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Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein giving a speech in the state parliament in Kiel (archive picture)
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The former head of the AfD state in Schleswig-Holstein, Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein, has successfully sued her exclusion from the party.
The Berlin district court granted Sayn-Wittgenstein's lawsuit against the AfD federal executive board.
She remains a member of the party.
The result of the oral hearing is available to SPIEGEL.
The responsible civil chamber of the regional court did not initially provide a reason.
She referred to the written judgment.
It is not yet legally binding, an appeal can be lodged with the Supreme Court.
The Federal Arbitration Court of the AfD had excluded Sayn-Wittgenstein from the party in 2019 because of behavior that was harmful to the party.
Sayn-Wittgenstein, which is now part of the right-wing nationalist »wing« of the AfD, which has since been formally dissolved, is said to have supported a »memorial site association« classified by the Thuringian constitutional protection as a right-wing extremist.
With the exclusion from the party, she also lost her position as head of the Schleswig-Holstein AfD regional association.
The AfD parliamentary group in the Kiel state parliament had previously excluded Sayn-Wittgenstein because of the allegations.
The state constitutional court later confirmed this decision.
But that did not end the fuss about the AfD in Schleswig-Holstein.
Last year, the AfD also lost its parliamentary group status in the Kiel state parliament because a member of parliament announced that he was leaving the party because of the constant radicalization of the state association.
This meant that the three remaining AfD MPs could no longer form their own parliamentary group.
At a federal party conference in December 2017, the camp around the AfD far-right and former "wing" boss Björn Höcke surprisingly sent Sayn-Wittgenstein, who was hardly known at the time, into the race for the federal chairmanship of the AfD alongside Jörg Meuthen.
It only narrowly failed.
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