AfD Brandenburg

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AfD Brandenburg
Alternative-for-Germany-Logo-2013.svg
Chairman vacant
Deputy Birgit Bessin
Daniel von Lützow
Treasurer Stefan Edler
executive Director Lars Hünich
Honorary Chairman Alexander Gauland
Establishment date April 28, 2013
Place of foundation Nauen
Headquarters Schopenhauerstraße 27
14467 Potsdam
Landtag mandates
23/88
Number of members 1600 (as of 2019)
Website www.afd-brandenburg.de

The AfD Brandenburg is the Brandenburg state association of the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD). The state association was led by Andreas Kalbitz as state chairman until its membership was canceled on July 25, 2020 . With Alexander Gauland , the state party stood for the first time in the state elections in 2014 and it succeeded in entering the state parliament of Brandenburg . For the 2017 federal election , Gauland also led the state list as a co-top candidate in the federal government, through which five MPs entered the 19th federal parliament .

The AfD regional association has been under observation by the Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution since mid-June 2020 as a so-called “suspected case” of right-wing extremist efforts.

history

The regional association was founded by 44 members in Nauen on April 28, 2013 . The AfD Brandenburg ran in the 2013 federal election and received 6.0 percent of the second vote. In May 2014, the party entered the local elections in Brandenburg , where it won 3.9 percent of the second vote and a total of 39 seats in district assemblies and city councils.

In the state election in September 2014 , 12.2 percent entered the state parliament. The regional association had given itself a "carer" image. In particular, the topics of border crime and the refugee problem were particularly relevant. They also tried quite openly to get votes from the Left Party. The only AfD national association had the election manifesto translated into Russian. In the state elections, it first and foremost received votes from former micro-party voters (approx. 22 percent). Around 20,000 former voters of the Die Linke party , around 18,000 former CDU voters, around 17,000 former FDP voters, around 12,000 former SPD voters and around 1,000 former Green voters elected the AfD. In addition, the party received the votes of around 12,000 former non-voters . Men in particular voted for the AfD; older people voted the party below average. In December 2014, the regional association traveled to the Pegida demonstrations in Dresden almost entirely observing . At the state party conference in April 2015, the state association of Junge Alternative für Deutschland was recognized.

In mid-June 2020, the Brandenburg Constitutional Protection Agency classified the AfD regional association as a suspected case, since, according to Jörg Müller, the head of the Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution, there were "sufficiently important factual indications" that the regional association was making "efforts against the liberal-democratic basic order". Brandenburg's Interior Minister Michael Stübgen said that the Brandenburg AfD was “shaped by the ideas of the ethnic-national wing ”. Its supposed dissolution makes no difference, because in the regional association "the wing has long been the whole bird". The AfD is trying to "grind down the firewalls of democracy".

politics

AfD in the state parliament

A study published by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung at the end of 2015 (almost a year after moving into the state parliament) came to the conclusion that the work of the state parliamentary group was “not very professionalized”; the faction stands out above all for "calculated provocations".

classification

Scientists like Christoph Kopke and Gideon Botsch describe the regional association as a “national-populist right-wing party”.

Observers like Alexander Häusler discussed the right-wing past of functionaries of the regional association, for example, Rainer van Raemdonck and Thomas Jung, two former regional board members of the right-wing populist party Die Freiheit, are active. Steffen Koeniger was with the Federation of Free Citizens and wrote for the Young Freedom . According to Kopke et al. a. various "contacts [...] in the right-wing conservative or right-wing extremist milieu" were uncovered, also at the municipal level.

organization

The organs of the regional association are the regional party congress, the regional executive committee and the regional arbitration tribunal. The regional arbitration tribunal decides on internal party disputes and can expel members.

State party conference

The highest party organ is the state party congress . It elects the state board , the auditors and the state arbitration court. The party congress takes place as a general assembly, whereby members who are at least three months behind with their membership fees have no voting rights. According to the decision of the state executive, the party congress can also take place as an assembly of delegates. For this purpose, the district associations send a delegate for every 5 members or part thereof.

