The deputy CDU federal chair Karin Prien has again called for the expulsion of the former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen.
"If Mr. Maaßen is still a member of the CDU at our next federal executive board meeting on February 13, I will submit a request to the federal executive board to exclude him from our party," said Schleswig-Holstein's education minister on Tuesday in Kiel.
Maassen and his statements are no longer tolerable in the Union.
"His repeated use of anti-Semitic and conspiracy theory codes, his downplaying of racism and Nazi ideology and the openness he displays for right-wing extremists - all of this is incompatible with the values of the CDU," said Prien.
CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja asked Maassen to leave the party on Tuesday.
Maassen has been criticized for a long time.
The 60-year-old lawyer was temporarily retired after several controversial statements in 2018 as President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
Even after that, there was repeated criticism of Maassen's statements, for example about the corona vaccination.
In an interview with the publicist Alexander Wallasch for his blog a few days ago, Maassen criticized German migration policy, among other things.
He spoke of racism against "the native Germans", the existence of which was denied by "politicians and attitude journalists".
"This thinking is an expression of a green-red racial theory, according to which whites are seen as an inferior race and that Arab and African men must therefore be brought into the country," said Maassen in the interview, which he also retweeted via Twitter.