Republican aid

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The Republican Aid was a legal aid and prisoner aid organization within the framework of the extra-parliamentary opposition in the Federal Republic of Germany . The Republican Aid group , like the Red March faction group, came into being after the break-up of the Frankfurt Socialist German Student Union (SDS) . In July 1968, the Republican Aid Board of Trustees was established. Republican Aid was based in Frankfurt am Main , at Wilhelm-Hauff-Str. 5.

Justice Info magazine

The magazines Justice Info and materials on political justice were published. For the information production, the Republican Aid collected manuscripts, local information, leaflets and trial materials from comrades (“Send all Springer trial materials for the Springer documentation to Rep. Help”), which they then cut up for reprinting and thus new information put together. The Republican Aid recommended the comrades in their newspaper Justiz Info : "Fight the reformists", "Break the terror of exams".

The Justice Info could be obtained individually for DM 10 per 7 copies. Inge Hornischer and Karl Dietrich Wolff were responsible for editing the materials on political justice No. 1 .

Self-presentation of the justice info

“The Justiz Info does not see itself as an organ that only serves to analyze the justice campaign, whatever it may be, and to discuss strategies against the criminal justice system. We also do not see a sufficient basis of legitimation for him in the fact that we alone publish and comment on judgments of the ordinary judiciary against demonstrators, because we would then reduce the problems of law and courts to the framework of justice in the classic sense set by the Courts Constitution Act of 1877 " .

Self-declared goals were:

  • "Carry the class struggle into labor law",
  • produce productive chaos for a political orgasm,
  • Revolution against the clique of the ordinaries: "Free yourselves from the ordinaries",
  • to lead the discussion of violence at the university on a new level.

From the perspective of Republican Aid, the judiciary is "the whore of the ruling class" and the law school professors are their pimps . The capitalist rule and its “legal servants” had to be destroyed. In this respect the Kampfgruppe Jura tried to establish a revolutionary practical relevance. It was no longer just a debating club. B. a fire hose against a lecturer and listener and threw paint bags and firecrackers . Der Spiegel wrote about this 30 years later: The “Kampfgruppe Jura” grabbed the fire hose to blow up “reactionary” lectures, and the agitating philosophy student Hans-Jürgen Krahl , who was on trial for trespassing, cross-examined his teacher Adorno himself "Phenomenology of Occupation".

Conflicts between Kampfgruppe Jura and base group in Frankfurt

Reformist sections of the Jura base group accused members of the Jura combat group : "They are purist, actionist shit, whose inability to recognize what a factual strike means and what possibilities there are in such situations via the To reach beyond the limits of one's own faculty. "

The Kampfgruppe Justice faction saw the reformist grassroots group as a political opponent, whose grassroots group members were to be instrumentalized for their purposes through discussions or to be destroyed: "Take up the fight against reformism in the grassroots groups!"

Observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution

Since the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution published its first report for 1968, the Republican Aid, like the SDS , has been under observation as a left-wing extremist group, along with other associations that cooperate with it, such as the Republican Club Berlin, the Socialist Bund and the Action Center for Independent and Socialist Students .

swell

  • Your order is built on sand: Documentation on the book fair and the Senghor trial. Republican Aid and SDS. Frankfurt a. M .: Republican aid, 1969
  • Republican Aid - Justice Info -

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Declaration on the establishment of the Board of Trustees Republican Aid. in: Materials on Political Justice No. 1 Right to Demonstrate. Frankfurt am Main 1968. pp. 47f.