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 January 1997, Stuttgart: During a freezing winter in which many homeless people died from the cold weather, the Church of Scientology launched a project to help them. Volunteer Ministers from the Church of Scientology in Stuttgart provided homeless people with warm clothes, hot tea, soup and shelter, for which they were very grateful. On 29 January, the Office for Public Order in Stuttgart issued a decree, which they express delivered by hand to the Church the same day, forbidding the Church to distribute tea, food and clothes or to provide any shelter to the homeless. Violations were to be penalized with a fine of 3.000 DM. The Church was charged 100 DM for the administrative cost to the city of issuing the decree. January 1997, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg: The Bavarian and Baden-Württemberg governments proposed a motion to the Upper House of the German Parliament calling for a concerted campaign against the Church of Scientology, to include taking up Scientology at the European Conferences of Ministers and on an international level, opening proceedings to deregister Scientology corporations, beefing up legal regulations in the area of “life-help” to restrict the Church’s activities, exclusion of public contracts to companies affiliated with the Church (ie, owned or employing Scientologists), and to implement at federal level discriminatory measures already approved at state level. February 1997, Schleswig-Holstein: The Minister-President, Heide Simonis, stated that she expects that state and federal governments will come to an agreement at the Minister-Presidents Conference in July about joint measures to be taken against Scientology. The Church of Scientology cannot be allowed to operate in “unregulated free space.” She sought uniform regulations throughout Germany in regards to observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s security agency. February 1997, Baden-Württemberg: The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Baden-Württemberg established a phone number for people to call who are “affected” by Scientology. Media widely circulated this number. February 1997, Stuttgart: The state government of Stuttgart issued an order that in future all applicants for civil service employment would be required to state any affiliation with Scientology. The measure is intended to exclude members of the Church of Scientology from working in the public sector. The decree also ordered that no public contracts be signed with members of the Church or any organizations affiliated with the Church for management, personnel or training services; that no public halls be rented to the Church and that no support be given to companies associated with Scientologists. Next
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