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Schloss Proschwitz Owners Challenge AfD-Linked Video Over Unauthorized Use

The dispute centers on a Compact-produced campaign piece for the Meißen mayoral race.

Das Weingut Schloss Proschwitz in Meißen
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Overview

  • Alexandra and Georg Prinz zur Lippe say their estate, brand and images were used without consent to promote the AfD in local election advertising.
  • They describe the use as a serious exploitation of reputation and call it a direct attack on their integrity.
  • The roughly 19-minute YouTube report by Compact, presented by Paul Klemm, features AfD city councillor Jana Wischnewski at Schloss Proschwitz with shots of the logo and portraits of the owners.
  • The owners demand removal of the footage and related social posts, cite posted house rules requiring permission for non-private filming, allege a vinotheque scene was recorded covertly, and consider legal steps.
  • Compact has been classified by domestic intelligence as a proven right-wing extremist endeavor, was banned by the Interior Ministry in 2024, and had the ban lifted by the Federal Administrative Court in 2025 as the 7 September vote in Meißen approaches with AfD candidate René Jurisch facing Martin Bahrmann and Markus Renner.