Overview
- Mobile advisory teams logged a 5–20% jump in inquiries in 2025 across roughly 50 units, leaving many of about 200 advisers overburdened.
- Advisers report very young far-right actors, including 10–12-year-olds, expanding their influence in schools, with right-wing dominance emerging in some cases.
- Partly violent neo-Nazi groups are being reported across federal states, with current hotspots named in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
- The network attributes the broader normalization partly to AfD electoral gains and to some democratic politicians adopting right-wing narratives, weakening the firewall against extremism.
- Funding for democracy initiatives remains unclear for 2026, while civil society mounts responses such as Halle’s seven-week “Wir” Festival and experts call for stronger, stable support.