AfD Lower Saxony
| AfD Lower Saxony | |||
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| Chairperson | Dana Guth | ||
| Deputy | Siegfried Reichert Harm Rykena Klaus Wichmann |
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| Treasurer | Evelyn Witerzens | ||
| Establishment date | 1st of May 2013 | ||
| Place of foundation | Luneburg | ||
| Headquarters | Am Brabrinke 14 30519 Hanover |
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| Landtag mandates |
9/137 |
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| Number of members | 2,758 (as of October 2017) | ||
| Website | afd-niedersachsen.de | ||
The AfD Lower Saxony is the Lower Saxony state association of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD). With Armin-Paul Hampel as the top candidate, the AfD ran for the 2017 federal election in Lower Saxony and sent seven members to the 19th Bundestag . For the 2017 state election , the state party with Dana Guth , who has headed the state association as state chairman since April 2018, stood as the top candidate and won nine seats in the Lower Saxony state parliament .
history
2013: Founding and federal election 2013
The Lower Saxony state association of the AfD was founded on May 1, 2013 in Lüneburg . During the founding meeting, Ulrich Abramowski, a graduate economist, was elected as the first state chairman by around 450 members present. The then co-federal spokesman Bernd Lucke was unanimously elected as the state party's top candidate in the 2013 federal election. In the election, 1.9% of the first and 3.7% of the second votes from Lower Saxony went to the AfD.
2013 - 2017: Hampel era, increasing internal party disputes, federal / state elections 2017 and entry into the state parliament
After two board members resigned in October 2013, a new state board of eleven was elected at an extraordinary state party conference on November 23, 2013, chaired by Armin-Paul Hampel . After initial support for the course from Co-Federal Spokesman Lucke, at the beginning of January 2015 a. a. An initiative Bürgerliche AfD was founded by district boards within the regional association , which rejected a “neoliberal” orientation of the party, supported a “conservative and value-oriented” policy and called for diversity of opinion and grassroots democracy in the party. It was supported by a number of state board members, including Chairman Hampel. After the extraordinary party congress in March 2015, further supporters of the initiative were elected to the state executive committee. All candidates supported by Lucke failed. The initiative supported neither the Erfurt resolution nor the Germany resolution and rejected all attempts at division, in particular the 2015 wake-up call . After the Essen Federal Party Congress, the initiative stopped its activities. After the Essen party congress, the state executive demanded Bernd Lucke's immediate resignation from the party. After that, there were increasing numbers of officials and members resigning from the party at the district level.
First disputes within the state executive led to the resignation of the deputy chairman Jens Wilharm. At a state party conference in June 2016, Astrid zum Felde was elected as the new deputy state chairwoman. After some changes to the statutes and a draft of the state executive committee for the financial and contribution regulations were rejected by the members at the party congress, Hampel did not rule out a resignation.
In the local elections in 2016 , the state party achieved a result of 7.8% of the vote. After this disappointing result, internal party disputes increased. In January 2017, eleven district associations called for an extraordinary party congress at which motions for voting against most members of the state executive were to be dealt with. After two district associations withdrew their approval at short notice, the party congress was canceled. Criticism of the leadership style was expressed by the Göttingen district association and its chairman, Dana Guth , as the state executive forbade it to accept new members on the grounds of openness to right-wing extremists. Another 13 out of 31 district associations also criticized the state chairman and identified a “leadership crisis”. Instead of the extraordinary party congress, the state election assembly was planned for the election of the state list for the 2017 federal election , which was initially banned by the regional arbitration court due to the fact that the invitation period was exceeded, but was re-approved by the federal arbitration court. Hampel was on the 3rd / 4th February 2017 elected top candidate of the state party with 89% of the votes. The critics who stayed away announced a judicial challenge to the election. The list of countries was completed the following weekend.
At a state party conference on 25./26. March 2017, Armin-Paul Hampel was re-elected with almost 57% of the vote in a battle vote against two opposing candidates, Dana Guth (23%) and Siegfried Reichert (21%), after a discussion with the critics was removed from the agenda at the request of the state executive has been. Hampel accused his critics of deliberately "infiltrating" the party with "moles" or "submarines". Guth called for the controversial state election meetings to be repeated. The deputy chairwoman Astrid zum Felde and the treasurer Bodo Suhren were not re-elected, while the chairman of the state program commission, Uwe Wappler, was elected as an assessor, who internally called for a tap-hunt operation , which resulted in the deselection or resignation of a district chairman by deliberately disrupting his election campaign events Insolation provided.
