Overview
- Investigators searched the politician’s home, business premises, and a building at the Osthausen-Wülfershausen airfield in Ilm-Kreis to secure evidence.
- The Jena prosecutor is probing suspected support for the so‑called Kaiserreichsgruppe and alleged aiding of the preparation of a high‑treasonous enterprise against the federal government.
- The local officeholder sits for the AfD in the Ilmenau city council and the Ilm‑Kreis district council, and he states he is not a party member.
- He denies any links to terrorism and says police seized computers, smartphones, and data carriers that he voluntarily unlocked for investigators.
- Authorities say no arrest was planned, the suspect’s name has not been released, and four ringleaders of the Kaiserreichsgruppe were convicted in March by the Koblenz Higher Regional Court.