Benjamin Nolte

Nolte Mitglied was member of student fraternity Libertas Brünn zu Aachen and "Chairman for politics and culture" at Deutsche Burschenschaft.

In 2009, other fraternities urged the Cologne-based Alemannia not to let a black fraternity actor appear at the festival in Eisenach. Several sources report that Nolte had handed over banana to the members of Alemannia present there as a mockery. Later his nickname was „banana-Nolte“. He then resigned from his post in the DB and from the Libertas Brno from Libertas Brünn. Nolte was then a member of the far-right "fraternity Danubia Munich".[1] Er trat daraufhin von seinem Amt in der DB zurück und aus der Libertas Brünn aus. Nolte wurde daraufhin Mitglied der rechtsextremen „Burschenschaft Danubia München“.[2] The assets of the association are monitored by the Bavarian constitutional protection.[3]

Nolte was elected at the second federal congress of Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2013 as deputy federal chairman of "Young Alternative for Germany", the youth organization of the AfD. On March 31, 2014, he resigned after several media had reported on his membership in the "Danubia Munich".

Nolte was a member of the so-called "Patriotic Platform" until it dissolved itself. He repeatedly expressed his support for Björn Höcke and his Flügel in AfD.

Nolte ran on list position 19 of the AFD state list Bavaria for the federal election 2017, but did giot elected. Nolte was elected to the board of the district association AfD Oberbayern in January 2018. Subsequently, he was elected a member of the Bavarian Regional Council. He represents the right-national side of the AfD parliamentary group.[4]

Nolte demanded at a meeting of the Flügel in 2019, the list of incompatibility of the AfD, in which it is separated from right-wing extremist groups and parties, "to throw the garbage heap of party history". He spoke out as a member of the Bavarian AfD state executive committee against a party decision. The rest of the state executive then went with an application for impeachment against the National Board member Benjamin Nolte before. The dpa reported about a corresponding letter of the country's chairman Martin Sichert and the party's lawyer Wolfram Schubert to the members of the state association. The letter states that a Preliminary injunction by the party's National Arbitration Tribunal prohibited Nolte from exercising his office on the regional executive board and acting accordingly.[5][6]