In June 2017 it was publicly announced that the state list had not been submitted to the state returning officer by then. The state executive then published two allegedly falsified replies from the state returning officer, which were supposed to confirm receipt of the state list in March 2017. Because of the suspicion of falsification, the election officer and the state executive switched the public prosecutor on. The latter announced that the letter with the state list from the state returning officer had been stolen and a fake reply letter had been sent back to the state party, and submitted the state list at a meeting with the state returning officer. The federal executive demanded that the state election assembly be repeated and that a new state list be drawn up. On July 28, 2017, the regional returning officer announced the approval of the state list.
At the state election meeting for the election of the state list for the state elections in 2017 , Dana Guth prevailed with 56% of the votes against the candidate Maik Schmitz (43%) supported by Hampel and was elected as the top candidate. Was also Stephan Bothe supported by Hampel, who was able to prevail in 2nd place with 51% of votes.
In addition to the power struggle, the election campaigns for the federal and state elections were influenced by the financial situation of the state association and investigations by the state office of the Lüneburg public prosecutor on suspicion of fraud against Hampel. While the investigations were stopped after only four days because of the discharge of Hampels "in all points to be examined", the federal executive board suspended a loan of 700,000 euros for the election campaigns to the regional association, as it owed 60,000 euros to the district associations. The top candidate was illegally excluded from the Göttingen district parliamentary group shortly before the state elections.
While the state party accounted for 8.0% of the first and 9.1% of the second votes in the federal elections , the AfD achieved 4.6% first and 6.2% second votes in the state elections . Guth was unanimously elected as parliamentary group chairman in the state parliament.
2017 - 2018: Escalation of the power struggle and dismissal of the state executive
On the evening of the state elections, the state board broke. Six state board members requested in a letter to the district associations a new start in terms of personnel at an extraordinary party congress. On November 26th, the state convention decided to submit an application to the state executive with the establishment of a party congress on January 13th and 14th, 2018. Half of the executive committee then sent invitations to state party conferences at different locations with different agendas and declared the other invitation to be invalid. At the end of December, both invitations were sent out for Hanover as the location for the party congress. With the mediation of the federal executive committee, an agreement was reached on holding a special party conference with an application book containing various applications for the voting out of some board members or the election of the entire board. To my amazement, the party conference was canceled by Hampel every two days before it took place. According to this, the regional arbitration court ruled that the parallel invitations were not legally valid for formal reasons and that there was a risk that the results of the party congress could be challenged.
A few days later, the federal executive deposed the entire state executive. With a two-thirds majority, it was decided to remove the head of the AfD Lower Saxony with immediate effect, the federal party announced. The state executive in office until then had seriously violated the principles or the order of the party; it will soon be invited to a state party conference to elect a new board. According to the AfD party statutes, the federal executive can enforce this removal from office of a state executive. The Federal Arbitration Court dismissed Hampel's action, so that a three-member emergency board consisting of Dirk Nockemann (Hamburg state chairman), Stephan Protschka and Kay Gottschalk (both federal board members and Member of the Bundestag) could be formed to prepare the convening of an extraordinary party conference for March 2018.
Since 2018: New state executive and politics in the state parliament
In April 2018, an extraordinary state party conference took place in Braunschweig, to which an emergency board appointed by the federal association had invited. An important topic was the special audit of the finances of the state party by the emergency board. The federal auditor Christian Waldheim found major irregularities. Between 2013 and 2017, a total of 27,333 euros were spent without receipts under the old state executive. Waldheim said he had not given board members a discharge recommendation for those years. Hampel denied the allegations; all accounts were correct. The head of the regional office, Andrea Obeck, also criticized the cash check and accused Waldheim of a lack of communication. In the election for the new state executive, Dana Guth prevailed in the second ballot in a voting against the former state chief Armin-Paul Hampel with 280 to 205 of 521 votes cast. Dietmar Friedhoff, member of the Bundestag, and Stefan Broughman, member of the board of directors of the Helmstedt district association, also applied for the post in the first round of voting.
