Hans-Georg Maassen and the sad end of no era

The crises and wars of this world have always had a lot to do with older men who try to compensate for their actual or imaginary insults. They want to re -reinforce imploded imperies, save their country from the alleged downfall or be the most potent president of all time. It is always about raising your own, badly fragile ego. Everything else is classified.

These men should not be underestimated. On the contrary: they are dangerous. Nevertheless, in their grotesque presumption they sometimes seem involuntarily funny.

This applies in particular if you fail as persistently as Hans-Georg Maassen, still chairman of the small party. This week he was not ready to accept “the insults and insults” from his own board. This also applies to “killing fantasies and coercion”.

The bizarre process is the next and possibly final turn of a bizarre politician career that only knew only one direction: down. In the almost seven years since his release as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Maassen has deteriorated to his own caricature.

This is mainly due to the fact that he could never overcome his resignation. He, the doctorate in full law, who always thought was the smartest man in the room and who had the domination of the domestic secret service, had been cast by a chancellor whom he despised politically and intellectually.

Maassen was short of his 56th birthday when he was retired in November 2018. As a political, but at the end of the civil servant, he had created too much with Chancellor Angela Merkel and her coalition partner SPD.

Maassen’s reputation was ruined in the liberal civil society. But for the right wing of the CDU, which he had belonged to for decades, he became a hero. Soon afterwards he entered the obscure association “Value Union”, toured the increasingly blue East Germany and probed a suitable place for his political revenge on Merkel.

He found it in Thuringia. There he only campaigned for choosing a prime minister with the help of Björn Höckes AfD and then welcomed the choice of FDP man Thomas Kemmerich. And in 2021 he had a direct candidate for the resistance of the CDU leadership nominated by some of the Renitent district associations as a direct candidate for the federal election.

The defeat was complete. Maassen lost in the structural conservative South Thuringia against a social democrat. In Maassen, the new humiliation finally freely freed the self -righteous arrogance with which he had already acted in the protection of the constitution. And: his self -blstricalization accelerated.

Maassen escaped from the CDU and formed a party from the “Value Union” club with which he started the state elections in 2024. In Thuringia, he even ran for the office of prime minister without being on the list.

The result for the “values ​​union”: 0.4 percent. In Brandenburg and Saxony, the party cut off even worse. For the Bundestag election in February, it only competed in a few countries. The overall result: 6736 second votes. 0.0136 percent.

Nevertheless, Maassen continued defiantly. He, the notoriously failed, surrounded himself systematically with other failed, with the former AfD boss Jörg Meuthen, for example or the former CDU member of the Bundestag Sylvia Pantel.

Now he also feels disempowered and betrayed by them. “The people who behave like this are disgusted,” he said. As a “breakfast director”, he was not ready to cover the “dirty things that are operated behind my back”.

The sad end is not an era. At the age of 62, Hans-Georg Maassen became exactly what, whereas he defended himself with increasing despair: a tragicomic figure.

The last alternative for Maassen would only be the AfD. But even in the extreme party with which he would have loved to go to Germany, no one has been waiting for him for a long time.