Sabotage against Rheinmetall – Never fit for war!

The largest tank factory in Europe is to be built in Kassel. We oppose becoming the armaments capital for the coming wars. That's why we sabotaged the construction site of the Rheinmetall logistics center in Kassel-Calden during the night and set fire to several excavators and wheel bearings.

Turning point in northern Hesse

Anyone who lives in northern Hesse feels what a turning point means. Day after day the news about arms investments is overwhelming. Almost not an evening goes by without seeing tanks on our streets, exported to war zones around the world. There is hardly a local politician, medium-sized company or research location who does not hope to get something from the billions of the turnaround.

We decided not to stand by any longer and attacked a central project in the rearmament campaign: Rheinmetall's North Hesse Defense Hub.

The Defense Hub North Hesse includes the expansion of the tank factory in Kassel as well as the construction of a logistics center on 30,000 square meters and a military drone center at Kassel Airport. With 260 million euros from Rheinmetall and over 20 million euros from the state of Hesse, the project is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2027.

At the start of the press spectacle, Rheinmetall boss Armin Papperger proudly announced: In the future, Kassel will be the largest tank factory in Europe and „a new hub“ the defense industry. Boris Rhein added: The troubled Kassel-Calden airport will “in the future become even more powerful as a military hub, for Bundeswehr training flights and for researching and testing new drone technology.” serve.

While millions of taxpayers' money are being sunk every month into an empty airport from which only the private jets of the super-rich take off, the upgrade program is now supposed to be the salvation: drones, Bundeswehr flights and logistics replace the passengers and holidaymakers who absolutely do not want to come.

Into the crisis with state money

What is happening in Kassel-Calden is a symbol of the turning point in Germany: the state is acting as a client and is trying to stimulate the weakening economy with billions in arms investments. Germany is fleeing forward. If car production is no longer competitive on the world market, then at least the Leopard tank and perhaps soon the German army will be again.

At a time characterized by imperialist conflicts and wars worldwide, the Federal Republic wants to solve its crisis through military armament and be able to lead Europe in the future without the USA. What is being sold to us as a necessary investment in defense capability is the option of being able to enforce one's own interests, such as access to resources and trade routes, using military means outside of Germany. The construction of our own long-range weapons or the power of the secret services to sabotage abroad are offensive capabilities. It is the possibility of continuing the confrontation with the Russian regime for supremacy in Eastern Europe in the future.

From the turntable …

We know from all major power conflicts that in the end it will be ordinary people, women and young people who will suffer the most from the consequences of war. It's not Armin Papperger and Boris Rhein or their children who should be torn apart by the drone in the trenches, but us. If we do not counter the war preparations internationally, we will soon no longer have any prospects for our lives.

The more money flows into armaments projects and the further the conversion of the civilian economy into a war industry progresses, the greater the interdependence and interconnection between armaments companies and government clients will become. At the same time, the tanks that are ultimately produced by Rheinmetall and Co. with state money do not enter the economic cycle productively again. Armament will not solve the crisis of recent years, but will at most postpone it.

If the halls are full of tanks and warheads in a few years, the problems of German heavy industry and medium-sized suppliers will not be solved. For Kassel this means: If government demand for war weapons declines again in a few years, the industry that depends on them will also collapse and numerous people will lose their jobs. If the war equipment is used up in action, it keeps production going, but it also makes Kassel a target again in future wars. While the shareholders and board members of Rheinmetall, KNDS and Co. are filling their pockets, we can only lose in the long term with this calculation.

…to the place of resistance

Let's turn North Hesse from a hub of rearmament into a place of resistance against the elites' war drive. Let's fight together to ensure that people are no longer faced with the decision of losing their job or switching to Rheinmetall. Let us ensure that Elbit Systems and Co. cannot produce in peace and that war and genocide are no longer exported to the world from Kassel.

In memory of the Kassel student Yousef Shaban, who was murdered with his family members by the IDF in Gaza on October 24, 2023.

In solidarity with the Russian war opponents and saboteurs who are either in prison camps today or were killed by the regime.

In solidarity with everyone who fights against imperialism worldwide and resists the militarization of their lives here.

Whether at the university, which the Kassel arms companies are pushing towards. Whether at the schools where there is a strike against conscription. Whether in the factories at Daimler and Alstom, where they are now producing for death. Whether in the hospitals that are supposed to make room for the war victims at the front in the future.

Never fit for war!

Not today

Not 2029

Never again

Agenda2029

happens on October 29th, 2026

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