Overview

• The court unanimously dismissed most AfD applications as inadmissible and rejected the admissible claims on the merits.
• Presiding judge Birgit Voßkühler explained that senators are explicitly permitted to take partisan positions in the chamber, including polemical formulations.
• Judges found Andy Grote’s statements about AfD radicalization and Holocaust relativization to be factually grounded, citing indicators such as extremist classifications of AfD state branches.
• The ruling stressed that Grote did not single out individual Hamburg legislators or accuse them of crimes like incitement to hatred.
• AfD representative Alexander Wolf condemned the decision and questioned the curtailed neutrality standard, leaving possible further legal steps open.