At another party congress in Oldenburg, a state statute was adopted. In addition, the camp around Hampel enforced a repetition of the special fund audit by an independent auditor against the executive board, since missing receipts for the expenses in the amount of 27,333 euros had meanwhile been found. Furthermore, an internal paper drawn up by the deputy state chairman Klaus Wichmann for party friends became known, which describes, using wording examples, what is allowed to be said on the basis of the constitution and what should not be communicated or how something (in social networks) should be communicated in order to avoid that the protection of the constitution puts the party under observation. One must be particularly careful with statements relating to human dignity. Corresponding training courses are also planned.
organization
The party organs of the state association are the state party congress, the state executive committee, the state convention and the state election assembly for the federal election. The regional arbitration tribunal decides on internal party disputes and can expel members. The regional office is in Hanover .
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 state party congress takes place as a general assembly. If the party congress is held as an assembly of delegates, 250 delegates are sent by the district associations according to the Sainte-Laguë procedure .
| No. | date | place | State Chairperson / Leading Candidate |
Election result | theme |
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| 1st state party conference | 1st of May 2013 | Luneburg | Ulrich Abramowski |
70% |
Establishment of the regional association; Election of the state board Invalid election of the state list for the 2013 federal election |
| State election assembly | May 26, 2013 | Luneburg | Bernd Lucke | 100% | Repetition of the election of the state list for the 2013 federal election |
| 2nd state party conference | 23rd November 2013 | Hanover | Armin-Paul Hampel | 51% | New election of the state board. Election of the delegates to the federal party congress and the European election assembly |
| 3rd state party conference | 4th January 2014 | Hanover | Amendment of the state statutes | ||
| 4th state party conference | 14./15. March 2015 April 18, 2015 |
Hanover | Armin-Paul Hampel | New election of the state executive; New election of the regional arbitration tribunal; Amendment of the state statutes. Election of the delegates to the federal party congress and the federal convention |
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| 5th state party conference | 17./18. September 2016 | Hanover | By-election of state board members | ||
| State election assembly | 3rd / 4th February 2017 11./12. February 2017 |
Hanover | Armin-Paul Hampel | 85% | Election of the state list for the 2017 federal election |
| 6th state party conference | 25./26. March 2017 | Hanover | Armin-Paul Hampel | 57% | New election of the state executive |
| State election assembly | 4th August 2017 18./19. August 2017 |
Walsrode Hessisch Oldendorf |
Dana Guth | 56% | Election of the state list and resolution of the election platform for the state election 2017 |
| 7th state party conference | 5th August 2017 | Walsrode | Change of the financial and contribution regulations | ||
| 8th state party conference | 7th / 8th April 2018 | Braunschweig | Dana Guth | 54% | New election of the state executive |
| 9th state party conference | 27./28. October 2018 | Oldenburg | Change of state statutes; New election of the regional arbitration tribunal; Resolution on the Global Compact on Migration |
State Board
Since 2018, the state executive has consisted of the following members:
| State chairman | Dana Guth (MdL) |
| Deputy State Chair | Siegfried Reichert, Klaus Wichmann (MdL), Harm Rykena (MdL) |
| Treasurer | Evelyn Witerzens |
| Secretary | Andreas Paul |
| Assessor | Thorben Freese, Jörn König (Member of the Bundestag), Frank Rinck, Patrick Scheelje, Carsten Vogel, Stefan Wirtz (Member of the Bundestag) |
| MdL = member of the state parliament; MdB = member of the Bundestag | |
National Convention
The state convention is responsible for advising the state board on political and organizational issues of the party and is informed about the work of the state board. It is composed of the members of the state board, the delegates from the district associations and one delegate from each of the state committees. Each district association is represented by a delegate. From 50 members the district association receives a second delegate, from 151 members a third delegate.
State program commission and state technical committees
The state program commission is responsible for the structuring of the state technical committees, their coordination and coordination in the creation and updating of the state program as well as in the creation of election programs for state and local elections. According to the statutes, party members are to be involved in the development of the programmatic positions. This is done through member surveys that are decided by the state program commission.
