activities of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Baden-Württemberg and the circumstances of the murder of the police officer MK"). The SPD politician Wolfgang Drexler was the chairman, Thomas Blenke (CDU) his deputy. In January 2015, the members of the first Bundestag investigation committee, Clemens Binninger (CDU) and Eva Högl (SPD), who were invited to this committee , testified that they believed the police officer Michèle Kiesewetter had been deliberately murdered by the NSU in 2007. The investigations were set up in such a way that the final report could be presented in January 2016 before the state elections in March . Many of the complexes were not dealt with conclusively, some unanswered questions - which had sparked speculation - but preliminary answers were given: There were no indications that the Kiesewetter killers were not Böhnhardt and Mundlos or that the Ku Klux Klan was in execution was involved. When the alleged witness of the Kiesewetter murder died - Florian Heilig burned to death in his car shortly before a planned interrogation - there was no evidence of third-party negligence.

The committee members recommended a second NSU investigative committee to continue this work in the state parliament that met after the election.

Members of the committee of inquiry function Surname Political party Chairman Wolfgang Drexler SPD Deputy Chairman Thomas Blenke CDU member Arnulf Freiherr von Eyb CDU member Friedlinde Gurr-Hirsch CDU member Matthias Pröfrock CDU member Jürgen Filius Green member Petra Häffner Green member Alexander Salomon Green member Rita Haller-Haid SPD member Nikolaos Sakellariou SPD member Ulrich Goll FDP

Second committee of inquiry (16th electoral term)

The second committee of inquiry was set up on July 20, 2016 and had the full title "The supporter environment of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Baden-Württemberg and continuation of the processing of the terrorist attack on the police officers MK and MA (legal terrorism / NSU BW II)". The state parliament published the agendas and minutes of the testimony, NSU-Watch Baden-Württemberg and the initiative Die Anstifter accompanied the committee with documentation and in-depth research. The taking of evidence was concluded on October 9, 2018 after 26 meetings in which 90 witnesses and experts were heard and 1,300 files were processed. Unlike in the first NSU committee of the state parliament, there will be no joint final report, as the AfD parliamentary group in the state parliament gives a special vote. While the AfD sees no clear evidence that Mundlos and Böhnhardt committed the murder of the police in Heilbronn, the representatives of all other factions see their perpetration as proven. You have stated that hypotheses about involvement of foreign intelligence services and Islamists have been refuted by the committee work. There are discussions about a possible third NSU committee in Baden-Württemberg, in particular because of the unresolved question of whether there were other, previously unknown perpetrators in Heilbronn.

Members of the committee of inquiry function Surname Political party Chairman Wolfgang Drexler SPD vice-chairman Petra Häffner Green member Susanne Bay Green member Jürgen Filius Green member Alexander Salomon Green member Thomas Blenke CDU member Arnulf Freiherr von Eyb CDU member Marion Gentges CDU member Christine Neumann CDU member Boris Weirauch SPD member Nico Weinmann FDP member Christina Baum AfD

Hesse

After months of discussions, the Hessian state parliament set up an NSU investigative committee. The black-green government coalition initially rejected him because the Bundestag investigation committee had already clarified. She favored a commission of experts that should work out reform proposals for the security authorities. The SPD and the Left pressed for further clarification. At the request of the SPD parliamentary group, the Hessian state parliament set up an investigative committee in May 2014 to investigate the cooperation between the federal and state authorities in relation to the murder of Halit Yozgat in Kassel. The SPD and the Left voted for the motion. The CDU, the Greens and the FDP abstained because the committee was "not target-oriented". The first public meeting took place on February 19, 2015 in Wiesbaden.

The investigation, which ran until March 2018, was overshadowed by a party-political dispute as the current Prime Minister, Volker Bouffier, as Minister of the Interior, had made decisions on the investigation into the murder of Halit Yozgat, which the committee examined. In particular because of the different assessments of Bouffier's behavior in this context, the parties did not come to a joint final report. An approximately 50-page preamble, in which the right-wing scene in northern Hesse is depicted and the victims' relatives are asked to apologize, was decided by consensus in June 2018. The Left Party and SPD do not want to support the 700-page government draft for the other parts of the final report, while the FDP has not yet determined its position. The results of the committee are to be debated in the state parliament plenum in August 2018; then the report, possibly accompanied by separate votes and the opposition parties' own reports, should be adopted.

