Hans-Georg Maaßen announced the dissolution of his just-founded ValuesUnion party on Thursday. The former President for the Protection of the Constitution revealed, his commitment to the Values Union was was an undercover operation in which only he, former Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and former Chancellor Angela Merkel were privy to.
For years he had to pretend and use “absurd statements” to gain the trust of the extremes. As a private citizen, he was "rather liberal in his attitude"; it "torn him up inside"