Sauerland Action Front

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The Sauerland Action Front (SAF) is a right-wing extremist group from the Sauerland , which was at times considered the "most important neo-Nazi association in North Rhine-Westphalia".

Origin and structure

The action front was created in 1991 on the initiative of right-wing extremist Thomas Fink from the right-wing skinhead movement . From 1994 a member of the SAF published the skin music fanzine 'Moonstomp'. Other publications in the genre, such as the 'Siegener Bärenruf' (from 1996), were also created by SAF activists. It was characteristic of SAF that it largely dispensed with fixed structures. A senior member stated in the mid-1990s that there was “no cash, no leaders, no statutes, no financial statute. (...) There is only the name and a whole lot of politically interested individuals. ”Among other things, this form of organization resulted in the members appearing under changing group names, e. B. as "National Resistance Sauerland / Siegerland". The SAF acted in particular in the districts of Siegen , Olpe and in the Hochsauerlandkreis , but was also active across national borders and participated in campaigns nationwide. The group was considered militant, for example the group expressed solidarity in its association organ “Free Voice” in 1997 with the killer Kay Diesner and described him as a “prisoner of war of the system”. Right-wing extremist Thomas Adolf , who was later convicted of murder , was also part of the SAF community at the time. Likewise, the police murderer Michael Berger .

Change of leadership

Thomas Fink died in a motorcycle accident in 1992, and was succeeded by Thomas Kubiak. In November 1997, the two former leaders of the SAF died with Kubiak and Andree Zimmermann in a car accident when she on the A1 at night unrestrained raced at Vechta in an unlit truck. The co-founder of the right-wing extremist Donner Versand , Harald Theodor Mehr , also died in the accident . At the funeral of the SAF activists, swastika flags were also placed in the grave and calls for salvation were chanted. There were high-ranking neo-Nazi cadres, including representatives of the " Thuringian Homeland Security ", neo-Nazi songwriter Frank Rennicke , Christian Worch and Siegfried Borchardt .

Shortly afterwards, Daniela Wegener took over the management of the SAF. Since 2000, the SAF has mostly appeared as the “National Resistance Hochsauerland” or “Free Nationalists Sauerland / Siegerland” and is one of the Free Comradeships within the framework of the so-called National Resistance . In 2002 the SAF was assigned "up to approx. 70 mobilizable 'members'". In 2004 the Office for the Protection of the Constitution counted about 15 people in the group.

Later findings

In the course of the publications and scandals surrounding the investigation into the " National Socialist Underground " (NSU) it became known that Zimmermann was an undercover agent for the protection of the constitution . In 1997, the Federal Criminal Police Office warned the Office for the Protection of the Constitution against the use of informants in prominent positions in the neo-Nazi scene and named Zimmermann as one of the examples. At times the SAF was investigated for the formation of a criminal organization. However, the proceedings came to nothing - also because the secret service informed his undercover agent about this investigation that the BKA was then able to record "no more relevant conversations" on the phone.

See also

Web links

  • The Sauerland Action Front (PDF; 329 kB). Answer of the federal government to the small inquiry from PDS / Die Linke. Bundestag printed paper 12/6896, March 21, 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report NRW 1999, quoted from the press release of the OVG NRW  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ovg.nrw.de  
  2. ^ Skinheads and right-wing extremism . Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2001, p. 56f.
  3. ^ Saxon handbook on extremism and endangering security efforts. State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony, 2009, p. 131.
  4. ^ Right-wing extremism in brief. Ideologies - Organizations - Activities . Authority for Internal Affairs, State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hamburg, 2001, p. 101.
  5. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Brandenburg 1997, p. 22.
  6. ↑ a b Police murderer Berger had contact with neo-Nazis from the Sauerland . The West, June 25, 2015
  7. ^ Judgment of the OVG NRW of August 10, 2001, AZ 5 B 1072/01
  8. ↑ Andrea Röpke, Andreas Speit: Brown comradeships: The militant neo-Nazis in the shadow of the NPD . Ch.links Verlag, 2005, p. 105
  9. ^ Right-wing extremism and xenophobia in North Rhine-Westphalia . Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, 2002, p. 24.
  10. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report NRW 2004, p. 86.
  11. ↑ The leader of the "Sauerland Action Front" was an undercover agent . The West, November 18, 2012