Bodo Ramelow is a German politician who has served since 4 March 2020 as Minister-President of Thuringia,an office he previously held from 2014 to 5 February 2020. He is the first head of a German state government to serve non-consecutive terms in office since Eberhard Diepgen,who served twice as Governing Mayor of Berlin. A member of The Left,he previously chaired the party's group in the Landtag of Thuringia. On 8 October 2021,he was elected to a one-year term as President of the Bundesrat. His term lasted from 1 November 2021 until 31 October 2022.
The new states of Germany are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) with its 10 "old states" upon German reunification on 3 October 1990.
The far-right in Germany slowly reorganised itself after the fall of Nazi Germany and the dissolution of the Nazi Party in 1945. Denazification was carried out in Germany from 1945 to 1949 by the Allied forces of World War II,with an attempt of eliminating Nazism from the country. However,various far-right parties emerged in the post-war period,with varying success. Most parties only lasted a few years before either dissolving or being banned,and explicitly far-right parties have never gained seats in the Bundestag post-WWII.
Alternative for Germany is a far-right and right-wing populist political party in Germany. The AfD is Eurosceptic,and opposes immigration to Germany –especially of Muslims. The German judiciary has classified the party as a "suspected extremist" party.
Frauke Petry is a German politician who chaired the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from July 2015 to September 2017. A chemist by training and with a professional background as a businesswoman,some political scientists described Petry as a representative of the national conservative wing of that party.
Eberhardt Alexander Gauland is a German politician,journalist and lawyer who has served as leader of the right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and co-leader of the party from December 2017 to November 2019. He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and was its federal spokesman from 2017 to 2019 and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg from 2013 to 2017.
Björn Uwe Höcke is a German politician of Alternative for Germany (AfD). Along with Andreas Kalbitz,Höcke was the leader of the AfD's far-right Der Flügel faction,which the German government's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution declared a suspected right-wing extremist organization. He is chair of AfD Thuringia,also a right-wing extremist organization.
Jörg Hubert Meuthen is a German economist,academic and Independent politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Germany from 2017 until 2024.
The 2019 Thuringian state election was held on 27 October 2019 to elect the members of the 7th Landtag of Thuringia. The outgoing government was a coalition consisting of The Left,the Social Democratic Party (SPD),and The Greens,led by Minister-President Bodo Ramelow.
Jörg Urban is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and is party leader of the AFD in Saxony. He has been a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony since 2014. Under Urban's leadership,the Saxon AfD state association developed so strongly towards the right-wing,that the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified and is monitoring the party as a "secure right-wing anti constitutional effort" in 2023. The party has been labeled as a far-right organization.
Joana Cotar is a German politician who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election. Until November 2022,she was a member for the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Der Flügel is a far-right faction within Germany's Alternative for Germany,a right-wing populist opposition party. The group was led by Björn Höcke and Andreas Kalbitz. Approximately 20 percent of AfD members are organized also in the "Flügel". Following the request by the AfD executive board to dissolve Der Flügel by the end of April 2020,the group's online presence went offline. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has no reliable knowledge of an actual dissolution. Within the party,Der Flügel now calls itself the "social-patriotic faction".
The 2024 Thuringian state election was held on 1 September 2024 to elect the members of the 8th Landtag of Thuringia. It was held on the same day as the 2024 Saxony state election.
The 2020 Thuringian government crisis,also known as the Thuringia crisis,was triggered by the election of Thomas Kemmerich (FDP) as Thuringian Minister President with votes from the AfD,CDU and FDP on February 5,2020. The election attracted considerable national and international attention because,for the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,a Minister President was elected with votes from a far-right populist party,in this case the AfD.
Marie-Thérèse Kaiser is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and former model. The Rotenburg action alliance Aufstehen gegen Rassismus described her as one of the most important activists of the German Neue Rechte political scene.
The Alternative Mitte,sometimes referred to as Alternative Mitte Deutschland,is a faction and political association within the Alternative for Germany party which was formed in 2017 and presents itself as "liberal patriotic" and "conservative". It has been described by commentators as being founded as a counterweight and a response to the more hardline Der Flügel wing of the AfD.
Events in the year 2023 in Germany.
Torben Braga is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD),previously FDP. He entered the state parliament of Thuringia after the state elections of 27 October 2019.
Hans-Christoph Berndt is a German politician. Since October 2020,he has been the leader of the Alternative for Germany parliamentary group in the Landtag of Brandenburg and,in this capacity,also the opposition leader in the state parliament. Berndt is classified as right-wing extremist by the Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution. He was AfD's lead candidate for the 2024 Brandenburg state election.
The AfD Brandenburg is the Brandenburg state association of the right-wing populist and Far right German party Alternative for Germany (AfD). Andreas Kalbitz served as state chairman until his membership was annulled on July 25,2020. With Alexander Gauland,the state party ran for the first time in the 2014 state elections and entered the Brandenburg state parliament. For the 2017 federal election,Gauland also led the state list as co-leading candidate in the federal government,through which five representatives entered the 19th Bundestag.
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