Right-wing extremist think tank
Kubitschek announces the end of the “Institute for State Policy”
May 13, 2024, 3:25 p.m
For a good year now, the new right-wing “Institute for State Policy” in Schnellroda, Saxony-Anhalt, has been classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as definitely right-wing extremist. Now founder and thought leader Götz Kubitschek reacts: The right-wing extremist think tank no longer exists. However, new structures are taking its place.
The “Institute for State Policy” in Saxony-Anhalt, which the Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified as definitely right-wing extremist, has been dissolved. “The Institute for State Policy no longer exists,” wrote board member Götz Kubitschek in an article in the company’s own magazine “Sezession”. “The association has been dissolved, all members have resigned, the accounts have been closed, the tasks have been completed or redistributed.”
The “Institute for State Policy” based in Schnellroda was classified by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in April last year as a confirmed right-wing extremist effort. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony-Anhalt classified the institute as definitely right-wing extremist in 2019. The institute was considered an important source of ideological ideas for the New Right. According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, it occupied a strategically important role in the New Right network.
Kubitschek now wrote that the dissolution of the club had been “in the making for a long time”. Such a club no longer has any purpose if it has finally lost its non-profit status “and if the opponent has riddled it like a target on the shooting range,” wrote Kubitschek. The magazine “Secession” will now be run by Erik Lehnert in terms of content and finances. Kubitschek headed the associated “Association for State Politics” together with Lehnert.
Höcke complains about “criminalization”
According to the association register of the Stendal district court, the dissolution of the association was decided in February and March of this year. In his contribution, Kubitschek announced the founding of a new company called “menschpark”, which also wants to run academies and hold conferences.
According to “taz”, Thuringia’s AfD leader Björn Höcke is one of the politicians who have already reacted to the dissolution of the “Institute for State Policy”. No other institution has “made a contribution to conservative educational work and the promotion of young talent at this level,” he writes in a kind of obituary. He spoke of “criminalization” by the state, but emphasized that clubs were not needed to “infect” political morality.