Hamburg, May 2025 – It begins with an attack in broad daylight. A woman is assaulted with a knife. People scream. People film. Only one man acts. Courageous, determined, protective. He intervenes, stops the attacker, saves the woman. And afterward, he is not celebrated, but targeted.
Because for Marie-Thérèse Kaiser, a convicted AfD politician and prominent voice of the party's radical nationalist wing, this man is no hero. Not someone worthy of thanks. He is - a “case for deportation.” That is how she phrased it on X. For his courage, for his humanity, he is to be “rewarded” with expulsion. A “voucher for a free return flight” - her cynical punchline.
These words are no accident. They are a clear expression of an ideology that does not honor humanity, but sorts by origin. That does not ask what someone does - but who someone is.
Ideology of Exclusion
Marie-Thérèse Kaiser's statement clearly reveals the ideological foundation of the AfD - an ethnonationalist worldview in which humanity only counts when confined within ethnic boundaries. Those who save lives but do not belong to the imagined “German national body” are not honored - but targeted. In this thinking, recognition is not a moral act - it is an exclusive privilege, reserved for those who conform to the party's ideal in origin, name, and papers.
This is no misunderstanding - no isolated radical opinion. It is policy. It is the systematic devaluation of people whose very existence is seen as problematic simply because it is not “pure” enough. In recent years, the AfD has shed any remaining facade of bourgeois conservatism. What remains is unrestrained nationalism, fueled by cultural chauvinism, racial arrogance, and deeply rooted contempt.
The “Hero of Hamburg” - a man who intervened bravely while others looked away - is not regarded as a role model in this logic, but as a disturbance. Because his action does not fit into the party’s racially narrowed worldview. Because civil courage, in the eyes of this party, only counts if it comes from a “real German.” Anyone who does not belong must not matter - even if he saves lives.
Conviction for Incitement to Hatred
In August 2021, Marie-Thérèse Kaiser posted a graphic on her social media channels, in which she broadly defamed Afghan refugees as gang rapists. The content was so inhumane in tone and message that the District Court of Rotenburg (Case No. 5 Ds 123 Js 456/22) issued a clear verdict in June 2023 - Kaiser was convicted under Section 130 of the German Criminal Code for incitement to hatred and sentenced to 100 daily fines of 60 euros each.
The court stated that her remarks were capable of disturbing the public peace and inciting hatred against an entire population group. Her appeal was rejected in May 2024 by the Regional Court of Verden (Case No. 12 Ns 456/23), which confirmed the verdict and emphasized that freedom of speech finds its limits where human dignity is violated.
The Inversion of All Values
What is happening here is the moral reversal of what should be self-evident. No longer cowardice, but courage is deemed suspicious. No longer help, but origin is decisive. In the mindset of the AfD, it is no longer the individual who stands at the center - but an artificially constructed “us,” defined by blood, soil, and exclusion. Everything else is to be rejected, slandered, or deported.
This stance is not just politically dangerous. It is a sign of civilizational decay. It turns victims into perpetrators, rescuers into troublemakers, and decency into a threat. And it reveals how far a party that once claimed to be democratic has drifted from every ethical principle.
The Real Question
What does it say about the state of our political culture when someone who saves a woman from death is not celebrated, but pushed aside? What does it say about a party that turns a rescue into a deportation debate? And what does it say about us, if we let it stand?
With this statement, the AfD has done nothing but expose itself - as a party of contempt, of exclusion, of ideological coldness.
But in the end, what remains is not anger. It is another, quieter question: How low can a party and its members sink before even the last person realizes that they never meant to act for this country - but always against it?
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