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A delegate casts his vote during the re-founding of the AfD youth organization in Giessen, Germany, November 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
June 30, 2026, 5:40 pm
German intelligence says almost half of AfD party members potential far-right extremists
Government report estimates 28,000 of Alternative for Germany’s 70,000 members have potential for right-wing extremism, as far-right party outstrips chancellor’s in national polls
By Miranda Murray
Historian Jens-Christian Wagner looks into a book on September 2, 2024, in Buchenwald, near Weimar, eastern Germany. (Clement Kasser/AFP)
September 4, 2024, 3:44 pm
Buchenwald memorial chief ‘upset and depressed’ over election win by far-right AfD
‘Maybe we will have to re-install a police station,’ worries Jens-Christian Wagner, after local victory by Alternative for Germany party raises specter of hate crimes, funding cuts
By Clement Kasser
Co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel arrives for a press conference in Berlin on September 2, 2024. (Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)
September 3, 2024, 12:10 pm
Scholz urges German parties to avoid far-right AfD after its regional election gains
Chancellor warns extremists are ‘dividing society and ruining our country’s reputation’ after far-right party wins state vote for first time since WWII
By Agencies
File: Election placards for the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party are tied to lamp posts in Berlin ahead of elections, January 2, 2024. (John MacDougall/AFP)
January 19, 2024, 3:24 pm
Tens of thousands of Germans protest against resurgence of far-right AfD party
Mass demonstrations against populist faction, which has discussed mass deportations, held across the country, with more than 100 rallies expected over the weekend
By Isabelle Le Page
File: Bjoern Hoecke, Alternative for Germany's regional leader in Thuringia state addresses the European Election Assembly of the far-right party at the fair grounds in Magdeburg, eastern Germany on August 5, 2023. (Ronny HARTMANN/AFP)
September 13, 2023, 7:14 pm
Far-right German politician to stand trial for use of banned Nazi slogan
Bjoern Hoecke, chief of AfD in Thuringia state, accused of saying ‘Everything for Germany,’ Nazi paramilitary group’s motto, during campaign speech in 2021
By AFP
Christian Hirte, the German government's former commissioner for the country's east, in a 2019 interview (video screenshot)
February 8, 2020, 3:02 pm
Germany’s Merkel fires party official following far-right election fiasco
Christian Hirte of German leader’s CDU had congratulated new state governor, elected with help of AfD, leading to calls for his removal by chancellor’s coalition partners
By Agencies
Newly elected Prime Minister of Thuringia Thomas Kemmerich of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) addresses a press conference at the State Chancellery in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on February 6, 2020. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)
February 6, 2020, 6:56 pm
German state premier quits after winning ‘unforgivable’ far-right support
A day after taking office, Thuringia PM Thomas Kemmerich laments his election victory came with votes of Alternative for Germany party, calls new elections amid nationwide outrage
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
Charlotte Knobloch, president of the Jewish Community Munich, gives a speech during a ceremony to inaugurate a memorial site at the former Muehldorfer Hart concentration camp, on April 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/dpa/Matthias Balk)
October 28, 2019, 12:58 pm
Jewish groups voice fear over German far-right surge
Munich community leader, a Holocaust survivor, says booming support for AfD shows political system ‘has gone off the rails’
By AFP
Bjoern Hoecke, top co-candiate for Thuringian state elections of the far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, reacts to the first forecasts of the results of the state elections in Thuringia, at the federal state parliament in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on October 27, 2019. (Christof Stache / various sources / AFP)
October 27, 2019, 8:49 pm
Germany’s far-right AfD more than doubles its power in eastern heartland vote
Party candidate Bjoern Hoecke, an extremist who called Berlin Holocaust memorial a ‘monument of shame,’ comes second to far-left Ramelow, beats Merkel’s party
By Julien GATHELIER and Frank Zeller
Different election campaign posters are fixed in a street in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on October 24, 2019. (Christof STACHE / AFP)
October 27, 2019, 6:02 am
Far-right AfD looks for gains in Germany despite synagogue attack
Hardliner Bjoern Hoecke running neck and neck with CDU candidate in Thuringia vote, seen as key test of mood in east German heartland following Yom Kippur assault
By AFP
Two women light candles among others and flowers next to the entrance of the synagogue in Munich, during a protest against anti-Semitism on October 11, 2019 two days after a deadly shooting outside a synagogue in Halle. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP)
October 24, 2019, 7:48 am
Germany’s far-right party faces electoral test after synagogue shooting
Polls suggest AfD support has slipped in the wake of the Halle attack, which has fueled concern over growing right-wing threats
By Manuel WALTZ and Michelle Fitzpatrick
Andreas Kalbitz, AfD's top candidate for the regional election in the German state of Brandenburg, attends a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
August 15, 2019, 3:28 am
Topping polls in local vote, German politician downplays far-right past
Andreas Kalbitz, AfD candidate in state of Brandenburg, insists his biography is not extremist, but critics say the facts show otherwise
By Frank Jordans
Blocks are placed on a property adjacent to Alternative for Germany lawmaker Bjoern Hoecke’s home in the village of Bornhagen, eastern Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 (Swen Pfoertner/dpa via AP)
April 4, 2019, 5:31 pm
Germany probes artist who irked far-right leader with Holocaust memorial replica
Phillip Ruch alleges possible political persecution after he discovers authorities have been conducting a covert investigation against him
By ToI Staff
Bjoern Hoecke, chairman of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern federal state of Thuringia, gives a statement on February 13, 2017, at the Thuringian regional parliament in Erfurt, Germany. (AFP Photo/dpa/Hendrik Schmidt)
June 11, 2018, 6:46 pm
German far-rightists drop bid to expel member who downplayed Nazi past
Bjoern Hoecke can remain in AfD after he had said Berlin memorial to the Jews killed in the Holocaust is a ‘monument of shame’
By AP
Germany's Holocaust memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe in the heart of Berlin (CC BY-SA Chaosdna/Wikipedia)
January 11, 2018, 10:14 pm
German far-right wants place on board of Berlin’s national Holocaust memorial
AfD, whose member Bjoern Hoecke criticized the monument, insists on right to a seat after entering parliament
By JTA
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