Left-Extremist Endeavours

V. Political Parties
1. "Die Republikaner" (REP - "The Republicans")
Founded: 1983
Headquarters: Berlin
National chairman: Dr. Rolf SCHLIERER
Members: 14,000 *) (1998: 15,000)
Publication: "Der neue Republikaner" ("New
Republican")
circulation: 20,000
monthly
Subsidiary organizations:
"Republikanische Jugend" (RJ -
"Republican Youth)
"Republikanischer Bund der öffentlich
Bediensteten" (RepBB - "Republican
Union of Public Sector Workers")
"Republikanischer Bund der Frauen"
(RBF - "Republican Women’s Union")
"Republikanischer Hochschulverband"
(RVH - "Republican University/College
Union")
*)
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The Party itself gives higher figures (16,000)
Permanent defeat at the polls and the resultant squabbling about
the Party’s proper course characterized the REP’s situation in
1999. The Party scarcely entered the picture as the organizer of
demonstrations and public actions.
1.1 Goals
With regard to the party "Die Republikaner" (REP - "The Republicans"),
there are, as before, indications of its right-extremist endeavours
even though it must not be assumed that every single
member would pursue anti-constitutional aims. While its national
chairman, Dr. Rolf SCHLIERER, strives to establish a respectable
right-wing/conservative image of his party, influential groups and
functionaries of the REP show their unchanged rejection of the
free democratic fundamental order: overall, the nature of their
criticism of the existing state of affairs reveals a fundamental opposition
to the notion of the status and rights of the human person,
as enshrined in the Basic Law, and is reflected, in varying
degrees, in xenophobia, anti-Semitism, relativization of the
crimes committed under National-Socialism, agitation against the