vor 57 years: Assassination attempt on Kassel anti-fascists
Am 16. September 1969 A neo-Nazi shot two demonstrators during an anti-fascist demonstration. 22-year-old Bernd Lunkewitz and 19-year-old Michael Hoke were hit, but survived the attack. The perpetrator was the bodyguard of the NPD chairman.
He then fled to the home of Fischer, a member of the NPD state parliament in Kassel. The 1964 founded fascist party 1966 in the Hessian state elections straight away 7,9% of the votes received. As a result, at the end of the 1960s there were a series of anti-fascist protests against the resurgent right and the authoritarian exceptional laws of the German state.
The following day of the shooting attack, hundreds of young people and workers left:inside under the title “Stop neo-Nazi terror” on the street. The DGB Kassel also called for this, that now “all citizens must come together in a constant campaign against the NPD.”