Free German Workers' Party
- Free German Workers' Party
The Free German Workers' Party (German: "Freiheitliche Deutsche ArbeiterPartei", FAP) was a neo-nazi political association in Germany. It was outlawed by the Constitutional Court in 1995.
The FAP was founded in 1979 but was largely insignificant until the banning of the Action Front of National Socialists/National Activists in 1983 when Michael Kühnen encouraged members to infiltrate this tiny group. A minor party (around 500 members in 1987) it experienced something of a growth after German reunification and sought, unsuccessfully, an alliance with the NPD [D. Childs, 'The Far Right in Germany Since 1945' in L. Cheles, R. Ferguson & M. Vaughan, "The Far Right in Western and Eastern Europe", 1995, p. 301] .
Associated with Strasserism, the party managed to gain some support amongst football hooligans but was damaged by Kühnen's homosexuality, taking a stand against him. The party continued under Friedhelm Busse from 1989 but it lost a number of members to new groups loyal to Kühnen, including the German Alternative (1989) and the National Offensive (1990) [C. T. Husbands, 'Militant Neo-Nazism in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1990s' in L. Cheles, R. Ferguson & M. Vaughan, "The Far Right in Western and Eastern Europe", 1995, p. 329] . The group is no longer active, although some former members are active in the NPD, others in local "Kameradschaften".
On February 24, 1995, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany outlawed the FAP. The court ruled that it wasn't a political party but an association that aimed at overthrowing democracy.
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