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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The Hamburg AfD member of the parliament Detlef Ehlebracht has resigned from the parliamentary group and party.
The faction, which has shrunk to six members, will retain its status, it said on Monday.
Ehlebracht gave personal reasons for his step.
He wanted to remain a non-attached MP.
"We regret Detlef Ehlebracht's decision and consider it wrong," said parliamentary group chairmen Dirk Nockemann and Alexander Wolf.
They asked the 57-year-old to resign from his mandate.
In the citizenship election on February 23, 2020, the alternative for Germany won 5.3 percent of the vote and was again drawn into the state parliament with seven members.
Ehlebracht has been a member of the citizenry since 2015.
The trained aircraft mechanic and IT specialist was most recently parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group.
Press release