Andreas Kalbitz (born 17 November 1972) is a German politician and former member of the

Alternative for Germany Alternative for Germany (, AfD, ) is a Far-right politics in Germany (1945–present), far-right,Far-right: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Right-wing populism, right-wing populist and National conservatism, national-conservative p ...

(AfD) party. He was a member of the party from 2013 until his expulsion in 2020. From 2017 to 2020, he served as chairman of the AfD Brandenburg faction of the party in the

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, a state parliament.

Life and politics

Kalbitz was born 1972 in

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and became a paratrooper in the

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, the German federal army from 1994 until 2005. His claims that in 2008 he had studied (computer science) proved false in 2017. Kalbitz was a member of various

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right-wing organisations before he entered the newly founded AfD in 2013. One of those extremist right-wing organisations, a banned neo-Nazi group called German Youths Loyal to the Fatherland, became the reason he was expelled from the party as he allegedly declined to notify the party while joining in 2013. In May 2020, Kalbitz was removed as Brandenburg Landtag chairman by the party leadership after he was accused of concealing ties to far-right extremist groups. He was succeeded by provisional leader . Also in May, the AfD annulled the membership of Kalbitz, who in response vowed to "exhaust all legal options" to overrule the decision. In an interview the same month, co-spokesman of the AfD

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emphasized that the decision had been made on legal rather than political grounds. In August 2020, Kalbitz punched Hohloch while inside the Brandenburg parliament building, causing Hohloch to be admitted to hospital with internal injuries. He has participated in Pegida rallies in the early 2020s alongside

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among others, both before and after he was expelled from the AfD.

References

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