AfD Saxony

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AfD Saxony
Jörg Urban
Jörg Urban 		Alternative-for-Germany-Logo-2013.svg
Chairman Jörg Urban
Deputy Siegbert Droese
Joachim Keiler
Martina Jost
Secretary General Jan-Oliver dwarf
Treasurer Torsten Gahler
executive Director Carsten Hütter
Establishment date April 28, 2013
Place of foundation Leipzig
Headquarters Ostraallee 35
01067 Dresden
Landtag mandates
38/119
Number of members 2,800 (as of February 2020)
Website www.afdsachsen.de

The AfD Sachsen is the regional association of the German party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Free State of Saxony . The regional association is led by Jörg Urban as regional chairman. The state party ran for the first time in the state elections in 2014 and then moved into the Saxon state parliament . The AfD Saxony also ran for the 2017 federal election , became the strongest party in Saxony for the first time in terms of second votes with 27.0% and moved into the 19th German Bundestag with a ten-member regional group . In the 2019 European elections , she and her candidate Maximilian Krah defended their position as the strongest force with 25.3% and expanded their lead over the CDU.

history

The founding of the AfD regional association of Saxony was decided on March 27, 2013 in Döbeln . The founding party conference took place on April 28, 2013 as a general meeting. The 133 voting members present elected three board members, two assessors and the treasurer. Frauke Petry was elected as the state chairman . The decision was then passed unanimously to take part in the elections to the 18th German Bundestag and to elect a state list with ten candidates. Places one to five on the list were chosen individually and places six to ten in block voting. There were runoff elections for places three to five. After the state election, a candidate who had been struck off the electoral list by the state board raised an objection to the election.

Initially, the AfD Saxony accepted former members of right-wing populist parties, such as the civil rights party for more freedom and democracy - Die Freiheit , the civil movement Pro Chemnitz and the German Social Union . In the state elections in 2014 , calls for a referendum on the construction of mosques with minarets , for a German quota on radio and for the suspension of the Schengen Agreement were taken up. Members of the Saxon state association were involved in founding the Patriotic Platform , which is represented externally by the former AfD state board member Hans-Thomas Tillschneider .

At the beginning of January 2016 it became known through media reports that the AfD member of the state parliament Detlev Spangenberg was working as an unofficial employee for the Stasi during his military service with the National People's Army (NVA) and had delivered several reports about other NVA soldiers to the Stasi . The parliamentary group of the AfD Saxony confirmed the Stasi cooperation Spangenberg and criticized the disclosure of the information. According to the constitution of the Free State of Saxony , a Stasi activity can lead to the loss of the mandate. In addition, elected officials of the AfD had to assure that they had not worked for the Stasi.

Intra-party conflicts at federal and state level led to the resignation of the state chairwoman Frauke Petry from the parliamentary group on September 26, 2017 and from the party on September 29, 2017. As a result, there were further resignations and resignations in the parliamentary group and in the state executive. In October 2017, an emergency board had to be appointed by the regional arbitration court , as a total of six board members had resigned after Petry's resignation and the board was no longer able to act. The state chairman Jörg Urban announced an intensified cooperation with Pegida in order to provide the prime minister as the strongest party after the state elections in Saxony in 2019 . However, the party submitted a list of candidates at the end of June 2019, which, even after several corrections, contained numerous formal errors. The state election committee shortened the list of AfD candidates from 61 to 18. A major problem was that the AfD Saxony put up its candidates at two different party conventions in February 2019 and March 2019 and, according to the newspaper “ Freie Presse ”, used different voting procedures. Therefore, according to the state election committee, only the list of candidates from the first party congress with places 1 to 18 can be recognized as admissible. All possible candidates must be selected in a process using the same procedure. The state chairman Jörg Urban spoke of an "agreed plot" and rejected all allegations and allegations against the party. The AfD filed a lawsuit with the state constitutional court against the decision. The State Returning Officer of the Free State of Saxony was threatened as a result and the following public meetings of the election committee were placed under police protection.

