Soldiers and Reservists Committee

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The soldiers and reservists committees (SRK) were local anti-militarist groups of the Communist Federation of West Germany (KBW), which agitated against the Bundeswehr from 1974 to 1979 . In 1979 they were united with other so-called mass or subsidiary organizations of the KBW to form the Association for Revolutionary Popular Education - Soldiers and Reservists (VrV - SR).

history

The SRK groups founded by members of the KBW from 1974 worked on the basis of the program of the Communist League of West Germany and its guiding principles on the military question published in 1974 . The aim was to set up covert cells in the troops and to agitate against the Bundeswehr in public through local committees. In 1976 there were 40 SRCs, which published 39 newspapers and carried out 960 actions (leaflets, posters, demonstrations during recruiting ) against the Bundeswehr. In 1977, following the observations made by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , the committees also directed their activities against the Federal Border Guard and the police . From 1977 onwards, the SRK held soldiers and reserves days in several cities, where training for armed insurrection was carried out with field exercises, air rifle shooting and military sport competitions . From 1978 agitation was against the Bundeswehr, according to the constitutional protection of the " New Left only operated" by KBW and its SRK in appreciable extent. At the beginning of 1979 the SRK was merged with other KBW subsidiary organizations to form the Association for Revolutionary Popular Education , which had 800 active members and was active in 34 of 37 KBW districts. In the militant actions against the swearing-in of recruits in 1980, however, the KBW no longer played a leading role and after its split in the autumn of that year, the number of VrV groups decreased drastically.

Publications

  • Central Committee of the KBW: Program and Statute of the Communist Federation of West Germany. 4th revised edition. Kühl KG, publishing company and class struggle, Mannheim 1974.
    • Extract from the program of the Communist League of West Germany: On the Democratic Struggle. (from the KVZ , No. 4/1974, p. 3) in D. Portner: Bundeswehr und Linksextremismus , 1976, pp. 170–171.
  • Central Committee of the KBW: Principles on the military question. Mannheim 1974
    • Excerpt from: Dieter Portner: Bundeswehr and left-wing extremism. Günter Olzog Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7892-7114-4 , pp. 166-169.
  • People's Militia. quarterly (circulation according to own information 65,000)
  • People's militia - material sheet
  • local soldier newspapers, e.g. B. Heidelberg military newspaper. Oldenburger Kasernenzeitung , Volksmiliz - Cologne military newspaper , Kassler military newspaper

literature

  • concerns: Verfassungsschutz 1974 (published 1975), p. 95 (in the section on the KBW ) ff .; from 1975 (1976), p. 95 (also in the section on work against the Bundeswehr )
  • Dieter Portner: Bundeswehr and left-wing extremism. Günter Olzog Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1976, ISBN 3-7892-7114-4 .
  • Ulrich Probst: The Communist Parties in the Federal Republic of Germany. Verlag Ernst Vögel, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-920896-67-X . ( Statements of the KBW on the army , pp. 102-107)
  • Gerd Koenen : The red decade. Our little cultural revolution 1967-1977. Kiepenheuer & Witsch , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-02985-1 , pp. 454–456.
  • Andreas Kühn: Stalin's grandsons, Mao's sons: the living environment of the K groups in the Federal Republic of the 1970s. Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt / Main et al. 2005, ISBN 3-593-37865-5 , pp. 150–152.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spelling also soldiers and reservists committees
  2. ^ Committees against § 218 , Society for the Support of People's Struggles
  3. ↑ Spelling varies, later without addition
  4. ↑ Program, p. 16: "As long as the bourgeoisie has armed formations to defend capitalist property, the proletariat will have to fight for political power by force of arms."
  5. ↑ Hanover with 1,800, Cologne 1,700 and Munich with 1,200 participants
  6. ↑ concerns: Constitutional Protection 1978, p. 109.
  7. ↑ concerns: Constitutional Protection 1978, p. 109.
  8. ^ D. Portner: Bundeswehr and left-wing extremism. 1976, p. 39.
  9. ↑ Verfassungsschutz report 1976, p. 98 (with ill.)