Collegium Humanum

The Collegium Humanum was established in 1963 as a club, was first active in the German environmental movement, then from the early 1980s became a far-right political organisation and was banned in 2008 by the Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble due to "continued denial of the Holocaust".

History

The Collegium Humanum was founded in 1963 by Werner Georg Haverbeck,[1] a former Nazi, as a "folk school for the environment and protection of life" in Vlotho. The Collegium Humanum was registered as a non-profit association in Bad Oeynhausen (entry date: December 10, 1968).[2]

Funding

The Collegium Humanum was financed through seminar fees and donations.[3]

Prohibition

According to critical statements by the President of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland (Central Council of Jews in Germany), Charlotte Knobloch, she was threatened on 30 January 2008 in a letter from the chairman of the association and subsequently filed a complaint.[4]

On 7 May 2008, the Collegium Humanum, including the affiliated association "Bauernhilfe e. V.", was banned by the Federal Minister of the Interior under section 3 of the Association Act, as "against the constitutional order of the Federal Republic of Germany (judges) and (...) continued by (...) denial of the Holocaust against valid right." In connection with the banning of the organisation, house searches were carried out at several locations in Germany.[5]

References
  1. Collegium Humanum. From the Nazi Reichsleitung to the center of the Holocaust deniers. p. 9 ff.
  2. EntryBad Oeynhausen VR 403 ii Gemeinsames Registerportal der Länder
  3. German Bundestag, printed matter 16/4919, 16th election period, reply by the Federal Government to the small question of the deputies Ulla Jelpke, Jan Korte, Kersten Naumann and the faction Die Linke. - Printing document 16/4687 of 30 March 2007, p. 4.
  4. Right-wing extremist threat On focus.de from 3 March 2008.
  5. "Schäuble verbietet rechtsextreme Organisationen". Welt Online. 7 May 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
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