Since May, the Brandenburg state parliament member Kalbitz has been fighting with the AfD federal executive board about his party membership. Now the Berlin Regional Court has decided.
- Andreas Kalbitz wants to return to the AfD - and is taking it to court in Berlin .
- Shortly before the negotiation, the far right gives up the parliamentary group chairmanship in Potsdam .
- Now the Berlin regional court has decided on Kalbitz's urgent application .
Update from August 21, 12.18 p.m .: The Brandenburg right wing politician Andreas Kalbitz failed with an urgent application for his AfD expulsion (see original report) . The Berlin district court rejected the application with which Kalbitz wanted to ensure that the AfD "leaves" all rights resulting from AfD membership "unrestricted" until legal clarification .
In May, the AfD federal executive had decided with a narrow majority to cancel Kalbitz's AfD membership , because when he joined the party in 2013 he should have concealed previous memberships with the Republicans and in the now banned right-wing extremist “home-loyal German youth” - the party's federal arbitration tribunal confirmed the expulsion at the end of July.
Ruptured spleen: Kalbitz boxes his successor to the hospital with a "mishap" - and now finally gives up office
Original notification from August 19 : Potsdam / Berlin - Andreas Kalbitz gives up his position as chairman of the AfD parliamentary group in Brandenburg after internal criticism of his leadership style. "The decision finally made today by Mr. Kalbitz to finally resign from the position as chairman of the Brandenburg parliamentary group is in the light of events inevitable and overdue," said AfD chairman Jörg Meuthen . Co-boss Tino Chrupalla also said: "The step is consistent and correct in this situation."
However , he will continue to pursue the legal proceedings to regain his membership rights in the party , said Kalbitz at the request of the dpa . The right wing politician is currently fighting in court against the cancellation of his membership in the AfD * . Kalbitz actually only wanted to let his office as parliamentary group leader in Potsdam rest - until the court decided. Until then, the parliamentary executive director, Dennis Hohloch , should take over the chairmanship.
On Tuesday, Hohloch's stay in hospital caused considerable unrest in the party. "Since the rumor mill is seething and the pot is now almost boiling over: Yes, I'm currently still in the hospital with a ruptured spleen," tweeted Hohloch. Previously it had been rumored in the party that Hohloch was being treated in a Berlin clinic after an unintentionally violent welcome from the ex-regional chief Kalbitz.
Since the rumor mill is seething and the pot is now almost boiling over:
Yes, I am currently still in the hospital with a ruptured spleen (no cyst or similar).
The RND article is best available again: https://t.co/GYZrscQ5Cg
My channels will be managed by my employees until further notice.
Andreas Kalbitz: Investigations into the initial suspicion of negligent bodily harm
According to a report by the editorial network Germany (RND) , the 31-year-old Hohloch was injured last week in the parliamentary groups in the Potsdam state parliament when Kalbitz greeted him. According to AfD members, Hohloch suffered internal injuries , there are no indications of a dispute between the two men according to information from the dpa . "The best thing to do is to have the RND article again," continued Hohloch's tweet.
The Potsdam Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation against Kalbitz. "We initiated this ex officio based on press reports," said a spokesman for the authorities. It is about the initial suspicion of negligent bodily harm . First of all, the Tagesspiegel reported on the investigation. The public prosecutor's office is legally obliged to initiate investigations if there is evidence of possible criminal offenses - this does not say anything about whether there is criminal behavior.
Spleen rupture affair in the AfD: "Ongoing media scandal" (Kalbitz)
A Kalbitz politically close standing member of parliament had spread in the party on Monday after the friendly punch in the side of a previously was with Hohloch not diagnosed cyst burst in the spleen. Hohloch contradicted this: "No cyst or the like," he wrote in the tweet.
The incident is said to have been a reason at the parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday why Kalbitz has now declared his withdrawal from the group's top. Officially, the parliamentary group quoted Kalbitz as saying that he was firmly convinced that resigning would be the right contribution to "not feed the ongoing media scandal and internal party instrumentalisation".
Andreas Kalbitz: "Of course I really regret this mishap"
Kalbitz told the Berliner Zeitung : “Of course I very much regret this mishap and this chain of unfortunate circumstances.” Even before the report was published, Kalbitz said on Monday, when asked about representations from the party that he had made his group colleagues ready for hospitalization : “I am trusted In the meantime everything has probably been closed. ”This was “ internal party smear theater ” by people who were afraid that he could win his trial in the Berlin district court on Friday and become a party member again. "They really want me away."
An urgent motion from Kalbitz against the cancellation of his membership in the AfD is to be heard on August 21 in the Berlin district court . The AfD federal board had declared its membership null and void in May with a narrow majority.
The reason for the decision was given by the board that when he joined the party in 2013, Kalbitz had not given a previous membership in the now banned right-wing extremist “Heimattreuen Deutsche Jugend” (HDJ) and with the Republicans between late 1993 and early 1994. The AfD Federal Arbitration Court confirmed this decision at the end of July. In addition to Thuringia's regional chief Björn Höcke , Kalbitz was last seen as the most important representative of the right-wing national tendency in the party. (dpa / AFP / frs) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network.