Meinungsfreiheit und Rechtsextremismus

The charged relationship between the need for state repression against right-wing extremism and the guarantee of fundamental rights, especially freedom of speech, coined the controversial debate about § 130 IV StGB [German Criminal Code]. The volume works out how legislative encroachments on fundamental rights can be justified with the anti-Nazi basic principle of the German Basic Law. This basic principle is derived from the genesis of the Basic Law and the principles of the liberal democratic basic order. From the point of view of legal policy, this is an advocacy of far-reaching legislative powers with respect to the repression of National Socialist expressions of opinion. The volume outlines the scope of protection of freedom of speech in political statements, the current state of the discussion on the term of general law in article 5 II GG [Basic Law] and a political-scientific approach to the possibilities of dealing with right-wing extremism.