Die Zeit pointed out that the Constitutional Court of Saxony had referred to the usual legal process in other cases. This provides that the plaintiff may only lodge a complaint with the Saxon state parliament after the election. The Constitutional Court of Saxony ruled on July 25, 2019 that the list of 30 candidates had to be approved. On August 16, 2019, the State Constitutional Court upheld the preliminary decision of July 25, according to which the AfD can only run with 30 list candidates. Saxony's party leader Jörg Urban announced a complaint to the election review committee of the Saxon state parliament after the election.

organization

Organs of the state association are the state party congress, the state executive committee and the state arbitration tribunal. This 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. If the number of party members exceeds 500, the state party congress does not take place as a general assembly, but as an assembly of delegates. The district associations each send a representative for five members.

State party conferences
No. date place State Chairperson /
Leading Candidate 		Election result theme
01st state party conference April 28, 2013 Leipzig Frauke Petry
Frauke Petry 		 
97% 		Establishment of the regional association; Election of the state board
Election of the state list for the 2013 federal election
02nd state party conference November 30, 2013 Laußnitz Frauke Petry 80% New election of the state executive
03rd state party conference 1./2. March 2014 Zwickau Resolution of the state statutes and the election program for the state election 2014
04th state party conference April 26, 2014 Weinböhla Frauke Petry 89% Election of the state list for the state election 2014
05th state party conference September 28, 2014 Oberwiesenthal By-election and voting out of state board members; Resolution on the Ukraine crisis
06th state party conference February 7, 2015 Belgians Election of the delegates to the federal party congress
07th state party conference 27./28. February 2016 Markneukirchen Frauke Petry 85% Change of state statutes; New election of the state executive
08th state party conference 28/29 January 2017 Groitzsch Frauke Petry 79% Election of the state list for the 2017 federal election
09th state party conference March 26, 2017
1st / 2nd April 2017 		Weinböhla Frauke Petry 72% Election of the state list for the 2017 federal election
10th state party conference 3rd / 4th February 2018 Hoyerswerda Jörg Urban 90% New election of the state executive
11th state party conference 15./16. September 2018 Markneukirchen Election of the delegates to the European election assembly
12th state party conference 8-10 February 2019 Markneukirchen Jörg Urban 84.5% Election of the state list for the state election 2019
13th state party conference February 29, 2020 Weinböhla Jörg Urban 87% New election of the state executive

State Board

Since February 2020, the state executive has consisted of the following members:

State Chairman Jörg Urban (MdL)
Secretary General Jan Zwerg (MdL)
Deputy State Chair Siegbert Droese (Member of the Bundestag), Joachim Keiler (Member of the Bundestag), Martina Jost (Member of the Bundestag)
Treasurer Torsten Gahler (MdL)
Deputy Treasurer Doreen Schwietzer (MdL)
Assessor Sebastian Wippel (MdL), Karsten Hilse (MdB), Andreas Harlaß , Nicole Klinger, Daniel Zabel, Matthias Moosdorf
Secretary Sebastian Wippel (MdL)
MdL = member of the state parliament; MdB = member of the Bundestag; MEP = Member of the European Parliament

State technical committees

At the state level, there is a state program commission made up of members of the state executive board and the heads of the currently 12 state technical committees (as of September 2018). The state technical committees develop concepts for the state election program and support the federal program commission and the federal technical committees in drawing up the party program at the federal level.

State technical committees (Oct. 2018)
No. State technical committee Chairman
LFA 1 Foreign and security policy, development policy and foreign trade Christoph Neumann
LFA 2 Euro, monetary and financial policy Gerhard Schuster
LFA 3 Economy, Taxes and Budget Policy Joachim Keiler
LFA 4 Family and demographics Jörg Bretschneider
LFA 5 Internal security, justice and data protection Hendrik Seidel
LFA 6 Education, science, culture and media Boris Hollas
LFA 7 Environment, nature and animal protection, agriculture and consumer protection Jörg Dornau
LFA 8 Health policy Charly Meinelt
LFA 9 Democracy and Core Values, Europe André Barth
LFA 10 Energy, technology and infrastructure Sven Rüger
LFA 11 Social security systems and pensions, labor and social policy André Wendt
LFA 12 Immigration, asylum, nationality Michael Ullmann

District associations

The AfD Saxony is divided into 13 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.

