Overview
- Alice Weidel labeled Verfassungsschutz staff "schmierige Stasi-Spitzel" on WELT-TV and singled out Thuringia’s Stephan Kramer with derisive personal remarks.
- Kramer called the comparison a mockery of Stasi victims and an attempt to delegitimise a lawful security agency and silence its employees.
- Defending his office, Kramer stressed the Verfassungsschutz protects the democratic order by rule‑of‑law means and is not comparable to the DDR’s repressive secret police.
- Weidel later doubled down on X, portraying the agency as a unique domestic opinion‑surveillance body that persecutes the opposition.
- Thuringia’s Interior Minister Georg Maier condemned Weidel’s wording and noted she repeated the banned SA slogan "Alles für Deutschland" without distancing herself, as the broader federal classification of the AfD remains on hold pending litigation.