Spree Squadron
| Spree Squadron | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Berlin , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Right skirt |
| founding | 1994, 2017 |
| resolution | 2009 |
| Founding members | |
| Alexander guest | |
| Alexander-Willibald Bahls | |
| Current occupation | |
| Alexander guest | |
| former members | |
bass |
Rico Sonnenburg (1996-1998) |
guitar |
Motte (1998-2009) |
Drums |
Alexander-Williband Bahls (1994-2009) |
Spreegeschwader was a right-wing rock band from Berlin . It was one of the "most important bands of the right-wing extremist music scene from Berlin".
Band history
The band was founded in 1994 by Alexander Gast and Alexander-Willibald Bahls. After several attempts to form a permanent cast, the group initially consisted of only two men. After the first small appearance at a New Year's Eve party, the first demo was recorded in 1995. The first public appearance took place at an anniversary event of the Hammerskins Section Berlin. Several appearances with u. a. Power Strike and Chaos Warriors followed.
The contact to Hanse Records was established through Brandy von Endstufe and the first CD Eisern Berlin was recorded, which was released in the summer of 1996. A mini CD followed in the same year.
In 1996, Rico Sonnenburg, a permanent bassist, joined, and a guitarist followed as reinforcement. In 1997, the band released some sampler contributions on relevant right-wing rock compilations. In 1998 the second album Orientexpress was released . In the same year a split CD with the Swedish band Storm followed. The new guitarist had quit in advance, after the release a replacement was found in Motte.
In 2000 the split album was indexed with Storm . In 2002 the Spreegeschwader wanted to play a live concert in Hungary, the responsible state criminal investigation office wanted to prevent this with the help of a travel ban.
After a legal dispute with their old record company, a best of was released in 2001 with newly recorded songs. A live album followed in 2002. In 2003 the album Gefangen im System was released , which was indexed in 2004.
In 2004, the live album was indexed because it was a risk to young people. In 2004 the band filed a lawsuit against the Berlin residents' registration office. A concert followed on June 5, 2004, which was disbanded by a special police force. House searches and further indexing followed.
In 2004 the anniversary album One Decade and another best-of with the title The First Years were released . Indexing of the two sound carriers was rejected by the BPjM . The band had previously filed a lawsuit against their treatment by the BPjM and had come to the hearing with legal support. On April 2, 2005 a concert by the Spreegeschwader took place, at which the English RAC bands English Rose and White Law performed. The main attraction of the evening was " Hunters And ", and the last appearance of the former soldiers -Sängers Michael Regener before his detention. Several members of the Spreegeschwader, who are also the official cast of The Lunikoff Conspiracy , attended the performance.
On September 10, 2007, a constitutional complaint by Alexander Gast regarding the indexing of the audio carrier Live 2002 was not upheld. The Federal Constitutional Court thus confirmed the indexing of the sound carrier.
In addition to the Spreegeschwader, Alexander Gast also ran his solo project Spreegeschwader Solo - Spirit of 88 , which has so far released three albums. The guest was also the operator of Joe Hawkins mail order and the shop "On the Streets" in Hennigsdorf , which, in addition to the band's merchandise , sells various national and international Hatecore , right-wing rock and skinhead bands. Since autumn 2019 he has been the guitarist of the more moderate German rock band WUTBÜRGER.
Alexander Bahls was the operator of the neo-Nazi trendy shop “Parzifal” in Berlin-Oberschöneweide until it was closed in August 2006 . On October 5, 2006, he was involved in the attack on Philip Schlaffer from Wismar, the owner of the "Werwolfshop" and operator of the "Hatestore" shipping company. He and two other accomplices are said to have threatened and blackmailed Schlaffer with a manslaughter and an ax. The background was a dispute over the marketing of merchandising articles of the "Lunikoff conspiracy" around Michael Regener. Schlaffer was accused of having only done business with Bahls in order to come into contact with Michael Regener (together with Ingo Knauf from the V7-Versand, Schlaffer owned the "Parzival"). Bahls was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in a circumstantial trial, in which even the public prosecutor moved away from the actual indictment and demanded a suspended sentence. This he sat z. T. together with Michael Regener in the JVA Berlin-Tegel . Furthermore, in 2009 Alexander Bahls had to answer before the Berlin Regional Court in the proceedings against the band “ Deutsch, Stolz, Treue ” (DST) for incitement to hatred. In the summer of 2009, Bahls was released from prison.
