Hamburg, May 2025 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because for Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se 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 \u201ccase for deportation.\u201d That is how she phrased it on X. For his courage, for his humanity, he is to be \u201crewarded\u201d with expulsion. A \u201cvoucher for a free return flight\u201d - her cynical punchline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ideology of Exclusion<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se 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 \u201cGerman national body\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u201cpure\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cHero of Hamburg\u201d - 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\u2019s racially narrowed worldview. Because civil courage, in the eyes of this party, only counts if it comes from a \u201creal German.\u201d Anyone who does not belong must not matter - even if he saves lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conviction for Incitement to Hatred<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In August 2021, Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Inversion of All Values<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 \u201cus,\u201d defined by blood, soil, and exclusion. Everything else is to be rejected, slandered, or deported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Real Question<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With this statement, the AfD has done nothing but expose itself - as a party of contempt, of exclusion, of ideological coldness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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?<\/p>\n
Hamburg, Mai 2025 \u2013 Es beginnt mit einem Angriff auf offener Stra\u00dfe. Eine Frau wird mit einem Messer attackiert. Menschen schreien. Menschen filmen. Nur einer handelt. Ein Mann \u2013 mutig, entschlossen, sch\u00fctzend. Er greift ein, stoppt die Angreiferin, rettet die Frau. Und wird anschlie\u00dfend nicht gefeiert, sondern ins Visier genommen. Denn f\u00fcr Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Kaiser, verurteilte […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,40,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afd-no-thanks","category-history-x","category-topstory"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Marie-Therese-Kaiser-AFD.webp?fit=982%2C502&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Hofmann","author_link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"yoast_head":"\n