Eagle catches fish

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The symbol with the simply drawn fish

Eagle catches fish or eagle catches Ichthys is a symbol that symbolizes the rejection of Christianity . It depicts an eagle holding a stylized fish, used as a symbol of the Christian faith, in its claws. It is a figurative mark of the völkisch association Artgemeinschaft - Germanic faith community of nature-appropriate lifestyle .

use

In July 2002 Jürgen Rieger , the chairman of the neo-Nazi association Die Artgemeinschaft - Germanic Faith Community , was able to register the image motif . V., applied for as a figurative mark at the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA) and registered there in January 2003.

The use of the symbol is varied and the details of the design can vary. A variant of this motif adorned the No Inquisition hoodie of the Thor Steinar clothing brand, popular in right-wing extremist circles . Even the Ostara Shipping in Berlin and the metal band XIV Dark Centuries use the symbol.

Assessments

The parish of Schneeberg-Neustädtel writes that “ anti-Semitic , right-wing extremist and anti-church ideas” are mixed together in this symbol . The Evangelical Association of Saxony and the Office for Weltanschauung and Sect Issues of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony see anti-Christian symbolism. A clear assignment to the right-wing extremist scene could not be inferred from this. In the summer of 2013, Andrea Röpke stated in relation to the species community: “Racist tendencies and a radical nature-religious stance seem to be spreading throughout the entire brown 'movement'. More and more neo-Nazis are using the group's eagle-attacks-fish symbol. "

From a canonical point of view, the symbol is classified as immoral , which means that trademark protection should not actually be possible. However, no request for cancellation has been made on the part of the church.

Ospreys with prey in the coat of arms of the Müritz district

After controversy surrounding a new coat of arms for the district Mecklenburg Lake District in 2012 drew District Heiko Kärger on the grounds "We do nothing that might bring us to Nazis" a draft back of one of the arms of the district Müritz taken osprey with showed his prey.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Register information from the German Patent and Trade Mark Office: Register number: 30238105
  2. ↑ Network against Nazis : The Thor Steinar World of Coincidences Part II . August 26, 2008
  3. ↑ Parish of Schneeberg-Neustädtel: fish and eagle = no Christian symbol - on the contrary! ( Memento from January 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB) 2007
  4. ↑ Confessio: Symbols: Eagle instead of fish ( Memento from January 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Andrea Röpke : Dangerous Heidentruppe . Look to the right on the website , accessed September 16, 2013
  6. ↑ Philipp Lehmann: The Evangelical Church and the trademark, label and name protection. ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Journal for Protestant Church Law. Volume 53, Issue 3, p. 304.
  7. ↑ Philipp Lehmann: Trademark, trademark and name law in the field of religious communities. Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60094-8 , pp. 126–128.
  8. ↑ Jörg Spreemann: Adler, Brick, Welle: Wappen für Seenplatte  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), Nordkurier from June 30, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordkurier.de
  9. ↑ Ingmar Nehls, Marlies Steffen: The neo-Nazis also fly on the coat of arms eagle  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), on nordkurier.de, July 3, 2012 (accessed on September 16, 2013)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordkurier.de
  10. ↑ Jörg Spreemann, Ingmar Nehls: Completely new designs for district coats of arms  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), Nordkurier from July 4, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordkurier.de