Evaluation of the Right-Wing Extremism Database Act (RED-G)

In response to the murders by the National Socialist underground, the Right-Wing Extremism Database (RED) was launched in September 2012. The RED-G requires 36 security agencies to store relevant information on violent right-wing extremists in the RED, ensuring that each participating agency has direct access to the data. This is designed to facilitate the exchange of information between the authorities and ensure a more effective response to violent right-wing extremism. Article 3(2) of the Act to Improve the Fight against Right-wing Extremism (Gesetz zur Verbesserung der Bekämpfung des Rechtsextremismus) of 20 August 2012 stipulates that the RED-G is to be evaluated by 31 January 2016 with the involvement of academic experts. The Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI), in agreement with the German Bundestag, commissioned the National Institute for Public Administration Germany to carry out the evaluation (Publication in German).