# Christopher Drößler

# Christopher Drößler

Christopher Drößler (born 26 September 1995 in Leinefelde) is a German politician of [the Alternative](/organizations/the-alternative) for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag for Thuringia. The Bundestag biography, which the parliament notes is drawn from the member’s own disclosures, records that he passed the Abitur in 2014 and has worked since that year as an officer of the Federal Police (Bundespolizei). He lives in Küllstedt, in the Eichsfeld district.

The same biography lists him as an AfD member since 2016, deputy chairman of the AfD district association in the Eichsfeld since 2022, and chairman of the AfD group on the Eichsfeld district council since 2024. MDR also describes him as chairman of the AfD group on the municipal council in Küllstedt. In 2024 he stood unsuccessfully for a seat in the Thuringian Landtag and for district administrator of the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis.

In the 2025 German federal election, held on 23 February 2025, he won constituency 188, Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Kyffhäuserkreis, with 65,033 first votes (39.5 percent), ahead of [David Gregosz](/people/david-gregosz) of the [Christian Democratic Union](/organizations/christian-democratic-union-of-germany) on 27.8 percent. Of 206,544 eligible voters, 80.3 percent cast ballots, and the AfD also led the party-list vote in the constituency with 38.9 percent. The previous direct member, Manfred Grund of the CDU, who had sat in the Bundestag since 1994, did not stand again, and the AfD nominated Drößler on 26 November 2024 with 56 of 106 votes from members present. Björn Höcke, the Thuringian AfD leader, lives in the Eichsfeld but did not contest the seat; contemporary reports said he had already changed Landtag constituencies in 2024 because he expected little prospect of winning in that Catholic CDU stronghold, and that Drößler campaigned frequently alongside him. t-online noted that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the Thuringian AfD state association as confirmed right-wing extremist.

Under the electoral law used for the first time in 2025, a constituency winner enters the Bundestag only if the party has enough second votes, and the chamber was capped at 630 members. Drößler took his seat on 25 March 2025. Abgeordnetenwatch records the mandate as a constituency victory at 39.50 percent and lists him sixth on the AfD state list in Thuringia. In the 21st Bundestag he is a full member of the Interior Committee and deputy chairman of the parliamentary group for the Maghreb states. His published disclosure of outside activity names employment at the Federal Police training centre in Rotenburg an der Fulda, with a right to return to the post and protection against dismissal.

Separate reporting has covered his public statements. The monitoring project CeMAS wrote that on X he called German support for Israel a “fortwährende Selbstgeißelung” (“continual self-flagellation”) and declared “Unsere Staatsräson heißt Deutschland!” (“Our reason of state is Germany”). Before the first Christopher Street Day in Nordhausen, which organizers estimated at about 300 people and the police at somewhat fewer, a Facebook post of his drew notice; a dpa report carried by *[Die Welt](/organizations/die-welt)* quoted the line “Schwarz-Rot-Gold ist bunt genug!” (“Black-red-gold is colourful enough”) and said Andreas Froese, director of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial near Nordhausen, was among the critics. On 12 August 2025 *Die Welt* reported that Drößler had paid tribute to the Freikorps fighter Albert Leo Schlageter, whom the paper described as venerated by the Hitler regime. During the election campaign t-online reported that on social media he had praised the writings of Götz Kubitschek, whom that article called one of the most influential thinkers of the extreme-right and identitarian milieu in the German-speaking world.

## Early life and police career

### Birth and schooling

Christopher Drößler was born on 26 September 1995 in Leinefelde, according to the biography published by the [German Bundestag](/organizations/german-bundestag), which states that its biographical entries rest on information supplied by the members themselves. Leinefelde was then an independent town. The Thuringian statistical office lists it as the town of Leinefelde until 15 March 2004, and the municipality records that on 16 March 2004 it was merged with Worbis and the communities of Breitenbach and Wintzingerode to form Leinefelde-Worbis, which the town administration places in the Eichsfeld in Thuringia. Neither the Bundestag biography nor MDR's February 2025 profile names a school. The biography records that in 2014 he obtained the Allgemeine Hochschulreife, the Abitur. MDR described him as born in 1995, a police officer, and a resident of Küllstedt in the Eichsfeld district.

### Federal Police service

The Bundestag biography states that Drößler has been a police officer (Polizeibeamter) of the Federal Police (Bundespolizei) since 2014, the year of his Abitur. The Federal Police is one of the authorities in the portfolio of the [Federal Ministry of the Interior](/organizations/federal-ministry-of-the-interior). The force describes a staff of about 55,000, under a headquarters in Potsdam. Its published tasks include border policing where the Länder do not carry it out themselves, policing on federal railway premises, work in coastal waters and at 13 commercial airports, protection of federal constitutional bodies, and training through the Federal Police Academy (Bundespolizeiakademie) in Lübeck.

