Left-Extremist Endeavours

Publications: "Der Aktivist",
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An integral part of the NPD As the only right-extremist party, the "National-Democratic Party
of Germany" (NPD) has a youth organization with a significant
membership potential. The "Junge Nationaldemokraten" (JN -
"Young National-Democrats") are considered an integral part of
the NPD. The JN National Chairman is an ex officio member of
the NDP Executive Commission. In Mitterskirchen/Rottal-Inn
Landkreis (Bavaria) on 13 March, the JN celebrated their 30 th
anniversary with a jubilee congress under the motto "30 Years of
Young National-Democrats - 30 Years of Fight - Action - Resistance".
In their ideological policy document, i.e. the so-called "Thesenpapiere"
("Tenet Papers") 66) which were revised in 1998, the JN
lay down their commitment to a "New National Community" in
which the contradictions and shortcomings of the existing political
and economic system would be overcome. Within this fully
developed national community, élites would be an indispensable
element ("rule of the best, which puts an end to the rule of the
inferior"). The JN sees itself as the "revolutionary spearhead of
the NPD" with the mission to break "old and, in part, obsolete
patterns of thought" and to give life and dynamic impetus to the
Party 67) .
Change in leadership At the JN National Congress on 10 April in Klingenberg
(Bavaria), a succession of generations took place. The majority
of long-time JN functionaries such as Holger APFEL who had
been the National Chairman for many years, his deputy Jürgen
DISTLER and several members of the Executive Committee,
including the neo-Nazis Steffen HUPKA and Jens PÜHSE withdrew
from the JN bodies in order to continue their political work, in
organizational terms, exclusively within the NPD. APFEL was
succeeded by the neo-Nazi Sascha ROßMÜLLER patronized by the
NPD leadership. He was the winner of a divisive voting between
himself and Achim EZER. EZER - who, like ROßMÜLLER,
unrestrictedly supports co-operation with the neo-Nazi camp - did
not succeed in obtaining acceptance of his dogmatic course
which favoured the cadre principle and aimed for greater
autonomy vis-à-vis the NPD. On 5 June, in response to his
electoral defeat, EZER - together with JN members from North
Rhine/Westphalia, Baden-Wurttemberg and Saxony - founded
the "Bildungswerk Deutscher Volksgemeinschaft" (BDVG -
"Educational Association of the German National Community"). It
has a membership of about 50, who did not deploy any
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