People's Socialist Movement in Germany / Labor Party

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The People's Socialist Movement in Germany / Labor Party (VSBD / PdA, also for short People's Socialist Movement in Germany, VSBD ) was a right-wing extremist organization active in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s and early 1980s . It was not a party within the meaning of the Political Parties Act . The Young Front was their youth organization. She was best known for an exchange of fire with the police in 1981, in which two people were killed.

organization

Political positions

The VSBD / PdA took a political position to the right of the National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) and the German People's Union (DVU) and viewed their concept as a further development of National Socialism . She also stood up for the promotion of military sports .

symbolism

The organization symbol was the eagle with a stylized Celtic cross . The Junge Front as a youth organization, on the other hand, used the Wolfsangel as a mark.

Action area

VSBD regional groups were active in West Berlin , Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Hesse , North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony .

history

prehistory

The forerunner was the German Social Action (DSA). The majority of DSA members and activists joined the PdA in 1971. The DSA was founded in October 1970 by the two deputy state chairmen of the NPD in North Rhine-Westphalia Dierck Schwartländer and Uwe Klaas as well as Friedhelm Busse . The DSA was part of the hard core of the resistance campaign , which was noticed in 1970 and 1971 through riots on the streets and disruptions in assembly halls in North Rhine-Westphalia. Friedhelm Busse was expelled from the NPD in May 1971 due to his involvement in DSA crimes.

founding

As a result of his exclusion from the NPD, Friedhelm Busse and 40 other right-wing extremists founded the association on June 17, 1971 in Krefeld under the name of the Labor Party / German Socialists (PdA / DS). It was not until 1975 that it gave itself its final name; their youth organization founded in January 1980 was called Junge Front.

Alliances

In January 1972 the then PdA / DS joined Siegfried Pöhlmann's newly founded “ Aktion Neuerechte ” , but left again in the summer of 1973. The later VSBD / PdA was supported from 1975 to the early 1980s by the NSDAP organizational structure led by Gary Lauck . Personal connections to the military sports group Hoffmann and to the Wiking youth existed through the founding member Peter Weinmann .

voter turnout

The VSBD / PdA participated in the mayor and local elections in Munich in 1978 with several candidates for the city ​​council . The candidate for the mayoral election was the judicial clerk Alfred Nusser, born in 1954. He was able to unite 89 votes.

Shootings resulting in death

Koblenz-Böttstein (Switzerland)

On December 24, 1980, Frankfurt VSBD member Frank Schubert (23) shot dead two people at the Swiss border in Koblenz AG and Böttstein , injured two officers and ultimately killed himself. After reporting a suspicious observation, two canton police officers checked the access road in the afternoon from the Rhine towards Koblenz-Dorf. Before the police officers could speak to Frank Schubert, he shot Josef Arnold (38), whose body was only discovered in the late afternoon, at Josef Weibel and shot Walter Wehrli (31) while he was still in the car. He then fled with the police officer's vehicle. After a major find, Schubert was placed in Böttstein. Another police officer was shot in an exchange of fire. Schubert fled on. After his hiding place was stormed, the officers found Frank Schubert, who had committed suicide, dead. Schubert was probably caught by the border official while smuggling arms into Germany .

Munich-Waldperlach

As part of a planned attack on the Nassauische Sparkasse in Rennerod , there was a shooting between members of the VSBD and the police on the evening of October 20, 1981 in Munich- Waldperlach . Two of the five neo-Nazis who had left Busses Neubiberger apartment, Nikolaus Uhl and Kurt Wolfgram, were shot and Peter Fabel was seriously injured. The latter as well as Pascal Coletta and Peter Hamberger were arrested . In 1983, Busse was sentenced by the Munich Higher Regional Court to a prison sentence of three years and nine months for aiding bank robbers and violating the Arms Act.

Prohibition

On January 14, 1982, the VSBD and its youth organization Junge Front were banned as anti-constitutional organizations by Federal Interior Minister Gerhart Baum . Several ex-members of the VSBD / PdA joined the right-wing extremist groups Freedom German Workers' Party and Action Front of National Socialists / National Activists after the ban .

literature

  • Terror from the right . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1981 ( online ).
  • PDI (Ed.) (1981): The People's Socialist Movement in Germany - collecting basin for militant right-wing radicals. Munich (PDI special issue, 17)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Administrative Court, judgment of May 13, 1986, Az .: BVerwG 1 A 12.82
  2. ↑ a b c d e Ulrich Chaussy : “Spearhead of the New Movement” and A Nazi Operetta gets serious . Both articles in: Wolfgang Benz , right-wing extremism in the Federal Republic . Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1984, ISBN 3-596-24259-2 , pp. 115 to 154
  3. ^ A b c d Profile: People's Socialist Movement in Germany / Labor Party (VSBD / PdA) , Antifascist Education Center and Press Archive eV, Berlin
  4. ↑ Groupings on the index ( Memento from June 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), Central Office of Police Crime Prevention of the Federal States and the Federal Republic, undated
  5. ^ Horst W. Schmollinger, Richard Stöss, The parties and the press of the parties and trade unions in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945-1974 , Westdeutscher Verlag 1975, p. 187
  6. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 1969/70, p. 10
  7. ^ Klaus Antes, Harald Jung, Das Rechtskartell , Hanser Verlag 1971, p. 127
  8. ↑ Verfassungsschutz Report 1971, p. 28
  9. ^ Wolfgang Benz, Organized Right-Wing Extremism in the Federal Republic of Germany. An overview 1945-1984 , In: Zeitschrift Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Studium GWU 38 (1987), p. 102
  10. ↑ Living time bomb . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1981 ( online ).
  11. ^ Klaus Kinner, Rolf Richter: Right-wing extremism and anti-fascism . Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-320-02015-3 , pp. 124–142 ( online [PDF; accessed March 16, 2020]).