Sturmvogel - German Youth Association

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The Sturmvogel - German Youth Association is a German youth association whose origins lie in the right-wing extremist Wiking youth .

history

The Sturmvogel was founded on September 5, 1987 in Lippoldsberg by members of the "Young Family" working group, which had previously resigned from the Wiking-Jugend , after the Wiking-Jugend leadership functionaries, especially the federal leaders, had been more and more of the right-wing extremist Freedom Germans since the end of 1984 Labor Party had approached. Those former members of the Wiking Youth who did not support the neo-Nazi course wanted to gather in the Sturmvogel. Founding members included Reiner Schmitz, Wolfgang Dünkel, Gerd Rothe, Ralf Küttelwesch, Christel Littauer and Rudi Wittig, the latter had separated from the Wiking-Jugend in September 1987 and was previously a national guide. There were considerable differences between Wittig and Wolfgang Nahrath , federal leader of the Wiking-Jugend from 1965 to 1991, as a result of which Wittig left the Wiking-Jugend.

The former deputy federal leader of the petrel and old man of the Danubia Munich fraternity , Ralf Küttelwesch, was one of the responsible students of an "East-West working group" set up by Hans-Helmuth Knütter for events with Hans-Dietrich Sander , David in the early 1990s Irving and Frank Rennicke had organized in rooms of the University of Bonn . At the beginning of the 1990s, Edda Schmidt , former chairwoman of the Ring National Women , also belonged to the leadership of the Sturmvogel .

In the early 1990s there were personal links with the German League for People and Homeland , the Republicans and the right-wing extremist initiative All Germany . Members of the association took part in the IJzerbedevaart in 1992 and in a Rudolf Hess memorial march in 1993 .

In July 2006, the German voice , the party organ of the NPD , once again promoted the petrel.

Regular contacts exist, among others, with the Freedom Federation and the German Girls' Wandering Association , so members of the Sturmvogels also took part in the 14th supra-federal castle festival in 2008 at Hohnstein Castle, at whose previous events members of the Freedom League also included members of the German Youth, which was banned in 2009, as well as other people from the right-wing extremists took part.

At the summer camp of the federal government in Brandenburg in 2015, the Swiss Holocaust denier Bernhard Schaub , former chairman of the neo-Nazi association for the rehabilitation of those persecuted for denying the Holocaust , which was banned nationwide in 2008 , appeared. A founding member of the Sturmvogel was involved in meetings of the racist species community .

The federal newspaper is the storm messenger . The youth association published various school newspapers in the Cologne area.

Political classification

The organization emerged in contrast to the neo-Nazi course of the Wiking youth, but according to information from the federal government at the end of the 1980s, it itself had indications of right-wing extremist efforts. In 1995, the federal government no longer saw this as a given, while Jens Mecklenburg still counted the petrel among the right-wing extremist organizations in 1996. Bernd Wagner attested that the youth association had turned away from the Hitler Youth tradition of the Wiking youth, but noted that in the early 1990s, “more right-wing extremist and right-wing extremist positions” prevailed again. As of January 2010, the petrel was not an object of observation by the constitution protection authorities nationwide, as there were insufficient indications for an orientation against the free-democratic basic order.

In January 2010, in response to a small request from MP Pia-Beate Zimmermann , the Lower Saxony state government announced that the Lower Saxony Office for the Protection of the Constitution knew about the petrel, but that, according to the information available, it was not a successor organization to the Wiking Youth. A classification as an "observation object" could "currently" not be made on the basis of the available knowledge. However, "the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is following the development with great attention to check whether the line to anti-constitutional efforts has been exceeded."

A small request from the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag at the end of February 2010 was answered by the federal government as follows: "Even according to the current assessment, there are no indications of an extremist orientation." The accusation of legal bias has also recently been raised.

According to the Constitutional Protection Report 2019 of the state of Lower Saxony, there are relationships between the petrel and the so-called " ethnic settlers ", who are described as a right-wing extremist network.

activities

The Sturmvogel refers to the tradition of the Wandervogel and the German youth movement and describes itself as independent and not bound by religion or party politics. His activities include group lessons and trips , the destinations of which are mainly in Eastern Europe in “German settlement areas” such as the Sudetenland , Upper Silesia , Hungary or Pomerania ”. In terms of program, the association is based on the national revolutionary groups of the Weimar Republic around Karl Otto Paetel .

literature

  • Maik Baumgärtner, Jesko Wrede: "Who wears the black flag there ..." Ethnic and new right groups in the waters of the Bündische Jugend today. Educational Association Work and Life Lower Saxony Ost gGmbH, Braunschweig 2009. ISBN 978-3-932082-35-1 .
  • Jens Mecklenburg (ed.): Handbook of German right-wing extremism. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-88520-585-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Maik Baumgärtner, Jesko Wrede: "Who wears the black flags there ..." Ethnic and new right groups in the waters of the Bündische Jugend today. Bildungsvereinigung Arbeit und Leben Niedersachsen Ost gGmbH, Braunschweig 2009, ISBN 978-3-932082-35-1 , p. 84-93 .
  2. ↑ a b c Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia : Report on the Protection of the Constitution of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 1987 , p. 17.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic , Fischer Geschichte 1992, p. 317f
  4. ↑ a b Andrea Röpke: Holidays in the Führerbunker. The neo-Nazi child-rearing of the "Heimattreuen German Youth (HDJ)" . Educational Association Work and Life, Braunschweig 2007. ISBN 978-3-932082-31-3 . Page 38
  5. ↑ Jürgen Grewen, Against Antifaschismus , in: Der Rechts Rand , Nov. 1992, p. 20
  6. ↑ a b c d e apabiz.de: Profile: Deutscher Jugendbund - Sturmvogel , status: 1996, accessed on December 28, 2006 and January 17, 2010
  7. ↑ deutsche-stimme.de ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2006 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. , accessed December 28, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-stimme.de
  8. ↑ 100jahre-maedchenwandervogel.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed December 28, 2006; no longer available@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.100jahre-maedchenwandervogel.de  
  9. ↑ Research North: Polenztal: HDJ and Bündische Jugend - at Hohnstein Castle ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2010 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / recherche-nord.com
  10. ↑ Under the banner of the "petrel". ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / publikative.org 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. Article by Andrea Röpke on publikative.org , November 25, 2015
  11. ↑ German Bundestag: Printed matter 13/1461 (from May 19, 1995; PDF; 235 kB)
  12. ^ Jens Mecklenburg: Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism Berlin: Elefanten Press, 1996, ISBN 3885205858 , pp. 250f
  13. ↑ Bernd Wagner, Handbook of Right-Wing Extremism: Networks, Parties, Organizations, Ideology Centers, Media , Rowohlt 1994, p. 210
  14. ↑ Spokeswoman for the State Ministry of the Interior of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania opposite the Ostsee-Zeitung in: Online offer of the Ostsee-Zeitung  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (from January 5, 2010)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ostsee-zeitung.de  
  15. ^ Shorthand minutes of the 60th meeting. (PDF file 2.1 MB) Lower Saxony State Parliament, 16th electoral period, January 21, 2010, accessed on March 19, 2019 (question 41).
  16. ↑ Bundestag printed paper 17/1002 (PDF; 61 kB)
  17. ↑ Andrea Röpke : It's a girl thing! - Women in the neo-Nazi scene. Christoph Links Verlag , Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-86153-615-4
  18. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2019. (pdf) Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport - Protection of the Constitution -, May 7, 2020, p. 46 , accessed on July 26, 2020 .