A large number of protesters prevented the first lecture of AfD co-founder Bernd Lucke from taking place in Hamburg on his return to university. The protesters repeatedly shouted "Get out", some threw the economist with paper balls.
Lucke was therefore unable to talk about macroeconomics as planned. The student union Asta had previously called for a rally in front of the main building of the university. Among other things, to point out the political actions Luckes.
The economist and euro critic Lucke was instrumental in the founding of the AfD in 2013 and one of its first federal spokesman. In 2014 he had taken leave of absence from the University of Hamburg to change to the European Parliament as a professional politician for the AfD.
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After Lucke had been replaced in 2015 in the dispute over a more national-conservative orientation of the party of Frauke Petry as AfD national spokesman, he had left the party. As a result, he had repeatedly denounced xenophobic and right-wing extremist tendencies of the AfD.
Luckes attempts to gain a political foothold with the Alliance for Progress and Emergence Alliance (ALFA), which later renamed itself Liberal Conservative Reformer (LCR), failed. In the European elections at the end of May, the LKR with top candidate Lucke only got 0.1 percent of the vote.
On Monday Lucke had already held a first smaller course.