Overview

• The AfD motion, authored by Hans-Thomas Tillschneider, sought to end school anti-racism and diversity programs and to bar teachers from making evaluative political statements.
• The Landtag voted down the proposal with CDU, SPD, FDP, the Left, and the Greens opposed, leaving only the AfD in favor.
• Education Minister Jan Riedel told lawmakers that teachers are tasked with civic education and must classify racist or anti-democratic remarks as part of constitutional loyalty.
• Critics, including SPD leader Katja Pähle, labeled the push culture-war rhetoric, while the ministry cited the Beutelsbacher Consensus as the benchmark for political education.
• The initiative aligns with the AfD’s identity-focused campaign as polls place it near 39 percent ahead of the 2026 election, and it follows prior teacher-reporting portals, with the Saxony-Anhalt site now offline.