The mandatory disclosure of his occupation before membership in the Bundestag names the Bundespolizeiausbildungsstätte in Rotenburg an der Fulda, Hesse, and the post of Polizeibeamter, and records both a right of return (Rückkehrrecht) and protection against dismissal (Kündigungsschutz). Members must report the last occupation before their mandate and whether such a right of return, or dismissal protection under section 2(3) of the Members of the Bundestag Act, exists. The Rotenburg establishment is a site of the Federal Police Academy, at Dickenrücker Straße 30, listed together with the academy's training centres and a separate training site in Bielefeld. It is not where a career dated from 2014 would have begun. The Hessian interior ministry stated that about 450 trainees for the middle police career started instruction there on 1 September 2021, on the grounds of the former Alheimer barracks, with up to 300 further Federal Police employees to run teaching, training and administration. The Bundestag entries do not give his rank, his career track, or any posting before Rotenburg. In March 2026 the official account of the Thuringia state police replied that Drößler is not a member of that force.

Because he holds a Bundestag seat, the rules for salaried civil servants apply to that police relationship. Under section 5 of the Members of the Bundestag Act (Abgeordnetengesetz), the rights and duties arising from the service relationship are suspended for the duration of membership, from the day the federal electoral committee establishes the result or the mandate is accepted, except the duty of official secrecy and the ban on accepting rewards and gifts. The officer may use the official title with the suffix "außer Dienst" (a. D.). Section 6 is the right of return recorded in the disclosure. After the mandate ends, the suspension continues for at most six further months. On an application made within three months, the officer is to be reinstated within three months of the application in an office of the same or an equivalent career with at least the same final basic salary, and receives the pay of the last office from the date of the application. If no application is made, the suspension continues until retirement, although the highest service authority may still reinstate an officer who has neither sat for at least two electoral terms nor reached the age of 55. Refusal of that reinstatement leads to dismissal. Section 2(3) is the protection against dismissal also recorded for him. A termination (Kündigung) or removal from service (Entlassung) because the mandate was acquired, accepted or exercised is inadmissible. A termination is otherwise permissible only for an important reason. The protection runs from nomination as a candidate, or from filing of the election proposal, until one year after the mandate ends.

## Party membership and local offices

### AfD and the Junge Alternative

Christopher Drößler has been a member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) since 2016 and, since 2022, deputy chairman of its district association in the Eichsfeld, according to the biography published by the German Bundestag, which states that such biographical details rest on the member’s own information. In a February 2025 profile of candidates in northern Thuringia, the *Thüringer Allgemeine* described the police officer from Küllstedt as the AfD’s deputy leader in the Eichsfeld and as treasurer of the Young [Alternative for Germany](/organizations/alternative-for-germany) (Junge Alternative, JA) in Thuringia.

That treasurer’s post belonged to an organization already under formal extremist classifications. In April 2023 the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution moved the federal Junge Alternative from observation as a suspected case, a status dating from 2019, to treatment as a confirmed right-wing extremist endeavor (*gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung*). On 5 February 2024 the Administrative Court in Cologne refused interim relief and held, on a summary review, that the service could maintain that classification. The court found that indications of activity directed against the free democratic basic order had hardened into certainty since its 8 March 2022 judgment on the suspected-case listing. It cited a continued *völkisch* concept of the people defined by descent, including the aim of preserving an ethnic German people and excluding those deemed “ethnically foreign,” which it treated as incompatible with human dignity and with the Basic Law’s rejection of a purely ethnic definition of the people; continued agitation against asylum seekers, migrants and Muslims; agitation against the democratic principle, including equations of the Federal Republic with the Nazi regime and the GDR; and links to the Identitarian movement. Separately, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution in the Thuringian interior ministry classified the Thuringian Junge Alternative as confirmed right-wing extremist with effect from 28 March 2024, a decision reported on 23 May 2024. *[Der Spiegel](/organizations/der-spiegel)* reported that the Thuringian service regarded the glorification of the state AfD leader Björn Höcke as characteristic of the group.

The association was then wound up. At a federal party congress in Riesa in January 2025, AfD delegates adopted, by the two-thirds majority required for a statute change, a revision that would replace the largely independent Junge Alternative with a youth organization that was a legally dependent part of the party; the new wording was to take effect on 1 April 2025. On 1 February 2025 a Junge Alternative congress in Apolda, attended by about 250 members according to the police, resolved to dissolve the association in its existing form as of 31 March 2025. *Der Spiegel* reported that federal JA chairman [Hannes Gnauck](/people/hannes-gnauck) had argued for dissolution partly because of the risk of a ban on the association, and that the federal domestic-intelligence service was observing the Junge Alternative as a proven right-wing extremist endeavor. The *Thüringer Allgemeine* was still identifying Drößler as treasurer of the Thuringian Junge Alternative in mid-February 2025, weeks before that dissolution date.

### Eichsfeld district council and Küllstedt

At the Thuringian municipal elections of 26 May 2024, the AfD list for the Eichsfeld district council (*Kreistag*) received 33,734 votes, 20.6 percent of valid votes, and 9 of 46 seats, compared with 6 seats and 13.5 percent in 2019. The district’s official gazette of 5 June 2024 records Drößler, second on that list, as elected with 3,783 votes; Höcke, in first place on the same list, received 21,289. The CDU list remained the largest group, with 21 seats.