State party conferences
No. date place State Chairperson /
Leading Candidate
Election result theme
01st state party conference April 28, 2013 Nauen Roland Scheel 64% Establishment of the regional association; Election of the state executive
State election assembly April 28, 2013 Nauen Alexander Gauland Election of the state list for the 2013 federal election
02nd state party conference February 9, 2014 Large berries Alexander Gauland By-elections for the state executive
03rd state party conference May 4, 2014 Large berries Resolution of the election program for the state election 2014 ; By-elections to the regional arbitration tribunal
State election assembly May 4, 2014
May 11, 2014
Großbeeren
Bernau near Berlin
Alexander Gauland 92% Election of the state list for the state election 2014
04th state party conference 18./19. April 2015 Pritzwalk Alexander Gauland 89% New election of the state executive; Change of state statutes; New election of the regional arbitration tribunal;
Election of the delegates to the federal party congress; Resolutions on the EEG levy and wind turbines
05th state party conference November 21, 2015 Vetschau / Spreewald By-elections for the state executive
06th state party conference July 9, 2016 Cramps By-elections for the state executive
State election assembly January 28, 2017 Rangsdorf Alexander Gauland 83% Election of the state list for the 2017 federal election
07th state party conference 8/9 April 2017 Frankfurt (Oder) Andreas Kalbitz 73% New election of the state executive; Election of the delegates to the federal party congress and the federal convention
08th state party conference October 13, 2018 Brandenburg on the Havel Election of the delegates to the European election assembly
State election assembly 4th-7th January 2019
February 2, 2019
Rangsdorf Andreas Kalbitz 74% Election of the state list for the state election 2019
09th state party conference 26.-28. April 2019 Falkensee Andreas Kalbitz 73% New election of the state executive; Election of delegates to the federal party congress and to the federal convention;
Decision of the election program for the state election 2019

State Board

Since April 2019, the state executive has consisted of the following members:

State Chairman vacant until his party membership is canceled Andreas Kalbitz (MdL)
Deputy State Chair Birgit Bessin (MdL), Daniel Freiherr von Lützow (MdL)
Treasurer Stefan Edler
Deputy Treasurer Oliver Calov
Secretary Kerstin Schotte
Deputy Secretary Michael Pfahler
Assessor Lena Duggen (MdL); Andreas Galau (MdL); Dennis Hohloch (MdL); Steffen Kotré (Member of the Bundestag); Wilko Möller (MdL); Roman Reusch (Member of the Bundestag)
Honorary Chairman Alexander Gauland (Member of the Bundestag; Chairman of the AfD parliamentary group )
MdL = member of the state parliament; MdB = member of the Bundestag

About 80 percent of the officials are male, the average age is 50 years. Many functionaries come from the middle class and others. a. independent entrepreneurs and medium-sized professions.

District associations

The regional association is divided into 18 district associations, known as regional associations, in the 14 districts and 4 independent cities . District boards preside over these associations.

District associations (as of January 2019)
District association Chairman Seat
Barnim Bernau near Berlin
Brandenburg on the Havel Ulf Island Brandenburg on the Havel
cottbus Marianne Spring clearing bowl cottbus
Dahme-Spreewald Steffen Kotré Mittenwalde
Elbe Elster Volker Nothing Elsterwerda
Frankfurt (Oder) Wilko Möller Frankfurt (Oder)
Havelland Leyla Bilge Premnitz
Märkisch-Oderland Christina What a shame Hoppegarten
Oberhavel Andreas Galau Oranienburg
Oberspreewald-Lausitz Ronny Liersch Sonnewalde
Oder-Spree Kathleen Muxel Grünheide (Mark)
Ostprignitz-Ruppin Torsten Arndt Neuruppin
Potsdam René Springer Potsdam
Potsdam-Mittelmark Werder (Havel)
Prignitz Wolfgang Heil Wittenberg
Spree-Neisse Steffen Kubitzki Turnow-Preilack
Teltow-Fläming Dietmar Ertel Zossen
Uckermark Jan-Ulrich Weiss Prenzlau

Party leader

Party leader Term of office
Roland Scheel April 2013 - December 2013
Rainer van Raemdonck (acting) January 2014 - February 2014
Alexander Gauland Alexander Gauland February 2014 - April 2017
Andreas Kalbitz Andreas Kalbitz April 2017 - July 2020

Group leaders

Group leader Term of office
Alexander Gauland Alexander Gauland September 2014 - November 2017
Andreas Kalbitz Andreas Kalbitz November 2017 - August 2020

Young alternative Brandenburg

The Junge Alternative Brandenburg is the state-wide youth association of the AfD Brandenburg.

