Maximilian Krah: Now his ex-employee is being done the process

The subtle appearance full of humility was never his thing. A few days before the trial against his former employee, Maximilian Krah goes on vacation in Slovakia. His shirt of the choice bears the inscription: “Krah – Make Europe Great Again”. Via Instagram, the AfD politician lets his fans share in how he drinks self-burned schnapps or reports on the advantages of eating raw milk. That makes male and enable many children.

His former office employee Jian G. continues to sit in custody for hundreds of kilometers away. The trial at the Higher Regional Court of Dresden begins this Tuesday. Jian G. is said to have spied on China, also from the Krah’s Brussels office. Now the German with Chinese roots for secret service agent activity in a particularly severe case must answer in court.

According to the prosecutor’s indictment, G. has been working for a Chinese secret service since 2002. As an employee of Krah, he collected information about the consultations and decisions of the European Parliament in Brussels and compiled more than 500 documents.

Particularly explosive for the AfD: G. is also said to have spied on the party leadership and created Dossiers about the chairperson Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel. The documents wrote in Chinese – one thing has the poetic title “Tea in the morning” – is available to the “Spiegel”. G. is said to have passed details from confidential discussions with Krah to the Chinese secret service, writes the magazine, including details from the private life of the party leaders Alice Weidel.

Krah is said to have reported to his assistant who the seed was supposed to come with, with which one of the children of the AfD boss and her partner was created. He also reported to his employee of a coup plan for Chrupalla against competitor Weidel. Jian G. wrote everything down in his dossiers, who apparently could find the investigators.

The revelations scratch the image of the committed and harmoniously working party leadership, which Weidel and Chrupalla are happy to carry out. In addition, the AfD is currently trying to adapt its attitude in foreign and security policy. Less Russia and China, more USA and NATO. The process does not help.

The Dresden General Prosecutor’s Office is now investigating Krah himself. The accusation is money laundering and bribery as a mandate carrier in the European Parliament. Krah is said to have accepted money from China. And here, too, the trail leads to its former employee G .. As the “Spiegel” reports, the AfD politician received more than 50,000 euros from companies from the environment of the now accused alleged agent. This emerges from the investigation files, which will also play a role in the process starting on Tuesday.

Krah has been rejecting the allegations for months. When the star After his employee was arrested, it confronted whether money had flowed through him or Jian G. tried to recruit him as Chinese agents, Krah replied: “Of course not!”

According to Krah’s presentation, both met in 2015 about his previous profession as a lawyer. Jian G. was his client. Krah was sitting in the European Parliament from 2019 to 2025 and made G. his employee in order to use-according to the AfD politician-specialist knowledge in the field of trade and logistics. For the 2024 European election campaign, the AfD Krah chose the first list place, making it the face of the campaign. Even then, some members of the AfD parliamentary group were against his list as a top candidate for the European elections.

Krah often took part in the European Parliament for the People’s Republic of China. Before he was exposed, G.’s relationships of his employee G. were whispered as a suspected agent in the party and the EU parliament. A member of the parliamentary group at the time is better to avoid it.

When Jian G. was arrested a few weeks before the election in 2024 and the office of the MEP’s office was searched, Krah still claimed that this would not change his function as a top candidate. But after he had also made SS-hemprifting statements, the Saxon could no longer be kept. Krah was thrown out of the Group in the European Parliament and lost his post as a top candidate. For Afdler, this was also a failure of the federal leadership that had not prevented the politician with the slope to eccentric appearances despite all the concerns as number 1 in the election campaign.

In the Bundestag election in February 2025, however, Krah moved to the Bundestag via a direct mandate in Saxony. Again there were discussions about dealing with his person. Despite the controversy, the parliamentary group accepted him in the parliamentary group – without discussions. Just a few weeks later, the indictment against Krah’s employee was officially charged and shortly afterwards the procedure against himself was initiated. The Krah personnel fell on the feet again – and still damages the top around Weidel and Chrupalla, who do not get the situation under control.

Shortly after the official indictment against G., Krah announced that he had drawn all the necessary consequences and would now pursue the process with interest. For now, he has to do that from a distance. Krah is invited as a witness for September 3 and must not participate in the previous negotiations.