Overview
- An official reply to a Left Party inquiry shows 1,598 right-wing violent acts in 2025, the most since 2016.
- Officials cautioned that counts can still change because some cases are reported late or political motives are confirmed only after further investigation.
- Per-capita rates were far higher in the east, with Mecklenburg-Vorpommern at 145 incidents per 100,000 people, Saxony-Anhalt at 142, and Brandenburg at 139, compared with a national average of 51.
- Prosecutors tied a failed arson attempt on an asylum shelter in Schmölln in January 2025 to the group Letzte Verteidigungswelle, and the Federal Prosecutor filed charges in December at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court.
- Family Minister Karin Prien plans to let funding for about 200 Democracy Lives! projects lapse at year-end, and Greens, the Left, and parts of the SPD warn cuts will weaken local anti-extremism work.