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Germany: extremist label lifted

01 May 1992

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After a five-year legal battle, the Ministry of the Interior of Niedersachsen agreed on March 23 that the Humanistische Union (HU) is no longer considered an extremist organization just because it protested against the census in 1987. Landesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz (LfV) chief Peter Frisch, now vice-president of the Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz, warned politicians in a confidential memorandum in January 1987 that critical articles in the press and the activities of groups such as the Green Party, the Young Democrats and the HU against the census constituted the most serious threat to it. In the same memo Frisch also warned that bomb attacks against the census could be expected. The HU obtained a copy from a friendly politician and subsequently launched a fierce protest against what it considered a libellous accusation. In future the HU would not be placed under LfV observation on the sole basis of holding similar views as enemies of the constitution.

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