Overview
- Thousands blocked routes to the convention center, forcing a start more than two hours late, and police used pepper spray after stones were thrown.
- The new organization, expected to be called Generation Germany/Generation Deutschland, replaces the dissolved Young Alternative under direct party oversight.
- Jean-Pascal Hohm, a 28-year-old Brandenburg lawmaker with past links to far-right milieus, is slated to take the helm.
- Researchers caution the rebrand appears cosmetic and note that themes such as so-called “remigration” remain central to the youth platform.
- Germany’s domestic intelligence service labeled the former youth group extremist and previously designated the AfD itself, a status now paused pending the party’s court challenge.