AfD Thuringia
AfD Thuringia | ||||
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Chairperson |
Björn Höcke and Stefan Möller |
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Deputy |
Tosca Kniese Jürgen Pohl |
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Treasurer | Stefan Schröder | |||
Establishment date | April 27, 2013 | |||
Place of foundation | Manor | |||
Headquarters | Alte Chaussee 87 99097 Erfurt -Waltersleben |
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Landtag mandates |
22/90 |
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Number of members | 911 (as of April 2017) | |||
Website | afd-thueringen.de | |||
The AFD Thuringia is the Thuringian State Association of the party Alternative for Germany (AFD). The regional association is led by Björn Höcke and Stefan Möller as regional chairmen. With Höcke as the top candidate, the state party ran for the first time in the state elections in 2014 and then entered the Thuringian state parliament . For the 2017 federal election , the AfD ran in Thuringia with Stephan Brandner as the top candidate. Again with Höcke as the top candidate, the AfD became the second strongest force in the 2019 state election and moved into the state parliament with 22 members.
history
AfD Thuringia was founded on April 27, 2013 in Herrenhof . The founding of the Ilm-Kreis association by the controversial AfD member Paul Latussek led to the party distancing itself. In 2013 it became known that a well-known neo-Nazi had also joined the party and had subsequently left the party. The first state chairman, Matthias Wohlfarth, was also attested to having the right ideas. In 2014 Björn Höcke and Stefan Möller took over the association. In the same year, Sieghardt Rydzewski resigned from the party with publicity . In particular, observers noticed a proximity to the New Right , for example Günter Scholdt was a consultant at the regional association. He gave impetus for the right-wing populist "10 theses for the Free State of Thuringia" by Höcke.
In the state elections in Thuringia in 2014 , the party succeeded in entering the state parliament with 10.6% of the votes when it first participated . She received votes from former voters from the CDU (18,000), Left (16,000), FDP (11,000) and Greens (1,000). The election campaign was characterized by a “ populist note” on the subject of asylum , according to political scientist Torsten Oppelland . The group had eleven members. In the constituent meeting on September 22, 2014, the parliamentary group executive committee was elected. Björn Höcke was elected chairman of the parliamentary group, Wiebke Muhsal and Stephan Brandner as deputies and Stefan Möller as parliamentary managing director. Other members of the parliamentary group were Oskar Helmerich , Corinna Herold , Jens Krumpe , Jörg Henke , Olaf Kießling , Thomas Rudy and Siegfried Gentele .
In March 2015, the state party conference of AfD Thuringia in Arnstadt passed the " Erfurt Resolution ". On April 15, 2015, the parliamentary group announced the expulsion of Gentele, who was now a non-attached member of the parliament . In May, Helmerich and Krumpe left the parliamentary group. After the AfD federal party conference in July 2015, at which party leader Bernd Lucke was voted out and then left the AfD, all three members of the party left the party. The AfD parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament now had eight members.
On September 23, 2015, around 5,000 people in Erfurt took part in a demonstration against the asylum policy organized by AfD Thuringia . After an appearance by the state chairman Höcke on the ARD broadcast Günther Jauch on October 18, 2015, the federal executive distanced himself from him: He was only "to speak for the Thuringia state association, but not for the federal party". The “large majority of AfD members” do not see themselves represented by the “style of appearance”.
In May 2016, research by the Thüringer Allgemeine made it known that members of the state parliament and employees of the AfD Thuringia had founded an AfD camouflage association under the name Bürgerbündnis für Thüringen in September of the previous year . The place of foundation was the headquarters of the opinion research institute INSA from Hermann Binkert , who also took part in the meeting. The association was used, for example, to rent a space that the private owner expressly did not want to rent to the AfD.
