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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) is shocked by the attacks on the US Congress.
"These pictures made me angry and also sad," says Merkel in Berlin.
One of the basic rules of democracy is that after elections there are winners and losers.
They regret that the incumbent President Donald Trump has still not admitted his defeat.
But she is certain: "This democracy will prove to be much stronger than the aggressors and rioters."
SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans considers Trump's actions in view of the violent riots in the US Capitol to be extremely dangerous.
"Who until now has lacked an idea of (all-) communal danger will be taught by the behavior of a stray US president," said Walter-Borjans WELT.
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"The world can only hope that the former followers will fail him in the last few meters if he continues to trample on democracy and the constitution." The situation in the USA also shows "where it leads when high technology on the one hand with you." A growing proportion of the population meets whose fears about the future are growing day by day. "
Maas: "Simply horrible!"
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) strongly condemns the involvement of right-wing extremists in the storming of the US Capitol.
"If people with 'Auschwitz' on their sweaters attack parliaments, our reaction must be very clear," tweeted the SPD politician.
“There's no room for something like that anywhere - especially not in parliaments.
Simply horrible! "
Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, was not surprised by the outbreak of violence in the US Capitol.
In addition to the arsonist Donald Trump, the CDU presidency candidate sees the Republican Party as responsible.
"It was the result of the call of the incumbent President of the United States to storm the parliament of this country," he told WELT.
"In his boundless narcissism, he doesn't care what happens as a result, namely that his followers also resort to violence - if he hasn't even taken it into account."
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Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier draws parallels between the riots in the US Capitol and the riot at the Berlin Reichstag in August.
“That is why I am sending this message to all of us today,” explains the German head of state in Berlin.
"Hatred and agitation endanger democracy, lies endanger democracy, violence endangers democracy." In August, supporters of the so-called lateral thinker movement advanced across barriers to the steps of the Reichstag at a demonstration in Berlin.
Collaboration: Ricarda Breyton