Study society for time problems

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The study society for time problems e. V. was a cover organization of the Psychological Warfare / Psychological Defense (PSK / PSV) that existed from 1961 to 1990 and was financed by the Ministry of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany .

history

The study society was founded on March 15, 1961 in Bad Godesberg . She was a non-profit organization with headquarters in Bonn entered (VR 3708). The study society shared the office building at Ubierstrasse 88 with the German Society for Social Relations (DGfSB), which is also funded by PSK / PSV . There were personal overlaps between the study society and the DGfSB.

The association had between 10 and 28 members who were primarily recruited from the departments of the PSK / PSV. There were also members of the Bundestag and university professors. The CDU politician Emil Kemmer , who was 1st chairman of the society from 1961 to 1965, was one of the founding members.

The CDU politician Werner Marx , 1st chairman of the society from 1965 to 1972, and Karl-Christian Trentzsch were among the driving and formative personalities of the early days of the study society and the establishment of the PSK / PSV .

Kemmer and Marx were followed by Major General Johannes Gerber from 1972 to 1982 , the historian Eckardt Opitz, who taught at the Bundeswehr University in Hamburg from 1982 to 1988, and the political scientist Klaus Hornung as 1st chairwoman of the association from 1988 until its dissolution in 1990 . Well-known members were Günther Wagenlehner , Ortwin Buchbender and Helmut Bärwald .

financing

Funding was primarily provided by the Defense Ministry. Erich Schmidt-Eenboom claimed that the company was not only financed by the Ministry of Defense, but also by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

Content profile

According to the company's statutes, the aim of the company was to “promote the democratic community through further education in state, social and economic policy for young interested citizens, especially young academics” .

Its core task was described in a central service regulation (ZDv): "To contribute to the reduction of negative attitudes to the readiness for defense and to individual problems of the defense among target groups that can be reached more effectively with information when the Bundeswehr does not appear."

The association worked exclusively on behalf of and on the instructions of the lead department PSK / PSV. During the Cold War , the Study Society was an instrument in the struggle for political education . “This purpose” , as one reads in the statutes of February 13, 1978, “is to be realized through lectures, courses, scientific publications and journalistic measures of the intellectual-political debate with communism ” . At a general meeting of members on February 22, 1988, it was suggested " to collect IT-supported information about the history and development of extremist groups at the study society ."

According to Schmidt-Eenboom, the society served the BND to recruit and initiate contacts with young scientists.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel No. 20, 1989, p. 45, under the photo of the SfZ building, the caption reads “PSV camouflage organization in Bonn: door sign“ Förderug des Gemeinwesens ”.“ Can be viewed online and Dirk Drews, Die Psychologische Kampffführung / Psychologische Defense der Bundeswehr , dissertation 2006, a. a. P. 10.
  2. ↑ We have to reach out to mothers and brides . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20/1989 of May 15, 1989, pp. 34-50.
  3. ↑ Reinhard Hauschild, 10 years school of the Bundeswehr for psychological defense in Euskirchen. Documentation Euskirchen 1975, p. 5.
  4. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, Undercover: the BND and the German journalists , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1998, p. 343.
  5. ↑ Central Service Regulation 1/200, 1984, Annex 2/2, No. 115; Quoted in Süddeutsche Zeitung on January 20, 1989: allegations against psychological defense lawyers. Fears of damage to the Bundeswehr due to alleged illegal activities .
  6. ↑ Quoted from the register of associations VR 3708, amendment to the statutes of February 13, 1978
  7. ↑ VR 3708, Annex 103
  8. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, Undercover: the BND and the German journalists , Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1998, p. 51