Valley MC
The Valley MC was a motorcycle club in Munich , which was founded by the so-called "Valley rockers", also called "Valleys" or "Valleyer", in the 1970s and especially in the early 1970s in view of the increase in juvenile delinquency in Connection with the emergence of rocker bands in Germany received supraregional attention.
history
In the late 1960s, the “Valley Rockers” were initially a youth group who were enthusiastic about motorcycles and who lived in the Sendlinger Jugendfreizeitstätte Valley (today: Spiel- und Bildungszentrum Sendling ) des Falken e. V. originated and therefore got its name. The "Valley" was named after the neighboring Valleystraße , which in turn was named after the Upper Bavarian municipality of Valley . The clique had been given a moped workshop in the former wooden huts of the youth center, but after a few years they were banned from the house for life because of “ unsocial behavior”. One of the then "exiled" members later worked in youth work himself. The teenagers and young adolescents founded the Valley MC motorcycle club in the 1970s . The Valley’s tavern, also located on Valleystrasse , has become a regular pub .
Like the non-motorized, newly created Black Spiders, founder Mike H. (hairdresser) Nuri N. (car mechanic) Gianni A. (waiter) from the Munich Bahnhofsviertel and the long-established rocker gang Bunch Munich President Pit in Untergiesing - Auer Freizeitheim , the then half-strength "Valley rockers" fell into the focus of police investigations mainly in the 1970s for violent crimes through to the use of stabbing weapons and bicycle chains . The hallmark of the Valleyers was a small colored vulture tattooed on the left breast. There were no rituals or tests of courage to be accepted.
As a result of the "Working Group to Combat Gangs and Bubble Formation" established by Kripo and Justice in 1972/1973 in Munich, the action against the rocker gangs created there was tightened by the establishment of special section 67 of the Munich police , mass arrests and rapid proceedings in the area the judiciary. In addition, civil patrols were increasingly used. This coincided with a time when the so-called Bloody Devils Hells Angels Germany were founded in Hamburg in March 1973 . In May 1973 alone, the "Valleys" lost 35 members as a result of the measures introduced. For typical criminal offenses such as the predatory extortion of the surrender of leather jackets "for two Markl" ( bair. For: "for two D-Mark ") severe penalties were imposed. The then head public prosecutor of the working group Horst Hörauf, who later fell into the eye of the judiciary himself, was considered to be the strongest accuser of the Bavarian judiciary and “Munich's No. 1 cleaner” within the framework of the measures against rockers and pimps . In 1972/1973 he initiated around 1,400 proceedings against rockers alone.
Special attention aroused the raid of seven band members on a young Italian immigrant worker in a dance hall, where the 20-year-old Ulrich K. with a switchblade , while its stabbed the Italians from behind in the back spinal cord so hurt that this is a paraplegic wore them . All seven members were sentenced to imprisonment in 1973 by the juvenile criminal chamber of the Munich Regional Court . Well-known defense attorney for the rockers was the later university professor Peter Mrozynski .
In 1975, the then works director of the Münchner Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund (MVV), Peter Engelbrecht, tightened the control measures through the use of private law enforcement officers in the subway stations due to the increasing number of violent crimes (later by the Black Sheriffs and in the 1980s by the U -Bahn guard relieved).
The website of the Südkurve '73 fan club shows that the “Valleys” also partly determined whether FC Bayern Munich fans were allowed to visit the Munich Spring Festival on Theresienwiese . The gang members were more likely to be assigned to the TSV 1860 Munich fan camp .
Of the originally around 80 members of the motorcycle club, there are still a few alumni who still make a name for themselves in motorcycle club circles. The motorcycle club no longer exists as a registered association .
Individual evidence
- ^ Road Eagle MC Munich . In: Bikers News , accessed August 2015.
- ^ Christa Eder: Streets in Munich - Valleystraße . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 17, 2010.
- ↑ Ingrid Zorn: 50 years of "Valley" ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Kreisjugendring Munich-Stadt , July 6, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d Rocker - Heavily contained . In: Der Spiegel . Issue 42/1973, October 15, 1973.
- ↑ Ernst Klee : Only strong out of weakness . In: The time . No. 07, February 7, 1975.
- ↑ Police - catch guys . In: Der Spiegel . Issue 1/1975, January 6, 1975.
- ↑ Wolf-Peter Schaefer: Munich public prosecutor in the dock - he swept the dirt with an iron broom . In: Hamburger Abendblatt . 3rd January 1976.
- ↑ Münchner Verkehrsverbund intervenes - Appalling number of attacks in underground stations - "Private police" are supposed to protect passengers . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 14, 1975.
- ↑ Hello Edi…. , Fanclub Südkurve 73.
- ↑ Löwenfans 1983 , loewenbomber.de, January 23, 2011.
