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The federal conference of the AfD in Augsburg seemed at first glance, not spectacular: the party leader Alexander Gauland compared the crisis of the Union with the end of the GDR and also used the 39th. arsenal of provocations with which the right-wing populists managed to manage. His co-leader Jörg Meuthen tried to surpbad CSU in the current migration conflict, while he campaigned defiantly for "Fortress Europe" and flogged "multiculturalism".
Until now, so predictable
Yet, at the time of Augsburg, the AfD initiated a turnaround that, in retrospect, might one day prove significant. After a heated debate, a majority of delegates opted for the approval of the Desiderius Erasmus Foundation as a party foundation, and thus, to obtain state funding funds. Some of the angry critics who lamented the treachery of the DNA founder of the AfD who wanted to do something different in 2013 than "the system" were left behind.
Delegates talk about "Cultural Revolution"
The founding promoters accept the loss of credibility with approval. They want to attack – allegedly verbally deplored in Augsburg – allegedly predominant green-primary Republic. They talk about a large-scale strategic decision. Supporters – millions of euros from the federal budget are likely to sink only after a new entry into the Bundestag in 2022 – want to bring the ideas of the AfD with public funds into society. There was talk of a "cultural revolution" that the country urgently needed, that "ideology of the left" and "indoctrination" were to be broken.
It is trying to find a place in the struggle for interpretative sovereignty to procure society. AfD stakeholders have complained that, up to now, teachers in schools and community colleges have scarcely any teaching materials on AfD, that contact with the school has not occurred. intellectual environment needs to be improved. A deputy faction of the AFD parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia therefore called the party's "logistical center" foundation, from where it joined the society.
This is a clear statement that the competition should be cautioned. Affiliated foundations mainly engage in political education, organize seminars and conferences on specialized topics and award scholarships to students and doctoral students. This is what the Erasmus Foundation wants – in the long term. On the other hand, she wants to give up foreign affiliations – because she has other foundations – said Foundation President Erika Steinbach.
Revenge on the "red-green-spotted republic"
If the AfD sits in the long-term party spectrum (and the foundation can not be dismantled by internal quarrels ), an academic elite could be linked to the ideology of the party in which criticism of the EU, Islam and refugee politics is only one side of the piece, the other a creeping revision of the image of the story.
This could leave a trace in the republic. At some point, academics supported by the AfD Affiliate Foundation will emerge as teachers in schools, universities, radio and television stations, in editorial offices and in the clbadroom. d & # 39; State. They could influence the speech, it is secretly the hope of supporters of the AfD Foundation. This would be their belated revenge on a "red-green-spotted" republic, as it is called in the AfD, a republic which it believes – and potentiated by migration – has developed in the wrong direction.
The ideological point of view can be read in the remarks of the founding president Erika Steinbach, once at the CDU and former expelled civil servant. In Steinburg, Steinbach, which does not belong to the AfD, quoted former Estonian President Lennart Meri. In the Bundestag on the day of German unity, he declared in 1995 that one could not trust a people "who indulges in permanent intellectual contempt 24 hours a day."
The reaction of AFD delegates was a thunderous applause and cheers.
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