The Bundestag biography states that Drößler has chaired the AfD group on the Eichsfeld *Kreistag* since 2024. In the register of members’ outside activities, the chairmanship at the district of Eichsfeld in Heilbad Heiligenstadt is disclosed with a monthly gross payment of 393 euros, alongside membership of the district council itself. In its report on the February 2025 Bundestag election, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk likewise described him as chairman of the AfD *Kreistag* group and as deputy chairman of the AfD in the Eichsfeld district.

The same polling day covered municipal councils. In Küllstedt, where Drößler lives, the AfD list won 495 votes, 20.3 percent, and 2 of 12 seats on a turnout of 76.4 percent; the CDU took 7 seats with 50.0 percent and the Freie Demokratische Wählergemeinschaft 3 seats with 29.6 percent. His Bundestag disclosure lists him as a member of the Küllstedt municipal council. MDR described him, as of February 2025, as chairman of the AfD group on that council as well as of the district-council group.

### Association of conservative local politicians

From 25 April 2025 Drößler has been a member of the board of the Verein konservativer Kommunalpolitiker in Thüringen e.V. in Erfurt, according to the same Bundestag register of interests. The association’s own website, giving the board as of 2025, lists him as deputy chairman and Konrad Wehrs as chairman, with Jacqueline Häntzschel as treasurer. The site gives the address as Alte Chaussee 87, 99097 Erfurt, and describes the association’s activity as political advice, consulting for holders of local mandates, further training and seminars.

## State and district candidacies in 2024

### Landtag election in Eichsfeld II

Christopher Drößler was the Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate in constituency 2, Eichsfeld II, at the [2024 Thuringian state election](/facts/2024-thuringian-state-election) on 1 September 2024. The constituency comprises fifteen municipalities of the Eichsfeld district: Am Ohmberg, Breitenworbis, Buhla, Büttstedt, Dingelstädt, Effelder, Gernrode, Großbartloff, Haynrode, Kirchworbis, Küllstedt, Leinefelde-Worbis, Niederorschel, Sonnenstein and Wachstedt.

Of 44,884 people eligible to vote, 33,793 did so, a turnout of 75.3 percent, compared with 73.6 percent in the state as a whole. On 33,288 valid constituency votes, Christina Tasch of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) took the seat with 15,671 votes (47.1 percent). Drößler was second with 10,849 votes (32.6 percent). Florian Landes of [Die Linke](/organizations/die-linke) received 3,089 votes (9.3 percent), Dorothea Marx of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) 1,799 (5.4 percent), Karl Edmund Vogt of the joint ÖDP/Familie list 1,171 (3.5 percent), and Yannek Bang of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) 709 (2.1 percent).

On the state-list ballot in the same constituency, 33,518 votes were valid. The CDU led with 11,904 (35.5 percent), ahead of the AfD on 9,664 (28.8 percent), the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) on 4,221 (12.6 percent) and Die Linke on 3,912 (11.7 percent). The SPD received 1,498 votes (4.5 percent), Alliance 90/[The Greens](/organizations/the-greens) 527 (1.6 percent), and the FDP and the [Free Voters](/organizations/free-voters) 401 and 400 respectively (1.2 percent each). Set against the statewide list result, the CDU’s 35.5 percent was well above its 23.6 percent across Thuringia, while the AfD’s 28.8 percent was below its statewide 32.8 percent.

Drößler was also number 23 on the AfD state list; the *Thüringer Allgemeine* listed him among the Eichsfeld candidates on that list, alongside Tasch at number 7 on the CDU list. The AfD won 32 of the 88 seats in the Landtag of Thuringia: 29 constituency seats and three list seats. On the returning officer’s roll of those elected, the three list seats went to AfD candidates who had not won a constituency—Björn Höcke at list place 1, Jens Dietrich at place 9 and Denny Jankowski at place 14. Drößler is not among the members declared elected. Tasch, a member of the Landtag since 1998 and identified by the parliament as holding the direct mandate for Eichsfeld II, entered again on that constituency seat; the returning officer recorded her list place as 7.

### District-administrator election in Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis

Earlier in the year Drößler stood for Landrat of the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, in the first round on 26 May 2024, the same day as the municipal elections. The district election committee admitted four nominations: Drößler for the AfD, with his residence given as Küllstedt; Hans-Joachim Roth for the CDU, of Schlotheim in Nottertal-Heilinger Höhen; the incumbent Harald Zanker for the SPD, of Horsmar in Unstruttal; and Thomas Ahke for the Verband der Freien Wählergemeinschaften im Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis (FWG-UH), of Bollstedt in Mühlhausen. Küllstedt lies in Eichsfeld II, not in the Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, so Drößler was standing from outside the district whose administrator he sought to become.

