Report: AfD, there is more than one Million euros in Ost-election campaigns

The AfD wants to get stuck in the coming year, a seven-digit sum into the East-election campaigns in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. Update from 28. Decem

Report: AfD, there is more than one Million euros in Ost-election campaigns

The AfD wants to get stuck in the coming year, a seven-digit sum into the East-election campaigns in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg.

Update from 28. December 2018

: for The AfD in the Federal Convention decided according to the "mirror", to promote the regional Association of Saxony before the state election, with 500,000 euros. Thuringia, with the top candidate Björn Höcke should therefore receive EUR 300,000, Brandenburg 250,000 euros. "Especially in Saxony, we have a real chance to be the strongest," says AfD leader Alexander Gauland of the new issue of the magazine.

according to surveys, the large coalition of Michael Kretschmer (CDU) could lose in Saxony after the election in the coming September of that majority. The AfD achieved in surveys, up to 25 percent and is in second place behind the CDU. Accordingly, the right-wing populists want to advertise in Saxony: For the six months before the election, a total of 800 events are planned, according to the report.

Gauland took again the Thuringian top candidate Björn Höcke, although the Thuringian constitutional protection chief has warned recently, especially the Person Höcke will decide on an observation of the state Association. "Our supporters know that the constitutional protection device, always more and more a political instrument of Struggle," said Gauland. "One observation may be of use to us, therefore, as well as damage.".

Munich-based billionaire from Finck to support AfD - Who is this Sponsor?

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"to the Right of the Gustl only of Genghis Khan", said the banker, Ferdinand Graf von Galen time about August von Finck. Munich's High Society gets to him to the face, but he lets in Krün in the middle of the forest, where the family is well-to-do, a Maypole, jumping and cheers to the Locals in the Place.

At the request of his father, he had to learn banker in the family Bank Merck, Finck & co., which he sold in 1990. He inherited interests in Löwenbräu (since 2004, Custodia Holding AG).

Since 1992, he has a majority of the shares of the Swiss Restaurant and hotel group, Mövenpick, to him, the machine manufacturer Of roller, investments in Alusuisse-Lonza, the armor multi-Oerlikon-Bührle, etc. In and around Munich will be the family's numerous properties, such as the Franciscans or the former Andechser am Dom is attributed to the need to give way to a FC Bayern world of experience.

ostrich and the FDP were on the list of donations

Finck sponsored the CSU under Strauss, the right-wing tables Federal Free citizens and the FDP, which returned the favor with a tax cut for Hoteliers, which is why we mocked you as a "Mövenpick-party". August von Finck, is retreating more and more in favour of his sons, August Francois, and Luitpold Ferdinand from active business.

All the background and developments to the AfD-donations affair, you can find here in the News Blog

+ From the promenade space from the Finck-the Empire managed.©Klaus Haag

The rise of a banking family

Of 1848 in Vilbel (Hesse), and Wilhelm von Finck learned in the Frankfurt banker, was in 1870, chief clerk in the newly established banking house of Merck, Christian & Co, where he was in 1971, part of the commander-in-chief. He was involved in the founding of the Munich re and Allianz, the Munich Tram system, at the Bürgerbräu, which merged in 1920 with Löwenbräu, and the Isarwerken, incorporated in 2001, E. ON Bayern. He died in 1924.

His son of August von Finck senior (1898-1980) was in 1924, a partner in the family banking house Merck, Finck & co., whereby he came in, many of the members of the Supervisory Board of German corporations.

Finck was part of a group of Industrial, the met in 1931 in Berlin with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party promised to provide in the case of Retrobet a left-wing coup of 25 million Reichsmarks. In 1933, he was a participant in a secret meeting with Hitler, in the Industrial election Fund of three million marks for the Nazi party decided.

After the seizure of power, he was a member of the NSDAP sat in the General Council of the economy, was a member of the Senate of the German Academy and was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Munich house of German art. After the Anschluss of Austria, he took over in 1938 in Vienna, the Rothschild Bank, helped the bankers to escape. After the war, he was classified as a hanger-on and was able to get into the business.

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A probate case in the house of Finck made in the year 2009, as tz.de* reported in the headlines.

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Date Of Update: 29 December 2018, 00:03
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