Ring of Freedom Students (Germany)
The Ring of Freedom Students (rfs) was a student association in the Federal Republic of Germany that existed in the 1970s and 1980s and had strong neo-fascist tendencies.
history
Following the example of the Austrian ring of freedom students (rfs), the first rfs association in the Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1972 at the 10th anniversary of the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG) at the University of Mainz . A “central office of the rfs-Förderkreis” was also located in Mainz. The Mainz rfs association existed until 1974 and then became part of the National Democratic University Association .
In June 1977 students in Cologne tried a second attempt. The initiative came from the University Political Committee (HpA) in 1976, a committee of the German Burschenschaft which , in Dietrich Heither's opinion, "had functioned as a" continuous flow heater "for right-wing extremist ideas since the mid-1970s . The HpA announced in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter for the 29./30. January 1977 a HpA seminar in Vienna on "The rfs - chance of a conservative university fraction" . In 1976 Günther Paul, Klaus Kunze and Uwe Behrendt belonged to the HpA . Klaus Kunze was a co-founder and member of the rfs-Köln in 1977 and reported on the establishment in Cologne in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter . Uwe Behrendt was a member of the Hochschulring Tübinger Studenten (HTS). In 1977 the HTS designated itself as a member of the rfs. In June 1977 the Danubia fraternity took over the chairmanship of the German fraternities with Michael Vogt as chairman . In an interview, Vogt described that they had gone over to creating their own base under the name of the Ring of Freedom Students . Vogt was a member of the rfs Cologne.
Content profile
In its guiding principles for education and university policy of 1978, the rfs represented a “ realistic view of man ” because it would “ consistently be based on the research results of the natural sciences ”. In a documentary of the conservative Association of Christian Democratic Students over the rfs 1981 near that was of man to "live right image of individuals and peoples" of the National Democratic Party of Germany pointed out. Both principles would derive from the assumption and core thesis of an exclusively genetic determination of humans. Under the slogan Unity and Right and Freedom , the rfs defined the following basic values for itself: “Germany's unity”, “right to diversity” and “freedom as a focus on the basic values of human life”. The positive reference of the rfs to the theses of Henning Eichberg and Alain de Benoist underlined the elitist and ethno-pluralistic approach.
organization
From November 3, 1979, the rfs was formed at the federal level. The approximately 250 members were represented by 32 delegates from 14 university locations. Among other things, there were local groups in Cologne, Siegen , Essen , Krefeld , Münster , Mainz and Oldenburg . Michael Herbolsheimer, a member of the Alemannia Cologne fraternity, was elected as the first federal chairman. Caspar von Schrenck-Notzing gave a “general political” founding lecture on the subject of the trend reversal - just a mirage? . The rfs Cologne then provided all federal chairmen. In 1980 Hans Eschbach was a member of the Germania Cologne fraternity, in 1981 and 1982 Hans Hausberger, in 1983 Gabi Allendorf and from 1984 to 1987 Markus Beisicht . At its eighth Federal Delegates Day in Bonn, delegates from eight university locations took part, including Münster, Cologne, Bonn, Berlin, Bochum and Frankfurt. Gabriele Schlaeper from rfs-Cologne became federal chairman.
Like the Austrian model, the newspaper der ring appeared irregularly .
Political activities
The rfs-Köln took part in the elections of the student parliament of the University of Cologne , and was represented there from 1978 to 1988.
At the end of May 1987, the rfs Cologne hosted an event with Franz Schönhuber . After this event, Markus Beisicht led the rfs into the new Schönhuber party, The Republicans . According to its own statements, the rfs formed the "nucleus of the Cologne district association" .
After clashes between the police and rfs members on November 30, 1987, during which the North Rhine-Westphalian state chairman of the rfs threatened the police with a gas pistol and a police officer fired a warning shot , three rfs students were temporarily arrested by the police. According to the police report, one of the arrested persons was found in the car with pyrotechnic material capable of causing serious physical injuries. Due to these events, the university deleted the rfs from the register on December 1, 1987. The rfs filed an objection to this ruling, which was negotiated in the first instance at the Cologne Administrative Court and resulted in a confirmation of the deletion on December 8, 1987. Only in the second instance was the deletion from the register by the University of Cologne canceled by the Münster Higher Administrative Court by decision of June 10, 1988.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicoläa Grigat, Nazis at the university? , In Stadrevue Cologne, January 1987, page 8f; there the decision of the Münster District Court of November 6, 1981, Az. 32 Ds 46 Js 59/80 is cited. On page 9 there it says about the "Ring of Freedom Students": "[...] in summary, after the court's deliberations with regard to the state of knowledge presented on the character of the Ring of Freedom Students, it cannot be denied that this association is a student group acts with strong neo-fascist tendencies. "
- ↑ Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1972 p. 279
- ^ Günther Bernd Ginzel , Hitler's (great) grandson , Droste Verlag 1981, p. 141
- ↑ Dietrich Heither, Blut und Paukboden: a history of fraternities , Fischer Verlag 1997, p. 231
- ↑ Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1976, p. 229.
- ↑ Burschenschaftliche Blätter 1977, p. 185
- ↑ Norbert Plützer, ring of liberal students - rfs - danger from right , In: Unicum, February 1988, p. 10; The first self-designation of this kind took place in 1974 in the imprint of the new-right magazine Student , issue 45 from June / July 1974, where the contact address Tübingen “HTS / RFS” is given.
- ↑ In: Zeitschrift Der Beobachter , issue 1/1977, p. 21
- ↑ Jens Mecklenburg : Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism , Elefanten Press 1996, p. 335
- ↑ Norbert Plützer, ring of liberal students - rfs - danger from right , In: Unicum, February 1988, p. 11
- ^ Jens Mecklenburg, Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism , Elefanten Press 1996, p. 335
- ↑ Criticon No. 56, November / December 1979, pp. 295f
- ↑ DESG inform 1/1988, p. 1
- ↑ Meral Rüsing, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing - Republicans make mobile in Cologne , In: Kölner Illustrierte, March 1989, p. 14
- ↑ Kölnische Rundschau, December 1, 1987 p. 5: Shots after the meeting of the radicals . Kölner Express , December 1, 1987: Chaot shot at officials
- ↑ Shots in the university . Bonner Stadtzeitung De Schnüss , No. 3, March 1988, p. 18 - In a press release from the Press and Information Office of the University of Cologne dated December 1, 1987 and signed by Dr. Wolfgang Mathias is quoted as saying the police report: "Another rfs member was provisionally arrested by the police because pyrotechnic material was found in his vehicle [...]" .
- ↑ Decision of the Cologne Administrative Court of December 8, 1987 - 6 L 2138/97, Science Law, Science Administration, Science Funding, Volume 21, Issue 1 1988, p. 81
- ↑ OVG Münster decision of June 10, 1988, 15 B 297/88, NVwZ-Jurisprudence-Report Administrative Law (NVwZ-RR) year 1989 page 588.