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The police union (GdP) has asked AfD members to leave the union.
"Simultaneous memberships in the Alternative for Germany party and in the police union are, in the opinion of the GdP federal executive board, incompatible", announced the GdP on Friday after a video conference of its federal executive committee.
"The AfD wants to attract media attention with provocations and stagings, is anti-union and defies the solidarity basis of our society," said the deputy GdP federal chairman Dietmar Schilff.
For example, AfD politicians took part in so-called lateral thinkers demonstrations during the Corona crisis "and openly sought to join forces with right-wing extremists, anti-Semites, Reich citizens and conspiracy theorists".
The AfD is a "inhuman party that feels committed neither to democracy nor to Germany's historical responsibility," says a position paper of the GdP.
Support from Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
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Several state associations have endorsed the decision paper.
The police union in Saarland called on AfD members and people close to the party to leave the GdP immediately.
Anyone who is an AfD party member and does not leave voluntarily must expect an internal union exclusion process, the police union in Saarland announced on Friday in Saarbrücken.
The Saarland state chairman of the GdP, David Maaß, said that AfD members were "no longer welcome" in the union.
"In the opinion of the police union, the AfD is essentially a racist, nationalist, inhuman, anti-democracy and union-hostile party whose political endeavors are contrary to the principles and values of a democratic and social constitutional state and the solidarity principle of the GdP."
With the incompatibility decision, the GdP committed itself to "the free, democratic basic order - to a multicultural and tolerant police force that has both feet firmly on the ground of the constitution," said the GdP regional district of Saarland.
"Populist or extremist manifestations in society" gave the GdP a clear rejection.
"The AfD is a party that has become increasingly radicalized and has become a new home for right-wing extremists and populists."
"The AfD is abusing our profession"
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The police union in Rhineland-Palatinate also supports the demands.
"The GdP Rhineland-Palatinate has been aggressively differentiating itself from the AfD in the state for years," said state chief Sabrina Kunz on Friday.
There is no cooperation, and the party's request is resolutely opposed.
"The AfD is abusing our profession for its inhuman politics." The decision of the federal board strengthens the colleagues, said the union.
"Right-wing populism, right-wing extremism and inhuman worldviews have no place in the police."
It is not known how many AfD members are currently in the union.
According to a spokesman for the federal executive committee, there are some AfD functionaries and members of the party who are GdP members.
The AfD member of the Bundestag Martin Hess, former police chief inspector, is also a member of the union.
He said that the GdP was acting here as an “extended arm of the Greens and the SPD, two parties that regularly trampled the interests of police officers”.