The group had the legal status of a German registered association (eingetragener Verein) headquartered in Berlin.

[5] Artgemeinschaft mixed far-right ideology with Nordic and Teutonic religions such as Ásatrú, but also elements of atheism.

[7] Important in their beliefs are theses by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Eduard von Hartmann and Feuerbach in order to attack Christian morality and to replace it with a pagan one.

"Struggle is part of life" is a belief of AG GGG and written in the group's "confession of species" in which the guiding principles are laid down.

According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the right-wing extremist group is "against the idea of international understanding" and "against the constitutional order".

The association's magazine, the völkisch Nordische Zeitung[9] ("Nordic Newspaper"), is also affected by the ban.

The members belong to different currents of the far-right, from militant neo-fascists to representatives of the Neue Rechte (New Right).

[11] The French theoretician of the New Right Pierre Krebs is member of Artgemeinschaft as well as the right-wing author Claus Nordbruch.