At the beginning of July 2017, the deputy chairwoman of the AfD Thuringia, Steffi Brönner, resigned. She accused the state party of right-wing extremist ideas and filling central positions with known right-wing extremists. The impetus for Brönner's resignation were two concerts planned for July 2017 in Themar with a right-wing extremist background, for which Bodo Dressel, the mayor of the neighboring community of Grimmelshausen , who left the AfD a few days before Brönner's resignation at the end of June 2017 , had made his parcel available. The AfD Thuringia accused Brönner of resigning out of disappointment about not being able to reach the list for the 2017 federal election . After the 2017 federal election, Stephan Brandner entered the Bundestag as the top candidate of the state party and resigned his state parliament mandate, so that Klaus Rietschel moved up to the state parliament, who, however, left the party and parliamentary group on January 15, 2019, thus reducing the parliamentary group to seven members .
politics
Party platform
Before the state elections in 2014, the AfD Thuringia developed its first election platform. In the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 , the AfD Thuringia calls for national upper limits. In the Greek national debt crisis , the AfD Thuringia is calling for an end to financial support from German tax money.
The regional association is in favor of reducing the number of members in the Thuringian state parliament. A draft law introduced by the AfD parliamentary group in May 2016 provided for the number of MPs to be reduced from the current 91 to 62.
The pension concept of the Thuringian AfD provides for the contribution assessment limit to be retained for the time being. According to the social researcher and mathematician Gerd Bosbach, this is anti-social because it means that top earners have to pay a lower proportion of their income than low-wage earners. The employers are the beneficiaries of this concept. In addition, the aim is to extend the working life both by abolishing the upper limit for retirement and by lowering the working age. Tax-financed surcharges for recipients of small pensions should only be available for German citizens. This concept thus violates Article 3 of the Basic Law .
Politics in the state parliament
In January 2019, shortly before Holocaust Remembrance Day , the foundation informed the Buchenwald Concentration Camp memorial that it considered it necessary that “representatives of the AfD do not take part in a commemoration event at these locations unless they are credible from the anti-democratic, distance from anti-human rights and historical revisionist positions in your party. "
classification
Since 2015, "in the Thuringian regional association of the AfD, political concepts of nationalist right-wing extremism have taken control of the discourse," according to a study by the right-wing extremism competence center at Friedrich Schiller University Jena ( Matthias Quent , Franziska Schmidtke and Axel Salheiser). According to the political scientist Hajo Funke (2016), the parliamentary group has a “ right-wing extremist thrust”, and he attested the party chairman to have “völkisch-nationalist extremism ”. In the Thuringian regional association, “German nationalist voices with clear orientations in a right-wing extremist direction”, as the political scientist Armin Pfahl-Traughber (2016) noted. According to the social scientist Alexander Häusler (2019) “a right radicalization process has developed” in the Thuringian AfD.
Evaluation by the protection of the constitution
At the beginning of September 2018, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Thuringia declared the country's AfD to be a test case. Openly accessible material is evaluated during these inspection processes, the preliminary stage to secret service observation. The occasion was, among other things, various statements by her spokesman Björn Höcke as well as his joint participation with neo-Nazis in a so-called funeral march in Chemnitz on September 1, 2018. Höcke also spread folk-nationalist content in an interview published in book form and at the "Kyffhäusertreffen" by AfD Saxony and Thuringia announced the "time of the wolf", with which he described a tactic of the AfD towards the police during demonstrations. He also called on police officers to refuse to give orders. Höcke's speech on the Holocaust memorial is also part of the party's tendency for the protection of the constitution, in which extremist positions are becoming more influential.
In November, the Constitutional Court in Thuringia rejected a lawsuit by the AfD against its public classification as a test case by the head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan J. Kramer, as inadmissible. The applications were made in an organ dispute , but the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution was not treated as a constitutional body or an organ in rank or function. AfD boss Höcke announced that he would pursue the matter legally; the AfD also filed a lawsuit with the administrative court in Weimar.
In March 2020, the AfD regional association of Thuringia was classified as a suspected case by the state authority for the protection of the constitution. There are “sufficient actual indications for efforts against the free democratic basic order”.
organization
Membership numbers | |
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08/2014 | 350 |
12/2015 | 535 |
02/2016 | 620 |
04/2016 | 700 |
12/2016 | 952 |
The party organs of the regional association are the regional party congress, the regional executive committee and the regional arbitration tribunal. The latter decides on internal party disputes and can expel members.
