Socialist Reich Party Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands | |
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| Abbreviation | SRP |
| Leader | |
| Founded | 2 October 1949 |
| Banned | 23 October 1952[2] |
| Split from | Deutsche Rechtspartei |
| Merged into | Deutsche Reichspartei[3] |
| Youth wing | Reichsjugend |
| Paramilitary wing | Reichsfront |
| Membership | 10,300 (1951) |
| Ideology | Neo-Nazism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Red Black |
| Party flag | |
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The Socialist Reich Party (German: Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands) was a West German political party founded in the aftermath of World War II in 1949 as an openly neo-Nazi-oriented splinter from the national conservative German Right Party (DKP-DRP). The SRP achieved some electoral success in northwestern Germany (Lower Saxony and Bremen), before becoming the first political party to be banned by the Federal Constitutional Court in 1952. They were allied with the French organization led by René Binet known as the New European Order.[5] They were funded by the Soviet Union via the KGB.
- ^ Rees, Phillip (1980). Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 215. ISBN 0-13-089301-3.
- ^ "Entscheidung der amtlichen Sammlung (BVerfG) E 2, 1" (in German).
Die Bundesregierung hat beim Bundesverfassungsgericht am 19. November 1951 den im Beschluß vom 4. Mai 1951 angekündigten Antrag gestellt. Sie behauptet, die innere Ordnung der SRP entspreche nicht demokratischen Grundsätzen, beruhe vielmehr auf dem Führerprinzip. Die SRP sei eine Nachfolgeorganisation der NSDAP; sie verfolge die gleichen oder doch ähnliche Ziele und gehe darauf aus, die freiheitliche demokratische Grundordnung zu beseitigen
[On November 19, 1951, the federal government submitted the application announced in the decision of May 4, 1951, to the Federal Constitutional Court. It claims that the internal order of the SRP does not correspond to democratic principles but rather is based on the leader principle. The SRP is a successor organization to the NSDAP; they are pursuing the same or at least similar goals and aim to eliminate the free democratic basic order.] - ^ "Mitteilungen" [Report] (in German). Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Archived from the original on 16 May 2008. Retrieved 16 September 2009.
- ^ Lee 1998, p. 50.
- ^ Coogan 1999, p. 400.