Election results

State elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Direct mandates Seats space Top candidate
2014 120,077 12.2%
0/44
11/88
4th Alexander Gauland
2019 297,484 25.5%
15/44
23/88
2 Andreas Kalbitz
Local elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Seats
2014 109.070 3.9%
39/934
2019 572.230 15.9%
153/938
Bundestag elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Direct mandates Seats space Top candidate
2013 83,075 6.0%
0/10
0/20
4th Alexander Gauland
2017 301.103 20.2%
0/10
5/25
2 Alexander Gauland
European elections
year Number of votes Share of votes space
2014 79,371 8.5% 4th
2019 238,441 19.9% 1

Parliamentary group

Members

From October 2019

The elected members of the state parliament are:

Member of the political group Entry into the state parliament over Current functions and memberships
in the parliamentary group and in the party
Sabine Barthel Direct mandate Uckermark III / Oberhavel IV
Hans-Christoph Berndt Direct mandate Dahme-Spreewald III
Birgit Bessin List position 4 Deputy Group Chairperson; deputy state chairman
Peter Drenske Direct mandate Elbe-Elster I
Lena Duggen List position 7 Deputy Parliamentary Director; Assessor in the state board
Andreas Galau List place 8 Vice President of the State Parliament ; Assessor in the state board
Lars Günther Direct mandate Märkisch-Oderland III
Michael Hanko Direct mandate Spree-Neisse II
Dennis Hohloch List place 10 Parliamentary Director; Assessor in the state board
Rolf-Peter Hooge Direct mandate Oder-Spree III
Lars Hünich List place 6
Steffen John Direct mandate Barnim III
Andreas Kalbitz List position 1 Non-party member of the AfD parliamentary group
Steffen Kubitzki List position 5 Member of the Presidium of the State Parliament; Deputy Group Chairman
Daniel Freiherr von Lützow List position 3 Deputy State Chairman
Wilko Möller Direct mandate Frankfurt (Oder) Assessor in the state board
Daniel Münschke Direct mandate Oberspreewald-Lausitz III / Spree-Neisse III
Kathleen Muxel Direct mandate Oder-Spree II
Volker Nothing Direct mandate Elbe-Elster II
Lars Schieske Direct mandate Cottbus II
Marianne Spring clearing bowl Direct mandate Cottbus I Age president
Felix Teichner Direct mandate Uckermark I
Franz Wiese Direct mandate Märkisch-Oderland IV

2014-2019

The elected members of the AfD in the state parliament of Brandenburg from 2014 to 2019 were:

Member of the political group Entry into the state parliament over Current functions and memberships
in the parliamentary group and in the party
Birgit Bessin List position 5 Deputy Group Chairman; deputy state chairman
Andreas Galau List position 7 Parliamentary executive director
Thomas Jung List place 6 Deputy Group Chairman
Andreas Kalbitz List position 9 Group chairman; State chairman; Assessor in the federal board
Rainer van Raemdonck List place 2
Christina What a shame List position 11
Jan-Ulrich Weiss List position 12
Franz Wiese List position 3

former members

  • Stefan Hein (entry into the state parliament above list position 10; expulsion from the parliamentary group on October 6, 2014 due to launching a false report to the Spiegel )
  • Alexander Gauland (entry into the state parliament above list position 1; resignation from the parliamentary group and resignation of the mandate after entry into the Bundestag on October 25, 2017; successor: Jan-Ulrich Weiß )
  • Steffen Königer (entry into the state parliament above list position 8; resignation from the parliamentary group and the party on November 29, 2018 for reasons of conscience)
  • Sven Schröder (entry into the state parliament above list position 4; resignation from the parliamentary group and the party on April 29, 2019)