State party conference
The highest party organ is the state party congress . He elects the state board , the auditors and the state arbitration tribunal. The state party congress takes place as a general assembly. If the number of party members exceeds 500, the state party conference can take place as an assembly of delegates. The members of the state board are members of the state party conference in accordance with the statutes. The district associations send a delegate for five members each.
No. | date | place | State Chairperson / Leading Candidate |
Election result | theme |
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1st state party conference | April 27, 2013 | Manor | Arndt Breustedt Matthias Wohlfarth |
Establishment of the regional association; Election of the state board | |
1st state party conference | April 27, 2013 | Manor | Michael Kaufmann | Election of the state list for the 2013 federal election | |
Extraordinary state party conference |
August 24, 2013 | Power village |
Michaela Merz Matthias Wohlfarth |
New election of the state executive | |
2nd state party conference | 1st of February 2014 | Arnstadt | Bjorn Höcke | Election of the state list for the state election 2014 | |
3rd state party conference | June 14, 2014 | Stadtroda | Björn Höcke and Stefan Möller |
New election of the state executive; Decision on a provisional election platform for the 2014 state elections |
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4th state party conference | 14./15. March 2015 | Arnstadt | Decision of the Erfurt resolution ; By-election to the state executive election of the delegates to state party conferences, to the federal party conference and to the convention |
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5th state party conference | April 9, 2016 | Arnstadt | Resolutions of programmatic position papers etc. a. on equality policy | ||
6th state party conference | October 22, 2016 | Arnstadt | Björn Höcke and Stefan Möller |
94% 84% |
Election of the regional executive committee, the regional arbitration tribunal and the delegates to the convention |
7th state party conference | 18./19. February 2017 | Arnstadt | Stephan Brandner | 91% | Election of the state list for the 2017 federal election |
8th state party conference | 1./2. April 2017 | Berlstedt | Election of the delegates to the federal party congress | ||
9th state party conference | 3rd February 2018 | Arnstadt | By-elections to the state board and to the state arbitration tribunal; Amendment of the state statutes | ||
10th state party conference | 13./14. October 2018 27./28. October 2018 |
Arnstadt | Bjorn Höcke | 84% | Election of the state list for the state election 2019 |
11th state party conference | 3rd / 4th November 2018 | Pfiffelbach | Björn Höcke and Stefan Möller |
81% 71% |
New elections for the state board |
12th state party conference | 17./18. August 2019 | Arnstadt | Decision of the election program for the state election 2019 |
State Board
Since February 2018, the state executive has consisted of the following members:
State chairman | Björn Höcke (MdL), Stefan Möller (MdL) |
Deputy State Chair | Tosca Kniese (Member of the Bundestag), Jürgen Pohl (Member of the Bundestag) |
Treasurer | Stefan Schröder |
Deputy Treasurer | Stefan Mäurer |
Assessor | René Aust (MdL), Torben Braga (MdL), Jens Dietrich, Birgit Noll, Robert Stuhlmann (MdL) |
MdL = member of the state parliament; MdB = member of the Bundestag |
District associations
The AfD Thuringia has nine district associations, in each of which two or more independent cities and districts are combined. The boundaries of the district associations correspond to the Bundestag constituencies 189 to 197 inclusive according to the constituency division in the 20th law amending the Bundestag election law. The district associations have statutory, financial and personal autonomy.
Party leader
Term of office | Party chairman |
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April 2013 - June 2014 | Matthias Wohlfarth |
from June 2014 | Björn Höcke , Stefan Möller |
Group leaders
Term of office | Parliamentary group leader |
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from September 2014 | Bjorn Höcke |
Young alternative Thuringia
The AfD youth is organized in the regional association of Young Alternative Thuringia . At the 2015 general meeting in Jena , Wiebke Muhsal , member of the state parliament, was elected state spokeswoman. Robert Mochrie was elected as deputy state chairman, Denny Jankowski as treasurer and Hendrik Urban and Martin Zugehör as assessors.
