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The Third Path Der Dritte Weg | |
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Chairman | Matthias Fischer |
Founded | 28 September 2013 Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg |
Split from | NPD, Free Network South |
Headquarters | Bad Dürkheim, Germany |
Membership | 700 (2022) est. [1] |
Ideology |
Pan-Germanism German ultranationalism Revolutionary nationalism Neo-Nazism [2] [3] Neo-fascism Strasserism Antisemitism Third Position |
Political position | Far-right [4] |
Colours | Green |
Anthem | Der III. Weg Marschiert! [5] |
Party flag | |
Website | |
der-dritte-weg | |
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]
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] and 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, achieving 0.03% of the vote.
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]
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]
On its website, the party presents a 10-point election program, available in 12 European languages. [16] [20]
Election | Constituency | Party list | Seats | +/– | Status | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
2021 | 515 | 0.00 | 7,832 (#32) | 0.02 | 0 / 631
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New | Extra-parliamentary |
Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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2019 | 12,756 | 0.03 (#40) | 0 / 96
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Year | RP |
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2016 | 0.09% (1,944) |
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Dabei spielte es dann keine Rolle mehr, dass die deutsche Neonazi-Partei in dieser Woche eine juristische Niederlage nach der anderen kassierte.