Members of the committee of inquiry function Surname Political party Chairman Hartmut Honka CDU Deputy Chairman Günter Rudolph SPD member Alexander Bauer CDU member Holger Bellino CDU member Andreas Hofmeister CDU member Joachim Veyhelmann CDU member Tobias Eckert SPD member Nancy Faeser SPD member Lisa Gnadl SPD member Jürgen Frommrich Green member Daniel May Green member Hermann Schaus The left member René Rock FDP

Brandenburg

In Brandenburg , plans for a state parliament committee of inquiry were concretized in spring 2016. In March 2016, the red-red government coalition signaled its approval of a motion by the CDU and Greens parliamentary groups to set up a committee. On April 29, 2016, the Brandenburg state parliament decided to set up a committee of inquiry into "Organized right-wing extremist violence and governmental action, especially on the National Socialist Underground (NSU) complex". The constituent meeting took place in July 2016; Chairman of the committee is Holger Rupprecht (SPD). The committee member proposed by the AfD parliamentary group, Andreas Galau , caused a sensation because, as a former member of the right-wing populist party The Republicans, the other parliamentary groups did not consider him suitable for this task.

In this body, omissions by the Brandenburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution are dealt with. It is mainly about the former undercover agent Carsten Szczepanski (code name “Piatto”; details from his former undercover agent Gordian Meyer-Plath ), who had close contacts with the Thuringian right-wing extremist scene in the 1990s. In 1998, Szczepanski had drawn the authorities' attention to the procurement of weapons for the three suspected NSU members in hiding, information that was apparently not adequately passed on.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the opposition parliamentary groups of the Left Party and Bündnis90 / Die Grünen worked out the decision to set up a committee of inquiry into unresolved NSU issues in the state at the beginning of 2013 and had enough parliamentary votes for the establishment, but this failed when the Greens withdrew. As a result, the left-wing faction repeatedly called for an NSU investigative committee, most recently in November 2016 shortly after the meeting of the 7th state parliament , since the parliament's other possibilities for clarification had been exhausted. Instead, the ruling grand coalition agreed with the parliamentary group on the left to set up a subcommittee of the state parliament interior committee to investigate the NSU terror in March 2017 - which can hear experts, but not, like an investigative committee, has its own investigative powers. In addition, this sub-committee cannot question witnesses and does not meet publicly, which is why the left-wing group has put a - controversial - information page online. Since both the Munich Higher Regional Court ( NSU trial ) and the Federal Prosecutor's Office refused to allow the subcommittee to inspect the files, the ruling SPD parliamentary group proposed at the end of July 2017 to convert the subcommittee (initiated for cost reasons) into an investigative committee, which the left parliamentary group welcomed while the AfD parliamentary group considered this unnecessary. At his hearing in the subcommittee in October 2017, NSU expert Dirk Laabs also pleaded for a committee of inquiry, which was announced by subcommittee chair Susann Wippermann in November 2017 for the coming year.

The committee of inquiry was set up on April 26, 2018 and is supposed to deal with the selection of victims by the NSU, among other things. The work of the committee, which is scheduled to run for two years until the beginning of 2021, got off to a slow start because parliament did not have secure premises. In October 2018, the former judge of the Düsseldorf State Security Senate Ottmar Breidling , who had already worked in this role in the Saxon NSU committee , was appointed as the investigative officer .

Considerations in Hamburg

There were repeated calls to set up an investigative committee of the citizenship in Hamburg to investigate the still unexplained circumstances of the murder of Süleyman Taşköprü (such as the selection of victims) and possible NSU helpers on site. After their pleadings in the NSU trial in January 2018, the Taşköprü family's subsidiary prosecutors pointed out that the father's testimony was never followed up immediately after the crime and that Jürgen Rieger and Christian Worch, two leading figures of the neo-Nazi scene, lived in Hamburg, who had close connections in the Thuringian scene. Hamburg is the only state in which an NSU crime has been committed that has not set up a committee of inquiry. In April 2018, a citizens' initiative reinforced this demand; The first signers include band members from Tocotronic and Rocko Schamoni . On the 17th anniversary of his death in June 2018, the Hamburg parliament passed a declaration in which they apologized to the relatives for the false suspicions and inadequate investigations; the left-wing faction alone called for a committee of inquiry.

literature

• Tanjev Schultz : NSU. The terror from the right and the failure of the state. Droemer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27628-0 , see register on p. 549 (keyword “Investigation Committee”).
• Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff , Heike Kleffner , Maximilian Pichl, Martina Renner (Eds.): Unreserved Enlightenment? NSU, ​​NSA, BND - secret services and committees of inquiry between state failure and state welfare. VSA, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-89965-791-3 .

