Anyone who belongs to the Bundeswehr will probably have to declare their possible membership in the Junge Alternative in the future, according to a media report. The AfD youth is considered to be right-wing extremist.
The Bundeswehr is looking “Mirror”-Information within our own ranks for members of the AfD youth organization JA. The Bundeswehr secret service MAD has asked all soldiers who are privately involved with the right-wing extremist Junge Alternative to immediately declare their membership to their employer, the magazine reported on Friday. The AfD sharply criticized the MAD’s actions.
The “Mirror” referred to a report from the military counterintelligence service on the force’s intranet from the beginning of the week. It said that membership in a right-wing extremist organization that is considered secure is always considered “actual clue” for efforts against the free-democratic basic order. The Cologne administrative court recently confirmed that the AfD youth organization JA as “definitely right-wing extremist” may be designated.
The MAD therefore warned that every JA member in the ranks of the Bundeswehr would be assessed as a suspected intelligence case. In addition, every soldier who is a member of a regional AfD association that is classified as right-wing extremist must do so “immediately” report.
AfD criticizes Bundeswehr for its actions
In principle, it is part of a soldier’s duty to advocate for the preservation of the free basic order, both on duty and privately. This is already violated when a soldier “not clearly distanced from efforts that attack, combat or defame this state and the current constitutional order”he quoted “Mirror” further from the MAD message on the Bundeswehr intranet. The text ended with the sentence: “Mere silence is not enough at this point!”.
Sharp criticism of the MAD’s actions came from the AfD. “Neither the Office for the Protection of the Constitution nor the MAD are authorized to make judgments about the constitutionality of a party’s youth organization”said AfD defense politician Rüdiger Lucassen. There are still courts about this in Germany. The request to report soldiers in the event of membership in the Young Alternatives violates Article 3 of the Basic Law, which explicitly prohibits discrimination because of political views. The MAD takes one “wrong way”emphasized Lucassen.
The JA specifically tries to recruit members of the Bundeswehr as members. The head of the JA, Hannes Gnauck, is a soldier himself. However, the AfD MP was banned from wearing uniforms and from serving before he entered the Bundestag.
Source: Stern
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