Ramazan Avcı

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Ramazan Avcı (born December 20, 1959 in Gönen ; † December 24, 1985 in Hamburg) was a Turkish living in Hamburg who was killed by right-wing extremist skinheads for racist motives. He was one of the first known victims of right-wing extremist violence in the Federal Republic of Germany . His killing, together with the case of the 29-year-old Turk Mehmet Kaymakçı , who had also been slain with a concrete slab by right-wing extremist skinheads in Hamburg-Langenhorn a few months earlier , was the beginning of a series of similar acts and received great media attention abroad. Ramazan Avci left a pregnant woman.

Sequence of events

Ramazan Avcı, who was 26 at the time, was waiting for a bus on December 21, 1985 with his brother and a friend at the S-Landwehr bus stop near the Landwehr restaurant in Hamburg-Eilbek , as a group of right-wing skinheads from Bergedorf who were in front The three Turks noticed. When minor assaults broke out, Avcı and his companions used a gas spray as a defense. Thereupon the skinheads in the restaurant armed themselves with baseball bats and similar devices, and the three men fled. Avcı's brother and mutual friend, meanwhile followed by a car and shot at from flare pistols, were able to escape using public transport. Avcı's escape ended when he ran into a car. Then, while he was still lying under the car, he was beaten so badly with clubs and ax handles by the 30 or so skinheads that he was later taken to hospital unconscious. He died three days later without regaining consciousness.

Reactions

The act was unprecedented in the Federal Republic of Germany and was one of the main topics in the German news for days. The Turkish consul general in Hamburg Şen was quoted by the NDR as saying that he hoped "that such a terrible act would never happen again and that 1986 would be a year of peace for all" . Avcı's body was escorted from a long line of vehicles through Hamburg to the airport by a motorcade and transferred to Ankara . The weekly newspaper Die Zeit reported of further attacks on the day of the funeral procession for Avcı. Seven skins injured a Turk and his two sons with beer bottles and chains. As a direct reaction to Avcı's killing, groups similar to vigilante groups for self-defense were founded within the Turkish population of Hamburg, but they were not maintained for long. On January 11, 1986, 10,000 people demonstrated in Hamburg in memory of Avcı.

More than 25 years after his death, Gülistan Ayaz, Ramazan's fiancée and mother of their child, brought the almost forgotten case back into the public eye. She started an initiative to commemorate Avcı. After the murders of the right-wing terrorist National Socialist Underground became known, their initiative received public attention and led to the naming of Ramazan-Avci-Platz near the crime scene.

Perpetrator

Immediately after the crime, the police arrested five of the skinheads who were still carrying weapons. After an interrogation, the perpetrators were released. Initially charged with murder (this charge was later withdrawn), these five later faced manslaughter. In the end, there were four of the defendants who were sentenced to terms of between three and ten years. Some of these were imposed as youth sentences. Kaymakçı's killers had also received comparable sentences.

effect

While contemporary commentaries would like to see the event as an end to the violence and paralysis of the right-wing scene, in retrospect it can be seen that the case has at least given the right-wing skinhead scene an enormous boost.

“Boosted by the massive media coverage of the Turkish Ramazan Avcı, who was killed by the Hamburg Naziskins, there was a real invasion of the Naziskins from 1985 onwards. If the skins have been dubbed right thugs for years, nothing has been done to save the reputation, on the contrary. The Hitler salute, marches, public commemoration of the day of the death of various Nazi criminals and Sieg-Heil shouts in public became fashionable. The violence increased in proportion to the growth of the scene. "

Commemoration

In order to "put a visible sign of remembrance for the victims of right-wing violence" one, was the square in front of the S-Bahn station Landwehr , was killed on the Avcı, in December 2012 decision of the Hamburg Parliament from Hamburg Senate as a place Ramazan-Avci- named .

Web links

proof

  1. ↑ Oliver Dietrich: He had no chance to survive. Protocol of the Hamburg Journal broadcast of November 22, 2015 from http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/dossiers/der_norden_schaut_hin/1985-Skins-haben-Ramazan-Avci-tot,avci106.html
  2. ↑ Sabine Stamer : Some learn karate. In: Die Zeit 4/1987.
  3. ↑ Christian Unger: What makes hate out of love , Hamburger Abendblatt Online, June 23, 2012.
  4. ↑ Presentation in the federal press portal December 19, 2012. [1]
  5. ↑ Mark Messics; In: Skinheads: anti-racists or 'right-wing thugs'? Lit-Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-9359-0 , p. 61.
  6. ↑ Name and plaque commemorate victims of right-wing extremist violence in Hamburg Bundespresseportal, December 21, 2012. Retrieved on December 21, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Avcı, Ramazan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish man, killed by Hamburg skinheads
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Gönen
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1985
Place of death Hamburg