Controversy about right-wing extremist employees

According to media reports, the parliamentary group employed several employees from the right-wing extremist milieu. This included, for example, Jean-Pascal Hohm, former state chairman of the Junge Alternative in Brandenburg, who regularly showed himself in selfies in T-shirts of the Identitarian Movement and in December 2016 took part in a sit-down by Identitarians in front of the CDU party headquarters. Hohm, who had completed an internship with the right-wing radical group One Percent for our country , also appeared as a speaker at demonstrations by the xenophobic group Zukunft Heimat in Brandenburg and was dismissed as a member of the parliamentary group in spring 2017, but a few months later an employee of René Springer . Olaf Sundermeyer saw in "the young hope of the AfD" Hohm one of "the most active identities ever". Since the beginning of 2015, an ex-cadre of the forbidden home loyal German youth (HDJ) had been active as a transport and European policy advisor for the Brandenburg AfD parliamentary group, who, like Gauland, moved to Alexander Gauland's staff office after the AfD moved into the Bundestag confirmed to the FAZ . Another trainee in the state parliamentary group from Brandenburg was active in the Berlin neo-Nazi scene, according to Zeit Online , in spring 2016 a person by his name was registered as a steward by the organizers of a neo-Nazi concert in Thuringia . This man, who stood out with extremely right-wing views, also became an employee of Gauland in the Bundestag in October 2017. According to the parliamentary group chairman Andreas Kalbitz's confirmation, other employees are also connected to the Identitarian Movement, which is under observation by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: Kai Laubach, the parliamentary group's policy adviser, took part in individual IB activities. Franz Dusatko, Deputy Head of the "Junge Alternative" region and assistant to the parliamentary group leadership, was also involved in a blockade of the IB against the CDU headquarters in Berlin in December 2016. According to the JA website, the deputy federal secretary of the Junge Alternative Tim Ballschuh, who also works for the Brandenburg AfD parliamentary group, shot a blank gun at counter-demonstrators in 2018 after an AfD election rally in Regensburg. According to a report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Ballschuh admitted that he had earlier contacts with the NPD and was "also a member of the fraternities Frankonia Erlangen and Halle-Leobener Burschenschaft classified as right-wing extremists ". A photo taken in March 2008 during a neo-Nazi rally shows him in the rooms of the then JN federal headquarters in Bernburg.

Regional group in the German Bundestag

The state list for the 2017 federal election was presented at a two-day party congress in Rangsdorf on 28/29. January 2017.

The state party moved into the German Bundestag with a total of five members, who are part of the AfD parliamentary group :

Member of the political group Moved into the Bundestag over Current functions and memberships
in the parliamentary group and in the party
Alexander Gauland List position 1 Chairman of the AfD parliamentary group
Norbert Kleinwächter List position 5
Steffen Kotré List position 4 Chairman of the regional group; Assessor in the state board
Roman Reusch List place 2 Assessor in the state board
René Springer List position 3

