Socialist Reich Party

Socialist Reich Party
Sozialistische Reichspartei Deutschlands
AbbreviationSRP
Leader
Founded2 October 1949
Banned23 October 1952[2]
Split fromDeutsche Rechtspartei
Merged intoDeutsche Reichspartei[3]
Youth wingReichsjugend
Paramilitary wingReichsfront
Membership40,000 (early 1950's est.)[4]
IdeologyNeo-Nazism
Political positionFar-right
Colours  Red   Black
Party flag
Campaign Token SRP (Sozialistische Reichspartei), obverse
The reverse shows a donation of 1 Mark

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.[6]

  1. ^ Rees, Phillip (1980). Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 215. ISBN 0-13-089301-3.
  2. ^ "Entscheidung der amtlichen Sammlung (BVerfG) E 2, 1". "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.")
  3. ^ "Mitteilungen" [Report] (in German). Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
  4. ^ Dominik Geppert (2012). The Adenauer era. 3rd ed. WBG, Darmstadt: WBG. ISBN 978-3-534-24900-8? p. 77.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Lee, p. 50 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Coogan, Kevin (1999). Dreamer of the day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. Brooklyn, New York: Autonomedia. p. 400. ISBN 1-57027-039-2.

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