Deutsche Heidnische Front

The German Pagan Front ( DHF) is a right-wing, neo-pagan group that was founded in 1998 as the German section of the Allgermanischen Pagan Front. Initiator was the self-confessed neo-Nazi and former drummer for the NSBM band Absurd, Hendrik Mobus. The German Pagan Front claims to be since 2005 no longer active.

Self-definition and ideology

According to the company, the DHF understood as " Indo-European, pagan grouping ". Its stated goal was a purported reconstructed " Germanic faith " to live. The German Pagan Front saw himself as an alternative to groups with Pagan orientation who do not represent a nationalist element in their world view.

The members believed that their actions should be secured by Norse mythology and appropriate view of the world and that they lived true spirituality. So she stood in the tradition of worship supposedly Germanic myths and traditions that has been operated by the Nazi Party and the Nationalist movement or the Thule Society. At the same time claimed the DHF to occupy thematic terrain that already from the Artgemeinschaft eV - would essentially propagated according to faith covenant existence design.

The ideology of DHF was first very obvious nationalistic, ethnic - racist and anti-Semitic particularly marked. One of the main objectives of the " livelihood security for all Germanic peoples " was called. The guiding principle formed the " Fourteen Words" of the American right-wing extremists David Eden Lane.

Until 2000 the DHF consisted mainly of Thuringia activists.

Image change

With a change in leadership in 2001 was the attempt of an image change associated. Now the DHF 's aim was to achieve greater acceptance. Accordingly, although they stepped outside to moderate, however, propagated further ariosophische and nationalist views. These were " especially in an overestimation of the Nordic ( Aryan ) race for expression". Nevertheless, she did not want to act politically or support musical youth subcultures influenced by his own admission. It was also allegedly not their intention to call for hatred against foreign belief systems, cultures or peoples.

Political position

The DHF was according to its own description in free outlines, the clans. In these districts members, supporters and friends of the DHF celebrated together "old festivals of traditional locations to maintain Germanic mythology and pagan traditions ", particularly the solar festivals such as Summer Solstice celebrations. The summer solstice on June 22, 2002 to the ruins of Rothenburg, which was formerly used by the SS, was mentioned in this Annual Report of Thuringia. The DHF was editor of the magazine Tuisto, which appeared irregularly and understood itself as a magazine for culture, history and neo-paganism.