In August 2009 the group disbanded due to internal differences.
In 2015 it became known within the comradeship that Alexander Gast was in a coma after being resuscitated, and according to his own statements he had to relearn everything.
In 2017, after the breakup in 2009, a new album was released, the only remaining member is the front man and current guitarist Alexander Gast.
ideology
Ideologically, the band was initially close to the Hammerskin and Blood and Honor movements, but for a number of years they have appeared repeatedly at NPD events . The band has a close relationship with the militant part of the neo- Nazi scene through their membership in the neo-Nazi rocker group " Vandalen - Ariogermanische Kampfgemeinschaft ".
The texts by Spreegeschwader deal with excessive national pride, open racism and conspiracy theories . References to National Socialism can also be found, especially on the early phonograms. The later texts no longer contain any direct references, but are deliberately kept open to allow such an interpretation.
Discography
Albums
- 1996 Eisern Berlin ( CD , Hanse Records)
- 1996 Stay as you are ( mini-album , Hanse Records)
- 1998 Orientexpress (CD, Hanse Records)
- 2003 Trapped in the System (CD, Panzerbär Records)
- 2004 One Decade (CD, Panzerbär Records)
- 2017 I'm back (CD, Oldschool Records) (indexed)
Split albums
- 1998 European Guard (with the band Storm, CD, Svea Musik)
Live albums and compilations
- 1997 Live in Magdeburg (CD, Fuchs & Wolf Records)
- 2001 Reichshauptstadt - Best of 95-01 (CD, Wotan Records; newly published in 2005 without indexed songs)
- 2005 The first years 1996-1998 (CD, Panzerbär Records)
Exclusive sampler contributions
- 1997 Keep It White, Volume 3 (CD, Thor Records) (2 songs)
- 2000 Blood & Honor Brandenburg (CD, BB Records) (1 song)
- 2003 White Covers: A Tribute ... (CD, unknown distribution) (2 songs)
- 2003 White Covers: ... To Landser (CD, unknown distribution) (1 song)
- 2004 Here the Bear Rages (CD, Panzerbär Records) (2 songs as Spreegeschwader, 2 songs as Allstars)
- 2009 Danger in Default (CD, Panzerbär Records) (1 song as GWS and 2 songs as Spirit of 88)
- 2011 Tribute to Triebäter (CD, Rebel Records) (2 songs as Spirit of 88)
Project volume Spirit of 88
(Solo project by the Spree squadron singer Alexander Gast, who took over the vocals and played all the accompanying musical instruments by himself)
- 2000 White Power Skinheads (CD, Pühses List , indexed)
- 2005 Total Control (CD, Panzerbär Records, indexed)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Federal Constitutional Court, decision of September 10, 2007, Az .: 1 BvR 1548/07
- ↑ Police break right-wing extremist concert. Tagesspiegel , June 7, 2004, accessed April 30, 2016 .
- ^ Thuringian Ministry of the Interior (Ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht Freistaat Thüringen 2005 . 2006, p. 23 ( thueringen.de [PDF; accessed on December 15, 2011]). Constitutional Protection Report Free State of Thuringia 2005 ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Nazis attack Nazi shops in Tagesspiegel of October 16, 2006
- ↑ Criminal scene machinations. Turn it down , archived from the original ; accessed on April 30, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.apabiz.de/archiv/material/Profile/Spreegeschwader.htm
- ↑ BAnz AT 11/29/2019 B12
- ↑ BAnz AT 07/28/2020 B4
Web links
- Official website ( Memento of April 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )