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The Weikersheim Study Center ( SZW ), founded in 1979 at Weikersheim Castle , sees itself as a Christian - conservative think tank . It organizes regular congresses, seminars and conferences, especially on European and German politics . Critics regard the study center as an instrument of the New Right .

Alignment

The study center today describes its objectives as follows:

“Our work is aimed at preserving the cultural heritage of Germany and Europe as well as a free democracy based on the ideas of outstanding founding fathers such as Theodor Heuss , Konrad Adenauer and Ludwig Erhard . We consider the recognition of human dignity and human rights as the first step on the way to a coexistence of all citizens of our fatherland and continent in peace and justice. However, these fundamental rights of all human beings must have a pre-state or natural law character in order to prevent political institutions from claiming the sovereignty of interpretation and thus, depending on their ideological orientation, interpreting human dignity and human rights in their own way. "

Accordingly, the Weikersheimers represent a conservatism that invokes values ​​and traditions of the Christian West , understands them as the identity of Europe and wants to preserve them.

Leading members of the SZW described his mission as the realization of an intellectual and moral turnaround in Germany, which Chancellor Helmut Kohl had announced when he took office in 1983. It is directed against what they see as a cultural hegemony of the left-liberal camp that emerged in the 1970s .

Hans Filbinger saw the SZW as an "intellectual and political initiative that wants to enable our state to meet the great challenges of our time", across ideological and party lines as a "response to the so-called cultural revolution of the 1960s" . To this end, he called for the "turning away from the false doctrines of so-called self-realization" and turning to "state sentiments", "spiritual leadership" and a "spiritual elite". Günter Rohrmoser wanted to profile the CDU as a "Christian-national-conservative" party. The study center rejects the European Constitution in its current form. Its representatives demand a “Europe of Fatherlands” and a reference to God in the EU Constitution, with which human rights are to be withdrawn from arbitrary interpretation. Even accession negotiations between the EU and Turkey will be rejected. To this end, the SZW issued a Europe Manifesto on June 15, 2005 .

Main representative

The CDU politician Hans Filbinger founded the center about a year after his resignation as Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg as a result of the Filbinger affair (August 7, 1978). The first general meeting of the SZW elected him as its president on October 12, 1979. Co-founders were Helmut Metzner , the social philosopher Günter Rohrmoser , Heinz Karst and Erich Baumann . In October 1997 Filbinger resigned from his management position and was also elected honorary president of the SZW. This office was newly created for him at that time.

Filbinger's successor was the CDU member of the Bundestag, Wolfgang von Stetten .

In 2001, von Stetten was followed by political scientist Klaus Hornung , who followed an openly right-wing nationalist course. From 2003 to 2007 Bernhard Friedmann , who was a member of the German Bundestag for the CDU from 1976 to 1990 and President of the European Court of Auditors from 1996 to 1999 , was President of the Study Center. When he took office, he announced that he would bring the SZW closer to the Union parties and deal more with economic issues. From 2008 the personnel consultant Bernhard von Diemer was his successor in the presidency.

In June 2011, the philosopher Harald Seubert was elected as the new President, and the constitutional law teacher Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider and the sociologist Jost Bauch are deputies . The new Presidium has set itself the goal of making the study center “a leading think tank of bourgeois-liberal character” that is supposed to work on “basic intellectual orientations in the 21st century as well as on strategic and political issues”. Weikersheim is also to become more of a forum for public debate and become more journalistic. The "connection of religious ethos with the legacy of the Enlightenment and the connection of universalism and enlightened patriotism" mark the cornerstones in the sense of Seubert and Schachtschneider. In July 2016, Harald Seubert announced his resignation from the Presidium due to disagreements regarding the content of the study center.

At the general meeting on September 7, 2018 in Weikersheim, Schachtschneider and Bauch were re-elected as presidents, while Volker Kempf was appointed as vice-president. Michael Wey became the treasurer .

The presidium, with up to twelve members, is elected every five years by a general meeting. It consisted of prominent members, as Vice President Jörg Schönbohm , former Interior Minister of the State of Brandenburg. Until July 2008, the committee also included the former President of the Bundestag Philipp Jenninger as well as the GDR civil rights activist and former Saxon environment minister Arnold Vaatz . Manfred Rommel , the former Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, was a member of the Presidium until his death in November 2013 .

The sociologist Lothar Bossle († 2000) was the scientific director of the study center for many years. Winckler named Rohrmoser, Hornung and Bossle as main representatives for its development.

Organization and body

The SZW office is located in Leinfelden-Echterdingen . Managing director under Filbinger and his personal advisor was Albrecht Jebens until 1997 . At the end of 2002, business economist and philosopher Ronald FM Schrumpf followed . In April 1999 the SZW set up an office in Berlin. Schrumpf resigned in 2006, and since 2011 the independent entrepreneur Elmar Stegmeier has acted as honorary managing director.

The philosopher Harald Seubert was president of the SZW from June 2011 to 2016 .

A third of the approximately 650 members of the SZW are younger than 35 years. For them, the youth department of Young Weikersheim was founded in 1991 , which initially consisted of around 80 people. Until 1995, one of the leaders was the Berlin neo-Nazi Ulli Boldt . This youth group ceased its activities during the time in office of Stetten. On May 9, 2004, the sub-organization Jung-Weikersheim was founded by MdB Steffen Bilger , which is led by a six-person committee and organizes events on its own. Steffen Bilger was the chairman of the Junge Union Baden-Württemberg at the time . The head of the Jung-Weikersheimer is currently Daniel Krieger , also a member of the Junge Union there.

The Mitteilungsblatt Weikersheimer Blätter has been published twice a year at irregular intervals since 1987 with a print run of around 1,500 copies.

carrier

The SZW was founded with donations from the private industry, u. a. of Daimler-Benz AG , built up and promoted. It receives financial support from the recognized non-profit foundation for the promotion of Christian, patriotic and humanistic ideas in science, economy, art and politics , which was founded in 1993 on Filbinger's 80th birthday. Its founding members is counted Paul Carell , former press spokesman for the German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in the era of National Socialism and military history after 1945 author books. At the beginning of 1996, thirty companies were registered as club members.

The SZW also receives state funding, previously from the Federal Ministry for Internal German Relations and the Federal Press Office , and later also from the Federal Agency for Civic Education . In 1994 and 1995 it subsidized the Weikersheim annual congress with DM 28,000 each and another DM 32,700. In total, by 1995 it should have received DM 450,000 in federal grants.

The SZW also received grants from the state budget of Baden-Württemberg for individual events. After neo-Nazis in the Thule network called for participation in the May Congress of the SZW at Hambach Castle , the SPD asked the state parliament in 1995 to review the use of state and federal subsidies. In 1995, the then parliamentary group of the PDS applied to the Bundestag to stop funding the SZW from federal funds because right-wing extremists had repeatedly appeared there. In 2004, in response to a request from the SPD parliamentary group, the state government stated that funding had ceased in 2000.

The respective Prime Minister of the state supported the SZW over a longer period of time with a membership fee of 100 euros.

Events and speakers

The SZW regularly organizes an annual congress as well as seminars and conferences on specific political issues. The Jung-Weikersheimer host the annual autumn conference. Some conferences were held together with industrial associations or companies, for example in 1984 with the Krauss-Maffei armaments company in Wildbad Kreuth . The first Weikersheim University Week took place in September 1992 and has been repeated annually since then. The third university week in 1994 was sponsored by Daimler-Benz.

Both prominent politicians - mostly from the CDU - as well as professors had their say as speakers under Filbinger and Hornung:

People who are considered to be representatives of the New Right or right-wing extremists also appeared:

Co-organizers of Weikersheimer conferences were u. a. the Young Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen (JLO; 1993), the Bund Young East Prussia (BJO; 2002 to 2004), the Paneuropean Union , the VPM and the State and Economic Policy Society (SWG). For its part, the SZW supported u. a. Congresses of the VPM.

Under Friedmann, the study center u. a. with business associations, including the Working Group of Evangelical Entrepreneurs (AEU) and the Association of Catholic Entrepreneurs (BKU) in Rottenburg-Stuttgart, the Working Group of Self-employed Entrepreneurs (ASU), the Association of Self-Employed Baden-Württemberg (BDS) and the Economic Council of the CDU e. V. State Association of Baden-Württemberg . The “Weikersheim Business Talks” were a new focus under the motto Too social is antisocial . Their conferences took place at companies such as Deutsche Bank in Freiburg, the headquarters of Allianz AG or at the Haus der Wirtschaft in Stuttgart.

In 2002 and 2003, the Weikersheim Study Center, together with the Bund Young East Prussia (BJO) and the State and Economic Policy Society (SWG) each organized a “Political Autumn Seminar” in Bad Pyrmont . At the 2002 autumn seminar, CDU member of the Bundestag, Martin Hohmann , gave a lecture on the subject of “National Identity Management in the German Bundestag”. Theodor Schweisfurth and Götz Kubitschek performed at the 2003 autumn seminar . Outside the official program, Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein reported on attacks against himself in connection with the Hohmann affair . Shortly before, Martin Hohmann had given his “ perpetrator people ” speech, which was classified as anti-Semitic and which was also based on Bieberstein's book Jewish Bolshevism (Dresden 2002). As a result, Hohmann was initially excluded from the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in November 2003, and the CDU in July 2004. Friedmann appealed to him to immediately apply for his re-entry into the CDU parliamentary group. Managing Director Schrumpf felt that he was “very closely connected” to Hohmann, and Jung-Weikersheim board members expressed their “critical solidarity with Martin Hohmann” in an appeal for signatures.

In Friedmann's time, the annual congresses on the subjects of “The Path to Integration of Europe” (2004), “Which Europe do we want? - National interests in the Europe of the Fatherlands ”(2005), plus the so-called“ Fireside Chats ”in Berlin, where the issue was, among other things, whether German federalism is suitable for Europe. To this end, prominent personalities from politics, business and religion are obliged to speak, including well-known CDU politicians such as Helmut Kohl and Christoph Palmer .

Relationship to the New Right

Critics regard the institute as a network of the new right . Observers like Ursel Sieber see the task of the SZW in "by offering discussions to the extreme right to prevent too many from the right wing from finally saying goodbye to the Union."

This line met with various criticisms from scholars, journalists and political opponents. The historian Hans Mommsen saw the study center in 1986 in the context of the historians' dispute as an example of a renewal of national-conservative historical awareness that favored the relativization of National Socialism . Authors from the former IDGR , the Duisburg Institute for Linguistic and Social Research or the spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group for constitutional protection and extremism issues, Stephan Braun , locate the study center in a gray area between right-wing conservatism and right-wing extremism. It deliberately crosses the borders between these camps in order to contribute to the removal of taboos from right-wing extremist positions.

In 1989, the SZW gained the reputation of being a “right-wing cadre forge” when Rolf Schlierer, a member of the executive committee , acted as press spokesman for the Republicans . Schlierer, who had published in 1980 that the number of six million murdered Jews during the Nazi era "is no longer seriously represented in contemporary historical science", was initially pressured by Filbinger to part with the Republicans and only for that Study center because he can better pursue his goals there. When Schlierer refused, he was recalled by the Presidium. After all, Schlierer was party chairman of the Republicans from 1994 to 2014.

Between 1991 and 1995, Ulli Boldt was temporarily one of the managers at Jungweikersheim. At the same time he was active for the neo-Nazi group Nationalist Front , which is now banned , headed the national information hotline in Berlin and registered several Rudolf Hess memorial marches in Frankfurt (Oder) and Oranienburg in 1994 . When this became known, the Weikersheim Board of Trustees excluded him in 1995.

Michael Walker's appearance in 1994 met with protests. Critics pointed out that the European Parliament's committee of inquiry " Racism and Xenophobia " regards the magazine The Scorpion, which he published, as a contact forum for European ultra-nationalists and anti-Semites . This gave rise to applications to cut state and federal funds from the SZW.

The study center also hit the headlines several times under von Stetten. For example, the attitude of Presidium member Günter Rohrmoser was criticized: he had the former RAF and later NPD member, today's Holocaust denier Horst Mahler , give a speech to members of the institute at his birthday party on December 1, 1997, declaring his and Mahler's positions for identical and praised Mahler's attitude as "national-Christian conservatism". Mahler had demanded that "occupied" Germany should free itself from its "debt bondage" to the upright walk of its "national identity".

According to the television magazine Panorama , Albrecht Jebens is also said to have had contacts with right-wing extremists. It was criticized that Jebens, as chairman of the Filbinger Foundation, which co-finances the SZW in accordance with the statutes, is also chairman of the right-wing extremist society for free journalism (GfP), where some SZW members published books. He is considered to be primarily responsible for invitations to new rights and right-wing extremists, with which the SZW has specifically pursued an opening to the outside right. Jebens had handed in his CDU party membership, but remained chairman of the Filbinger Foundation.

SZW speakers such as the political scientist Hans-Helmuth Knütter accused journalists from Panorama of having justified neo-Nazi violence.

That is why the SPD parliamentary group in the Stuttgart state parliament repeatedly demanded, most recently on May 16, 2006, the exclusion of right-wing extremist contacts and speakers in Weikersheim on the grounds:

"It must be prevented that educational institutions such as the study center Weikersheim assume a hinge function in the networking with the right-wing conservative-democratic spectrum that right-wing extremist groups strive for."

The political scientist Wolfgang Gessenharter considers this difficult demarcation between the “intellectual new right” and the national conservative intellectual elite, also in the study center Weikersheim, to be necessary and possible because of “constantly flowing borders”. He finds the spiritual borderline in human dignity, which cannot be relativized and limited to the dignity of Germans.

The Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg does not observe the study center despite known "indications" of right-wing extremist contacts, but some of its co-organizers and their representatives.

Axel Hemmerling , a full-time author at MDR , described the Weikersheim Study Center in 2019 as "now open to AfD ".

Consequences of the Oettinger affair in 2007

On April 11, 2007, Günther Oettinger - then Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg who, like his predecessors, is a member of the SZW Board of Trustees - gave a funeral speech at the funeral of Hans Filbinger. a. as an "opponent of the Nazi regime" who was personally not responsible for the execution of deserters under the Nazi regime. The speech was written by Günter Rohrmoser's former colleague Michael Grimminger , who had been a speechwriter in the Baden-Württemberg State Ministry since 2002 and was transferred after the criticism of the speech. Also on April 11, it was announced that Oettinger had hired a personal advisor who is a member of the SZW. This, like its own membership, met with criticism.

The funeral speech triggered national and international criticism. Stephan Kramer , General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , on April 18, 2007, called for Oettinger's resignation and the closure of the SZW. The following day, Oettinger withdrew his testimony about Filbinger's opposition to the Nazi regime, but refused to leave the SZW and defended it as a democratic institute. Thereupon the Central Council did not renew its demands.

On April 20, a lecture by the SZW on the subject of "The Bundeswehr as a democratic world policeman - are deployments abroad sensible?" Should take place in the Waldhotel Stuttgart-Degerloch. The organizer was Jung-Weikersheim ; Reinhard Günzel , formerly chief of the Bundeswehr Special Forces Command , was scheduled to be the speaker . He was released from the Bundeswehr in 2003 because of his public approval of Martin Hohmann's speech. Hohmann was also invited to the Weikersheim event. Der Spiegel , the FAZ and other German media also pointed out that the event should take place on Adolf Hitler's birthday, which is symbolic for right-wing extremists .

Baden-Württemberg's SPD chairwoman Ute Vogt , Claudia Roth from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and others therefore called for the SZW to be closed. This offers "avowed anti-Semites" a forum. The Green Bundestag member Volker Beck also criticized the SZW tolerate "anti-gay propaganda," and recalled a lecture Günther pipe Moser in which this Russian conservatism, praised as "a counterweight to the liberal decadence, rising amongst us" and an assault on Beck commented in May 2006 as follows:

"I don't want to rejoice that you slapped the main representative of German gay life in Moscow, but I'm sure that through this process Russia has made new friends, if not ten, then 100,000."

The Simon Wiesenthal Center called on Oettinger on April 20, again to resign and justified this with the fact that the SZW invite speakers regularly with extreme and anti-Semitic views on public lectures.

In the afternoon, Oettinger announced that he would let his membership rest until the final clarification and asked SZW President Bernhard Friedmann to clarify the events planned with Hohmann and Günzel as soon as possible. Thereupon Friedmann forbade the meeting with Günzel and an event planned for August 25, 2007 with Hohmann as the speaker, which the Jung-Weikersheimers had initially held on to.

