Indicator history

Official data on racist and related hate crimes, collected through the police registration system KMPD (Criminal Police Reporting Scheme; Kriminalpolizeilicher Meldedienst) on politically motivated crimes (PMK):

In 2011, a historic peak of politically motivated crimes (Politisch motivierte Kriminalität, PMK) was recorded since the modification of the registration system in 2001. Furthermore, the overall number of politically motivated right-wing crimes increased from 16,375 in 2010 to 16,873 in 2011. In particular, politically motivated, right-wing violent crimes based on xenophobic motifs increased by 22.7% compared to 2010.
In 2011, 16,873 crimes were registered as “politically motivated criminality – right wing” by the police, of which 11,475 cases were recorded as propaganda offences and 828 as violent right-wing crimes.
Among those 16,142 right-wing extremist crimes were recorded, of which 755 were right-wing extremist violent crimes. 347 cases of extremist violent crimes were deemed as xenophobic.
In 2011, 1,239 anti-Semitic right-wing crimes were recorded by the police. The number of violent right-wing crimes with an anti-Semitic motivation was 29 in 2011.

Source:

1. Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI) (2012), Verfassungsschutzbericht 2011, Berlin, p. 47, available at: http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2012/05/politisch-motivierte-kriminalitaet-2011.html, Accessed on 13.01.2013.
2. Federal Ministry of the Interior (Bundesministerium des Innern, BMI) (2012) ‘Entwicklung der politisch motivierten Kriminalität im Jahr 2011‘, Press release, 11 May 2012,  available at: http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/DE/2012/05/politisch-motivierte-kriminalitaet-2011.html?nn=106342, Accessed on 13.01.2013.