Der Flügel

Der Flügel (lit. 'the wing') is a far-right faction within Germany's Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD), a right-wing populist opposition party. The group was led by Björn Höcke and Andreas Kalbitz (banned from AfD in 2020). Approximately 20 percent of AfD members are organized also in the "Flügel". Following the request by the AfD executive board to dissolve Der Flügel by the end of April 2020, the group's online presence went offline. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has no reliable knowledge of an actual dissolution. Within the party, Der Flügel now calls itself the "social-patriotic faction".

At the time of the de jure dissolution, according to BfV, one out of five AfD members belonged to Der Flügel.