Brandenburg’s Interior Minister resigns-also because of the AfD classification

Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Katrin Lange (SPD) resigned after violent criticism in connection with the dismissal of the head of the constitution. She said her resignation, she said in the State Chancellery in Potsdam.

Between Lange and the Protection of the Protection of the Constitution, dispute over the handling of the AfD and the high level of the state party in Brandenburg had ignited as secure right -wing extremist. Even within our own party, the pressure on long had greater increasingly.

The SPD politician had released Jörg Müller, head of the Protection of the Protection of the Constitution about a week and a half, because, according to her own statements, she was only taught on the AfD’s decision for the AfD’s decision. However, there was doubts about the credibility of her presentation and after several media reports that she had previously been informed, but the state AfD’s high ratings wanted to slow down.

That always rejected it for a long time, but she got into explanation. Resignation claims were loud. The head of the constitutional protection department, Müller, was estimated across the party for his work. He left no doubt that he considers the AfD to be right -wing extremists. Long critics recently said that with the release, they also played the AfD into their hands. For a long time itself, the turf was vehemently rejected that it was blind in the right eye.

The politician was also accused of pruning the independence of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. She does not want to know a previous service statement, according to which the decision to classify AfD only makes the constitutional protection management, as she said last. She also took this line back because of the dispute with Müller and wanted the last word with such particularly important reviews about “observation objects”.

The office of Interior Minister competed by the 53-year-old around 5 months after the 2024 state election. Previously, she was finance minister in Brandenburg. Before the affair, great opportunities were given to inherit Brandenburg’s prime minister Woidke. She was considered his confidante and is his deputy at the head of the State SPD. For a long time, State Secretary was in the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Ministry of the Interior until she took over the finance department in 2019 as a minister. After the state election in 2024, she then led the important inner department.

Brandenburg’s Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke called the resignation a service at the state of Brandenburg. The head of government visibly moved in Potsdam in the late afternoon that the minister was buried the size of hiring her personal interests at the back and her dream of leading the Interior Ministry. For a long time, the country, the state government and the Brandenburg SPD had served a major service. He respected the decision for a long time, but would have liked it differently.

The 53-year-old is known for a clear edge and some robust statements. In the state parliament, she had rejected an AfD claim after her discharge with the words: “You can clean yourself from the cheek. I am out of the Prignitz. I don’t be provoked.” For a long time, Pritzwalk is rooted in her home country.

In the eyes of other parties, she was sometimes considered a hardliner in migration policy. It demands more consistent return of people who have no right to stay. After taking office as Interior Minister in December 2024, criticism fell on criticism that the jurisdiction for integration was no longer based on the Ministry of Social Affairs as before, but in the Ministry of the Interior.