Alexander Gauland in an interview: “Maximilian Krah has ideas that I consider wrong”

Alexander Gauland , a member of the CDU from 1973 to 2013 and head of the Hessian State Chancellery in the 1980s, is one of the founding fathers of the AfD. The 84-year-old won a direct mandate for his hometown of Chemnitz in the federal election in February. There are repeated rumors that Gauland is no longer as sharp-minded as he once was. This was not evident at our meeting with the Berliner Zeitung. We spoke with Gauland about the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution's classification of his party as "certainly right-wing extremist" before the secret service gave a pledge of non-disclosure, how radicalized forces in the AfD should be dealt with, and what he thinks of Elon Musk's support.