Kühnen-Schulte-Wegener Group
In May 1979, the Hamburg ANS members Lutz Wegener and Michael Kühnen as well as a number of others stood trial before the Celle High Regional Court. In the 1977 and 1978, their "Wehrwolf-Gruppe" had raided barracks in Wentorf near Hamburg, the premises of a building contractor in Cologne, a branch of the Hamburger Sparkasse bank, and a camp, on the NATO military training ground at Bergen-Hohne. They also broken into a Bundeswehr warehouse in Reinbek near Hamburg. The group managed to seize cash and weapons for their underground campaign.

Lutz Wegener set up the "Wehrwolf-Gruppe" together with Lothar Schulte, a Bundeswehr NCO from Schwarzenbek who was suspended from duty. Unlike Kühnen, they were both involved in all the attacks committed by the group. The court considered Schulte to be the ringleader. He was convicted once again in 2016, this time of agitating against refugees.
In the "Bückeburger Prozess" it was first time neo-Nazis had been accused of forming a terrorist organisation. For security reasons the court convened at Bückeburg Prison. On 13 September 1979 it imposed prison sentences ranging between 4 and 11 years.

Uwe Rohwer, the Gauführer of the Wiking-Jugend (Viking Youth) from Schleswig-Holstein; his deputy Manfred Börm, later head of the NPD security services for many years; and Klaus Dieter Puls of Hamburg also stood accused. Rohwer wanted to use the stolen weapons for his Wehrsportgruppe on his farm in Dörpstedt near Schleswig.
On 19 December 1977, Wegener, Puls and Rohwer committed the first bank robbery demonstrably carried out by far-right terrorists in the Federal Republic of Germany. They stole DM 66,000 for Rohwer's Wehrsportgruppe and to finance planned attacks, including one at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial Site and one on Beate and Serge Klarsfeld, the renowned Nazi hunters.

Despite its strict security precautions, the trial differed considerably from similar trials against left-wing terrorists. The press was taken aback by the court’s ‘incomprehensible leniency’ (Stern). For instance, it allowed Gerhard Lauck, the US-American leader of the NSDAP/AO in the United States, to testify as a defence witness for Kühnen, even though Lauck was banned from entering the country.