The JA Thuringia announced the following in 2016 to the Mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker (independent) on their Facebook page in 2016: "If politics does not act, people in the future may really keep an 'arm's length' distance, Ms. Reker." The comment was below a black and white photograph of a hand with a pistol. The public prosecutor's office in Gera then checked whether they were initiating investigations against the “Young Alternative Thuringia” because of the public call for acts of violence or vigilante justice. Several complaints were also received against JA Thuringia as the author.
Election results
State elections | ||||
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year | Number of votes | Share of votes | Seats | Top candidate |
2014 | 99,545 | 10.6% | 11 | Bjorn Höcke |
2019 | 259,382 | 23.4% | 22nd | Bjorn Höcke |
Bundestag elections | ||||
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year | Number of votes | Share of votes | Seats | Top candidate |
2013 | 76.013 | 6.2% | 0 | Michael Kaufmann |
2017 | 294.045 | 22.7% | 5 | Stephan Brandner |
In the 2017 federal election, the AfD became clear after second votes in Gera (28.5%) and just under the strongest party in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district (27.0%). Overall, it performed slightly better in rural areas than in the cities, with the AfD becoming the strongest party in many communities in the southeast of the country from Hildburghausen to Altenburg, in the northern Thuringian basin between Mühlhausen and Artern and around Arnstadt. While the economic situation of these areas is not bad everywhere, they are characterized by an above-average population decline, combined with the dismantling of infrastructure (doctors, retail, public transport, schools, etc.).
European elections | ||
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year | Number of votes | Share of votes |
2014 | 68.011 | 7.4% |
2019 | 236,566 | 22.5% |
Parliamentary group
2019 were for the AFD in the Thuringian state parliament elected:
Deputy | Moving in over | Functions / memberships |
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René Aust , speaker | Schmalkalden-Meiningen II constituency | Assessor |
Torben Braga , political scientist | List place 6 | Deputy Parliamentary Managing Director; Assessor |
Jens Cotta , banking economist | Kyffhäuserkreis II constituency | Deputy Group Chairman |
Torsten Czuppon , police officer | Constituency Sömmerda II | |
Karlheinz Frosch , management consultant | Constituency Saalfeld-Rudolstadt I | |
Birger Gröning , physiotherapist | Constituency Gotha I | |
Jörg Henke , works foreman | List position 11 | |
Corinna Herold , dentist | List place 10 | |
Björn Höcke , teacher | List position 1 | Group chairman; Co-country chairman |
Denny Jankowski , process engineer | List position 3 | Deputy Group Chairman |
Nadine Hoffmann , biologist | Constituency Hildburghausen I - Schmalkalden-Meiningen III | |
Michael Kaufmann , engineer | List position 7 | |
Olaf Kießling , business economist | Constituency Ilm District II | Deputy Group Chairman |
Tosca Kniese , business lawyer | List position 4 | Deputy State Chair |
Dieter Laudenbach , industrial engineer | List position 12 | |
Wolfgang Lauerwald , doctor | Constituency Gera II | |
Ringo Mühlmann , police officer | List place 14 | |
Stefan Möller , lawyer | List position 11 | Parliamentary Director; Co-country chairman |
Thomas Rudy , restaurateur | Altenburger Land I constituency | |
Lars Schütze , police officer | Constituency Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis II | |
Robert Stuhlmann , lawyer | List position 5 | Assessor |
Uwe Thrum , master carpenter | Constituency Saale-Orla District I |
Regional group in the German Bundestag
The state list for the 2017 federal election was drawn up at a party congress on February 18, 2017 in Arnstadt . The state party entered the 19th German Bundestag with five candidates who are part of the AfD parliamentary group :
MP | Moving in over | Functions / memberships |
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Stephan Brandner | List position 1 | |
Jürgen Pohl | List place 2 | Deputy State Chairman |
Marcus Buhl | List position 3 | |
Robby throat | List position 4 | |
Anton Friesen | List position 5 |
literature
- Alexander Häusler , Rainer Roeser: "Erfurt is beautifully German - and Erfurt should remain beautifully German!" The political image of the party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) in Thuringia . Edited by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , Landesbüro Thüringen, Erfurt 2015, ISBN 978-3-95861-322-5 .
