Der nette Mann

Der nette Mann (German for "The nice man") is the debut album by German rock band Böhse Onkelz. It was released in 1984. Der nette Mann is considered the first album of the German skinhead subculture.

In August 1986 six of its 14 tracks were deemed to either promote violence (Fußball und Gewalt, Der nette Mann, Dr. Martens Beat), Nazi-ideology (Frankreich '84, Böhse Onkelz) or pornography (Mädchen) by the German Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons (which means, it is not to be sold to minors, not to be put on public display, not to be advertised).

Shortly after the 'indexing', the album was additionally embargoed due to purported "glorification of violence" in its lyrics, making it altogether illegal to sell the album in Germany. As of today, this decision ceased to come into effect, the indexing still stands.

Original copies of the album (2,000 were sold) are regarded as rarities and have a value of more than €350.

In 1988 Rock-O-Rama re-released the album without permission by the band under the new title Freitag Nacht without the indexed tracks.

In 2019, the band asked the Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons for a re-examination of the album and in December 2019 three songs (Der nette Mann, Mädchen, Böhse Onkelz) were taken off the index.

On 28 December 2020, the album was officially reissued for the first time as part of the group's Onkelz: 40 Jahre boxset, albeit omitting the tracks "Frankreich '84", "Fussball + Gewalt" and "Dr. Martens Beat", after the Onkelz lobbied to have the album removed from the Index. This new version of the album is called Der nette Mann von nebenan (The nice man from next door).