Björn Höcke
German politician
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| 2024 | Leads the AfD to its first-ever first place finish in the Thuringian state election, achieving a historic milestone as the first far-right party to place first in an election since the Nazi era. |
| July 2024 | A court in Halle fined Höcke again for using the Nazi slogan 'Everything for Germany'. |
| May 2024 | Höcke was convicted and fined €13,000 for using the Nazi-associated slogan from the 2021 incident. |
| 2023 | A petition was initiated by the campaign network Campact to revoke Björn Höcke's eligibility to run for parliament, using Article 18 of the German Constitution. The petition aimed to collect 1.7 million signatures to urge the German government to take action against Höcke. |
| December 2023 | Höcke reportedly used the Nazi slogan partially again, saying 'Everything for...' with the audience completing '...Germany!' |
| September 2023 | Höcke was formally charged for the May 2021 incident involving the Nazi-associated slogan. |
| June 2023 | Officially indicted for using a prohibited Nazi-era phrase in a previous speech. |
| January 2023 | Participated in a video debate where he expressed supportive views towards Russia, suggesting Russia could be a pioneer for free and sovereign states without hegemonic influence. |
| 2022 | Survived an attempt by moderate AfD co-leader Jörg Meuthen to remove him from the party, which ultimately led to Meuthen quitting. |
| November 2021 | Had his parliamentary immunity in the Landtag of Thuringia cancelled, accused of using a Nazi-era phrase at the end of a speech. |
| May 29 2021 | Björn Höcke was accused of proclaiming a Nazi-associated slogan 'Everything for our homeland, everything for Saxony-Anhalt, everything for Germany!' at an election event in Merseburg, which uses a motto historically linked to the SA. |
| 2020 | Höcke publicly supported Die Kehre, a far-right ecologist magazine attempting to 'reclaim' environmental conservation from left-wing perspectives. |
| December 2020 | The AfD of North Rhine-Westphalia accidentally invites journalists to a party event listing 'Herrn [Mr.] Bernd Höcke' on the invitation. |
| March 2020 | A controversial video emerged of Höcke using language referencing Auschwitz while criticizing critics of his Flügel Sachsen-Anhalt faction, shortly after the faction was placed under surveillance by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. |
| 2019 | Led the AfD in the Thuringian state election, doubling the party's vote share to 23% and overtaking the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to place second. |
| September 2019 | A German court ruled that describing Höcke as fascist was not libelous, legally validating critical characterizations of his political ideology. |
| September 2019 | Threatened a ZDF journalist during an interview, challenging them to distinguish quotes between his book and Hitler's Mein Kampf. |
| May 2018 | An AfD tribunal ruled that Höcke was allowed to remain in the party, despite previous calls for his expulsion. |
| January 2018 | An original press release from the Bundestag accidentally uses 'Bernd' as Höcke's first name, which was corrected on the same day. |
| February 2017 | The majority of AfD party leaders requested Björn Höcke's expulsion from the party due to his inflammatory remarks about the Holocaust memorial. |
| January 2017 | Höcke gave a controversial speech in Dresden criticizing the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, stating Germans have planted a 'memorial of shame' and suggesting a 180-degree change in commemoration policy. |
| 2015 | During autumn demonstrations, Höcke called for Germany to have a 'thousand year future', referencing historical nationalist rhetoric and expressing his far-right views about German national identity. |
| October 2015 | During a political talkshow 'Günther Jauch', made a notable statement about Europe and Germany while holding a small German flag, one day after a knife attack on Cologne mayor Henriette Reker. |
| July 2015 | Became nationally prominent after party leader Bernd Lucke was ousted. |
| March 2015 | Thüringer Allgemeine newspaper mistakenly uses 'Bernd' as Höcke's first name, which he publicly complained about. This triggers a satirical running gag by comedians. |
| 2014 | Elected to the Landtag (state parliament) of Thuringia, becoming a key figure in the AfD party. |
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