Der Flügel
Far-right faction of the Alternative for Germany
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| January 2022 | Jörg Meuthen resigned from the party chairmanship and the AfD, citing his loss of the power struggle with Der Flügel and criticizing the party's rightward shift. |
| 2020 | Frank Pasemann was expelled from the AfD, though he remained active within the party. |
| May 15 2020 | Andreas Kalbitz, spokesman of AfD Regional Association Brandenburg and Flügel, was expelled from the AfD party. |
| April 2020 | AfD executive board requested Der Flügel to dissolve by the end of April, leading to the group's online presence going offline. |
| March 2020 | BfV classified Der Flügel as a 'right-wing extremist endeavor' and placed the group under intelligence surveillance. The AfD's national leaders demanded the dissolution of Der Flügel, with Höcke and Kalbitz asking members to 'cease their activities'. |
| January 2019 | The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) first classified Der Flügel as a suspected case of right-wing extremism. |
| July 2015 | At the Essen party convent, a power struggle occurred where Bernd Lucke was challenged, resulting in Frauke Petry being elected as party chairwoman and Lucke withdrawing from the AfD. |
| March 2015 | Björn Höcke and André Poggenburg initiated the 'Erfurt Declaration', officially forming the ethnic-nationalist movement 'Der Flügel' within the AfD party. |
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