Third Way (Germany)

The III. Path or The Third Path (German: Der III. Weg, Der Dritte Weg) is a far-right and neo-Nazi political party in Germany.[6][7]

For other uses, see Third Way (disambiguation).
The Third Path
Der Dritte Weg
ChairmanMatthias Fischer
Founded28 September 2013 (2013-09-28)
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg
Split fromNPD, Free Network South
HeadquartersBad Dürkheim, Germany
MembershipIncrease 700 (2022) est.[1]
IdeologyPan-Germanism
German nationalism
Neo-Nazism[2][3]
Neo-fascism
Strasserism
Antisemitism
Third Position
Political positionFar-right[4]
Colours  Green
AnthemDer III. Weg Marschiert![5]
Party flag
Website
der-dritte-weg.info

It was founded on 28 September 2013 by former NPD officials, and activists from the banned Free Network South. They have ties with Assad's government in Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon,[8] the National Corps, Misanthropic Division, Right Sector and Svoboda in Ukraine,[9][10] the Nordic Resistance Movement in the Nordic countries.[11] Their founder and chairman is Klaus Armstroff.[12] The party mostly operates in Thuringia, Bavaria and Brandenburg.[13]

A group of people bearing Der Dritte Weg flags marched in through a town in Saxony on 1 May 2019, the day before the Jewish remembrance of the Holocaust, carrying a banner saying "Social justice instead of criminal foreigners". The Central Council of Jews said that the state government should ban such marches if it were serious about tackling right-wing extremism.[14] The party stood in the 2019 European elections.

Name

The party is registered at the Federal Returning Office as "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]

Ideology

The party describes itself as national revolutionary and partially bases itself on the ideology of the left wing of the Nazi Party, namely the Strasser Brothers.[19] The III. Path has widely been described as a ultranationalist and neo-Nazi party.[2][3][9][18]

10 point program

On its website, the party presents a 10-point election program, available in 12 European languages. [16][20]

Election results

Federal Parliament (Bundestag)
Election Constituency Party list Seats +/– Status
Votes  % Votes  %
2021 515 0.0 7,832 (#32) 0.0
0 / 631
 New Extra-parliamentary

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

State elections
Year RP
2016 0.09% (1,944)

See also

References
  1. https://www.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. Rödl, Jakob (4 March 2014). ""Der III. Weg" –Jim eine rechtsextreme Kleinstpartei aus dem Neonazi-Spektrum".
  3. Germany, 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. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  5. BW, Verfassungsschutz (24 June 2021). ""Alte Lieder der jungen Revolution" – zwei neonazistische Liederbücher von 2020". www.verfassungsschutz-bw.de (in German). Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  6. Thaler, Claudia (21 September 2021). "Rechtsextreme Partei muss Antigrünenplakate abnehmen". Die Zeit. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
  7. Maksan, Oliver (22 September 2021). "Wie Neonazis vor Gericht verlieren und politisch doch gewinnen". Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 24 September 2021. 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.com.
  9. "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. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  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 from the original on 31 January 2020. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  14. "Germany says half of extreme right 'prone to violence'". BBC News. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  15. "VERZEICHNIS der Parteien und politischen Vereinigungen, die gemäß § 6 Absatz 3 Parteiengesetz bei der Bundeswahlleiterin Parteiunterlagen hinterlegt haben" (PDF).
  16. "Ten Point Program - THE THIRD WAY".
  17. "Who are Germany's far-right 'Third Path'? – DW – 10/25/2021". dw.com. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  18. "Concern over German ultra-nationalist party". InfoMigrants. 17 May 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  19. "Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz - Rechtsextremistische Parteien". 14 June 2015. Archived from the original on 14 June 2015. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  20. "10 Punkte Programm der Partei DER DRITTE WEG".
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