Putzgruppe

Plaster group (also: Shine troupe ) was a group of young men in Frankfurt in the early 1970s, with helmets and batons armed street fights with police officers had.

According to Daniel Cohn- Bendit's statement of 2005, had this group of people " want to protect with helmets against state power, which sought the confrontation " did. The group was part of the militant group Revolutionary Struggle. When her head is considered the later German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. The term plaster group became known to the general public in 2000 as part of the criminal proceedings against Hans - Joachim Klein, a former campaigner, who in 1974 joined the terrorist Revolutionary Cells.

A typical application of the group was the violent defense of squats against police evictions. A photo of the April 7, 1973 shows fishermen and small, as they embark on a policeman lying on the ground. In an interview with the star Fischer says 2001 at the time: " Yes, I was militant [...] We have thrown stones. " During the attack on the Spanish Consulate General in September, 1975, in which around 200 masked demonstrators except paint bombs at the building also stones and threw Molotov cocktails at police, said to have been instrumental to fishermen the plaster group. The plaster group to have been responsible for, among other things, for the use of Molotov cocktails at a demo in May 1976, when the policeman Jürgen Weber suffered severe, 60 percent burns.

The journalist Klaus Rainer Röhl laid in 2003, Foreign Minister Fischer in an article in the New Revue because of its role in his opinion, anti-Semitic group near the resignation.