AfD social gathering convention in Magdeburg: faculties as “brainwashing”, tradition of remembrance as a “guilt complex” | EUROtoday

Saturday morning within the Hyparschale Magdeburg. The AfD Saxony-Anhalt holds its state social gathering convention within the essential constructing of post-war modernism. Bundestag member Martin Reichardt is on stage subsequent to 4 German and federal state flags. The state chairman has the duty of getting the delegates within the temper for the day – and provides a pointy, acclaimed speech.

The “political avant-garde of Saxony-Anhalt” is sitting within the corridor, shouts Reichardt. “A vanguard that will sweep away the political rubbish of the ruinous state government.” The 56-year-old is getting louder and louder. The AfD is the “battering ram with which the people democratically penetrate the fortresses of the established power cartel and free democracy in Germany from the hands of this established cartel.”

Then Reichardt offers it out towards political opponents and the media. The right-wing extremist calls the SPD, which he belonged to as a younger grownup, “shabby worker traitors”. The CDU is “cold-hearted towards its own people and generous towards foreigners”. The MP insults journalists as “left-wing wage earners” who would “manipulate the population”. “Germany is our history, of which we are proud,” he shouts.

Five months earlier than the state elections, the AfD is in first place in surveys by a large margin – with an excellent 38 and even 39 p.c. If the SPD and BSW, that are at the moment between 5 and 7 p.c, had been to overlook entry into the state parliament, the AfD might obtain an absolute majority with this consequence and govern alone with the highest candidate Ulrich Siegmund. Siegmund rejects a coalition. “I cannot govern with those who drove Germany against the wall for 20 or 30 years,” he advised journalists on Saturday.

In a speech on the social gathering convention stage, he later introduced that the AfD would “take back our country in every village.” Parts of Europe and the world would “look forward to this historic election”. The objective is 45 p.c plus X.

The AfD’s ongoing excessive in Saxony-Anhalt can also be notable as a result of the AfD’s family affair started within the jap German state at the start of the yr. Numerous high-ranking officers of the state social gathering, together with Siegmund, had been confronted with accusations of nepotism from inside their very own ranks and from the media.

Siegmund’s father is employed within the workplace of a member of the Bundestag in Saxony-Anhalt. His shut confidant, the parliamentary supervisor Tobias Rausch, now employed 4 soccer gamers from his personal membership. And then there are the circumstances of Claudia Weiss, a member of the Bundestag from Saxony-Anhalt, who employed three of Rausch’s siblings and his spouse and whose daughter is employed within the state parliamentary group in Magdeburg.

The family affair shouldn’t be talked about

The MPs talked about do not need to hearken to any essential questions from the delegates on Saturday. And the voters in Saxony-Anhalt do not appear to thoughts such cross-appointments both. In an interview with WELT on Saturday, high-ranking officers had been optimistic a few attainable sole authorities. They downplay the affair surrounding the employment of family – it’s not mentioned wherever on the open stage that day.

“Table Briefings” had reported earlier than the social gathering convention that there have been quite a few members of a fee that had been arrange who had been intently related to the accused, resembling working for them or being associated to them. The Federal Executive Board is due to this fact essential of the truth that the committee “has not yet provided any clarification”.

The state social gathering met within the Hyparschale to resolve on its program for the election in September. The AfD confidently calls the paper a “government program”. There are about 160 pages that pack a punch. Siegmund and his supporters wish to remodel the state in all related coverage areas, some with radical plans.

The draft, largely formulated by Deputy Regional Director Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, can be permitted on Saturday with none far-reaching adjustments. One by one, candidates are asserting that they’re withdrawing their amendments. This makes it attainable to keep away from significantly controversial debates, for instance a few ban on circumcision initially requested by an applicant. Some issues are taken over by the applying committee. Delegates don’t push via a single change request towards the desire of the well-prepared state govt committee, which may unite massive majorities behind it.

There is just one level the place dissatisfaction arises. “I don’t think it’s right that Mr. Rausch holds up his voting card before the vote so that it looks like he’s telling us how to vote,” says a delegate on the corridor microphone in regards to the puppet grasp sitting on the stage. “As a delegate, he can vote whenever he wants,” the convention chief rejects the objection.

Just one dialogue – about Russian classes

The solely precise dialogue that arises is an modification to take away the enlargement of Russian educating in faculties and the revival of pupil exchanges with Russia from this system. In the present political state of affairs, this supplies “points of attack” and is “unbalanced,” a delegate explains the movement.

Tillschneider replies that one ought to profit from the “fund of Russian teachers from the GDR era” – and that one wants relations with Russia; the “Ukraine conflict” will finish in some unspecified time in the future. The request for deletion then solely obtained a number of sure votes and was rejected with an amazing majority.

The leitmotif of this system is the time period “remigration”, which was controversial throughout the social gathering a while in the past, however has lengthy since grow to be mainstream. In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD is now calling for the “abolition of the basic right to asylum and its conversion into a right of pardon granted by the state”, the expatriation of critically prison twin nationals and the preparation of a “remigration offensive to Ukraine”.

On Saturday, state parliament member and state board member Jan Moldenhauer can be tasked with presenting the “remigration” measures. “The program lacks nothing in terms of sharpness,” he says. Moldenhauer revealed a brochure in 2018 through which “Japan’s policy of zero immigration” is offered as a mannequin. “Germany could cope with a quota of 19 recognized asylum seekers per year,” it says. And: “Japan is democratic, economically successful and ‘national’.”

“Special classes” for kids of asylum seekers

Several measures within the “government program” are explicitly directed towards inclusion and integration. According to the adopted program, disabled youngsters would “paralyze the progress of teaching” and would due to this fact must be taught in particular faculties. Children of asylum seekers ought to solely be taught in “special classes” with the intention to convey to them “that their stay in Germany is only temporary.”

“Our children definitely don’t need anti-racism training, but self-defense courses,” shouts deputy boss Tillschneider on Saturday. Schools are now not allowed to re-educate college students into brainwashed, incompetent and cowardly troopers of the rainbow empire. The “international agenda” enforces the “rainbow ideology against the interests of the people”.

Derogatory formulations about sexual minorities within the election program slot in with this. It accuses the civil rights motion of gays and lesbians of “destroying the traditional normality that we need for the successful development of our society.” There can also be discuss of “sexual deviations and non-reproductive lifestyles” that may get pleasure from extra acceptance than the “normal family”. Elsewhere, the AfD claims that “abnormal sexual preferences are being promoted” in kindergartens and first faculties.

Finally, within the tradition chapter it’s stated that “coming to terms with the past” is the “perpetuation of a guilt complex”. During his introduction speech on Saturday, Tillschneider claimed that the “old parties” acted “almost compulsively against their own people because they suffer from an identity disorder”. This dysfunction comes from the truth that “a guilt complex was derived from the historical events between 1933 and 1945” which nonetheless applies “over 80 years later”.

The US entrepreneur Elon Musk acknowledged this accurately, says Tillschneider. “It’s good to be German.” Musk unfold the right-wing extremist narrative of a supposed guilt cult at an AfD occasion in January final yr. There was “too much focus on past guilt,” he claimed on the time, and that wanted to be “overcome.”

Political editor Frederick Schindler reviews for WELT in regards to the AfD, Islamism, anti-Semitism and justice points. His column “Counter Speech” seems biweekly. His podcast “ has been revealed weekly since February 2026.Inside AfD“.