Overview
- The LKA’s PTAZ opened 1,449 new extremism investigations in 2025, up 21% from 2024’s 1,196.
- Active state‑protection workload exceeded 2,200 files, with 759 cases carried into 2026 and a clearance rate near 63%.
- About one third of 2025 intakes were right‑wing (435, nearly 20% higher), while more than half (805) were not clearly assignable, often tied to online threats.
- Soko Rex handled 266 right‑wing probes as severe left‑extremist cases under Soko Linx fell to 17.
- The interior ministry created Soko ReliX and an espionage/sabotage unit, and police opened 24 investigations after a large Dresden march of right‑wing extremists and counterprotests.