Generation Deutschland: AfD-Jugend feiert Siegmund - Uneinigkeit beim Thema Euro

Generation Deutschland, the youth wing of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), fervently celebrated their party leader Ulrich Siegmund a week before the Saxony-Anhalt state election. Simultaneously, the youth organisation held a federal congress in Magdeburg to debate the party's founding theme of Euro skepticism. The congress revealed significant disagreements among participants.

They also demanded a massive return of people who had moved to Germany. The meeting featured boorish, campaign-style rhetoric. Notably absent were the large protest demonstrations seen at the GD's founding in Gießen the previous year. While the roughly 300 attendees debated an explanatory statement, an earlier draft stated the Euro had strengthened the single market but also noted substantial design flaws.

Thus, they were open to reform proposals. A withdrawal from the Euro was explicitly ruled out. Siegmund himself was convinced that Germany should not leave the Euro, according to GD chief Jean-Pascal Hohm. However, Hohm ultimately withdrew a party proposal after it became clear that there were significant internal resistances within the AfD youth to such a stance.

The AfD was founded in 2013 as a euro-skeptical party. In its 2025 Bundestag election program, it reaffirmed that "Germany must leave the Euro system." Hohm justified his position with the feeling of young people who were used to not displaying a passport or exchanging currencies. "Millions must leave this country," Hohm declared.

The GD displayed impressive self-confidence and issued stern warnings about potential violence from political opponents. They urged members to defend themselves physically if attacked. Hohm warned against being beaten or chased through the city by violent anti-fascists. Those defending themselves would have the support of the GD and the parent party.

The GD, closely linked to the parent AfD, was only recently founded last year after the former youth group Junge Alternative (JA) was dissolved. JA had been a largely independent organization with limited AfD access. Siegmund was greeted like a rock star during the meeting. He declared that in a week, history would be written in Saxony-Anhalt.

He urged participants to view the election as a historic moment, whether they believe the AfD would secure an outright majority or not. "We will write history here in Saxony-Anhalt, one way or another," he declared. Siegmund emphasized his optimism for the AfD even if they don't achieve an absolute majority. "Then it will happen soon in Thuringia, then in Brandenburg, then in Saxony," he called out to the enthusiastic crowd.

The meeting was heavily influenced by the upcoming state election. Hohm expressed the belief that history would be made in Saxony-Anhalt. Siegmund, who entered late, was celebrated as a rock star. Chief Martin Reichardt of the AfD also received boisterous applause for vehement criticism of political opponents. He denounced the "state of the father," a lazy and drunken entity that squanders money on doing nothing while enjoying the public broadcasting and repeating international news.

The language of the state was also under attack. Reichardt called it "a debased, intersectional-feminist mess" with "green hair always shredded, and red lipstick smeared because the father state rakes through it daily." About 600 counter-demonstrators gathered in the city for various protests against the federal congress, the AfD, and racism.

Police reported a peaceful day overall. In front of the theater, only a few people gathered around the "Adenauer SRP+" bus operated by the "Center for Political Beauty" group, which had amplified the ARD "Summer Interview" with AfD chief Alice Weidel in Berlin from the other side of the Spree River the previous year.