Collegium Humanum


The Collegium Humanum was established in 1963 as a club, was first active in the German environmental movement, then from the early 1980s became a far-right political organisation and was banned in 2008 by the Federal Minister of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble due to "continued denial of the Holocaust".

History

The Collegium Humanum was founded in 1963 by Werner Georg Haverbeck, a former Nazi, as a "folk school for the environment and protection of life" in Vlotho. The Collegium Humanum was registered as a non-profit association in Bad Oeynhausen.

Funding

The Collegium Humanum was financed through seminar fees and donations.

Prohibition

According to critical statements by the President of the Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, Charlotte Knobloch, she was threatened on 30 January 2008 in a letter from the chairman of the association and subsequently filed a complaint.
On 7 May 2008, the Collegium Humanum, including the affiliated association "Bauernhilfe e. V.", was banned by the Federal Minister of the Interior under section 3 of the Association Act, as "against the constitutional order of the Federal Republic of Germany and continued by denial of the Holocaust against valid right." In connection with the banning of the organisation, house searches were carried out at several locations in Germany.