Web links

• Documentation and critical support by NSU-Watch ( Bundestag , Saxony , Baden-Württemberg , North Rhine-Westphalia , Hesse , Brandenburg ).
• Sven Ullenbruch, Robert Andreasch, Svenna Berger, Sven Kames, Andreas Speit , Sarah Müller, Murder does not expire !, Kim Müller, Kerstin Köditz , Arnd Graf, Katharina König : Enlightenment? NSU reconnaissance and dealing with right-wing terror in the federal states - an overview. In: The Right Edge . Volume 27, 2016, No. 162, pp. 21–29 (PDF).
• Topic page of the NSU committee of inquiry at the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Resources for the individual committees:

• German Bundestag :
  • Investigation Committee “Terrorist Group National Socialist Underground” I (17th electoral period, archive version) with final report Bundestag I (PDF) .
  • Committee of Inquiry “Terrorist Group National Socialist Underground” II (18th electoral term) with final report of the Bundestag II (PDF) .
  • Protocols and documents at the Federal Agency for Civic Education and materials at NSU-Watch .
• Saxon State Parliament :
  • Final report Saxony I, Volume 1 (PDF) , Volume 2 (PDF) .
  • 1. Committee of Inquiry (“Neo-Nazi Terror Networks in Saxony”) , Final Report Saxony II ( Volume I , Volume II , Volume III , Volume IV ).
• Thuringian Parliament :
  • Final report Thuringia I (PDF) ( Memento from July 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  • Final report Thuringia II (PDF).
  • Committee of Inquiry 6/1: Right-wing Terrorism and Action by Authorities ; Topic page NSU - The consequences at MDR .
• Bavarian State Parliament :
  • Final report Bavaria (PDF) ; Committee of Inquiry into Right- Wing Terrorism in Bavaria - NSU 2012-2013 , Category NSU Committee of Inquiry at Endstation Rechts Bayern.
• State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg :
  • Material from Die AnStifter , final report Baden-Württemberg I (PDF) ; Final report Baden-Württemberg II (PDF) ; Committee of Inquiry into Right-Wing Terrorism / NSU BW II .
• State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia :
  • Final report North Rhine-Westphalia (PDF) ; NSU committee of inquiry in the NRW state parliament at WDR .
• Hessian Landtag :
  • Investigation Committee 19/2 (NSU) with final report (PDF) ; Topic NSU in Hessen at the Hessenschau , topic National Socialist Underground at the Frankfurter Rundschau and topic NSU investigation committee at Offenbach-Post .
  • Reports on all meetings at NSU Watch Hessen.
• Landtag Brandenburg :
  • Committee of Inquiry into “Organized right-wing extremist violence and actions by the authorities, especially on the National Socialist Underground (NSU) complex” (UA 6/1) with final report (PDF); Main focus of the NSU investigation committee of the Potsdamer Neuesten Nachrichten .
• State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania :
  • Investigation Committee "NSU" ; Subject NSU at the Nordkurier .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tanjev Schultz: NSU. The terror from the right and the failure of the state. P. 441.
2. ↑ Neo-Nazi murders: Committee to uncover investigative mishaps. World, January 13, 2012
3. ^ Motion from the CDU / CSU, SPD, FDP, DIE LINKE parliamentary groups. and BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN (PDF; 70 kB), printed matter 17/8453 of the German Bundestag in the 17th electoral period of January 24, 2012.
4. ↑ German Bundestag: Recommended resolution and report of the 2nd committee of inquiry under Article 44 of the Basic Law. Bundestag printed paper 17/14600, 22 August 2013 (PDF, p. 55 f.)
5. ↑ ^{a b} MDR: Processing: The committees of inquiry - who is investigating what? ( Memento of October 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Dossier Right Terror )
6. ^ Attack in Cologne 2004: Schily admits errors in the NSU's assessment. In: Tagesschau.de . April 20, 2012, archived from the original on April 20, 2012 ; accessed on January 23, 2014 . 
7. ^ Frank Jansen : NSU committee of inquiry: North Rhine-Westphalia's ex-interior minister contradicts Otto Schily. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 22, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
