News American Citizens Targeted U.S. Court Slams German Human Rights Abuser Religious Minorities portrayed as insects Result of the Hate Campaign Publications Freedom Human Rights Journal (in German) Menschenrechtsbuero (in German)					Home > Publications > Intolerance & Discrimination Against the Scientology Community in Germany Today Intolerance & Discrimination Against the Scientology Community in Germany Today August 1994, Freiburg: An administrative court issued an order forbidding members of the Church to proselytize on public ground. August 1994, Karlsruhe: Police issued an order that the Church should not try to obtain a permit as it will not be granted one. September 1994, Baden-Württemberg: The Government of Baden-Württemberg implemented comprehensive and discriminatory measures targeting the Scientology religion and its parishioners. These measures included requesting the federal government to: – rescind the legal status of Scientology organizations; – initiate criminal investigations of the Church (despite that numerous such investigations have all been dismissed with no wrongdoing found); – increase “enlightenment” about Scientology in schools, governmental offices and in public; – prevent the economic “influence” of Scientology in coordination with Employers Associations and Chambers for Industry Commerce and Trade (i.e., ban individual companies owned by or worked in by Scientologists from becoming members of these associations); – continue to elicit the support of trade unions, which have agreed to inform their members about the economic influence of Scientology and to counteract its “influence” through trade union publications attacking membership in Scientology. – work out a complete list of other measures designed for the “reduction of Scientology activities.” This discriminatory initiative was passed even though the resolution conceded that “a majority in the legal literature and the courts confirms” that Scientology must be classified as a religion. October 1994, Schleswig-Holstein: The State Parliament passed an amendment to its Data Protection Law to allow personal data of individuals connected to new religions to be stored and exchanged. This law targets religious and ideological communities and excludes their parishioners from the data protections afforded all other citizens. This state was setting up a “sect documentation center” to computerize all people associated with new religions. October 1994, Bremen: The Senate of Interior decreed that the Church of Scientology of Bremen be deregistered (currently under appeal and so not implemented). October 1994, Lübeck: The City Parliament passed a resolution that the Senate prohibit all proselytizing activities by the Church of Scientology in public places. November 1994: The state of Herzogtum Lauenburg passed the following resolution: “The county declares that the Church of Scientology is unwanted in the state of Herzogtum Lauenburg.” Government sanctioned discrimination continued...
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