Overview
- Several CDU/CSU figures, including Stephan Mayer, Cornell Babendererde and Roman Poseck, propose making dual nationality the exception for future naturalisations and enabling faster loss of German citizenship for criminal, extremist or antisemitic dual nationals.
- Poseck raises targeting Hamas supporters for denaturalisation, while Mayer calls for immediate loss of citizenship for violent offenders and enemies of the constitution who hold two passports.
- SPD interior expert Sebastian Fiedler rejects a rollback, pointing to the coalition agreement that preserved dual citizenship and to legal boundaries, noting existing provisions already allow loss in defined cases such as terrorist combat since 2019.
- The political push follows a Berlin case in which a newly naturalised man praised Hamas online; authorities are reviewing whether his naturalisation can be revoked over suspected false statements.
- Any change would require a Bundestag majority, and the coalition recently repealed the three‑year fast‑track naturalisation without altering the general permission for dual citizenship as 2024 naturalisations hit a record 291,955 with many retaining prior passports.