Banks must also open NPD accounts | TIME ONLINE

Banks must also, against their will, open accounts for the anti-constitutional NDP if the other parties allow it. This was decided by the Federal Administrative Court of Leipzig as part of a review procedure. the NDP was entitled to equal treatment, it was stated in the reasons. This claim exists even if the party pursues unconstitutional objectives. For example, the Federal Administrative Court upheld the judgments of the lower courts against Landesbank Berlin and its subsidiary Sparkbade.

More than five years ago, the district badociations of NPD Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin wanted to open a current account with the Berliner Landesbank. She rejected the applications because she had serious doubts about the formation of badociations. The Landesbank was not entitled to such thorough revisions of the merits and rights of the parties, the Leipzig judges explained their decision.

The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court had declared in its judgment of October 2016 that the application for opening an account resulted from the law on parties. After all, the two district badociations did not belong to a banned party and the Landesbank Berlin also carry current accounts for district organizations of other parties. Because of its fundamental importance, the court had approved the appeal before the Federal Administrative Court.