Gremium Motorcycle Club
Logo of the Board MC Neunkirchen ( Saar)
- Italy
- Poland
- Canary Islands
- Slovenia
- Bosnia - Herzegovina
- Austria
- Spain
- Venezuela
- Thailand
- Serbia
- Turkey
- Macedonia
The committee MC ( MC for Motorcycle Club ) is the largest German 1% er Motorcycle Club. With over 100 chapters ( branches) in Germany, Italy, Poland, the Canary Islands, Slovenia, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Austria, Spain, Venezuela, Thailand, Serbia and Turkey is the motorcycle club also one of the largest in Europe. The committee MC is the last major motorcycle club of German origin who has no international club, such as the Hells Angels, Bandidos or Outlaws connected.
The club colors are black and white, on the "Colour" (back badge, usually called "back patch " in English speaking countries ) is seen above the word " BODY " and the respective country names a fist, poking through the clouds. Background: "Even our Colour embodies our attitude and our power by the rising sun and the clenched fist, which stretches into the sky. " Often, the terms " Black Seven " and the number 7 are used, since the word " body " consists of seven letters and the "G" is the seventh letter in the alphabet.
History
The club was founded in 1972 in Mannheim in the first wave of German rockers clubs. Until the mid- 90s, the committee MC played an integral role in the club scene, which was then characterized more regionally general primarily in the southwest of Germany. From the late 1990s, with the occurrence of other large German clubs in the international scene, started in all major clubs in aggressive expansion policy in the whole of Germany, mainly in the medium-sized regional clubs with only one or two chapters were taken. Through strategic expansion policy of the Board MC took root especially in East Germany and beyond in East, South, Southwest and South-Eastern Europe. There are now first Chapter overseas (Caracas, Venezuela, and Pattaya, Thailand). Supporters club of Bad Seven MC is a so-called supporters.
Activities of the association
The club is funded by membership dues except among other things, parties, club open evenings (Open House), scene typical of major events and the sale of articles with typical club insignia to supporters, the so-called "Supporter ". In addition, the committee distributes a beverage line "Lucky 7" and the club magazine " Body World", which are publicly available in the selected beverage and newsagents. An Open House will be held by each chapter on fixed dates, usually once a month, in their clubhouse. They are accessible to everyone and serve to meet the body MC, its philosophy and its members. In the field of motor sports, the club has been for several years with its own so-called " Top Fuel " Drag Racing Motorcycle in international active. This could Europe championship wins and individual world records are recorded.
Criminal activities of association members
The club as a whole was banned on 10 November 1988 as a criminal organization by the Interior Ministry of Baden- Württemberg.
At the time of the confrontation with the Mannheim justice, the laws of this club was closely based on the Mannheim fraternity Corps Hermunduria in which the then president and club founder Michael " Mike" Heyer was a member as a law student. Without this connection to know, the prosecution established the charge of criminal conspiracy among others, the wording of the statute. In the following case, the District Court of Mannheim referred to by the prosecution crimes but ordered to express individual members. After the club internal witness of the prosecution turned out to be unreliable in court, she dropped the accused of forming a criminal organization fall.
On January 16, 1992, the club ban by the Administrative Court of Baden -Württemberg has been lifted. Despite appropriate investigation by the authorities since it came only to convictions of individual members, but not to a renewed charges against the club as such.
The committee MC is regularly listed among other great MCs, for example, in the Protection of the Constitution reports of Bavaria. In these reports, the committee MC with the other aforementioned motorcycle club with human trafficking, illegal prostitution, drug and / or weapons trafficking and organized crime (OC ) is associated. According to Federal, there were in 2010 three OK - discovery process with respect to the MC committee. On July 3, 2013 were prohibited by Federal Interior Minister Hans- Peter Friedrich, the " Regional Association Board Motororcycle Club (MC ) Saxony ". In Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Saxony and Saxony -Anhalt, there were several searches of flats.