No one took more than half of the valid votes, and the official result recorded that a runoff would follow. In the first round, 50,102 of 79,768 eligible voters participated (62.8 percent), and 49,604 ballots were valid. Zanker received 19,688 votes (39.7 percent) and Ahke 12,399 (25.0 percent). The AfD nomination, which the district gazette identifies as Drößler’s, received 10,529 votes (21.2 percent), and the CDU nomination, Roth’s, 6,988 (14.1 percent). Drößler and Roth were therefore out of the contest.

The runoff on 9 June 2024 had 79,728 eligible voters, of whom 46,673 voted (58.5 percent); 46,212 votes were valid. Ahke won with 26,548 votes (57.4 percent) against Zanker’s 19,664 (42.6 percent), and the state statistical office named Ahke as elected. MDR reported that the count, once all precincts were in, ended Zanker’s thirty years as Landrat. Ahke, then 53, was a banker, part-time mayor (*Ortsteilbürgermeister*) of Bollstedt and chair of the Mühlhausen city council, and had announced his candidacy in the district council in mid-March after leaving a bank job at the end of January.

In April 2024 the four candidates met for the first time at the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum in Bad Langensalza to take questions from local businesspeople, with 90 seconds for each answer and Eric Marr as moderator. The *Thüringer Allgemeine*, reporting on 19 April, described the evening as shifting between agreement and sharp exchanges. Neither 2024 candidacy produced an office: Drößler entered neither the Landtag nor the district administration.

## Election to the Bundestag in 2025

### Nomination and the constituency

On 26 November 2024 the Alternative for Germany nominated Christopher Drößler, a police officer living in Küllstedt, as its direct candidate for constituency 188, Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Kyffhäuserkreis, in the snap 2025 German federal election. The party said he received the votes of 56 of the 106 members present. The seat covers three rural districts in northern Thuringia and had been numbered 189 until the 2021 election.

The outgoing member, Manfred Grund of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), who had sat in the Bundestag since 1994, did not stand again. The other direct candidates were chosen by their own organisations between November 2024 and January 2025. David Gregosz, an economist from Leinefelde who had worked for the [Konrad Adenauer Foundation](/organizations/konrad-adenauer-foundation) and was a shareholder and authorized signatory of the electronics firm Luxotronic in Hauröden, was selected by the three northern CDU associations on 16 December; the party said every member present voted for him. The [Social Democratic Party of Germany](/organizations/social-democratic-party-of-germany) nominated the teacher Mohamed Sayed on 7 December. Alliance 90/The Greens nominated Kai Klemm-Lorenz, a student and speaker of the Kyffhäuserkreis association, on 12 December. Die Linke nominated [Donata Vogtschmidt](/people/donata-vogtschmidt), a graduate in political science who had sat in the Thuringian Landtag from 2021 to 2024, on 16 December. The Free Democratic Party (Germany) selected Marcel Hardrath, a department head in the Nordhausen district office, on 2 January. The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance selected Robert Henning, honorary local mayor in Bleicherode and the party's lead candidate on its Thuringian state list, on 9 January. The Marxist–Leninist Party of Germany had nominated Ilka May on 3 November. MDR reported several of those internal votes as unanimous, on the parties' own accounts.

Björn Höcke, chair of the Thuringian AfD, lives in the Eichsfeld but did not contest the Bundestag seat. At the 2024 Landtag election he changed constituencies because, Welt and t-online reported, he did not expect to win in his home region. The federal constituency is drawn more widely than the Landtag districts. Drößler had already stood unsuccessfully in 2024 for the Landtag in Eichsfeld II and for district administrator of Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis. He was also placed sixth on the AfD's Thuringian state list.

### Result under the reformed electoral law

Polling took place on 23 February 2025. Of 206,544 people eligible to vote in the constituency, 165,873 cast ballots, a turnout of 80.3 percent, 6.3 points above 2021. There were 164,518 valid first votes. Drößler received 65,033 (39.5 percent), up 16.9 points, and finished ahead of Gregosz with 45,728 (27.8 percent, up 0.9). Vogtschmidt took 19,527 (11.9 percent, up 1.1), Sayed 14,361 (8.7 percent, down 13.4), Henning 12,712 (7.7 percent), Hardrath 3,815 (2.3 percent, down 4.5), Klemm-Lorenz 3,000 (1.8 percent, down 2.0) and May 342 (0.2 percent). Welt and t-online described the result as the first time an AfD candidate had carried the constituency.

On the second vote the AfD was also first in the constituency, with 64,146 votes (38.9 percent, up 16.5 points) out of 164,713 valid ballots. The CDU followed on 38,445 (23.3 percent), Die Linke on 21,894 (13.3 percent), the SPD on 14,094 (8.6 percent) and the BSW on 14,085 (8.6 percent). The FDP received 4,885 (3.0 percent) and the Greens 4,429 (2.7 percent). Drößler's personal total was 887 votes above the AfD list in the same constituency. In Thuringia as a whole the AfD took 38.6 percent of second votes (510,527) and 38.7 percent of first votes.