The state program commission consists of a state program coordinator and up to two other state board members as well as the heads or a respective representative of the state technical committees. The state program coordinator is the chairman of the state program commission.
The regional technical committees are responsible for the development of proposals for programmatic statements of the party on topics of their specialist area and are composed of the members of the regional association. The technically competent state and federal parliament members of Lower Saxony have a permanent right to participate.
District associations
The state association of Lower Saxony currently consists of 32 district associations. These associations are headed by contact persons who essentially perform communication and coordination tasks and are in some cases elected by the members. After the district structure, city or local groups should be formed.
Party leader
| Party chairman | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|
| Ulrich Abramowski | May 2013 - November 2013 | |
| Armin-Paul Hampel | November 2013 - January 2018 | |
| Dana Guth | since April 2018 | |
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Group leaders
| Parliamentary group leader | Term of office | |
|---|---|---|
| Dana Guth | since October 2017 | |
Young alternative Lower Saxony
The Junge Alternative Niedersachsen was the nationwide youth association of the AfD Lower Saxony. After the activist of the Identitarian Movement Lars Steinke was elected regional chairman of the AfD youth organization in 2017, the chairmen of the JA district associations Hanover and Lüneburg, Sven Larres and Mario Olsson, resigned in protest. Steinke was excluded from the AfD in June 2019.
In September 2018, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior set the course for the observation of JA Lower Saxony by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. JA Bremen is also being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution there. Thereupon the federal chairman of the JA Damian Lohr considered a self-dissolution of the JA regional associations. This then serves "to protect the entire organization". An extraordinary YES federal congress was convened at short notice for this possible formal legal step. If the delegates vote against the dissolution, he will step down as federal chairman, Lohr announced.
On November 4, 2018, a federal congress of the JA in Barsinghausen decided to dissolve the state association. The reasons given were violations of the federal statutes, the order of the organization and the free-democratic basic order of the Federal Republic. The decision was expressly welcomed by Lohr.
Electorate and election results
In May 2020, the Göttingen Institute for Democracy Research published a study on the social profile, political attitudes and regional distribution of votes of the party in Lower Saxony in the last Bundestag and Landtag elections as well as in the European Parliament election. The study shows, among other things, that the AfD can achieve its best results in the state, especially in the cities of Salzgitter and Delmenhorst, while the Catholic districts in the west of Lower Saxony (e.g. Emsland, Vechta) consistently remain below the national average.
| State elections | ||||||
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| year | Number of votes | Share of votes | Direct mandates | Seats | space | Top candidate |
| 2017 | 235.853 | 6.2% |
0/87 |
9/137 |
5 | Dana Guth |
| District elections | ||||||
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| year | Number of votes | Share of votes | Seats | |||
| 2016 | 812,645 | 7.8% |
177/2326 |
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| Municipal elections | ||||||
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| year | Number of votes | Share of votes | Seats | |||
| 2016 | 261,573 | 2.9% |
198/15496 |
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| Bundestag elections | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| year | Number of votes | Share of votes | Direct mandates | Seats | space | Top candidate |
| 2013 | 165.875 | 3.7% |
0/30 |
0/66 |
6th | Bernd Lucke |
| 2017 | 422,362 | 9.1% |
0/30 |
7/66 |
4th | Armin-Paul Hampel |
| European elections | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | Number of votes | Share of votes | space |
| 2014 | 160,342 | 5.4% | 4th |
| 2019 | 297,385 | 7.9% | |
Parliamentary group
The elected members of the AfD in the Lower Saxony 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jens Ahrends | List position 7 | |
| Stephan Bothe | List place 2 | |
| Christopher Emden | List place 8 | |
| Dana Guth | List position 1 | Group chairman; State chairman |
| Stefan Henze | List position 4 | Deputy Group Chairman |
| Peer Lilienthal | List position 3 | CFO |
| Harm Rykena | List position 9 | Deputy State Chairman |
| Klaus Wichmann | List position 5 | Parliamentary Director; Deputy State Chairman |
| Stefan Wirtz | List place 6 | Assessor in the state board |
Regional group in the German Bundestag
The state list for the 2017 federal election was drawn up on two two-day party congresses on April 4th and 5th. February and 11/12. Set up in Hanover in February 2017 . Several party members appealed to the Lüneburg Regional Court and the party's Regional Arbitration Court against the legality of the candidates' list, both of which were rejected. The state list was then submitted to the state election control.
