The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified the AfD youth organization Junge Alternative as a secured right-wing extremist effort in the state. This was announced by the head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Jörg Müller, and Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) in Potsdam. The AfD youth had been classified as a suspected right-wing extremist in the country since 2019. The positions are clearly not compatible with the Basic Law, said Stübgen. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has repeatedly found violations of the free democratic basic order.
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) announced in April that the Junge Alternative was observed nationwide as a secured right-wing extremist effort. She was previously classified as a suspected right-wing extremist. The federal authority had temporarily withdrawn the nationwide upgrade according to AfD information from June because of a court case.
The youth organization of the AfD is also classified and observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the constitutional protection authorities in Bremen, Lower Saxony, Baden-Württemberg, Berlin and Hesse as a “suspected case” for an extremist effort.
Since last October, AfD member of parliament Hannes Gnauck from Uckermark has been the new national chairman of the AfD youth organization. He and other JA members maintain contacts with the Institute for State Politics in Saxony-Anhalt, which the BfV also considers to be right-wing extremist efforts.
The AfD as a whole is classified by the BfV as a suspected case. The Brandenburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified the AfD state association in 2020 as a suspected right-wing extremist. In Thuringia, the party around its parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke is considered to be a proven right-wing extremist. In North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Thuringia, Bremen and Lower Saxony, the AfD is also being examined by constitutional offices. According to the authority, 730 people were considered right-wing extremists in the AfD last year, and 90 in the Junge Alternative.