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The Wehrsportgruppe Hengst (also known as the Hengst group or Hengst gang ) was one of the first right-wing terrorist groups in the Federal Republic of Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s . The group named after the electrician Bernd Hengst comprised 18 armed members and was exposed in 1971.

history

The group, with members from Bonn and the Rhein-Sieg district , was named after its leader, NPD member Bernd Hengst. The group emerged from the disbanded steward service of the NPD. The 18 members of the armed group had taken part in numerous actions of the Action Resistance and the German Social Action by Dierck Schwartländer, such as a violent action on January 16, 1971 in front of the Soviet embassy in Rolandseck . The group was also in contact with the National Revolutionary Youth in Berlin.

The group planned armed actions against political opponents, including the SPD executive committee, but also raids on financial institutions , the Federal Railroad and ammunition depots .

The trigger for the discovery of the group was the arrest of Bernd Hengst on February 13, 1971 at a traffic control in Bad Godesberg . The police seized a submachine gun in Hengst's vehicle . During the subsequent house search , the police found an arsenal in Hengst's apartment. The discovery triggered a major operation the following day, during which nine other apartments in Bonn and the surrounding area and two in Düsseldorf were searched. A second arrest warrant was issued a few days later against Rüdiger Krauss, the former chairman of the National Democratic University Association and political science student , whose apartment was also searched.

Bernd Hengst was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1963 in the GDR for terrorist attacks . After his early release in 1966, he fled to the Federal Republic and in 1967 became a member of the NPD. On October 2, 1968, Hengst shot an automatic small- bore rifle at the DKP office in Bonn. The undercover agent of the BND , Helmut Bärwald , whom he knew personally, stallion was used in 1970 as a night watchman in the SPD executive residence and thus had access to all areas of the Social Democratic headquarters .

Among the members of the group was Werner Wolf, chairman of the NPD in the Rhein-Sieg district and employee of the defense technology department of the Federal Ministry of Defense .

literature

  • Gerhard Paul : Hitler's shadow is fading: the normalization of right-wing extremism (= Dietz-Taschenbuch; 32). Verlag Dietz, Bonn, 1989, ISBN 3-8012-3032-5 , p. 52.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Right-wing armed group exposed. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , February 15, 1971, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Nicolaus Neumann, Jochen Maes: The planned putsch: The rights in the FRG, your backers and their organization. Konkret-Buchverlag, Hamburg 1971, DNB 364428112 , p. 109.
  3. ^ Bonn / Secret Service: Funny Chose. In: Der Spiegel . No. 13/1971, March 22, 1971, p. 24 , accessed February 13, 2021 .
  4. ^ The "National Democratic Party of Germany" (NPD): 6. The NPD as a right-wing radical party: defamation of political opponents. In: Verfassungsschutzbericht 1971 , July 1972, p. 22 , accessed on February 13, 2021 .