Overview

• BVL will hold the annual marches on September 20, with gatherings starting at Berlin Hauptbahnhof and Cologne Neumarkt.
• Cologne’s program includes PAAU activists Caroline Smith and Lauren Handy, who was convicted over a 2020 clinic invasion and pardoned in 2025.
• Organizers claim up to 10,000 participants, though recent years have seen roughly 4,000 attendees including bus groups from the region.
• Following a campaign that helped block jurist Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf from joining the Constitutional Court, activists say they feel political momentum.
• Left-wing groups highlight links to the AfD and the participation of CitizenGo, and broad counterprotests by feminist, medical, queer and left coalitions are planned in both cities.