Unbelievable revelations incriminate the President of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Stephan Kramer. ‘We demand transparent clarification!’ says AfD national spokesperson and candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel in an initial reaction. Weidel lists outrageous accusations: ‘According to media reports, the head of the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Kramer, is alleged to have committed criminal offences, threatened employees with physical violence, illegally prepared AfD expert reports and passed on internal information to public broadcaster MDR.
But one thing at a time. According to research by the alternative medium ‘Apollo News’, Department 1 of the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior wrote a six-page letter to the Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution back in 2019. It concerns the suspicion that Kramer had allegedly passed on ‘strictly confidential information about serious dysfunctions and internal tensions in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution’ to two MDR journalists without authorisation and unlawfully. He allegedly disclosed to the journalists that ‘several officials in the Office for the Protection of the Constitution were working against the President’. The alleged breach of official duties in this context may constitute ‘a serious criminal offence under Section 353d of the German Criminal Code’ and raises the question of whether Kramer ‘poses a serious security risk’.
After Kramer classified the AfD as a ‘ case under investigation’ in 2018, a head of department complained in writing that the responsible department had been ‘deliberately ignored’. When Kramer followed up years later with a legally highly questionable report against the AfD, a courageous employee wrote a 30-page supplementary report that did not fit the narrative of the AfD’s supposed hostility towards the constitution. Kramer is said to have prevented the supplementary report from being used and, according to witnesses, justified this by saying that he did not want to ‘provide the opponent with any arguments’. According to ‘Apollo News’ information, the author of the uncomfortable report is said to have approached the personnel department of the Ministry of the Interior and stated that Kramer had threatened him with physical violence. If even fractions of these allegations, which now need to be clarified, are true, we expect Stephan Kramer to resign immediately!