National Collection (Germany)

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The National Collection (NS) was a neo-Nazi right-wing extremist organization founded by Michael Kühnen on July 15, 1988 and banned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior on February 9, 1989 . At the time of the ban, the National Collection had around 170 members. Personnel overlaps existed with the Freedom German Workers' Party (FAP). In order to fall under the protection of the political party law, the National Collection initially operated as the “Voters' Initiative of the FAP”. It was one of the numerous preparatory organizations of the community of ideas of the New Front and served this for external representation and new members. The "New Front" served as the publication medium. However, the context has been obscured for tactical reasons. Until it was banned, the organization took part in the local election campaign in Frankfurt am Main and Langen , where it caused a sensation with its particularly aggressive xenophobic propaganda.

literature

  • Karl Kniest: National Collection , in Ders .: The "Kühnen Movement" - representation, analysis and classification. A contribution to the German and European history of right-wing extremism , dissertation at the University of Frankfurt, pp. 75–82, 2000.
  • Armin Pfahl-Traughber : The ban on the "National Collection" by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in January 1989 , in: Uwe Backes and Eckhard Jesse (eds.): Yearbook Extremism and Democracy, Vol. 2, Bonn 1990: 218ff.

Web links

  • “Rename to Adolf-Hitler-Platz” The neo-Nazi Michael Kühnen wants . In: Der Spiegel . No. 49 , 1988 ( online ).
  • With courage to die . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1989 ( online ).