8. ^ Committee of inquiry into the NSU series of murders: Beckstein rejects allegations against Bavaria's authorities. In: Focus . May 24, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
9. ^ Sharp criticism of police educational work , bundestag.de, accessed on July 9, 2012.
10. ↑ NSU Investigation Committee Fromm: My employees have deceived me . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . July 5, 2012, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 19, 2015]).
11. ↑ Julian Burgert: On-site meeting: Awarding of the GENÇ Prize - a sign of hope and reconciliation. Parliament, February 21, 13, archived from the original on September 11, 2014 ; Retrieved July 15, 2013 . 
12. ^ Matthias Gebauer, Veit Medick : Resignation of the President of the Protection of the Constitution Fromm: Rennsteig terminus. In: Spiegel Online. July 2, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
13. ↑ Ulla Fiebig (ARD Berlin) on the resignation of the constitution protection chief Fromm ; tagesschau.de , July 2, 2012.
14. ↑ M. Bröcker, G. Mayntz: President of the Protection of the Constitution resigns: Federal Minister of the Interior dismisses Fromm. In: Rheinische Post . July 2, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
15. ↑ Saxony's head of the protection of the constitution resigns. In: Spiegel Online. July 11, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
16. ^ Majid Sattar, Peter Schilder: NSU Investigation Committee: Fromm: My employees have deceived me. In: FAZ.NET . July 5, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
17. ^ "A serious defeat of the security authorities" , bundestag.de, accessed on July 6, 2012.
18. ^ Andreas Förster: Protection of the Constitution After "Rennsteig" came "Saphira". July 7, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
19. ↑ (fab) : Destruction of files at the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Families of NSU victims report. In: Spiegel Online. July 6, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
20. ↑ Questions about the role of the protection of the constitution , bundestag.de, accessed on July 6, 2012.
21. ↑ Lisa Caspari: NSU investigations Thuringia dares the total transparency. In: Zeit Online. October 8, 2012, accessed January 23, 2014 . 
22. ↑ Edathy calls on the Chancellor to intervene. In: Tagesschau.de. February 3, 2013, archived from the original on February 3, 2013 ; accessed on January 23, 2014 . 
23. ^ "Corelli" is now a case for the NSU committee. In: Tagesschau.de. February 20, 2013, archived from the original on February 22, 2013 ; accessed on February 23, 2014 . 
24. ↑ Thumi: "Corelli" and the NSU , Südwest Presse Online, April 13, 2013, accessed on April 17, 2013.
25. ↑ Code name "Corelli": V-man from the right-wing extremist scene found dead. In: Der Spiegel. March 18, 2014, accessed April 14, 2014 . 
26. ^ Tanjev Schultz: NSU. The terror from the right and the failure of the state. P. 170.
27. ↑ Jerzy Montag : Report ... to Corelli. German Bundestag , briefing by the Parliamentary Control Committee, BT-Drs. 18/6545 , pp. 10-12, November 4, 2015.
28. ↑ German Bundestag : Recommended resolution and report of the 2nd committee of inquiry under Article 44 of the Basic Law. Printed matter No. 17/14600, August 22, 2013, dipbt.bundestag.de PDF; 13.9 MB.
29. ↑ Linda Wurster: Final report on 1357 pages. These are the ten most important results of the NSU committee. In Focus , August 22, 2013.
30. ↑ League press release August 22, 2013. International League for Human Rights, August 22, 2013, accessed May 3, 2015 . 
31. ^ U committee doubts its own report ( memento from May 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) tagesschau.de from May 17, 2014
32. ↑ Julian Burgert: On-site meeting: Awarding of the Genç Prize - a sign of hope and reconciliation. DasParliament, February 21, 2013, archived from the original on September 11, 2014 ; Retrieved July 15, 2013 . 
33. ^ Application and tasks of the new NSU investigation committee of the German Bundestag, 4 pages, October 14, 2015
34. ↑ Press release on the constituent meeting UA "Terrorgruppe NSU II" Bundestag, 25.11.15
35. ↑ We have the perpetrators. Current reports 10.3.17, Bundestag
36. ↑ Current Topics in the Committee ( Memento from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Bundestag, accessed June 22, 2017
