- Friedhelm Busse
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name = Friedhelm Busse
image_size = 160px
caption = Friedhelm Busse in 2006
birth_date = Birth date|1929|2|4|mf=y
birth_place =Bochum
death_date = July 2008, aged 79
death_place =
occupation = Politician
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parents =
children =Friedhelm Busse (born
February 4 ,1929 inBochum ) was a leading German national socialist.The son of an SA
Sturmbannführer , Busse served in the12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend in 1945. After the war he became active in "Reichsjugend", the youth wing of theSocialist Reich Party and later theDeutsche Reichspartei . During the early 1960s he took an active role in terrorism in the majority-German speaking Italian province of Bolzano-Bozen, and was arrested in 1963 for possession ofdynamite .Busse joined the
National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) in 1964 and soon became one of the party's leading members inNorth Rhine-Westphalia . As a member of the NPD Busse became associated with student radicalism, much to the displeasure of the NPD leadership. To this end he set up a radicalfar right group, "Aktion Widerstand", in 1970 and was expelled from the party the following year as the leadership sought to reassert itself.In June 1971 he joined with other radicals in setting up the "Partei der Arbeit/Deutsche Sozialisten", which re-emerged in 1975 as "Volkssozialistische Bewegung Deutschlands" (VSBD). During this time he was also involved in organising neo-Nazi cadres and played a leading role in the establishment of the
NSDAP/AO . Alongside this he continued to play a leading role in the VSBD until it was outlawed in 1982 following a shooting incident. Busse then became associated with theFree German Workers' Party (FAP), becoming leader of the party in 1989 whenMichael Kühnen was forced from that position due to hishomosexuality . The FAP declined as successor groups loyal to Kühnen emerged but Busse remained influential as an individual and was present atRostock in 1992 when neo-Nazis launched an arson attack on an immigrants hostel. With the FAP on the wane he became involved with organising "Freien Kameradschaften" but was caught by police inStuttgart in 1994 and placed on 20 months probation for attempting to reorganise the bannedAction Front of National Socialists/National Activists . He continued his involvement with the Kameradschaften however, running an information service for them from 1997. He was also active in organising lectures and rallies for the neo-Nazi cause. Largely retired from activism due to his age, he designatedNorman Bordin as his successor in 2004.He died in July 2008. German officials dug up his grave to remove a
Reichskriegsflagge that had been placed on his casket at the time of burial.
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