The electoral law amended by the Bundestag in 2023, and used for the first time in 2025, no longer awards a seat automatically to the leading candidate in a constituency. A party nominee receives the constituency seat only if the win is covered by that party's second-vote entitlement in the Land, a rule known as Zweitstimmendeckung. The chamber is fixed at 630 seats, allocated from the nationwide second-vote result, and the overhang and compensatory seats that had enlarged earlier Bundestags were abolished. Where a party wins more constituencies in a Land than its second votes support, the constituencies with the smallest first-vote shares stay without that winner. On election night, t-online noted that Drößler's entry still depended on the second-vote count. The final distribution did include him: the Federal Returning Officer lists Drößler as elected in constituency 188 with 39.5 percent, and lists a winner for every Thuringian constituency from 188 to 195, so none of those eight seats was left vacant for lack of coverage. The AfD's single seat from the Thuringian state list went to [Torben Braga](/people/torben-braga), who had been third on the list. Of the candidates Drößler defeated, Gregosz (third on the CDU list) and Vogtschmidt (second on the Left list) still entered through their state lists; Sayed, Henning, Hardrath, Klemm-Lorenz and May do not appear among those elected in Thuringia. Drößler, sixth on the AfD state list, took the constituency mandate rather than a list seat.

The 21st Bundestag constituted itself on 25 March 2025. The parliament's biography lists Drößler as a member of that Bundestag for constituency 188, Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Kyffhäuserkreis.

### Campaign context

Welt described the constituency as until then firmly shaped by the CDU, and the Catholic Eichsfeld in particular as a CDU stronghold. T-online reported that Drößler appeared often during the campaign with Höcke. The same dispatch said that the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the Thuringian state association of the AfD as confirmed right-wing extremist (*gesichert rechtsextrem*), and that the party's campaign in the state used posters with the slogan "Sommer. Sonne. Remigration." Before the count, [Christian Hirte](/people/christian-hirte), whom t-online identified as the CDU's deputy leader in Thuringia, called the emerging AfD vote a warning signal for the whole country, and [Mario Voigt](/people/mario-voigt), the CDU minister-president of Thuringia, spoke of a wake-up call.

## Work in the 21st Bundestag

### Interior Committee

Drößler took his seat in the Bundestag on 25 March 2025 and has been an ordinary member (*ordentliches Mitglied*) of the Interior Committee (*Innenausschuss*) from that date. The 42-member committee covers aliens and asylum policy through to civil protection, oversees the interior ministry and its agencies, and prepares bills and hearings before plenary votes.

On the government bill to replace the Federal Police Act, Drucksache 21/3051, the committee named him a rapporteur with [Josef Oster](/people/josef-oster), [Ingo Vogel](/people/ingo-vogel), [Marcel Emmerich](/people/marcel-emmerich) and [Clara Bünger](/people/clara-bunger). Referred on 18 December 2025, the bill was sent to a public hearing by unanimous decision on 14 January 2026. The committee report of 8 July 2026, Drucksache 21/6990, recommended an amended text, with the CDU/CSU and SPD in favour, Alliance 90/The Greens and Die Linke against, and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) abstaining. The report records the AfD view that modernisation was needed, but that the draft did not reorient the force toward border control and returns, and that a reliability check involving the domestic intelligence service risked political vetting.

### Maghreb States parliamentary group

The biography lists him as deputy chair of the *Parlamentariergruppe Maghreb-Staaten*, the inter-factional group for the Maghreb. Such groups are reconstituted each term by the Presidium from all factions, for conferences and trips; the Council of Elders sets their structure, and chairs follow factional strength. In this term the chair is [Claudia Roth](/people/claudia-roth) (Alliance 90/The Greens). A delegation travelled to Morocco from 8 to 10 April 2026 under her lead for talks in the Moroccan parliament on the domestic situation, foreign policy, human rights, energy and climate. The press office named [Carl-Philipp Sassenrath](/people/carl-philipp-sassenrath) (CDU/CSU), also a deputy chair, and [Johann Martel](/people/johann-martel) (AfD) as the other members; Drößler was not among them.

### Speeches, motions and questions

Plenary contributions under his name have stayed on internal security, the Federal Police, borders and asylum. On 11 September 2025, in the 21st sitting, he spoke to the AfD motion on border controls and the turning back of all asylum seekers (Drucksache 21/1550, 9 September 2025), which he co-signed. He called the borders practically open, asked for a security special fund and more Federal Police powers, and urged a “Remigrationspolizei”, saying an AfD government would otherwise create one.

On 16 October 2025, in the 34th sitting, he spoke on a government bill widening immediate compulsion, including Tasers, for federal enforcement officers (Drucksache 21/1502; committee report 21/2252), citing a 34 percent rise in violent offences at Berlin stations and the death of Liana Kassay, whom he said was from his constituency and had been pushed in front of a train in Friedland. On 5 December 2025, in the 48th sitting, he spoke on the coalition bill allowing safe countries of origin by ordinance and ending the mandatory lawyer in detention pending deportation (Drucksachen 21/780 and 21/3079), citing a 2024 suspect-rate comparison for Afghan and German nationals that he put at roughly a thousand to one. The House passed that bill with the AfD, CDU/CSU and SPD in favour and the Greens and the Left against. At the first reading of the Federal Police bill on 18 December 2025 he called the draft treatment of symptoms and attributed rising crime largely to immigration.