37. ^ Criticism of the investigation into Zschäpe's cell phone. Latest news from the Bundestag, March 18, 2016
38. ↑ Surprise at the rapid flow of information / deaths in the mobile home. Latest news from the Bundestag, June 14, 2016
39. ↑ Submit final report. In: Bundestag.de , June 23, 2017. See the document under BT-Drs. 18/12950 (PDF).
40. ↑ Clarification remains an ongoing task. In: Bundestag.de. See also Heike Kleffner : Reason of State versus Enlightenment: The 2nd Bundestag Committee of Inquiry into the NSU. In: Bürgerrechte & Polizei / CILIP No. 110, June 2016.
41. ↑ All of the following, unless otherwise stated, according to the Thuringian State Parliament, 5th legislative period: Final report of the Committee of Inquiry 5/1 "Right-wing Terrorism and Authorities" , August 21, 2014 (PDF) ( Memento of February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
42. ↑ Report of the Thuringian Commission to investigate possible omissions by authorities in the search for the right-wing extremists Böhnhardt, Mundlos and Zschäpe from Jena who had gone into hiding. In: MDR.dr , May 15, 2012.
43. ^ Report of the Parliamentary Control Commission of the Thuringian State Parliament. In: June 22, 2012.
44. ^ Interim report of the Thuringian NSU committee of inquiry. In: MDR.de , March 11, 2013.
45. ↑ Thuringian State Parliament - Committee of Inquiry 6/1. In: www.thueringer-landtag.de. Retrieved June 19, 2015 . 
46. ^ NSU committee of inquiry. In: Green parliamentary group Saxony (website).
47. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.mdr.de/sachsen/pkk-sachsen-nsu-bericht100.html ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . In: MDR.de , June 22, 2012.
48. ↑ http://www.landtag.sachsen.de/de/landtag/ausschuesse/ausschuss.do/35 ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Landtag.Sachsen.de .
49. ^ 1. Investigative Committee on Neo-Nazi Terror Networks in Saxony. In: Landtag.Sachsen.de .
50. ↑ Left-wing delegates to the NSU investigative committee: Ineffective police structures, many informers and even more gaps in memory. In: Leipziger Internet Zeitung , October 16, 2013.
51. ↑ http://www.mdr.de/sachsen/zwickauer-trio490.html ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) . In: MDR.de , June 25, 2012.
52. ^ Press release of the SPD parliamentary group in the Saxon state parliament. The committee of inquiry remains the only hope for a factual analysis of the actions of the authorities. In: UANSUSN.wordpress.com , June 27, 2012.
53. ^ NSU committee of inquiry decides on final report. Retrieved June 20, 2019 . 
54. ↑ Bavarian State Parliament. Printed matter 16/13150. July 4, 2012, accessed January 20, 2014 . 
55. ^ Final report of the NSU investigation committee in the Bavarian state parliament. July 13, 2013, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; Retrieved January 20, 2014 . 
56. ↑ NSU committee now also in NRW , Rainer Kellers, June 3, 2014, www1.wdr.de, accessed on June 3, 2014.
57. ^ Application text for the establishment of a committee of inquiry according to Article 41 of the North Rhine-Westphalia state constitution, North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament, October 28, 2014, 23 pages
58. ^ NSU processing in North Rhine-Westphalia: Committee chairwoman Nadja Lüders resigns. Spiegel Online, March 24, 2015, accessed April 22, 2015 . 
59. ^ Henning Röser: Sven Wolf is leading an explosive mission. Rheinische Post , August 18, 2015, accessed on March 28, 2016 . 
60. ↑ ^{a b} References of the terror group National Socialist Underground (NSU) to Baden-Württemberg. (PDF) In: Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg. January 31, 2014, accessed March 1, 2013 . 
61. ↑ and Jusos Jusos elect the boss and call for a committee of inquiry into NSU. 30th of June 2013.
62. ↑ Green Youth Baden-Württemberg calls for NSU committee of inquiry in the state parliament on July 1, 2013.
63. ↑ X-TM GmbH: Appeal - NSU Investigation Committee Now! . In: vvn-bda.de .
64. ↑ Greens: NSU investigative committee remains an option. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt. October 20, 2013, archived from the original on February 21, 2014 ; accessed on February 10, 2014 . 
65. ↑ Gall open to special committee. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. February 19, 2014, accessed March 1, 2013 . 
