Educational Institute for Homeland and National Identity
The Educational Institute for Homeland and National Identity ("Bildungswerk für Heimt und nationale Identität") is a registered association with its headquarters in Dresden, which functions as a party-affiliated foundation of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). [1]
Description
[edit]As a party-affiliated foundation in the legal form of a registered association, it is not subject to any state supervision or accounting obligations. The association was founded on April 18, 2005, without attracting much public attention or drawing attention to itself through actions. The aim is to popularize the "approaches of the Dresden School in public discourse." [1]
At the end of 2009, the educational institute of the Saxon state association of the Young National Democrats took over the publishing of the right-wing political theory magazine here & now ("hier & jetzt"). The new editor-in-chief is the former NPD state parliament member Arne Schimmer.
With the NPD's return to the Saxon state parliament in 2009, the foundation fulfilled an important criterion for state funding. Whilst the annual amount depends on the size of the parliamentary group, the minimum budget is around 100,000 euros. Since 2015, no activities of the association have been detected. The website has also been unavailable since then.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Verfassungsschutzbericht 2005" (PDF) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
- ^ "Verfassungsschutzbericht 2015" (PDF) (in German). Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Sachsen. Retrieved 25 November 2024.