On 5 March 2026, in the 62nd sitting, he spoke for the AfD motion on organised crime (Drucksache 21/4459), calling for closer *Land*–federal cooperation. Under questioning he disputed the conviction of Björn Höcke for a slogan, said he had not spoken it in full, and called the judgment politically motivated. On 19 March 2026, at the first reading of an AfD bill he co-signed to repeal the Police Commissioner Act (Drucksache 21/4349, 26 February 2026), he called the commissioner a post that solved nothing and had become an instrument of politics. On 20 May 2026 he spoke on an AfD motion he co-signed for a nationwide picture of “parallel justice” (Drucksache 21/6001, 19 May 2026), linking informal mediators to particular migrant groups; a follow-up question he also co-signed (Drucksache 21/6554, 18 June 2026) asked why no such picture existed. At the second and third reading of the Federal Police Act on 10 July 2026 he cited 751 documented group rapes in the previous year, with a claimed majority of German victims and of migrant suspects, and said multicultural societies were “multicriminal”.

Written questions have followed the same subjects. In Drucksache 21/747 he asked about displacement of Germans without a migration background; Parliamentary State Secretary [Christoph de Vries](/people/christoph-de-vries) answered on 1 July 2025 that the government had no such findings. In Drucksache 21/6098 he asked for the basis of suspect-burden rates for Afghan and Syrian nationals that Interior Minister [Alexander Dobrindt](/people/alexander-dobrindt) had stated on 20 April 2026; the reply of 19 May 2026 gave the Federal Criminal Police Office formula used in the police crime statistics. As first-named questioner he tabled interpellations on federal funding of organisations in Thuringia (Drucksache 21/3377, 19 December 2025) and on 2025 victims and suspects under statistics key 111000, rape and serious sexual assault including fatal cases, by nationality, sex and age (Drucksache 21/8702, 19 October 2026). He co-signed questions on the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees’ handling of repeatedly offending asylum applicants (Drucksache 21/8452, 8 October 2026) and on Federal Police border technology (Drucksache 21/8694, 19 October 2026).

### Constituency offices and disclosed activities

His Bundestag office is at Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin. For the constituency mandate in Wahlkreis 188 (Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Kyffhäuserkreis, Thuringia), the biography lists three offices: an AfD office for the Eichsfeld printed as “Wilhemstraße 6”, 37308 Heilbad Heiligenstadt; one at Vor dem Hagentor 3, 99734 Nordhausen; and one at Poststraße 29, 06567 Bad Frankenhausen, for the Kyffhäuserkreis. The AfD association in Heilbad Heiligenstadt gives the same building as Wilhelmstrasse 6.

The published register records his pre-mandate post at the Federal Police training centre in Rotenburg an der Fulda as a police officer, with a right of return and protection against dismissal; membership of the municipal council in Küllstedt; membership of the Eichsfeld district council and the chair of its AfD group, paid 393 euros gross a month; and, from 25 April 2025, a board seat at the Verein konservativer Kommunalpolitiker in Thüringen e.V. in Erfurt.

## Political positions

### Migration, asylum and internal security

At a candidate forum in Nordhausen on 17 February 2025, Drößler said he wanted a “fundamental change of policy” on migration and the economy, asserted that a majority wanted “remigration” and “closed borders”, and agreed with candidates of the Christian Democratic Union, the Social Democratic Party and the Free Democratic Party that new deportation places in Arnstadt were right. In the Bundestag on 11 September 2025 he spoke for the Alternative for Germany on its motion to turn back all asylum seekers at the border (Drucksache 21/1550). He said Germany still faced “mass migration”, that the borders were “practically open”, and that everyone obliged to leave should be deported. He asked for more staff, equipment and powers for the Federal Police, and if need be a special security fund, “to end mass immigration once and for all”, and said Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt could not force that through his own party. “National law on internal peace”, he said, stood above supposedly universal rights to immigration. He demanded a “remigration police” and said an AfD government would create one.

On 5 December 2025, on a CDU/CSU–SPD bill to name safe countries of origin by ordinance and to drop mandatory counsel in deportation detention (Drucksachen 21/780 and 21/3079), he said immigration was destabilising society and bringing crime. He claimed that in 2024 Afghan nationals were, relative to population, about 1,000 times more often suspects against Germans than Germans were against Afghans, and that Afghan asylum applicants were among the three groups most often rejected. The government’s reply (Drucksache 21/2121; answer 21/2366 of 22 October 2025) gave police-statistics suspect counts—31,443 persons of Afghan nationality and 64,780 of Syrian nationality in 2024—without that ratio. He called easier returns a step toward “remigration” in the millions—he spoke of almost one million rejected asylum seekers and almost 2.5 million others with protection status who, he said, must also leave—and treated asylum as temporary. If Dublin or other EU rules blocked that, national law should be freed from the European Union. On 18 December 2025, at the first reading of the Federal Police Act bill (Drucksache 21/3051), he blamed immigration for rising crime and said Syrians were statistically ten times as criminal as Germans, a claim contradicted from the floor. A multicultural society, he said, was a “multicriminal” one, and the Federal Police “must become a remigration police”.