66. ↑ NSU inquiry commission is about to fail at faz.net, by RÜDIGER SOLDT
67. ^ Controversy over NSU inquiry commission Schmiedel is no longer blocking itself against U-committee. October 17, 2014, accessed October 19, 2014 . 
68. ↑ Kiesewetter was not a random victim. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. January 26, 2015, accessed January 26, 2015 . 
69. ↑ ^{a b} Final report of the NSU committee of inquiry: No food for conspiracy theorists. In: SWR.de. January 15, 2016, accessed April 5, 2016 . 
70. ↑ Investigative Committee "Right-wing Terrorism / NSU BW II" has been constituted. In: State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg , July 21, 2016.
71. ↑ Witness hearing protocols at the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg.
72. ↑ watch BW ; Overview of meetings, witnesses and minutes of the NSU UA II. In: Die Anstifter.
73. ↑ Is there a third NSU committee coming? In: Heilbronner Voice , October 10, 2018; Johanna Henkel-Waidhofer : NSU: The last session. In: Context: weekly newspaper , issue 393, October 10, 2018.
74. ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg: Open questions about NSU murders. Frankfurter Rundschau, April 29, 2014, archived from the original on April 16, 2015 ; Retrieved April 22, 2015 . 
75. ^ Hanning Voigts: NSU committee decided. Frankfurter Rundschau, May 22, 2014, accessed on April 22, 2015 . 
76. ↑ Sonja Brasch: Unresolved questions: The end of the Hessian committee of inquiry. In: Lotta . No. 69, February 6, 2018.
77. ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg: Dispute over NSU report. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 13, 2018; Nicholas Buschschlüter: No joint final report in the NSU committee. In: Hessenschau , June 15, 2018; Ludger Fittkau: Balancing act between party politics and finding the truth. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur , July 9, 2018.
78. ↑ Alexander Fröhlich: Brandenburg also gets NSU committee. In: Potsdam Latest News , March 16, 2016.
79. ↑ Committee of Inquiry into “Organized Right-Wing Extreme Violence and Authorities, Above All on the National Socialist Underground Complex (NSU)” (UA 6/1). Landtag Brandenburg, accessed on June 4, 2016 . 
80. ↑ The Brandenburg NSU Committee starts in July. In: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , June 13, 2016.
81. ↑ ^{a b} The NSU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - Hardly any interest in clarification. In: NSU-Watch , August 9, 2017.
82. ↑ Linke in MV wants investigative committee on NSU ( Memento from November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Ostsee-Zeitung , November 2, 2016.
83. ↑ Stefan Ludmann: Schwerin state parliament is investigating NSU murders. In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . February 19, 2017; MV Landtag examines NSU activities. In: NDR.de , March 8, 2017.
84. ^ Udo Roll: NSU special committee: chatterboxes are threatened with expulsion. In: SVZ.de , July 26, 2017; Processing needs transparency. Web presence of the left parliamentary group Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to the NSU subcommittee.
85. ↑ Possibly the NSU committee of inquiry in the state parliament. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 28, 2017.
86. ↑ Stefan Ludmann: Right-wing Terror: Many NSU traces lead to MV. In: NDR.de , October 12, 2017.
87. ^ NSU investigation committee planned in MV. In: Nordkurier.de , November 4, 2017.
88. ↑ Andreas Speit : Processing in Parliament: Schwerin starts NSU committee. In: Die Tageszeitung , April 29, 2018.
89. ↑ NSU: The left-wing leaders meet in Schwerin. In: NDR.de , September 10, 2018; NSU investigative committee appoints investigators. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 4, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2020 .  .
90. ↑ Andreas Speit : Did the NSU have helpers in Hamburg? In: Die Tageszeitung , February 1, 2018.
91. ^ Murder of Süleyman Tasköprü: Initiative calls for NSU investigation committee. In: Welt Online , April 23, 2018.
92. ↑ Citizenship apologizes to the Tasköprü family. In: Welt Online , June 27, 2018.
93. ↑ Isabella Greif: Reports of broken promises of education - review. In: NSU-Watch , June 6, 2019.