Independent Workers' Party

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Independent Workers' Party (German Socialists)
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Party leader Ulrich Villmow
founding January 21, 1962
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Alignment Right-wing extremism ,
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The Independent Workers' Party (German Socialists) (short name: UAP) was a small German right-wing extremist party .

Content profile

The UAP - not to be confused with the left-wing socialist Independent Workers 'Party of Germany (UAPD) , which existed from 1950 to 1952 - sees itself as a " nationalist and socialist workers' party " , it is generally viewed in political science as a party of "New Nationalism" . She criticizes the other far-right parties as “ national - capitalist ” and refers to the brothers Gregor and Otto Strasser in her program . The UAP sees the SPD as a CDU copy and feels confirmed by the Hartz laws . It claims of itself to be the only legitimate organization in the tradition of Ferdinand Lassalle and Kurt Schumacher , which it regards as "national social revolutionaries".

History and structure

The party was founded on January 21, 1962 in Essen as a spin-off from the German Social Union (DSU) Otto Strasser under the Arnsberg DSU district chairman Erhard Kliese .

In 1967 the Blue Eagle Youth (BAJ) was founded as a youth organization of the UAP. At its peak in the 1970s, the BAJ had around 100 members. Today the BAJ no longer exists.

While the UAP initially consistently separated itself from the other right-wing extremist parties, at the end of the 1960s it recognized the failure of this strategy and tried to establish contacts, in particular with national revolutionary groups. This was also the only time in which the UAP managed to expand significantly beyond North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1968, the Social-Liberal German Party (SLP) split off in Baden-Württemberg under Martin Pape , which renamed itself the Freedom German Workers' Party (FAP) in 1978 and was banned in 1995.

From February 1, 1962, the UAP published the Ruhr-Arbeiter-Zeitung (RAZ), after 1966 as the Reichs-Arbeiter-Zeitung . The magazine barricade , which also appeared as part of the RAZ, acted as the organ of the BAJ . After an obituary in the barricade for the publicist and former SS man Arthur Ehrhardt on his death in 1971, there was a storm of protest within the readership and a break with the editors of the barricade .

In the 1970s she tried to split off the left wing of the NPD and persuade its members to convert, but this largely failed. In 1973 cooperation with the FSU and the EFP was sought, but this did not go beyond occasional meetings of the party leaderships. In 1975 the UAP, together with the German National Assembly , the EFP, the Bavarian State Party , the Solidarist People's Movement and other small organizations, founded the “Working Group on Democratic Reorganization (AGDN)”, which campaigned for environmental protection and against nuclear power from a left-nationalist perspective. A large number of its members later participated in the founding of the Greens and later mostly migrated to the ödp . In 1978 the AGDN dissolved again.

From the beginning of the 80s at the latest, the UAP was only a very small group, which was only represented by a very small and constant group of people. The maintenance of tradition came increasingly to the fore within the party. For this purpose, there was a UAP Traditionsgemeinschaft (UTG), formerly "Interest group: medals - decorations - hiking award", which had the task of giving members or anniversaries (from 10 years of membership membership) earned recognition in the form of certificates and small gifts allow. There was also the UAP Benefit Fund (USK) for the social integration of the remaining members, which was fed from a 10% share of the membership fees and which could be used from ten years of membership. In addition, in the event of the death of a member, a death benefit from the USK was paid to the surviving dependents who carried out the funeral.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , individual UAP members carried out leaflet distribution campaigns at a Monday demonstration in Leipzig. At the beginning of the 1990s, discussions followed on the merger of parties and electoral agreements with the small parties Die Deutschen (DD) / Die Bürger and the Freedom Socialist German People's Party (FSDVP) founded in 1988 . The then UAP chairman Erhard Kliese was temporarily also federal chairman of Die Deutschen, founded in 1986, and a member of the Cologne REP spin-off Die Bürger , which merged in 1991 to Die Deutschen / Die Bürger .

In 1997 the UAP took part in a working meeting on the alliance efforts of right-wing groups at the invitation of the Ab Jetzt ... Bündnis für Deutschland ( Germany ) party, which was founded that year . The plan was to create an electoral party including all national parties for the upcoming federal election in 1998. Among the participants were representatives of the UAP, representatives of the German Social Union (DSU), the German People's Union (DVU), the Berlin Cultural Community of Prussia and the federal government for Germany as a whole as well as the former UAP member Martin Pape for "From now ... Alliance for Germany". In the course of the meeting, however, different views on cooperation with other right-wing groups and on the programmatic orientation of the alliance quickly became clear. For Martin Pape, for example, a planned collaboration with the Bund Freier Bürger (BFB) or other national liberal circles around Heiner Kappel was inconceivable. In the new party, which should have had a social profile, from his point of view there should be no place for "wealthy" forces. In 2001 there was a renewed meeting between "From now ... Alliance for Germany" and UAP. However, this meeting also remained without any significant result.

The UAP fought repeatedly for its party status and most recently appeared as a registered association (eV). Due to the ongoing decline in membership, the self-dissolution took place on November 1, 2014.

Election results

The UAP has taken part in federal elections several times, with its best result in the 1969 federal election with 5,309 votes and 0.0 percent. Since it was founded, the party has regularly participated in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, but always received less than 0.1 percent of the vote. Most recently, she ran in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2010 with only one direct candidate and achieved 108 votes (0.0 percent).

Party leaders

Head of the Central Office

  • 1962: Wolfgang Hülsmann
  • 1962–1963: Horst Bosbach
  • 1963–1968: Erhard Kliese
  • 1968–1969: Erich Kaufmann
  • 1969–1995: Erhard Kliese
  • 1995–2014: Ulrich Villmow

people

See also

literature

  • Richard Stöss , The Independent Workers' Party , in: Richard Stöss (editor), Party Manual , Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen, 1983, pp. 2337-2360.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data handbook on the history of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999, Vol. I, p. 133.
  2. ↑ a b http://www.apabiz.de/archiv/material/Profile/BAJ.htm
  3. ↑ a b c http://www.diss-duisburg.de/Arbeitsbereich/Archiv/archiv_liste.htm
  4. ↑ http://protest-muenchen.sub-bavaria.de/artikel/567
  5. ↑ a b c http://www.partslexikon.de/UAP.php
  6. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20040803002827/http://www.uap-online.de/geschichte.html
  7. ↑ http://www.partmentslexikon.de/UAP_RAZ2001-12.jpg
  8. ↑ https://www.apabiz.de/archiv/material/Profile/UAP.htm
  9. ↑ https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/dam/jcr/a9f8dd9d-8cde-48ad-9915-4cdf030636b5/ausgewaehlte_daten_politischer_vereinigungen.pdf
  10. ↑ https://www.antifainfoblatt.de/artikel/die-b%C3%BCrger-ein-rechtes-sammelbecken
  11. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050817163338/https://www.infoladen.de/sljena/future/F10.htm
  12. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20110716183108/http://www.uap-online.de/info.html