### Economy and energy

At the same forum he said the market should act “as unhindered by the state as possible”. Beside renewables, he said, gas, coal and nuclear power were needed; nuclear was a “secure energy source”, and a repository should be left to “the experts”. To cut bureaucracy he proposed to “scrap” federal and state laws, which the Left candidate Donata Vogtschmidt called a path to anarchy. In an *Eichsfelder Nachrichten* interview published on 20 February 2025 he said recovery meant abolishing laws, ending energy subsidies and filling skilled jobs from German schools. Renewables could stand beside coal, gas and nuclear power, with the market deciding; lasting wind subsidies, he said, distorted a market in which coal and nuclear had come to pay for themselves. He rejected warnings from economic researchers and industry that the AfD programme would damage the economy. Foreign recruitment was acceptable only for people who did not “settle into the welfare state” or commit crimes. He preferred a “Japanese path” of robotics and artificial intelligence, and Hungarian-style tax relief that would end income tax above a certain number of children. The state should keep to security, justice and infrastructure, and the debt brake should remain.

### Foreign policy and Israel

In that interview he called a halt to weapons for Ukraine a first step, and said Germany should mediate between East and West rather than copy the neutrality he associated with the BSW. Cooperation was necessary, he said, but the European Union and the euro mainly added bureaucracy. He wanted a “Europe of the fatherlands”: each country would order its internal affairs and they would speak outwardly with one voice, without a return to the nation-states of 1870. In Nordhausen he said governments should build a “new Europe of sovereign nation-states”, since a German exit would leave the Union in being, and said Putin and Trump should negotiate a Ukraine peace without the Europeans. On 19 December 2025, on the report on international police missions in 2024 (Drucksache 21/515), he cited a 24.2 percent rise in secondments and called further deployments to Georgia, Armenia, parts of Africa and possibly Ukraine a “foreign-policy ghost ride”. Germany, he said, should not supply “temps for the world police” or act as a “global values agency”; conflicts in Africa, the Caucasus and the Middle East would be settled by regional powers.

On 5 June 2025 he wrote on X that unconditional solidarity with Israel had become an order in which Germany took its identity from morality rather than deciding it. The past, he wrote, now served “perpetual self-flagellation” (*fortwährende Selbstgeißelung*), not learning. He said Israel was “burying” tolerance, human rights and democracy in the Gaza Strip, that a taboo around Israel stood for lost sovereignty and self-respect, and that Germany, having atoned for its own sins, need not atone for “those of the Israelis”. He called for relations to be normalised. A graphic on the post read “Our reason of state is called Germany!” (*Unsere Staatsräson heißt Deutschland!*). Frederik Schindler, an editor at *Welt* and *Welt am Sonntag*, quoted the post the same day. CeMAS (Center für Monitoring, Analyse und Strategie), which describes its field as disinformation, right-wing extremism, antisemitism and conspiracy ideologies, cited it in a guest article by Ruben Gerczikow on 8 July 2025. That piece read Israeli and US strikes on Iran from 13 June as splitting the AfD, called an earlier pro-Israel line instrumental “phantom Zionism”, and grouped Drößler with Torben Braga and Björn Höcke. Höcke’s remarks, as quoted there, date from 18 June; the post is from 5 June.

## Public statements and criticism

### Christopher Street Day in Nordhausen

On 12 July 2025 Nordhausen held its first Christopher Street Day. The Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences listed it as an external event of Queeres Netzwerk Nordhausen: speeches from 15:00, a march through the city from 16:00, and a street festival, held, the notice said, for the rights, visibility and safety of queer people. In Germany the CSD recalls the 1969 uprising on Christopher Street in [New York](/organizations/new-york), the Stonewall riots, and is staged for the visibility and equal status of queer people; Nordhausen's was one of several in Thuringia that year.

Crowd figures differed. The Deutsche Presse-Agentur, carried by Die Welt, reported about 300 people by the organizers' estimate and somewhat fewer by the police's, and said demands included more counselling for queer people in the city. The local paper nnz-online, writing that afternoon, put the march at more than 200, the organizers' count at the station square at about 250, and the public-order authority's estimate at about 170. Police told dpa of no major incidents; participants reported a few people at the edge with an anti-CSD banner and insults from counter-demonstrators. nnz-online described about 15 people gathered as an "Anti-CSD" on Rautenstraße, opposite the march, with rude gestures and words toward photographers.

