National alternative
The Nationale Alternative (NA) is a neo-Nazi group and party that was founded in East Berlin . On March 5, 1990, it was included in the GDR party register as the only right-wing extremist party .
The East Berlin skinhead group "Lichtenberger Front", formed in the 1980s , changed its name to the "January 30th Movement" when it turned to the neo-National Socialist movement. From this group the National Alternative was founded on January 31, 1990. This became the center of right-wing extremism in East Germany. After the fall of the Wall , the group received support from the Austrian People's Loyalty to the Extra-Parliamentary Opposition (VAPO) and the community of ideas of the New Front (GdNF) around Michael Kühnen .
NA consisted of a number of well-known Berlin neo-Nazis. After it was founded, a number of squats followed on February 28, 1990 in Berlin-Lichtenberg . On March 5, the Lichtenberg municipal housing administration offered the group a legal lease for the large corner house at Weitlingstrasse 122 (corner of Lückstrasse). A party headquarters was set up there. Numerous German neo-Nazi cadre used this place to hold training courses. Later, the neo-Nazis also occupied Weitlingstrasse 120. The number of supporters and sympathizers peaked in the second half of 1990 at 600. On April 27, one of the squats was stormed by the police. Weapons and propaganda material were confiscated, and at times the entire NA executive committee was arrested. NA members at times included Ingo Hasselbach , Frank Lutz , Heiko Baumert , Oliver Schweigert , Bendix Wendt and Andre Riechert . Female members had to join the German Women's Front . At the end of 1990, due to internal disputes, a disintegration process began. The break with the GdNF occurred in 1990. The reason for this was the discussion about Kühnen's homosexuality and the restriction of activities he enforced for NA in Berlin. Some of the supporters switched to the Deutsche Alternative (DA). The “Friends of Revolutionary People's Socialists” and the “Comradeship of Social Revolutionary Nationalists” emerged from NA. The NA was not formally dissolved.
Political party
NA was included in the GDR party register on March 5, 1990. The party program was partly taken verbatim from the Hamburg party Nationale Liste (NL). NA branches were quickly established in Dresden , Cottbus , Rostock , Bitterfeld and Königs Wusterhausen . The party financed itself from the sale of militaria .
In the municipal elections in the GDR in 1990 , she was banned from voting. NA presented a candidate for election to the Berlin House of Representatives in December 1990.
literature
- Jens Mecklenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of German right-wing extremism . Berlin 1996, p. 286f.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Britta Bugiel: Right-wing extremism of young people in the GDR and in the new federal states from 1982–1998 (= media & politics. Volume 21). Lit-Verlag, Münster 2002, pp. 129f.
- ↑ Norbert Madloch: Right-wing extremism in Germany after the end of Hitler's fascism ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.0 MB). In: Klaus Kinner , Rolf Richter: Right-wing extremism and anti-fascism. Historical and current dimension. Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 57-215, pp. 75ff., P. 90, p. 165.
