Military sports group

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As Wehrsportgruppe ( WSG ), several designated right-wing associations, the state monopoly in particular the Federal Republic of Germany or did not consider not recognized as sufficient and during military exercises " military training run."

Military sports group Hoffmann and WSG abroad

The military sports group Hoffmann , founded in 1973 by Karl-Heinz Hoffmann , was one of the most famous military sports groups in German-speaking countries. The WSG Hoffmann was banned as an anti-constitutional organization in February 1980. The military sports group abroad also belonged to the military sports group Hoffmann , which, as Hoffmann said in an interview with Spiegel in 1989, "existed in Lebanon until the summer of 1981."

Military sports group Trenck

The military sports group Trenck was active in Austria in the 1970s , the neo-Nazi Gottfried Küssel had a great influence . One of these military sports groups became known to the wider public through a video in which scenes were filmed and later broadcast publicly showing how uniformed men were taught how to kill a person with their bare hands. In January 1992 the military sports group was dug up in the premises of the Working Group for Democratic Politics, then called Freiherr-von-der-Trenck-Heim . At that time it consisted of 20 armed members.

Military sports group Rohwer

The military sports group Rohwer carried out seven attacks on NATO forces and attacked a bank and a businessman. In the Bückeburg trial , the defendants Michael Kühnen , Manfred Börm , Lothar Schulte , Lutz Wegener , Uwe Rohwer and Klaus-Dieter Puls were sentenced to several years' imprisonment in 1979.

Military sports group Stahle

At the beginning of 1979 in Stahle near Holzminden the long active military sports group Stahle was disbanded.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Wehrsportgruppe  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. “Thank God no test of disposition” . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1989, pp. 39–41, here p. 39 ( online ).
  2. Wolfgang Purtscheller : Aufbruch der Völkischen. The brown network . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-85452-239-8 , p. 90
  3. Nikolaus Brender: North Rhine-Westphalia: Little Adolf and his boys . Die Zeit , February 16, 1979, accessed on January 14, 2017.