Web links
- Website of the AfD Thuringia
- Website of the AfD parliamentary group in Thuringia
- Election program of the AfD for the state elections in Thuringia 2014
- Torsten Oppelland : Alternative for Germany (AfD) , Federal Agency for Civic Education , August 21, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Party members by federal state
- ^ Michael Bartsch: Anti-euro party with old rights. taz.de, May 7, 2013, accessed April 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Martin Debes: Thuringian AfD distances itself from condemned seducers. thueringer-allgemeine.de, May 8, 2013, accessed on April 16, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e f 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. 95 ff.
- ↑ Hannelore Crolly: The AfD oracle from Seitenroda. welt.de, June 2, 2014, accessed April 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Torsten Oppelland : The Thuringian state election of September 14, 2014: starting shot for the experiment of a red-red-green coalition under left leadership . In: Journal for Parliamentary Questions 46 (2015) 1, pp. 39–56.
- ↑ Torsten Oppelland : The Thuringian state election of September 14, 2014: starting shot for the experiment of a red-red-green coalition under left leadership . In: Journal for Parliamentary Questions 46 (2015) 1, pp. 39–56, here: p. 45.
- ↑ Thuringian AfD parliamentary group chooses its top: Jenaerin and Geraer vice . ( otz.de [accessed on September 10, 2017]).
- ^ AfD throws MP Gentele out of the parliamentary group. MDR Thuringia, April 15, 2015, archived from the original on April 15, 2015 ; accessed on April 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ AfD parliamentary group loses another MP: Krumpe resigns. inSüdthüringen.de, May 29, 2015, accessed on June 2, 2015 .
- ↑ Martin Debes: Member of the state parliament leaves AfD. Thüringer Allgemeine, July 7, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ^ Two MPs in Thuringia left AfD. inSüdthüringen.de, July 10, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Martin Debes: 5,000 people demonstrate against refugee policy. MDR, September 24, 2015, archived from the original on September 25, 2015 ; Retrieved September 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Bülend Ürük: After appearing on "Günther Jauch": AfD leaders distance themselves from Björn Höcke. kress.de, October 21, 2015, accessed on October 22, 2015 .
- ↑ http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/suche/detail/-/specific/Buergerbuendnis-fuer-Thueringen-Im-Dunstkreis-der-AfD-1613110014
- ↑ http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/alternative-fuer-deutschland-thueringer-afd-vize-sicht-rechtsextreme-tendenzen-und-tritt-zurueck/20019906.html
- ↑ Höcke's deputy accuses Thuringian AfD of right-wing extremist tendencies . ( thueringer-allgemeine.de [accessed on July 5, 2017] payment barrier).
- ↑ Landlord for right-wing rock concerts has left the AfD , thueringer-allgemeine.de, July 1, 2017, accessed on November 5, 2018 (pay barrier).
- ↑ Michael Bartsch: Right with a distance to the AfD. In: taz.de , July 6, 2017, accessed November 5, 2018.
- ^ Matthias Meisner: AfD vice sees right-wing extremist tendencies - and resigns . In: tagesspiegel.de , July 5, 2017, accessed November 5, 2018.
- ↑ Media: Member of Parliament Klaus Rietschel leaves AfD. In: insuedthueringen.de. January 15, 2019, accessed January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ 30 fewer MPs: AfD proposal for a smaller Thuringian state parliament is rejected by the Thuringian General, May 19, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2016.
- ↑ AfD postpones pension party conference to 2020 . In: Der Spiegel , July 21, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2019.
- ↑ Stephan Hebel: The national-social paint of the AfD . Interview with Gerd Bosbach . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 17, 2019, accessed on July 17, 2019.
