Daniel Caspary is a German politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2004. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),part of the European People's Party (EPP). Daniel Caspary is now in the fourth legislature of the European Parliament. Daniel Caspary lives in Weingarten. He is married and has five children.
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,although it does not reject democracy.
Bernd Lucke is a German economist,professor,author and former politician. He was a co-founder of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in 2013 and served as the party's federal chairman. He was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for AfD in 2014.
We Citizens is a political party in Germany. Formerly Liberal Conservative Reformers,it was known from July 2015 to November 2016 as ALFA.
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 Young Alternative for Germany is a right-wing extremist youth organisation in Germany. Founded on 15 June 2013 in Darmstadt for people aged 14 to 35 years,the JA presents itself as the youth wing of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party,but remains legally independent. It has been categorized as a confirmed extremist organization by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) since 2023.
Wolfgang Michael Gedeon is a German far-right author and former politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Alice Elisabeth Weidel is a German politician who has been serving as co-chairwoman of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party alongside Tino Chrupalla since June 2022. Since October 2017,she has held the position of leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. Weidel became a member of the Bundestag (MdB) in the 2017 federal election,where she was the AfD's lead candidate alongside Alexander Gauland. In the 2021 federal election,she once again served as their lead candidate,alongside Tino Chrupalla. From February 2020 to July 2022,Weidel held the position of chairwoman of the AfD state association in Baden-Württemberg.
Identity and Democracy was a far-right political group of the European Parliament,launched on 13 June 2019 for the Ninth European Parliament term. It comprised far right,right-wing populist,Eurosceptic and nationalist national parties from six European states. It was the successor to the Europe of Nations and Freedom group formed during the eighth term and almost all of its members merged into the Patriots for Europe group formed during the tenth term.
Bernd Baumann is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and chief whip of the AfD Group who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.
Compact was a German media outlet,based on a monthly magazine. Compact was a popular magazine of the far-right in Germany. It united different right-wing political milieus through strategic topic setting. The magazine was banned on 16 July 2024 in Germany.
Maximilian Krah is a German lawyer and politician. He is serving as a member of the European Parliament without a delegation or faction being a member of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Lars Patrick Berg is a German politician who was serving as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024. He was elected with the Alternative for Germany;he left the party and the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament to join the European Conservatives and Reformists in June 2021 and the Liberal Conservative Reformers party in Germany in July 2021. In January 2023 he left the Liberal Conservative Reformers party and joined the Bündnis Deutschland party. He was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 2016–2019.
Benjamin Strasser is a German lawyer and politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2017,representing the Ravensburg district.
Dirk Spaniel is a German politician. Dirk Spaniel has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg since 2017.
Alexander Throm is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Baden-Württemberg,representing the Heilbronn electoral district,as a direct candidate since 2017. He was previously a member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 2011 to 2016.
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 AfD Hamburg is the state association of the right-wing party Alternative for Germany in the German city Hamburg. The state association is led by politician Dirk Nockemann as state chairman. The party succeeded in entering Hamburg's parliament at their first attempt in the 2015 state election.
The concept of the "firewall against the far-right" in Germany represents a strategic approach and political demand within civil society and political circles. It focuses on the dynamics between mainstream political parties and far-right entities such as the AfD and Die Heimat. The primary objective is to prevent mainstream parties from endorsing anti-democratic elements and to discourage alignment with or rapproachment towards far-right ideologies,advocating instead for a policy of non-cooperation with these parties.
Irmhild Bossdorf is a German journalist and politician of Alternative for Germany who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. She is the daughter of journalist Günther Deschner.
