Fire to the car of a militarist boss
Switch off the arms industry!
Attack on Vincorion in Hamburg!
(from de.indymedia, June 15, 2025)
“We power your mission” is the advertising slogan of the arms company Vincorion. Our answer: switch off the arms industry! Yesterday, using an incendiary device, we rendered the personal car of Vincorion managing director Kajetan von Mentzingen, parked at his home at 16 Newmans Park in Hamburg’s Nienstedten district, unfit for war.
Vincorion develops, produces and sells generators, electrical systems, electronic components, optical systems, target detection technology and weapon stabilization systems. These are integrated into Leopard 2 battle tanks, Puma armored vehicles, Boxer wheeled tanks and 2000 howitzers, as well as NH90 helicopters and Iris-t and Patriot missile and anti-missile systems. Vincorion wins contracts mainly from the German army, but also from other European countries and the US.
In 2024, sales reached 200 million euros, and managing director Kajetan von Mentzingen is already aiming for 500 million: sales of missile technology alone are set to quadruple. In his own words, Vincorion is about to move from the manufacturing stage to mass production. 550 of the 900 employees work at Wedel near Hamburg, while other Vincorion sites are located in North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria. Kajetan von Mentzingen doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to making his demands of politicians: “So far, the special fund has been an important first step, but now we need to think about increasing defense spending from 2.5% to 3% of GDP, in order to achieve our goals.”
We were delighted to see the many actions in the run-up to Veterans’ Day 2025 [on Sunday June 15, against a backdrop of massive rearmament and for the first time since the Second World War, Germany inaugurated its “Veterans’ Day” to pay tribute to war veterans]! We have nothing to add to the content of the claims from Bremen-Soltau and Berlin. It seems to us particularly successful that the various attacks of recent days have exemplarily covered many important aspects of offensive anti-militarism: recruitment and propaganda for the army, the infrastructure of the federal army, arms production and those responsible for it. Of course, there are many other ways of sabotaging the military machine: military research, civilian logistics, support for deserters, and so on.
Hamburg’s Red-Green municipal coalition is planning one of the biggest public and media events ever for the first Veterans’ Day. Today, in the presence of War Minister Boris Pistorius, several hundred German soldiers are to be solemnly promoted to “officers” at a “festive event” on the forecourt of City Hall. In the near future, we will have to face the forced reintroduction of military service. The project to make society fit for war is in full swing, and it is urgently necessary to broadly rebuild and offensively support anti-militarist resistance.
To oppose both the madness of war and the destruction of this planet, we need to fight together against amazon, facebook, google and open-ai, against tesla, bmw and porsche, against rwe and e-on, against the army and the arms industry, against patriarchy, racism and anti-Semitism.
No gods, no states, no homelands!
Switch off the system of destruction!
War starts here. Let’s bring it home!
Attack weapons production and war logistics – sabotage veterans’ day!
Strength and good luck on the run and in jail!
Free all antifas!
Support Maja, on hunger strike since 5.6!
Freedom for Daniela!
Freedom for the two anarchists imprisoned in Munich!
source: Act For Freedom