- ↑ AfD politicians not welcome at Holocaust remembrance in Buchenwald. www.haz.de, January 25, 2019
- ↑ Matthias Quent , Franziska Schmidtke, Axel Salheiser: Threats to the democratic culture in Thuringia . Expertise on the revision of the Thuringian State Program for Democracy, Tolerance and Open-mindedness (TLfDTW) on behalf of the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, Competence Center for Right-Wing Extremism, Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Jena 2016, p. 54.
- ^ A b Hajo Funke (with the assistance of Ralph Gabriel ): From angry citizens and arsonists. AfD - Pegida - violence networks. vbb, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-64-0 , p. 85.
- ^ Hajo Funke (with the collaboration of Ralph Gabriel ): Von Wutbürgern und Arsonstiftern. AfD - Pegida - violence networks. vbb, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-64-0 , p. 86.
- ↑ Armin Pfahl-Traughber : AfD, Pegida and the New Right. The new "right wave" . Humanistic Press Service , April 27, 2016.
- ^ AfD "more and more an openly right-wing radical party". www.deutschlandfunk.de, November 2, 2019
- ↑ Patrick Gensing: Thuringia: The protection of the constitution is targeting AfD. In: tagesschau.de . September 6, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018
- ↑ Radical Center. In: Der Spiegel 37/2018, September 8, 2018, pp. 10–19, here p. 14.
- ↑ AfD fails with complaint before the constitutional court. www.zeit.de, November 20, 2019
- ↑ The entire Thuringian AfD regional association classified as a suspected case. www.spiegel.de, March 12, 2020
- ↑ Torsten Oppelland: Party Profiles: Who Is Up for Voting ? - Alternative for Germany (AfD). Federal Agency for Civic Education, August 21, 2014, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Sebastian Haak: Ranks are thinning at large parties - AfD is gaining members. Thüringer Allgemeine, January 11, 2016, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
- ↑ AfD doubles its membership in Thuringia. Thüringer Allgemeine, February 15, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2016 .
- ↑ Martin Debes: Höcke wants alliance between AfD and Pegida against “Chancellor Dictator”. Thüringer Allgemeine, April 11, 2016, accessed on April 11, 2016 .
- ↑ MDR Thuringia: "Schulz Effect" and uncertainty bring new members. March 12, 2017, archived from the original on March 22, 2017 ; accessed on March 12, 2017 .
- ↑ a b State statutes of the party "Alternative for Germany", regional association of Thuringia in the version dated February 3, 2018. (PDF) Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
- ^ Website of the AfD Thuringia , accessed on September 22, 2014.
- ^ Elections to the board of the Junge Alternative Thüringen - Wiebke Muhsal is the new chairwoman. In: www.jenapolis.de. July 19, 2015, archived from the original on July 20, 2015 ; accessed on June 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: Reker criticism with pistol image: Public prosecutor's office checks Facebook image with Reker criticism. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Retrieved June 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Call for vigilante justice? Public prosecutor's office investigates after Cologne attacks against AfD youth. In: The Huffington Post. Retrieved June 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Young alternative: Suspected criminal offense from Facebook entry is examined. In: www.thueringer-allgemeine.de. Retrieved June 16, 2016 .
- ↑ State election 2014 in Thuringia - final result
- ↑ State election 2019 in Thuringia - final result
- ↑ Bundestag election 2013 in Thuringia - final result
- ↑ 2017 Bundestag election in Thuringia - final result
- ↑ 2014 European elections in Thuringia - final result
- ↑ European elections 2019, Thuringia - preliminary result
- ^ AfD MPs in the Thuringian state parliament from 2019
- ^ Successful assembly of the AfD Thuringia for the state list for the 2017 federal election. AfD Compact, February 24, 2017, accessed on September 9, 2017 .
- ^ State lists of the parties in Thuringia - The Federal Returning Officer. Archived from the original on September 26, 2017 ; accessed on September 9, 2017 .