According to SPIEGEL information, the Military Shielding Service (MAD) of the Bundeswehr has collected "findings on the participation in extremist ambitions" about the present-day Brandenburg AfD leader and parliamentary leader Andreas Kalbitz.
Kalbitz was from 1994 to 2005 paratroopers in the Bundeswehr. At least three talks led the MAD with Kalbitz. In 2001, Bundeswehr soldiers asked him to talk to the staff, an MAD note landed in his master file. In addition, Kalbitz is locked after SPIEGEL information for reservist. This is documented by internal Bundeswehr documents.
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Accordingly, the intelligence service questioned Kalbitz to a nationalist pilgrimage in Belgium, in which he had participated in the years 1999 and 2000. In addition, the MAD was interested in his membership of the "Junge Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen" (JLO), a right-wing extremist organization that was monitored by the German constitutional protection agency and was considered to be the run-up organization of the NPD.
Their successor "Junge Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland" stands today on the so-called incompatibility list of the AfD. Actually, Kalbitz would have to be excluded from the party, he should have concealed the membership in his entry in 2013.
At the time, the list of incompatibilities did not exist, but earlier memberships in extremist organizations had always been mentioned. The state executive of the Brandenburg AfD did not answer a SPIEGEL inquiry whether Kalbitz disclosed it at the time.
"Suspicions not applicable"
According to the 2001 note, Kalbitz admitted to being a member of the JLO for at least seven years. So far, it was only known that he had written texts for the JLO newspaper "Fritz". Kalbitz also said, according to the memo, that in late 2000 and early 2001, he co-organized two events for the JLO in the premises of the far-right fraternity Danubia, as an inviting and event director. He then promised to cancel his JLO membership.
On SPIEGEL's request, Kalbitz informed the law firm Höcker that the "suspicions were not correct". Either the SPIEGEL information from the Bundeswehr period was "invented" - or it had been "criminally relevant to breach of duty and confidentiality obligations" been. The information should therefore be thought-out or correct - both the attorney seems to consider both possible.
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