On April 30th, Oettinger, together with the presidium and state executive committee of the CDU, declared that the SZW had to demarcate itself “in relation to content and forces beyond the democratic spectrum of our values ​​and constitutional order” and would no longer allow speakers from the right-wing spectrum to appear. He welcomed the cancellation of the events with Günzel and Hohmann, whose planning was "a mistake and cannot be justified". Friedmann must ensure that the work of the SZW in terms of content, organization and personnel "undoubtedly" corresponds to the objectives of the statutes.

The deputy RCDS -Bundesvorsitzende Nina Bender, the state chairman Steffen cherry and the JU -Landesvorsitzende Steffen Bilger put their executive position at Jung-Weikersheim down the same day. Kirsch justified his membership in Jung-Weikersheim in a declaration and was then released from his duties as state chairman.

In response to Oettinger's distancing and criticism of the SZW, "for years [...] not drawing the line between anti-constitutional and right-wing extremist views clearly enough", SZW President Friedmann replied in a letter to the editor: Many critics obviously wanted to "silence" the study center and make the constitutionally guaranteed freedom of opinion and freedom of the press "available".

As a result of the criticism, the SZW announced on May 19 that Klaus Hornung would resign from the SZW board and Albrecht Jebens from the board of the Filbingerstiftung. Managing Director Schrumpf wants to control the Jungweikersheim event plans in the future.

In a parliamentary question on May 24, 2007, the parliamentary group of the Greens asked for more precise information about the relationship between the state government and the Weikersheim study center and the Hans Filbinger Foundation.

Positioning of the SZW

At the beginning of his presidency, the former President Harald Seubert made it important that the Study Center Weikersheim "continue the European traditions from antiquity , Christianity and the Enlightenment into the global world of the 21st century as a bourgeois, liberal think tank and as a forum at a high level ". Constitutionality and human dignity as an indisputable first value orientation are therefore a matter of course. Against this background, Weikersheim should, under Seubert's aegis, devote more attention to questions of the present and the future. Weikersheim should stand for a place of open debate, which all too often gets neglected in "media caverns" (according to Seubert in his inaugural address on October 29, 2011).

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Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Martin Thunert: Policy advice in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1949 . In: Ulrich Willems (Ed.): Democracy and Politics in the Federal Republic 1949–1999 , Leske + Budrich Verlag, 2001, p. 233.
  3. ^ Stephan Winckler: Value-conservative think tank . In: Ostpreußenblatt , February 3, 2001
  4. ↑ Ulrich Rüdenauer : All in white. Flashback: How Filbinger appealed to Nazi opponents . In: Der Tagesspiegel , April 14, 2007
  5. ^ Wolfram Wette: Filbinger - a German career . P. 128.
  6. ↑ Europe Manifesto of the Weikersheim Study Center: "Europe needs a soul". ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved October 30, 2013
  7. ↑ Extremism: Further to the right . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 2001, p. 20 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Declaration July 31, 2016 harald-seubert.de
  9. ^ [1] In: Fränkische Nachrichten, September 15, 2018.
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  17. ^ Filbinger affair: Oettinger is a member of the right study center . Spiegel Online , April 19, 2007
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  35. ^ Anton Maegerle: Study Center trains the next generation of academics: think tank for the ultra-right . ( Look to the right 18/1996, chargeable)
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  57. ↑ Oettinger makes the front against right-wing speakers . Spiegel Online , April 30, 2007
  58. ↑ Oettinger calls for Weikersheimers to distance themselves from right-wing extremists . In: FAZ , April 30, 2007, p. 4
  59. ^ Oettinger moves away from Weikersheim . In: FAZ , April 21, 2007, p. 4
  60. ↑ It's also about freedom of expression . ( Memento of October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: FAZ , May 5, 2007, p. 8
  61. ↑ Study center draws personnel consequences . Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk, May 19, 2007
  62. ↑ State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg, printed matter 14/1330 Request by the GRÜNE parliamentary group and statement by the State Ministry on the role of the state government in clarifying the processes surrounding the Weikersheim Study Center and the Hans Filbinger Foundation, May 25, 2007 (PDF)
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