Wiking-Jugend

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Odal rune on flag of the Wiking-Jugend

The "Wiking-Jugend" (WJ, "Viking youth") was a German Neo-Nazi organization modeled on the Hitlerjugend.

The Sozialistische Reichspartei (SRP) was outlawed in 1952, together with its youth organization "Reichsjugend [de]". The Neo-Nazis went underground in numerous fragmented follow-up organizations, and the former Reichsjugend, the Vaterländischer Jungenbund [de] and the Deutsche Unitarier-Jugend [de] eventually coalesced again in the form of the "Wiking-Jugend". The group was active in the pan-European nationalist New European Order, although they quit in 1955 over the issue of South Tyrol.

The organization was founded by Walter Matthaei, and thereafter took on a dynastic tendency, being headed in turn by Raoul Nahrath, then his son Wolfgang, and then his son Wolfram.[1][2]

Until 1991, Stolberg (Rhineland) was the headquarters of the WJ. From 1991 to 1994, it was in Berlin.

The Wiking-Jugend was outlawed as unconstitutional on 10 November 1994 by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior.[3]

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  1. ^ Grumke, Thomas; Wagner, Bernd (2002). Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus : Personen, Organisationen, Netzwerke : vom Neonazismus bis in die Mitte der Gesellschaft (in German). Opladen: Leske + Budrich. ISBN 3-8100-3399-5. OCLC 50921274.
  2. ^ Braun, Stephan; Geisler, Alexander; Gerster, Martin (2010-11-17). Strategien der extremen Rechten: Hintergründe - Analysen - Antworten (in German). Springer-Verlag. p. 384. ISBN 978-3-531-91708-5.
  3. ^ "Verbot des Vereins Wiking-Jugend e.V." (in German). North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior. 1994-12-02. Retrieved 25 September 2017.