Overview
- Final police statistics for 2025 report 5,508,559 recorded offenses nationwide, a 5.6 percent decline from the previous year.
- The federal count lists 42,544 right-wing politically motivated crimes for 2025, up from an earlier tally of 41,072 after the nationwide case reconciliation.
- North Rhine-Westphalia logged the most right-wing cases in absolute terms, while several eastern states posted the highest rates per 100,000 residents, led by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at 145.
- Violent crime fell 2.3 percent, yet serious sexual offenses rose 10.3 percent and homicide-related offenses rose 8.4 percent, with the BKA chief warning that crime is growing more digital and more international as the clearance rate holds at 57.9 percent.
- Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt highlighted that non-Germans make up 40.1 percent of suspects, and the AfD push to track migration background and dual citizenship was sent to Bundestag committees without a clear path to a majority.