literature

  • Gideon Botsch , Christoph Kopke , Alexander Lorenz: How does the »Alternative for Germany« act locally? The Brandenburg case study . In: Andreas Zick , Beate Küpper : Anger, contempt, devaluation. Right-wing populism in Germany . Edited for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation by Ralf Melzer and Dietmar Molthagen, Dietz, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-8012-0478-5 , pp. 146–166.
  • Christoph Kopke, Alexander Lorenz: »I don't know any wings, I don't know any currents. I only know the Brandenburg AfD «. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Brandenburg in spring 2015 . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): The alternative for Germany. Program, development and political positioning . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10638-6 , pp. 221-235.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Political parties in Brandenburg. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  2. zeit.de: Protection of the Constitution provides AFD Brandenburg under observation (15 June 2020) ; viewed on June 15, 2020
  3. Ministry of the Interior and for Local Authority Brandenburg: The Protection of the Constitution classifies the Brandenburg State Association of the AfD as an object of observation , press release No. 029/2020 from June 15, 2020
  4. ^ Gideon Botsch , Christoph Kopke , Alexander Lorenz: How does the "Alternative for Germany" act locally? The Brandenburg case study . In: Andreas Zick , Beate Küpper : Anger, contempt, devaluation. Right-wing populism in Germany . Edited for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation by Ralf Melzer and Dietmar Molthagen , Dietz, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-8012-0478-5 , pp. 146–166, here: p. 147.
  5. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : The Brandenburg state election of September 14, 2014: The Left is punished, but remains a ruling party . In: Journal for Parliamentary Questions 46 (2015) 1, pp. 21–38, here: p. 25.
  6. Christoph Kopke , Alexander Lorenz: »I don't know any wings, I don't know any currents. I only know the Brandenburg AfD «. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Brandenburg in spring 2015 . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): The alternative for Germany. Program, development and political positioning . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10638-6 , pp. 221–235, here: p. 225.
  7. ^ Oskar Niedermayer : The Brandenburg state election of September 14, 2014: The Left is punished, but remains a ruling party . In: Journal for Parliamentary Questions 46 (2015) 1, pp. 21–38.
  8. Christoph Kopke , Alexander Lorenz: »I don't know any wings, I don't know any currents. I only know the Brandenburg AfD «. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Brandenburg in spring 2015 . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): The alternative for Germany. Program, development and political positioning . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10638-6 , pp. 221–235, here: p. 228.
  9. ^ A b Gideon Botsch , Christoph Kopke , Alexander Lorenz: How does the "Alternative for Germany" act locally? The Brandenburg case study . In: Andreas Zick , Beate Küpper : Anger, contempt, devaluation. Right-wing populism in Germany . Edited for the Friedrich Ebert Foundation by Ralf Melzer and Dietmar Molthagen, Dietz, Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-8012-0478-5 , pp. 146–166, here: p. 148.
  10. "In the Brandenburg AfD, the wing has long been the whole bird" www.spiegel.de, June 15, 2020
  11. ^ A b Gideon Botsch , Christoph Kopke , Alexander Lorenz: How does the "Alternative for Germany" act locally? The Brandenburg case study . In: Andreas Zick , Beate Küpper : Anger, contempt, devaluation. Right-wing populism in Germany . Edited for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung by Ralf Melzer and Dietmar Molthagen, Dietz-Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-8012-0478-5 , pp. 146–166, here: p. 165.
  12. Christoph Kopke , Alexander Lorenz: »I don't know any wings, I don't know any currents. I only know the Brandenburg AfD «. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Brandenburg in spring 2015 . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): The alternative for Germany. Program, development and political positioning . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10638-6 , pp. 221–235, here: p. 229.
  13. a b Alexander Häusler , Rainer Roeser: The right ›courage‹ citizens. Origin, development, personnel and positions of the »Alternative for Germany« . VSA Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89965-640-4 , p. 105 f.
  14. Christoph Kopke , Alexander Lorenz: »I don't know any wings, I don't know any currents. I only know the Brandenburg AfD «. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Brandenburg in spring 2015 . In: Alexander Häusler (ed.): The alternative for Germany. Program, development and political positioning . Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-10638-6 , pp. 221–235, here: p. 226.
  15. a b State Statutes of the Alternative for Germany State Association Brandenburg , accessed on September 28, 2018.
  16. ^ Election result of the state elections in Brandenburg in 2014
  17. ^ Election result of the municipal elections in Brandenburg 2014
  18. ^ Elections of the district councils of the districts and city councils of the independent cities in the state of Brandenburg on May 26th, 2019. The State Returning Officer for Brandenburg, accessed on August 28, 2019.
  19. ^ Result of the Bundestag election in Brandenburg on September 22, 2013
  20. Result of the Bundestag election in Brandenburg on September 24, 2017
  21. ↑ State result of the European elections in Brandenburg on May 25, 2014
  22. European elections 2019, Brandenburg - preliminary result
  23. See Landtag Brandenburg: AfD parliamentary group , accessed on June 8, 2016
  24. AfD parliamentary group excludes Stefan Hein ( Memento from September 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on September 9, 2017)
  25. Controversial AfD politician is Gauland's successor (accessed on November 9, 2017)
  26. Steffen Koeniger. Assessor in the AfD federal board resigns from party: Welt.de from November 29, 2018
  27. Power of the Völkischen "One word too much can be the end of any career in the AfD" , Die Welt April 29, 2019
  28. Brandenburg resignation from the state parliament Sven Schröder leaves the AfD , Märkische Allgemeine April 29, 2019
  29. Brandenburger Landtag Landtag MEP Sven Schröder declares resignation from AfD , Berliner Zeitung April 29, 2019
  30. Brandenburg State Parliament member Sven Schröder leaves the AfD , RBB April 29, 2019
  31. ↑ Member of Parliament Schröder declares withdrawal from the AfD , t-online April 29, 2019
  32. ^ A b Kai Biermann , Astrid Geisler , Johannes Radke, Tilman Steffen: AfD MPs deal with right-wing extremists and enemies of the constitution . In: time online . March 21, 2018.
  33. Olaf Sundermeyer , Jan Wiese: The Identitarians: Creative Storm Troop of the AfD . ( Memento of September 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: RBB . June 16, 2017.
  34. Alexander Fröhlich: Gauland's Nazi shadow . ( Memento from March 23, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) In: Der Tagesspiegel . 19th March 2018.
  35. Markus Wehner: Alexander Gauland employed HDJ member . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . 19th March 2018.
  36. Protection of the Constitution observed "Identitarian movement" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 12, 2016.
  37. Alexander Fröhlich: Brandenburg's AfD boss was in contact with right-wing extremist organizations . In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 6, 2018.
  38. ^ Marion Kaufmann: NPD-related employee in the AfD parliamentary group. www.pnn.de, March 5, 2020
  39. ^ AfD Brandenburg chooses state list. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
  40. ^ State lists of the parties in Brandenburg - The Federal Returning Officer. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 8, 2017 .