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 1995, Berlin: The Senate for Interior ordered that all state offices must have contractual business partners sign a declaration that they are not Scientologists and do not use the technology of L. Ron Hubbard, before any public orders are given to companies. January 1996, Stormarn: The Christian Democratic Union decided on the following measures at their party convention in Bad Oldesloe: a) Every applicant for public service must declare in writing that he is not a Scientologist. b) Local politicians are not to give business to companies owned or operated by Scientologists. c) Companies which apply for public contracts need to declare in writing that they have nothing to do with Scientology. June 1996, Berlin: The Dornbusch plumbing company, operated by a Scientologist in Berlin, wanted to donate a public fountain to the district of Kreuzberg. The company also agreed to donate the maintenance and technical service and to pay for water and electricity costs. The City, when approached on the matter, faxed the head of the company a declaration to sign, stating, “I am not working in my company according to the technology of L. Ron Hubbard; neither I nor my staff are trained per L. Ron Hubbard or have attended seminars or courses. I refuse to apply the technology of L. Ron Hubbard to manage my business.” August 1996, Munich: The Munich Mercury reported that the cities of Augsburg and Regensburg require that applicants for official posts declare in writing that they are not members of the Church of Scientology. Augsburg also intended to “filter” contract partners in the areas of economy, personnel, management seminars and software services. The Bavarian capital city of Munich planned to exhaust all legal means to exclude Scientology parishioners from kindergartens, schools and other public service areas. The personnel chief of Erlangen stated that intense questioning of applicants was required to discover if they had an affiliation with a new religion. The city director of Kempten stated that “everything has to be done” to prevent “infiltration” of Scientologists. August 1996, Bavaria: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published statements of Minister of Interior Beckstein that the state government would cooperate with concerned offices and institutions, associations, organizations and local community districts to exclude Scientologists. Events involving Scientologists would not be funded by the state of Bavaria. Surveillance of the Church was being stepped up and all Bavarian schools were to increase “enlightenment” about Scientology. He hoped that the Bavarian measures would serve as a model for imitation in Germany and elsewhere. The Minister of Culture gave a speech at the Lutheran Academy in Tutzing in which he called upon established Churches to act in cooperation with the government in acting against new religions. September 1996, Baden-Württemberg: Baden-Württemberg announced they intend to place the Church of Scientology under surveillance, an arbitrary determination based on no crimes or offenses of any kind. The CDU State Minister of the Interior referred to the “dangers” of infiltration of companies and offices by having Scientologists as employees. October 1996, Bavaria: The Bavarian state chancellery announced it was implementing a series of measures against Scientology. Effective November 1, applicants for public service and companies seeking public contracts had to fill out a questionnaire detailing any connections they have to Scientology. Applicants showing any affiliation with Scientology would not be hired. The author of this measure was Bavarian Minister of the Interior Günther Beckstein. Also, before state offices gave orders in “sensitive” areas, the firm accepting the order had to sign a declaration that it did not use the technology of L. Ron. Hubbard. October 1996, Berlin: SPD MP Kirsten Fletsch complained that only the Senate of the Interior employed a declaration to ensure that public contracts are not given to firms owned by Scientologists. The State Secretary replied that other Senate Administrations had been asked to implement the same practice. November 1996, Baden-Württemberg: The State Secretary of the Ministry of Culture of Baden Württemberg demanded a prohibition of Scientology. He found it “extremely worrying that Scientology through the influence of the United States has been recognized as an NGO and participated at the Budapest CSCE (Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe) conference.” November 1996, Baden-Württemberg: The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a Church-sponsored social reform group, has been running a public information campaign against the use of harmful psychiatric drugs on children in schools and kindergartens. The State Minister for Youth of Baden-Württemberg issued a statewide warning against CCHR and asked for a combined action by all Ministers of Youth against the Church of Scientology and CCHR. November 1996, Bodenseekreis: The regional government of Bodenseekreis in Baden-Württemberg issued a copy of an inflammatory booklet replete with outrageous false reports on Scientology to all kindergartens in its region. December 1996, Baden-Württemberg: The SPD in Baden-Württemberg, in a published report, called for a nationwide ban on Scientology and restrictive government measures to halt its growth in Germany. December 1996, Bavaria: The city administration of Illertissen in Bavaria voted that in future public contracts would be issued only to companies that had given written confirmation that they are not affiliated in any way with Scientology or Scientologists. A false declaration would result in cancellation of the contract. Government sanctioned discrimination continued...
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