Freie Kameradschaften
In 1995 the Hamburg Ministry of Internal Affairs imposed a ban on the Nationale Liste, a political party formed around the neo-Nazis Thomas Wulff and Christian Worch. Three years previously, the party had published one of the extreme right’s first Anti-Antifa lists, which resulted in death threats and attacks on anti-fascists throughout Germany. The ban did not come as a complete surprise to Wulff and Worch. They had already begun encouraging the formation of Freie Kameradschaften - loose associations of individuals rather than registered entities, which would make the extreme right less vulnerable to bans imposed by the state authorities. In 1999 the Kameradschaft Hamburger Sturm publicly discussed the matter of an armed struggle in their eponymous magazine. The group was banned in August 2000.

As ‘motivation’, the nationally distributed magazine published an interview with underground ‘national-revolutionary cells’, in which they made their stance clear: ‘We are at war with this system and the pigs and other enemies are collateral damage’.

Worch had joined the Aktionsfront Nationaler Sozialisten (Action Front of National Socialists) in the 1970s. He and Wulff banded together to found the Nationale Liste and the Aktionsbüro Norddeutschland, a platform to connect and coordinate the Freie Kameradschaften in northern Germany. Both collaborated closely with the neo-Nazi lawyer Jürgen Rieger.