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Third Way (Germany)

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The Third Path
Der Dritte Weg
ChairmanMatthias Fischer
Founded28 September 2013;10 years ago(2013-09-28)
Heidelberg,Baden-Württemberg
Split fromNPD,Free Network South
HeadquartersBad Dürkheim,Germany
MembershipIncrease700 (2022)est.[1]
IdeologyPan-Germanism
German ultranationalism
Revolutionary nationalism
Neo-Nazism[2][3]
Neo-fascism
Strasserism
Antisemitism
Third Position
Political positionFar-right[4]
ColoursGreen
AnthemDer III. Weg Marschiert![5]
Party flag
Website
der-dritte-weg.info

The III. PathorThe Third Path(German:Der III. Weg,Der Dritte Weg) is afar-rightandneo-Nazipolitical party in Germany.[6][7]

It was founded on 28 September 2013 by formerNPDofficials, and activists from the bannedFree Network South.They have ties withAssad'sgovernmentinSyria,HezbollahinLebanon,[8]theNational Corps,Misanthropic Division,Right SectorandSvobodainUkraine,[9][10]and theNordic Resistance Movementin theNordic countries.[11]Their founder and chairman until 2021 is Klaus Armstroff.[12]The party mostly operates inThuringia,BavariaandBrandenburg.[13]

Video of Third Path demonstration on 15 October 2016 inFürth

A group of people bearing Der Dritte Weg flags marched in through a town inSaxonyon 1 May 2019, the day before theJewishremembrance of theHolocaust,carrying a banner saying "Social justice instead of criminal foreigners". TheCentral Council of Jewssaid that the state government should ban such marches if it were serious about tackling right-wing extremism.[14]The party stood in the2019 European elections,achieving 0.03% of the vote.

Name

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The party is registered at theFederal Returning Officeas "DER DRITTE WEG" short-form: "III. Weg".[15]According to the party's website, the official English translation of the name is "The Third Way", stylized as "THE THIRD WAY".[16]Despite this, the party's name is commonly translated as "The Third Path" or "The III. Path".[17][18]

Structure

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In Bavaria, the six “bases” in 2014 reflected the centers of the former comradeships.[19]In 2019, the party succeeded in expanding its structures, albeit only slightly.[20]Accordingly, only three of the planned four regional associations have been founded so far. The party has not yet succeeded in establishing structures in the north of Germany.[21]At the federal party conference in September 2019, Der III. Weg decided to amend its statutes to restructure the regional associations into state associations. The party had previously taken part in the local elections in Saxony in 2019, but was denied participation in the state elections in Saxony on September 1, 2019 by the state election committee for formal reasons. With the amendments to the statutes, the party underlined its intention to continue to contest elections in the future and thus fulfil or consolidate one of the requirements necessary to maintain party status.[22]

In 2019, the estimated number of members/followers/supporters nationwide increased to around 580.[23]As of 2021, the majority of the approximately 650 full and supporting members[24]were active in the federal states of Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony,[25]and since 2019 also in NRW in the greater Cologne-Düsseldorf area.[26]

Ideology

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The party describes itself asnational revolutionaryand partially bases itself onthe ideology of the left wingof theNazi Party,namely theStrasserBrothers.[27]The III. Path has widely been described as aultranationalistandneo-Naziparty.[2][3][9][18]

Funding

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According to the constitutional protection report of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the party is mainly financed by donations and contributions in 2019.[28]

10 point program

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On its website, the party presents a 10-point election program, available in 12 European languages.[16][29]

Election results

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Federal Parliament (Bundestag)

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Election Constituency Party list Seats +/– Status
Votes % Votes %
2021 515 0.00 7,832 (#32) 0.02
0 / 631
 New Extra-parliamentary

European Parliament

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Election Votes % Seats +/–
2019 12,756 0.03 (#40)
0 / 96
 New

State elections

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Year RP
2016 0.09% (1,944)

