Monday, October 4th, 2021
“Greetings to the Hahn Flyer Service”
Second division team annoys the AfD live
The “Flyerservice Hahn” collects large amounts of AfD advertising material for the federal election campaign – and disposes of it instead of distributing it. At the party, the action caused outrage, the second division soccer club FC St. Pauli showed its solidarity with the action in front of a large audience.
The second division soccer club FC St. Pauli demonstrated its glee towards the AfD during the game against Dynamo Dresden (3-0). “St. Pauli greets the Flyerservice Hahn” could be read by the spectators in the stadium and on TV – white on blue on several boards around the field. The perimeter advertising is part of the marketing of the professional clubs; advertising partners of the clubs pay a lot of money for the presentation on match days. The club should not have made any money with the greeting, however, because “Flyerservice Hahn” is not one of the club’s regular advertising partners. It’s not even a regular company yet.
The artist collective “Center for Political Beauty” (ZPS) announced last Tuesday that it had founded the (fictitious) “Flyerservice Hahn” and offered the AfD to distribute advertising material for them as a service provider. Instead of distributing the material, the ZPS collected the five million flyers from various district associations of the party in order to dispose of them later. The party accepted the offer “gratefully” and delivered five million flyers “to the ZPS logistics chain”. “Whole truckloads of the AfD arrived week after week without an order confirmation or a legally valid contract,” explained the artist collective. The AfD had previously spoken of a million flyers.
For this “a website was faked and the sales tax number of a completely ignorant entrepreneur was illegally used”. On the Tuesday evening before the federal election, the relevant district associations and Bundestag candidates of the AfD were informed by email that the flyers could not be distributed “for organizational reasons”. Party leader Tino Chrupalla spoke of a “massive interference in the democratic election campaign”. “The aim was to damage the AfD financially, politically and in the media and thus, among other things, to influence the current federal election campaign – which the suspects also succeeded in doing,” says the criminal complaint that the party filed against the artist collective.
Already in 2018 the club caused outrage
At the end of 2018, FC St. Pauli had already drawn outrage from the AfD when the club launched a shower gel called “Anti-Fa”. “That is unacceptable. A non-profit association must not establish Antifa as a cult brand! Every weekend, thousands of police officers ensure safety at professional football matches. FC St. Pauli mocks all those colleagues with the Antifa shower gel. The association shows solidarity with a leftist -extremist group, “complained the AfD member of the Bundestag Martin Hess.
“In times when Nazis are allowed to shout right-wing extremist slogans unhindered and unhindered at their demonstrations and in which refugees are threatened and hunted, it is more important than ever to take a stand,” wrote the association in a press release announcing the sale of the shampoo . However, it is clearly about an anti-fascist attitude – and not about supporting violent criminals. The reaction from the AfD pleased Andreas Rettig, then managing director of the second division: “Praise to our creative marketing and merchandising department. If such people from this party get upset, we’ve done something right,” he said, according to the “Bild” newspaper .
The ZPS had already drawn attention to itself in the past with actions against the AfD. At the end of 2017, for example, the artist group erected an installation in the neighborhood of the AfD right-winger Björn Höcke in Bornhagen, Thuringia, which was reminiscent of the Berlin Holocaust memorial.