District associations (as of Sep. 2019)
District association Chairman Seat
Chemnitz district association Volker Dringenberg Chemnitz
District Association Dresden André Wendt Dresden
Leipzig district association Siegbert Droese Leipzig
District Association of Bautzen Karsten Hilse Bautzen
District Association of Erzgebirge Johannes Wolf Lugau
Görlitz district association Tino Chrupalla Goerlitz
Leipzig district association Edgar Naujok Borna
Meißen district association Detlev Spangenberg Meissen
Central Saxony district association René Kaiser Freiberg
District Association of Northern Saxony René Bochmann Eilenburg
District Association of Saxon Switzerland and Eastern Ore Mountains Lothar Hoffmann Pirna
District association Vogtland vacant Plauen
District association Zwickau Wolfram Wedge Zwickau

Party leader

Party chairman Term of office
2015-07-04 AfD Federal Party Congress Essen by Olaf Kosinsky-194.jpg Frauke Petry March 2013 - September 2017
Siegbert Droese September 2017 - February 2018
(provisional)
2019-09-01 Election Evening Saxony by Sandro Halank – 170.jpg Jörg Urban since February 2018

Group leaders

Parliamentary group leader Term of office
2015-07-04 AfD Federal Party Congress Essen by Olaf Kosinsky-194.jpg Frauke Petry September 2014 - September 2017
2019-09-01 Election Evening Saxony by Sandro Halank – 170.jpg Jörg Urban since October 2017

Young alternative Saxony

The  Young Alternative Saxony is the nationwide  youth association of  the AfD Saxony.

elections

Election results

State elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Direct mandates Seats space Top candidate
2014 159,611 9.7%
0/60
14/126
 4th Frauke Petry
2019 595,671 27.5%
15/60
38/119
* 		2 Jörg Urban
*The AfD was entitled to 39 seats, one could
not be filled because of the deletion of the list positions 31-61 by the state election committee.
District elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Seats
2014 268,513 5.8%
58/1114
2019 925.423 23.6%
218/902
Municipal council elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Seats
2014 117,314 2.5%
31/7259
2019 906.890 15.3%
641/6885
Bundestag elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Direct mandates Seats space Top candidate
2013 157.781 6.8%
0/16
0/33
 4th Frauke Petry
2017 669.895 27.0%
3/16
11/38
 1 Frauke Petry
European elections
year Number of votes Share of votes space
2014 164.263 10.1% 4th
2019 520,668 25.3% 1

electorate

The political scientist Eckhard Jesse stated that the Free State of Saxony had been a “stronghold” for the AfD in the federal, European and state elections of 2014/15. In the state elections in 2014 she won mainly from “other” parties not represented in the state parliament (39,000). AfD voters came from among the established parties of the CDU (33,000), FDP (18,000), Die Linke (15,000) and NPD (13,000), a smaller proportion previously voted for the SPD (8,000) and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (3,000). The AfD was also able to mobilize 16,000 former non-voters for itself. Similar to the NPD, the best results were achieved in the Upper Lusatia region . The shares in the cities of Dresden , Leipzig and Chemnitz , on the other hand, were disproportionately low. The “middle level of education” dominated the AfD voters; The self-employed were overrepresented. Above all, economically “dissatisfied” people and young men between 18 and 24 years of age felt addressed. By far they were also non-denominational. There were also significantly more second votes than first votes compared to the FDP. Among the NPD's “splitting voters”, the AfD received seven percent and was in second place behind the CDU. Without the participation of the AfD in the state elections, the NPD would have moved in, although Jesse classifies the former as non-extremist.