See also

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References

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  1. ^https:// verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/publikationen/EN/reports-on-the-protection-of-the-constitution/2023-06-brief-summary-2022-report-on-the-protection-of-the-constitution.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=4
  2. ^abRödl, Jakob (4 March 2014).""Der III. Weg" –Jim eine rechtsextreme Kleinstpartei aus dem Neonazi-Spektrum ".
  3. ^abGermany, Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich."Aktuelle Nachrichten, Hintergründe und Kommentare - SZ.de".Süddeutsche.de.{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^Hill, Jenny (23 June 2019)."German politician's murder raises spectre of far-right attacks".BBC News.Retrieved15 September2021.
  5. ^BW, Verfassungsschutz (24 June 2021).""Alte Lieder der jungen Revolution" – zwei neonazistische Liederbücher von 2020 ".verfassungsschutz-bw.de(in German).Retrieved20 September2023.
  6. ^Thaler, Claudia (21 September 2021)."Rechtsextreme Partei muss Antigrünenplakate abnehmen".Die Zeit.Retrieved24 September2021.
  7. ^Maksan, Oliver (22 September 2021)."Wie Neonazis vor Gericht verlieren und politisch doch gewinnen".Neue Zürcher Zeitung.Retrieved24 September2021.Dabei spielte es dann keine Rolle mehr, dass die deutsche Neonazi-Partei in dieser Woche eine juristische Niederlage nach der anderen kassierte.
  8. ^"German neo-Nazi party builds alliance with Assad and Hezbollah".The Jerusalem Post | JPost.16 May 2017.
  9. ^ab"German neo-Nazis march with Ukrainian nationalists in UPA march".15 October 2018.
  10. ^"Kommunalwahlen 2019: NPD, rechte Tarnlisten und Einzelbewerber"[Local elections 2019: NPD, right-wing camouflage lists and individual applicants].LSA Rechtsaussen(in German). 23 May 2019.Retrieved18 July2022.
  11. ^"Geplante Rede von Julian Bender in Schweden".3 October 2017.
  12. ^"Abgeordnetenwatch.de | Revision von klaus-armstroff vom Di., 07/12/2016 - 23:00".Archived fromthe originalon 31 January 2020.Retrieved8 December2017.
  13. ^[1][dead link]
  14. ^"Germany says half of extreme right 'prone to violence'".BBC News.3 May 2019.Retrieved4 May2019.
  15. ^"VERZEICHNIS der Parteien und politischen Vereinigungen, die gemäß § 6 Absatz 3 Parteiengesetz bei der Bundeswahlleiterin Parteiunterlagen hinterlegt haben"(PDF).
  16. ^ab"Ten Point Program - THE THIRD WAY".
  17. ^"Who are Germany's far-right 'Third Path'? – DW – 10/25/2021".dw.Retrieved13 September2023.
  18. ^ab"Concern over German ultra-nationalist party".InfoMigrants.17 May 2019.Retrieved13 September2023.
  19. ^Verfassungsschutzbericht Bayern 2014 (Memento from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive) In: Bayerisches Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz, 2015 (PDF).
  20. ^Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz:. Hrsg.: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz. S. 80.
  21. ^Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Red.):Verfassungsschutzbericht 2017.Herausgegeben vom Bundesministerium des Innern, für Bau und Heimat, Stand Juli 2018, S. 78 (PDF; 4,5 MB). Abgerufen am 5. Mai 2019.
  22. ^Verfassungsschutzbericht 2019, S. 81
  23. ^Verfassungsschutzbericht des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen über das Jahr 2019,Stand Juni 2020, S. 108-110.(PDF) Ministerium des Innern des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, 9. Juni 2020, abgerufen am 9. Juni 2020.
  24. ^Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,September 28, 2002, retrieved on February 7, 2023.
  25. ^Verfassungsschutzbericht 2016.(PDF) Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, abgerufen am 6. Juli 2017.
  26. ^Verfassungsschutzbericht des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen über das Jahr 2019, Stand Juni 2020, S. 108-110.(PDF) Ministerium des Innern des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, 9. Juni 2020, abgerufen am 9. Juni 2020.
  27. ^"Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz - Rechtsextremistische Parteien".14 June 2015. Archived fromthe originalon 14 June 2015.Retrieved13 September2023.
  28. ^Constitutional Protection Report of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for 2019, as of June 2020, p. 108-110 (PDF) Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia,June 9, 2020, accessed on June 9, 2020.
  29. ^"10 Punkte Programm der Partei DER DRITTE WEG".
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