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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 keep its status, they said.
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.
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.
The parliamentary group leadership asked the 57-year-old to resign his mandate, because "Mr. Ehlebracht has moved into the citizenry for the AfD." Group leader resigned from the party.
He did not comply with the request to return his mandate.
Kruse and Ehlebracht are assigned to the moderate wing of the AfD, although the other parliamentary group members in Hamburg are at least more cautious in their statements than parts of the Bundestag parliamentary group or other state associations.
"Intense and important speech"
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The Hamburg co-parliamentary group chairman Alexander Wolf sided with the federal chairman Jörg Meuthen, who had criticized statements by party members about a “Corona dictatorship” on the Monday after the federal party conference of the AfD, and warned against cooperation with the “lateral thinkers” movement would have.
Meuthen's speech was "intense and important," said Wolf to the NDR.
Meuthen made it clear that the party steers a bourgeois-conservative course.