Overview

• The 2024 annual report logged 302 new extremism-suspicion cases in the Bundeswehr, five fewer than in 2023.
• Right-wing extremism accounted for 216 of the new files, with roughly three quarters of all suspicion cases overall (875) tied to that category.
• The Military Counterintelligence Service was handling 1,159 cases at year-end, reflecting its mandate to investigate extremism and espionage in the forces.
• Eighteen people were newly classified as extremists in 2024, four more than the previous year.
• Smaller new case counts were recorded for Islamist (33), foreign-related (31), left-wing (11), Reichsbürger/self-administrator (5), and Scientology-linked (1) activity, with inquiries also touching the Middle East conflict, the war in Ukraine, and the “Sylt video.”