State and economic society

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The State and Economic Political Society (SWG) is a registered association based in Hamburg . The purpose of the association is to carry out civic education work. This goal is to be achieved primarily through lectures and publications. In lectures and publications by the SWG, a. deals with historical revisionist topics.

History and seat

The SWG was on April 9, 1962 in Cologne by Hugo Wellems , chief editor of the DP -Parteizeitung The German word and former press officer in Goebbels Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , together with the then CDU - members of parliament Artur Miss Bach and the publicist Karl Friedrich Gray ( CSU ) founded. Wellems was Chairman of the SWG until his death in 1995, his successor was Brigadier General a. D. Reinhard Uhle-Wettler . From April 2008 the legal scholar Menno Aden was chairman of the society. The current chairman has been the Bundeswehr since the beginning of 2015 - Colonel a. D. Manfred Backerra .

In 1973 SWG moved its office from Cologne (Händelstrasse 53) to Hamburg.

Financing and Activities

According to its own information, the SWG finances itself through donations. It is divided into regional groups (so-called "Regios"), its geographical focus is in Northern Germany.

According to its self-image, the company conducts “conservative educational work” in the “pre-political space”. The SWG primarily organizes lectures on political, historical, economic and social topics. The aim of the company's work is to advertise “ the love of the fatherland [...] from which law and freedom arise in the state and in the economy. "

In 1975, Der Spiegel reported that the SWG had carried out anonymous mailbox campaigns against Willy Brandt and Walter Scheel during the 1972 federal election campaign with the help of donations from the business community . Wolfgang Hoffmann reported, among other things, of a payment of 382,950 marks to the SWG on October 9, 1972.

With an advertisement in the daily newspaper Die Welt , the SWG protested “ emphatically ” in 1999 against the Wehrmacht exhibition of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research . The Wehrmacht, according to the ad, “was not a criminal organization. The vast majority of their relatives fought with honor. The German soldiers were and are not murderers! "

On June 17, 2004, the SWG appealed to the then Federal President Horst Köhler to obtain a pardon for Erich Priebke in Italy .

Periodical and other publications

From the German party , the company took over the magazine Das deutsche Wort, founded in 1957 and discontinued in 1961, in 1962 . It was published every six months and was the official organ of the SWG until 1973. It was followed by two issues of the Deutschland-Kurier (1973 and 1974) instead . Since 1975 the magazine has been renamed Deutschland-Journal , subtitle independent newspaper for politics, economy and culture and appeared from 1978 in monthly circulation. At the end of 1990 the magazine was discontinued. Since 1991 an annual booklet has been published as the organ of the SWG under the title Deutschland-Journal - questions zur Zeit , which is occasionally supplemented by special editions. The edition is 5,000 copies.

The editorial address is that of the Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung (formerly Ostpreußenblatt ), the editor-in-chief of which was Hugo Wellems. There is an exchange of articles and references to SWG events with Junge Freiheit .

The SWG also publishes texts on its website on an ongoing basis (usually several times a week), has had a Facebook account since 2013 and occasionally promotes book publications on socio-political issues.

Feedback and criticism

In the autumn of 1999, the SWG wanted to win the later Hamburg Interior Senator Ronald Schill along with a number of celebrities for an event. Schill canceled his lecture because of public protests. Brigadier General Helmut Harff , who until shortly before had been in command of the German KFOR units in Kosovo , spoke in his place .

The former Hamburg Vice- Constitutional Protection Chief Manfred Murck said in 2001 that there were “personal overlaps” with “right-wing extremist organizations” at SWG. According to a press report in 2015, the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution was keeping an eye on the SWG because right-wing extremists had also appeared at events, such as lawyer Gisa Pahl . According to a spokesman for the office, the authority is keeping "possible links and contacts between the SWG and the right-wing extremist scene in focus". The club is not officially observed.

The political scientist Wolfgang Gessenharter ordered the SWG 2004 New Right and placed it in 2008 as an "important link between conservatism and the extreme right" is.

The political and economic scientist Gideon Römer-Hillebrecht wrote in 2009 that the SWG would often deal with historical revisionist topics such as the relativization of Germany's guilt for World War II and the demand for impunity for Holocaust denial in its lectures and publications .

The presence of the repeatedly convicted Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck-Wetzel at an SWG event in Hamburg in 2015 was discussed in various media.

Speakers

The list below (in alphabetical order) is not exhaustive. The year numbers in brackets indicate the year of the presentation.

literature

  • Kurt Hirsch: Right from the Union. People, organizations, parties since 1945. A lexicon . Knesebeck et al. Schuler, Munich 1989, 478 pages, ISBN 3-926901-22-5
  • Andreas Speit and Felix Krebs: "Right at the Union". In: The Right Edge of November 2005, page 3
  • Andreas Speit: “'Consider the attachment as not sent'. Anti-Semitism in the 'State and Economic Policy Society' (SWG) ”. In: The right margin No. 101 of July / August 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Barbara Junge, Julia Naumann, Holger Stark: RechtsSchreiber: how a network in media and politics works on the restoration of the national. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3885206218 , pp. 163-165.
  2. ^ A b Stefan Klemp : Concentration camp doctor Aribert Heim. The story of a manhunt. Münster, Berlin 2010, ISBN 9783941688094 , pp. 140-1.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 651.
  4. ↑ German national but a guest at Kiel CDU ( Memento from August 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), NDR, August 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ What does the SWG want? (accessed January 5, 2009).
  6. ↑ DER SPIEGEL, No. 48, 1975, p. 29.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Hoffmann, The finances of the parties , Praeger 1973, p. 190.
  8. ^ Advertisement by SWG, regional section Hamburg, DIE WELT of July 10, 1999; Secondary source for this: Daniel Hörsch, Rights Networks - A Danger , VS Verlag 2004, p. 117.
  9. ^ Die Weltbühne, Issue 13 of March 31, 1970, page 388.
  10. ↑ http://www.deutschlandjournal.de/ .
  11. ↑ German Bundestag, printed matter 14/7772: Small question from MP Ulla Jelpke and the PDS parliamentary group (December 5, 2001; PDF; 172 kB). P. 2.
  12. ↑ Peter Müller and Andreas Speit, on command right around. In: the daily newspaper Hamburg of February 3, 2001, p. 25.
  13. ↑ The Office for the Protection of the Constitution focuses on possible SWG contacts with right-wing extremists . In: NDR . March 21, 2015. Archived from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved on February 3, 2016.
  14. ↑ Wolfgang Gessenharter, The actual Bundeswehr scandal , In: Frankfurter Rundschau of May 21, 2004.
  15. ↑ Andreas Speit: "No guest performance for Professor Daschitschew" , in: the daily newspaper of May 9, 2008.
  16. ↑ Daniel Hofmann, Gideon Römer-Hillebrecht, The "Jewish-Zionist Conspiracy": Jews, Bundeswehr and their allies as enemy images of anti-modern messages of salvation , In: Michael Berger, Gideon Römer-Hillebrecht, Jews and the military in Germany: between integration, assimilation, exclusion and Destruction , Nomos Verlag 2009, p. 337.
  17. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost of March 22, 2015; Potsdam latest news from March 23, 2015