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Pankower Pankower Register 2015 Register 1 2015 and incidents propaganda attacks, motivated or right-wing homo-/transphobia anti-semitic, racist, of registration 2 The Pankow Register is a project of [moskito] – Specialist and Network project against right-wing extremism, for democracy and diversity of the Pfefferwerk Stadtkultur gGmbh. The project is funded by the Bezirksamt Pankow Berlin, by the state program „Democracy. Diversity. Respect. Against right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism“ of the Berlin Senate Bureau of Work, Integration and Women and is also supported by the following donors. We would like to cordially thank our donors for the funding. The Pankow Register is part of the Berliner Register (www.berliner-register.de ). Herausgeberin: Pfefferwerk Stadtkultur gGmbH [moskito] – Netzwerkstelle gegen Rechtsextremismus, für Demokratie und Vielfalt im Nachbarschaftshaus am Teutoburger Platz Fehrbelliner Str. 92 | 10119 Berlin Tel 030 443 7179 | Fax 030 443 83 100 [email protected] www.pankower-register.de | www.berliner-register.de/chronik/pankow Spendenkonto: Pfefferwerk Stadtkultur gGmbH | Verwendungszweck: Pankower Register Bank für Sozialwirtschaft Berlin AG IBAN: DE33100205000003066800 | BIC: 10020500/BFSWDE33BER Berlin, März 2016 Pankower Register 2015 3 Table of Content 1) What THE PANkoW Register IS ABouT 4 2) ClassificatioN oF INCIDENTS 6 According to what categories are incidents recorded? 6 What content can a report have to be included in the Register? 6 3) CoNCluSIoN 8 3.1) New developments and continuities in Pankow 8 3.2) A look at the whole District 10 Incident scenes 11 Incident categories 12 Motives 13 Months 14 3.3) A look at individual neighborhoods 14 3) PANkoWER CHRoNIk 2015 16 4) GloSSARy 44 4.1) Glossary of right-wing to (neo-)nazist groups and persons 44 4.2) Glossary of right-wing to (neo-)nazist codes, symbols and terms 47 5) CENTRAl TERMS IN THE CoNTExT oF THIS WoRk 49 4 1. What the Pankow Register is about The Pankow Register was developed in April 2005 as part of the implementation of the local Action plan Pankow (lAP). Since then, it is run by the [moskito] – Specialist and Network project against right-wing extremism, for democracy and diversity. By now funding is provided by the District office Pankow and the state program „Democracy. Diversity. Respect. Against right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism“. The aim of the project is to register discrim- Cooperation with other Register pro- ination and right-wing activities in daily life jects in Berlin beyond criminal liability to provide an ac- Apart from the work in the district, the net- curate picture of the District of Pankow and working with other Register projects in Berlin to counter (the development of) no-go areas is an important feature of the work of the early on. In the long run, the aim is to work on Pankow Register. In Berlin, Register projects a broad societal basis to counter exclusions, exist in almost all districts. In the city-wide stigmatization, discrimination and right-wing network common standards were agreed orientations. upon to be able to actually compare the par- ticular analyses for the districts. In addition, The deciding criteria for the registration of an we want to establish a joint public relations incident is an evident motive that expresses work, i.a., through a joint internet presenta- different forms of so-called group-related hos- tion (www.berliner-register.de) and as well to tility towards humans (like racism, anti-Sem- exchange current analyses. itism, homophobia, transphobia, hostility to- If you observe an incident, but work in a dif- wards the handicapped and homeless) and/ ferent district you can report it to the Pankow or generally a right-wing populist, right-wing Register. We will forward your report to the extremist to neonzist orientation. In this con- corresponding Register. nection, foundational for judging an incident is the experience of the affected person. Pankower Register 2015 5 Be involved! For the Pankow Register, the involvement of as many citizens of Pankow as possible is of great importance. only what you report to us, the Specialist and Network project [moskito] and the contact points, the police or civil society and antifascist groups, can be included into the Pankow Register. only like these incidents and societal conditions will become known to a greater public. The whole year the Pankow Register is look- ing for democratic initiatives, institutions and projects of civil society that want to be involved in the network of the Register. As a public or internal contact point, you can become part of the Pankow Register. you can invite us for events and workshops related to the topic (for instance argumen- tation trainings) or distribute post cards, leafl ets and stickers of thePankow Register in your spaces. If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us. Also, if you want to get active against exclusion, right-wing