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Afd Hamburg
ChairpersonDirk Nockemann
Founded7 April 2013; 11 years ago (2013-04-07)
Membership (2020)400[1]
IdeologyRight-wing populism
Political positionFar-right[A]
National affiliationAlternative for Germany
Colours  Light blue
Hamburg Parliament
6 / 123
Bundestag delegation
78 / 736
Website
afd-hamburg.de

The AfD Hamburg is the state association of the right-wing[2][3] party Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland) in the German city Hamburg. The state association is led by politician Dirk Nockemann as state chairman.[4][5] The party succeeded in entering Hamburg's parliament at their first attempt in the 2015 state election.[6]

AfD in the Hamburg Parliament[edit]

The state association was founded in April of 2013. Politician Jörn Kruse was elected as state chairman, Günther Siegert and Kay Gottschalk were elected as deputies, and Erich Marquart was elected as treasurer. As a result, some former members of the parties Die Freiheit and Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive (Schill-Party) joined the state association, so that at the next state executive elections, among others, the former member of the Schill-Partei and former Senator of the Interior Dirk Nockemann was elected deputy chairman.[7] Furthermore, Bernd Baumann was elected third deputy and the board was expanded from seven to nine members.[8]

On May 25, 2014, the state party entered all seven assemblies for the first time in the elections to the district assemblies, with a total of 17 deputies.[9]

In the 2015 state election, the state party received 6.1% of the vote,[10] meaning that eight members on the list were elected as members of the Hamburg Parliament.[11][6][12] According to the Statistics Office North, the AfD received over five percent of the constituency votes in 14 constituencies and became the fourth strongest party in five constituencies (constituencies 11, 12, 14, 15 and 17). It received the highest share of the vote in constituency 17, 9.3 percent, and the lowest in constituency 3, 2.8 percent.[13]

In the 2020 Hamburg state elections, the AfD Hamburg received 5.3% of the vote, just surpassing the bare minimum the party needed to stay in parliament.[14][15][16]

Demonstration in Hamburg against AfD on January 19th 2024

In January 2024 in Germany hundreds of thousands of people were protesting against AfD and Nazism. In Hamburg the local organizing committee wanted to rally at the central Hamburg City Hall. The AfD Fraction Hamburg then spontaneously called a parliamentary group meeting with which they wanted to make the demonstration more difficult because there was a ban mile around the City Hall during meetings. A spokeswoman for the DGB said: “The AfD is using the ban mile law to prevent protests against right-wing extremism on the Rathausmarkt.”[17]

The demonstration was postponed and instead of 10,000 exspected people at least 50,000 were protesting against the AfD, the demonstration had to be stopped due to overcrowding.[18]

National Executive Board[edit]

Since November 2021, the National Executive Board has been composed of the following members:[19]

Position Party member(s)
State Chairman Dirk Nockemann (MdHB)
Deputy State Chairman Alexander Wolf (MdHB), Krzysztof Walczak (MdHB), Joachim Körner
Treasurer Peggy Heitmann
Deputy Treasurer Peter Schierhorn
Secretary Marc Cremer-Thursby
Assessors Eckbert Sachse, Eugen Seiler

Parliamentary group in the Hamburg Parliament[edit]

Members of the AfD in the Hamburg Parliament as of 2023:[20][21]

  • Dirk Nockemann (Parliamentary Group Chairman; State Chairman)
  • Olga Petersen
  • Thomas Reich
  • Marco Schulz
  • Krzysztof Walczak (Parliamentary Managing Director; Deputy State Chairman)
  • Alexander Wolf

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Hamburger Parteien: Grüne gewinnen Mitglieder, AfD verliert". 28 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Rassistisch und rechtsextrem: Klare Abgrenzung von der AfD geboten". Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  3. ^ AFP (2020-02-24). "Germany's AfD to return to Hamburg Parliament". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  4. ^ "Landesvorstand". AfD Hamburg (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  5. ^ Limited, Alamy. "Hamburg, Germany. 30th Mar, 2022. Dirk Nockemann, AfD state chairman and parliamentary group leader in Hamburg, speaks at a session of the Hamburg Parliament in the Great Festival Hall at City Hall. Credit: Jonas Walzberg/dpa/Alamy Live News Stock Photo - Alamy". www.alamy.com. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  6. ^ a b "Hamburg election: AfD enters first parliament in West Germany, CDU at record low". the Guardian. 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  7. ^ "IMAGO". www.imago-images.de. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  8. ^ "Germany's new anti-euro AfD party causes political stir". BBC News. 2013-08-27. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  9. ^ "Informationen zu den Bezirksversammlungswahlen am 25. Mai 2014 in Hamburg - Statistikamt Nord".
  10. ^ "SPD takes Hamburg elections – DW – 02/15/2015". dw.com. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  11. ^ "AfD wins seats in Hamburg elections". POLITICO. 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  12. ^ "Hamburg state election underway – DW – 02/15/2015". dw.com. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  13. ^ Thomas, Andrea (15 February 2015). "Germany's AfD Party Advances in Hamburg City-State Election". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  14. ^ "Germany: Hamburg election results 2020". Statista. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  15. ^ "Hamburg election: SPD win, AfD scrape by – DW – 02/23/2020". dw.com. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  16. ^ "Far-right AfD barely avoids crashing out of Hamburg parliament". The Local Germany. 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
  17. ^ Klute, Amira (2024-01-18). "Hamburger Demo muss verlegt werden: AfD plötzlich arbeitsam". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  18. ^ "Hamburg: Demonstration gegen rechts abgebrochen". Der Spiegel (in German). 2024-01-19. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  19. ^ "Landesvorstand". AfD Hamburg (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  20. ^ https://www.hamburgische-buergerschaft.de/contentblob/12766930/e25be50da270c61c1ec7a221904bbeaf/data/flyer-the-buergerschaft-status-july-2019.pdf
  21. ^ "123 Abgeordnete im Überblick". Hamburgische Bürgerschaft (in German). Retrieved 2023-01-29.
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