Parliamentary group

Members: from October 2019

Deputy Moving in over Functions / memberships
André Barth List position 20
Mario Beger Meissen 2
Jörg Dornau List position 24
Volker Dringenberg List place 14
Torsten Gahler List place 6 Treasurer
Christopher Hahn List position 23
René Hein List place 28
Holger Hentschel List position 9
Carsten Hütter Meissen 1 Deputy Federal Treasurer
Martina Jost List place 10 Third deputy state chairwoman
Wolfram Wedge List place 13
Joachim Keiler List position 3 Second deputy state chairman
Tobias Keller List position 18
Thomas Kirste Meissen 3
Jörg Kühne List place 25
Roberto Kuhnert Goerlitz 1
Mario Kumpf Goerlitz 3
Lars Kuppi Central axes 4
Ulrich Lupart List position 17
Norbert Mayer List place 27
Jens Oberhoffner List position 29
Romy Penz List place 22
Frank Peschel Bautzen 1st
Gudrun Petzold North Saxony 3
Thomas Prantl List position 19
Frank Schaufel Vogtland 1
Timo Schreyer Bautzen 3
Doreen Schwietzer Bautzen 4 Deputy Treasurer
Ivo Teichmann Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains 4
Thomas Thumm Ore Mountains 3
Roland Ulbrich List place 21
Jörg Urban List position 1 Group chairman; State Chairman
Rolf Weigand Central axes 2 Third vice-chairman of the political group
André Wendt List position 4 Second vice-chairman of the group
Alexander Wiesner List position 30
Sebastian Wippel List position 5 First deputy group chairman; Assessor in the state board; Secretary
Hans-Jürgen Zickler List position 16
Jan-Oliver dwarf Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains 3 Parliamentary Director; Secretary General

Members: 2014–2019

In the constituent meeting of the AfD parliamentary group on September 3, 2014, Petry was unanimously elected group chairman. After Petrys left the parliamentary group, the board was re-elected on October 19, 2017. It was Jörg Urban intended for group leaders.

Deputy Moving in over Functions / memberships Remarks
André Barth List position 4 Parliamentary executive director
Mario Beger List position 3
Silke Grimm List place 14
Carsten Hütter List position 5 Deputy Group Chairman
Jörg Urban List position 7 Group leader
Rolf Weigand List position 16 MdL from January 1, 2018; Successor for Detlev Spangenberg
André Wendt List position 12 Deputy Group Chairman
Karin Wilke List place 15 MdL from September 1, 2015; Successor for Stefan Dreher
Sebastian Wippel List place 8

former members

  • Stefan Dreher (moving in above list position 9; leaving parliamentary group and resigning from the state parliament for private reasons on September 1, 2015)
  • Frauke Petry (moving in at number 1; former parliamentary group chairman, AfD federal and state chairman, left parliamentary group on September 26, 2017; left the party on September 30, 2017)
  • Kirsten Muster (moving in at 11th place on the list; former deputy chairman of the parliamentary group, leaving the parliamentary group on September 26, 2017; leaving the party on September 30, 2017)
  • Uwe Wurlitzer (moving in at number 2; former Secretary General and Parliamentary Managing Director, left parliamentary group on September 26, 2017; left the party on September 30, 2017)
  • Andrea Kersten (moved in above list position 13; left parliamentary group on September 29, 2017; left the party in November 2017)
  • Gunter Wild (moved in above 6th place on the list; left parliamentary group on October 13, 2017; left the party in November 2017)
  • Detlev Spangenberg (moved in above 10th place on the list; left after moving into the Bundestag in 2017)

Regional group in the German Bundestag

The state list for the 2017 federal election was drawn up on two two-day party congresses on 25/26 March and 1st / 2nd Set up in Weinböhla April 2017 . The then state and parliamentary group leader Petry was elected to the top of the list. The state party entered the German Bundestag with a total of eleven candidates, three of which were directly elected to the Bundestag. After Petry's decision to become non-attached MPs in the Bundestag, the following ten MPs are part of the AfD parliamentary group :

Deputy Moving in over Functions / memberships
Tino Chrupalla Direct mandate Görlitz Party leader
Siegbert Droese List position 3 Deputy state chairman,
deputy spokesman for the state group
Verena Hartmann List position 9
Lars Herrmann List place 10
Heiko Heßenkemper List place 6 Spokesman for the regional group
Karsten Hilse Direct mandate Bautzen I Assessor in the state board
Jens Maier List place 2
Christoph Neumann List position 11
Ulrich Oehme List position 7
Detlev Spangenberg List position 4

Members of the European Parliament

With Maximilian Krah , the AfD Saxony has a representative in the European Parliament. He is also the only East German among the 11 AfD MPs who were elected in the 2019 European elections.

Web links

Individual evidence

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