Overview
- In a video posted Monday on X, the former Thuringia minister-president says a server told him, “We don’t serve you,” after he entered with his son for lunch in Weimar.
- He told dpa the reason given was “because you are Thomas Kemmerich,” after which he left and ate elsewhere.
- The restaurant was not identified in his post or in subsequent reports, and the account has not been independently verified.
- Public reaction reported by outlets included support for him and criticism citing a business’s “house right” to refuse service.
- Kemmerich has remained contentious since his brief 2020 election with AfD support and he left the FDP in September to join Frauke Petry’s Team Freiheit.