Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungsstelle Ingolstadt

The Contemporary History Research Centre Ingolstadt eV (abbreviated referred ZFI, also known as the Institute for Contemporary Historical Research Ingolstadt ) is a revisionist club in Ingolstadt. It was founded in 1981 largely by Alfred Schickel, Hellmut Diwald and Alfred Seidl as competition to the renowned Institute for Contemporary History in Munich. The ZFI has about 500 to 600 members, organized twice a year, larger meetings and are the Contemporary History Library and the ZFI information out.

Political orientation

After Bernd Wagner ( 1994) the ZFI applicable in Germany as a " spiritual center of right-wing circles for historical research." At conferences and events a systematic trivialization of Nazism and the denial of war guilt will operate. Here is a close cooperation with magazines such as Junge Freiheit, Europe Front, Nation and Europe, and Germany in the past and present, have similar objectives. The head of the ZFI, Schickel, for example, wrote in 1980 that the figure of six million murdered Jews " no longer in the contemporary historical science seriously defended " will. The deceased until Schickel founder ZFI collaborated with right-wing and historical revisionist organizations.

After the ZFI had been observed earlier by the Bavarian Constitutional protection, the Bavarian state government is now no evidence of right-wing extremist aspirations more. But they added: " On the other hand relevant right-wing extremist publications advocate relying on the person of the Head of ZFI and his articles occasionally also not a level compatible with the free democratic basic order of thought. "

The SPD and others criticized that Alfred Lehmann ( CSU), Mayor of Ingolstadt, has repeatedly participated in ZFI meetings and that Horst Seehofer sent (CSU ), former Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, the current Prime Minister of Bavaria, laudatory greetings.

Dr. Walter Eckhardt honorary award for contemporary research

The ZFI also awards the Dr. Walter Eckhardt honorary award for contemporary research. Previous winners have included:

  • Alfred Schickel (1986 )
  • Joachim Hoffmann ( 1991)
  • Walter Mail ( 1993)
  • Franz W. Seidler (1998)
  • Alfred de Zayas (2001)

Publications

  • Literature by and about Contemporary History Research Centre Ingolstadt in the catalog that German national library
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