A total of seven mandate applicants from the state list were elected to the 19th German Bundestag and form a state group within 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Thomas Ehrhorn | List position 3 | |
| Dietmar Friedhoff | List position 5 | Chairman of the regional group |
| Armin-Paul Hampel | List position 1 | Foreign policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag |
| Waldemar Herdt | List position 7 | Deputy chairman of the regional group |
| Jens Kestner | List place 6 | |
| Jörn König | List place 2 | Party chairman in the sports committee ; Assessor in the state board |
| Wilhelm von Gottberg | List position 4 |
Observation of individual members by the protection of the constitution
The entire AfD state association of Lower Saxony does not appear in any report on the protection of the constitution; Individual members are, however, observed by the Lower Saxony constitution protection , including the chairman of the AfD district association Diepholz , elected in 2016 , who has been active in the right-wing extremist scene since the mid-1990s. There are also references to the cooperation between the AfD youth organization “Junge Alternative” and the right-wing extremist “ Identitarian Movement ” (see section “Junge Alternative Niedersachsen”).
Web links
literature
Florian Finkbeiner, Niklas Schröder: The AfD and their voters in Lower Saxony. A case analysis of the social profile of the electorate and their political attitudes using the example of Lower Saxony , FoDEx study right-wing radicalism, Göttingen 2020.
Individual evidence
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- ^ The Federal Returning Officer : Results of the 2013 federal election in Lower Saxony. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
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- ^ Minutes (excerpt) from the extraordinary party congress of the Alternative for Germany Landesverband Niedersachsen on November 23, 2013. (PDF) November 29, 2013, accessed February 26, 2019 .
- ^ Initiative Bürgerliche AfD founded in Lower Saxony. March 2, 2015, accessed February 27, 2019 .
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- ↑ New AfD parliamentary group elects Guth as chairman. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Parts of the AfD board of directors are calling for Hampel to be deposed. October 15, 2017, accessed February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Matthias Kamann: AfD leaders fight each other by letter of invitation. December 28, 2017. Retrieved February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Hampel and his deputies want to vote out. January 8, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ State chief Hampel cancels AfD party conference. October 12, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Jens Schneider: United by the will to absolutely professionalize the party. January 21, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 .
- ^ AfD-head disempowered state board in Lower Saxony. January 19, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Matthias Kamann: Now Hampel's archenemy senses her chance. February 8, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 .
- ^ NDR: Battle vote: Dana Guth new AfD boss. Retrieved April 7, 2018 .
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- ↑ Lower Saxony-AfD arguing again. October 28, 2018, accessed February 28, 2019 .
- ^ The AfD strategy against the protection of the constitution. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.ndr.de, October 28, 2018
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- ↑ Is the Junge Alternative moving to the far right? In: Jetzt.de . July 19, 2017 ( Jetzt.de [accessed January 12, 2018]).
- ^ Controversy about identities at the AfD youth Lower Saxony - Störungsmelder . In: Malfunction reporter . July 4, 2017 ( zeit.de [accessed January 12, 2018]).
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- ^ NDR: Will the AfD offspring in Lower Saxony be dissolved? ( ndr.de [accessed on September 3, 2018]).
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- ↑ Florian Finkbeiner, Niklas Schröder: The AfD and their voters in Lower Saxony. A case analysis of the social profile of the electorate and their political attitudes using the example of Lower Saxony . Göttingen 2020, p. 49 ( fodex-online.de ).
- ↑ ibid., P. 56.
- ↑ Result of the state elections in Lower Saxony 2017 ( Memento from October 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b Result of the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2016
- ^ Result of the Bundestag election in Lower Saxony on September 22, 2013
- ^ Result of the federal election in Lower Saxony on September 24, 2017
- ↑ Result of the European elections in Lower Saxony on May 25, 2014
- ↑ Results Lower Saxony - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
- ↑ List places: Fine art at AfD top, the rest takes. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .
- ↑ AfD list will not be re-elected. July 7, 2017. Retrieved September 9, 2017 .
- ^ State lists of the parties in Lower Saxony - The Federal Returning Officer. Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 9, 2017 .
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