After rights meeting
AfD separates from Weidel’s speaker
The employment contract of AfD party leader Alice Weidel’s speaker has been terminated with immediate effect, the party announced. photo
© Fabian Sommer/dpa
Roland Hartwig is no longer the AfD party leader’s personal advisor. The party did not want to give reasons for the decision. – Hartwig was a participant in the meeting of right-wing radicals in November.
The 69-year-old former Bundestag member Hartwig took part in the meeting in a Potsdam villa in November, as a party spokesman confirmed after corresponding research by the media company Correctiv became known. At the meeting, the former head of the right-wing extremist Identitarian Movement in Austria, Martin Sellner, said he spoke about “remigration”. When right-wing extremists use the term, they usually mean that large numbers of people of foreign origin should leave the country – even under duress. According to these earlier AfD statements, Hartwig did not know before the meeting that Sellner would be present, even though he was announced in the invitation.
The Identitarian Movement is on the AfD’s incompatibility list, which excludes membership. Reports of the meeting sparked widespread outrage. Since the weekend, tens of thousands have taken to the streets against the AfD in various cities.
As a result of research into the networking meeting, board member Silke Schröder resigned from the German Language Association (VDS).