The day before, Christopher Drößler, the Alternative for Germany member of the Bundestag for the constituency that includes Nordhausen, posted on Facebook under the heading "Nein zum Nordhäuser CSD! Nein zu bunter Dekadenz und ihren linken Propagandisten!" A copy kept by FragDenStaat, timestamped 11 July 2025, calls the organizers "Farbrevolutionsgänger" disguised as civil society and dependent on American money, and says many German CSDs had shrunk or lapsed after U.S. companies stopped funding them. The rainbow flag, it says, stood for outside control and for "Werte" foreign to "unserem Volk"; the event was "von globalistischen Kapitalkräften finanzierte Dekadenzpropaganda" that undermined "unsere nationale Substanz" and, in the background, "ein werteimperialistisches Werkzeug der Besatzer". It closes: "Nein zum CSD in Nordhausen! Ja zur Heimatliebe! Schwarz-Rot-Gold ist bunt genug!" FragDenStaat's note on the attached graphic records the lines "Nordhausen bleibt frei - nicht queer!" and "Heimatliebe statt bunter Dekadenz!" dpa said the post had drawn attention beforehand, quoted the black-red-gold sentence, and noted that Drößler described himself as a Federal Police officer.

Andreas Froese, director of the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial near Nordhausen, was among those who criticized the post; dpa named him and did not quote him. A historian who had trained at the memorial in 2012–14, he became director in January 2024. queer.de, summarizing an interim report by the authors' collective Feministische Intervention on right-wing campaigning against Pride events in 2025, called the appeal "Nein zum CSD in Nordhausen!" antisemitic and quoted the lines on globalist capital and a "werteimperialistisches Instrument der Besatzer". The same dpa dispatch reported that, before the march, Die Linke Landtag member Katharina König-Preuss had urged police and prosecutors to be more alert and to pursue anti-queer offences more consistently.

### Material concerning Albert Leo Schlageter

Albert Leo Schlageter (1894–1923) was a soldier and Freikorps fighter, in the chronology of the German Historical Museum's Lebendiges Museum Online. Born on 12 August 1894 in Schönau in the Black Forest, he volunteered in 1914, served on the Western Front, left the army in December 1918 as a lieutenant with the Iron Cross, First Class, and then fought with Freikorps units in the Baltic, against the left-wing March uprising of 1920, and in Upper Silesia in 1921. In January 1923 he attended the first congress of the Nazi Party in Munich. During the French and Belgian occupation of the Ruhr he led a squad in sabotage against the occupation forces; arrested in Essen on 7 April 1923, he was sentenced to death by a French military court on 7 May and executed in Düsseldorf on 26 May. An NSDAP memorial in Munich on 10 June 1923 began his veneration as a martyr of the Nazi movement; on 21 June the Communist Karl Radek's praise of Schlageter's act opened a dispute in the KPD over the "national-revolutionary right".

On 12 August 2025 Die Welt ran a report by Frederik Schindler headlined "Märtyrerfigur des Hitler-Regimes: Wenn ein AfD-Abgeordneter einem Nationalsozialisten und Terroristen huldigt". The standfirst on the article page says Schlageter, revered by the Hitler regime, founded an NSDAP substitute organization and carried out attacks in 1923 against a French and Belgian occupation; that neo-Nazis were trying to revive a "Schlageter-Kult"; and that Drößler was honoring the Freikorps fighter. A reproduction of the article the next day, attributed to Welt, says he shared without comment, on X and Telegram, an AI-generated video from a project called "Grimbart Studio". That account says the video calls him a "Soldat im Kampf um Deutschland" who after the war had "nicht alles verloren geben wollen", an "Idealist" and a "Freiheitskämpfer", and his death "ein Mahnmal für jene, die auch in dunklen Zeiten nicht knien". Welt, as quoted there, wrote that he did not answer why he was honoring a National Socialist who had carried out several bombings, and that the Nazi regime had treated Schlageter as the "first soldier of the Third Reich", with streets, schools and memorials named after him.

### References to Götz Kubitschek

On 24 February 2025, in a report on Drößler's Bundestag result, t-online wrote that on social media he had also celebrated the writings of Götz Kubitschek, called there one of the most influential thinkers of the extreme-right and identitarian scene in the German-speaking world. The article did not quote the posts or name titles.

Der Spiegel has described Kubitschek as a publisher regarded as a thinker (Vordenker) of the [New Right](/organizations/new-right), and wrote that his institute in Schnellroda, Saxony-Anhalt, had been classified as confirmed right-wing extremist before he dissolved it and carried on in another form. Since 2000 his Antaios house, at his property in Schnellroda, has published for that milieu, including Martin Sellner's book on "remigration" and a book by the AfD politician Maximilian Krah. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution treated Antaios as a suspected right-wing extremist case from 2021; on 18 June 2024 its president, Thomas Haldenwang, said the suspicion had become certainty and the house was "gesichert rechtsextrem". The Institut für Staatspolitik, run as the Verein für Staatspolitik, was a federal suspected case from April 2020 and a confirmed extremist endeavor from April 2023; Saxony-Anhalt's office had used that classification in 2019. Tagesschau called the institute an intellectual centre of the New Right, where identitarian activists were trained and AfD functionaries were guests, and wrote that Kubitschek felt particularly close to Björn Höcke. In May 2024 he wrote in Sezession that the institute was "Geschichte", referring to the association; taz reported that events continued through the company Menschenpark, with him as managing director, while Erik Lehnert took over Sezession.

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