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  • boomzilla@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    Markus Frohnmaier looks evil AF. According to his Wikipedia he is. Mind you he is not from the AfD infested ex-GDR but from the southern Germany state Baden-Württemberg. Let’s dissect his Wikipedia entry a bit:

    • Born in Romania (lol) and never got to know his natural parents. First he wasn’t scheduled for adoption because of his weak constiution but was subsequently adopted by a german couple.

    • Got an economy high school diploma but dropped out of college.

    • Married to a Russian journalist previously working for the state affiliated Iswestija owned by Gazprom-Media.

    • Member of the parliament since 2017. Chairman of the far-right AfD regional association in Baden-Württemberg.

    • Employed multiple persons from the far-right-extremist spectrum. His own positions are openly far-right-extremist and xenophopic.

    • Media investigations found out that the Russian Federation supported him to influence German election campaigns in the parliament elections 2017. In a strategy paper that was obtained by the SPIEGEL, ZDF, BBC and La Repubblica, Wladimir Putin called him a “member of parliament under absolut control”.

    • The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution concluded 2019 that Frohnmaier legitimizes “Attacks on the state monopoly on the use of force”, has connections “to far-right-extremist publishers” and “to the anti-islam German Defence League” (which is also associated with the violent hooligan scene and is observed by Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution). Frohmaier demands after AfD’s takeover of power that the Federal Constitutional Court will be stacked with judges loyal to the party.

    • He was a chairman of the “Junge Alternative für Deutschland”, the youth organisation of the AfD which was deemed safe far-right-extreme by German federal judges and dissolved 2025.

    • In a speech in Erfurt he said: “To those left ideological terrorists, that party cronyism: When we take over we’ll clean up and throw out the manure. Then politics will be made for the people and only for the people - because we are the people, dear friends”.

    • He welcomed the Annexation of the Krim by Russia.

    • He met with the spokesperson Martin Sellner of the austrian Identitarian movement who’s got an entry ban to multiple countries and was the initiator of a meeting of AfD, CDU and entrepreneurs in 2024, notably in the vicinity of the first Wannseekonference, in which the massdeportation after an AfD takeover was discussed.

    • After Joe Biden was elected he wrote “No gratulations for the globalistic election fraudster Joe Biden.”

    • He met with Alexander Dugin and published on his rightwing-intellectual site Katechon

    • He met with pro-russian separatists in Donezk in 2016.

    • He founded the “German center for Eurasian Studies” together with a polish citizen who was deemed a chinese and russian agent by the state prosecutors office.

    • In 2019 he became a member of the “Yalta International Economic Forum” controlled by the FSB.

    He suffered a heart attack at the age of 27.

    • Enkrod@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      Thank you very much for that informative compilation.

      FYI, instead of “deemed safe” better use “officially confirmed” or “clearly classified”, this is a common error among German speakers

      • boomzilla@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Thanks a lot. I appreciate this as I often have to double-check and look-up idioms. Still, even after decades of communication in English. I’ll leave the error as is then, to not take the educational value from your post.

      • boomzilla@programming.devEnglish
        0·
        3 days ago

        I hope the CDU and SPD are able to destroy them with arguments any day soon. Like in the US and many other countries. Franz von Papen had a brilliant plan. We should try that again. Party bans just don’t cut it. It worked once with the Socialist Reich Party but we can’t guarantee that will work again. Better don’t ban people like Frohnmaier, openly stating he’s a national socialists, from the Bundestag. That could anger the voters. Also please don’t call them fascists. That seems to really anger some of them.