National Resistance Dortmund

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The National Resistance Dortmund ( NWDO ) was a right-wing extremist association in Dortmund that, as evidenced by its name, was part of the “ National Resistance ” . It was banned on August 23, 2012 by the North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Ralf Jäger .

Origin and structure

Shielded demonstration by the NWDO and Autonomous Nationalists in Dortmund, September 23, 2011

The Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia assigned the association to the scene of the violence-prone autonomous nationalists and assessed the prohibition: “The members reject our democracy and the current legal system. You openly confess to criminal National Socialism and to leading persons of this inhuman system. All of their actions are aimed at undermining our democratic society. "

Dortmund has long been the focus of the organization of autonomous nationalists in North Rhine-Westphalia. Up until around 2003, the Kameradschaft Dortmund , founded by Siegfried Borchardt , was considered a leader. From 2003 to 2005, the local scene with an active core of 20 to 25 people operated as the Autonomous Resistance Eastern Ruhr Area and since 2005 as the National Resistance Dortmund. The neo-Nazi Sven Kahlin, who stabbed the 31-year-old punk Thomas Schulz in Dortmund in 2005 , was also part of the core of the NWDO after his release from prison.

In the club rooms in the Rheinische Straße in Dortmund there was a shop until 2009 for the distribution of right-wing extremist music and clothing typical of the scene, which was later used as a club house (so-called national center) for events. One of the central figures of the NWDO operates a leading nationwide mailing company for propaganda material from autonomous nationalists. Following the tradition of the Borussia front, there are also connections to parts of the ultra scene in Borussia Dortmund . After the club was banned, a banner was shown in the Westfalenstadion with the inscription "Solidarity with the NWDO".

Connection to the NPD

There were close personal and propaganda ties between the association and the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). In a raid on the day of the ban, 1000 NPD posters were confiscated in the NWDO clubhouse. Before that, the NWDO had frequent meetings with NPD officials and events in the club rooms, and members also appeared as NPD campaign workers. Leading members are also said to have joined the NPD. The findings on the NWDO should therefore also be taken into account in the context of the NPD ban proceedings .

After the association ban

Some members left the right-wing extremist scene after the ban or sought contact with the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The “hard core” around Dennis Giemsch , Michael Brück and Siegfried Borchardt reorganized into a regional association founded on September 15, 2012 in the new association Dierechte , which is striving for party status. The “national chairman” of the association is the neo-Nazi Christian Worch . A lawsuit by the NWDO against the association ban was dismissed at the end of 2014 by the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Az. 5 D 83/12). A revision is not permitted, representatives of the NWDO announced a complaint to the Federal Administrative Court .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Speech by Interior Minister Ralf Jäger on the occasion of the ban on the associations "Kameradschaft Aachener Land", "Nationaler Resistance Dortmund" and "Kameradschaft Hamm" on August 23, 2012 in Düsseldorf. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, August 23, 2012, archived from the original on September 19, 2012 ; accessed on February 23, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Announcement of a ban on associations in accordance with Section 3 Paragraph 4 Clause 2 of the Association Act prohibiting the association "Nationaler Resistance Dortmund" from October 5, 2012 ( BAnz AT 23.10.2012 B13 ), announcement that the ban of the association "National Resistance Dortmund" from 3. August 2015 ( BAnz AT 08/13/2015 B6 )
  3. ^ A b Frank Jansen : NRW Interior Minister: 1000 NPD posters found among Dortmund neo-Nazis. Raids and bans. In: tagesspiegel.de. August 23, 2012, accessed February 23, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Jan Schedler: Focus North Rhine-Westphalia . 'Autonomous Nationalists' in the Ruhr Area and Rhineland. In: Jan Schedler, Alexander Häusler (Ed.): Autonome Nationalisten . Neo-Nazism in motion (=  right-wing extremism edition ). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17049-7 , pp. 200 .
  5. ^ Sebastian Weiermann: Dortmund: Neo-Nazism for over 30 years. In: Ruhrbarone. May 26, 2014, accessed November 21, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Jan Schedler: Focus North Rhine-Westphalia . 'Autonomous Nationalists' in the Ruhr Area and Rhineland. In: Jan Schedler, Alexander Häusler (Ed.): Autonome Nationalisten . Neo-Nazism in motion (=  right-wing extremism edition ). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17049-7 , pp. 201 .
  7. ^ Christoph Ruf, Olaf Sundermeyer: SS-Siggis Erben. Nazis in the stands. In: 11freunde.de. January 27, 2013, accessed February 23, 2013 .
  8. ↑ David Schraven : Dortmund neo-Nazis had a close partnership with the NPD. In: derwesten.de. August 25, 2012, accessed February 23, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Katrin Figge: Leading Dortmund neo-Nazis are “left with nothing”. In: derwesten.de. August 31, 2012, accessed February 23, 2013 .
  10. ↑ Tomas Sager: Braune Kader under a different label. In: look to the right. January 21, 2013, accessed February 23, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Comradeships in focus . Right-wing extremism dossier, Federal Agency for Civic Education , accessed on February 24, 2013
  12. ↑ The ban remains in effect . look to the right , January 7, 2015