threats and discrimination we are happy to support you. [moskito] – Specialist and Network project against right-wing extremism, for democra- cy and diversity 6 2. Classification of incidents In the following, the work procedures of the Pankow Register are explained. The text is based on standard procedures developed by the network of Berlin Register projects. According to what categories are If the incident involves stickers, posters, ban- incidents recorded? ners or leaflets, it is classified as propaganda. All in all there are seven categories into This includes clothing, tattoos and the show- which all incidents are classified into. The ing of the „Hitler salute“. first represents all forms that are directed against persons and that – in the worst case If the event involves demonstrations, con- – threaten the integrity of the body of one certs or info stalls, it is called and classified or several persons, which is why this catego- an event. ry is called attack. This includes all forms of A special form of event and thereby its own assault but also spitting, pushing, jostling or category are oral contributions and written bottle-throwing. A less severe form of attack motions of right-wing extremist and right- is the category „threat/insult/mobbing“. wing populist in the local district assemblies It can be directed against people present, but (Bezirksverordnetenversammlung, BVV). They also against non-present persons or groups appear in the category BVV. Furthermore, and at first moment does not threaten the there are reports that are classified as inter- direct integrity of the person. A statement net. Those reports contain content posted made in public transport that included that on homepages or Facebook pages and that „we will beat them all up “ directed at people are related to Pankow. All further forms and not of german ancestry for instance is inclu- sorts of reports that cannot be classified in ded, but as well the photographing of people the aforementioned categories are classified involved in anti-nazi activity. as other. After a Register report is classified into a category, the content of the incident is If incidents are directed against property or further evaluated. „things“ and when they are criminally liable, they are classified as property damage. This What content can a report have to includes racist spray-paintings, but also the be included in the Register? damaging of commemoration plates, smea- A rough content classification is done ac- red stumbling stones – for instance, when the cording to two topic complexes. The first inscription is made unreadable by black paint complex names all motives that are related – or destroyed windows. to right-wing extremism/right-wing populism Pankower Register 2015 7 and that is a right-wing self-portrayal, that Heitmeyer and others and denominates stickers, slogans, posters etc. from right- several forms of disintegration, including wing parties, organizations or groups con- the one that exclude people from partici- tain. For a better analysis these depictions pation in society or aim to do so. are divided between right-wing extremist This includes forms of racism, for instance and right-wing populist. Also included in anti-Muslism or anti-Ziganist racism. Also the first complex is the motive of trivia- included is anti-Semitism, hostily towards lization/glorification of National Socialism, disabled persons and social chauvinism which includes all symbols oder state- for instance in the form of discrimina- ments that express a positive relation to tion against homeless people. But also National Socialism and/or are represent LGBTIQ*hostility, which means hostility revisionist statement. because of sexual orientation or gender identity, is included here as a motive. Re- Among others this can be the honoring of ports that cannot be classified to the afore- NS-politicians, the denial of the holocaust, mentioned motives are classified as other. the demand to give back areas in todays Poland. A third motive in this first topic complex are all direct and indirect state- ments or actions with that aim at political opponents. This can be the destruction of the windows of an electoral district office or the photographing of anti-Nazi acti- vists, or a sticker that address political op- ponents directly. All incidents that are connected to group- related hostility of humans are grouped into the second topic complex of motives. The concept of group-related hostility of humans was developed by Prof. Wilhelm 8 3. Conclusion All in all, the [moskito] specialist and net- regional federation and district federations work project against right-wing extremism, to increasingly conduct info stalls together for democracy and diversity registered 241 in different neighborhoods. Already in the incidents for the year of 2015 that were end of 2014, the NPD announced the start motivated by group-related hostility to hu- of their election campaign for the Berlin mu- mans (Racism, anti-Semitism, Homo-/Tran- nicipal elections of 2016.