Alexander Eichwald settles accounts with the AfD and the media in a video.Image: screenshot youtube
Alexander Eichwald, who became known for his speech at an AfD event that was reminiscent of Adolf Hitler in rhetoric and gestures, speaks out again. The 30-year-old is threatened with exclusion from the AfD.
April 23, 2026, 8:01 a.mApril 23, 2026, 8:01 a.m
His speech at a meeting of the newly formed youth organization of the AfD last November caused a stir far beyond Germany: a young man named Alexander Eichwald irritated even the local AfD members with a speech that admonished Adolf Hitler not only in terms of content but also in his entire rhetoric and gestures. The 30-year-old subsequently confirmed that he was serious about his appearance.
The AfD itself had little joy in the performance. Even co-party leader Tino Chrupalla felt compelled to comment on Eichwald’s appearance. He announced that he would be expelled from the party because he was causing “significant” damage to the AfD and because his behavior was directly linking it to the NSDAP.
Eichwald’s speech to the AfD members.
Now Alexander Eichwald has addressed the public again in a 30-minute YouTube video. In the video entitled “Reckoning”, Eichwald takes a hard line against the public and especially his party. He explains that the AfD has created narratives against him with the sole aim of discrediting him and at the same time promoting their own careers.
In the half-hour, sometimes rather confusing treatise, Eichwald jumps from topic to topic, about the Epstein files, to the Iran war, Trump’s tariffs and finally to personal settlements with AfD and other political figures and to criticism of party leader Chrupalla, whom he describes as “spineless”.
He goes on to criticize, in the same rhetorical style with exaggeratedly rolled “Rs” as in his speech, the fact that he was compared to Adolf Hitler in the media or described as a “satirist” and “Count Dracula”. He was simply authentic: he would give the speech again and again and was neither infiltrated nor did he earn any money from the appearance.
Again Mirror writes, the public statement is not surprising at this point. The North Rhine-Westphalian AfD’s party expulsion process against Eichwald will take place next Saturday. The AfD justifies the planned exclusion of the 30-year-old in the application with an “enormous loss of reputation”. Eichwald himself rejects this justification. He is still of the opinion that his content has no connection to National Socialism, but rather corresponds to the AfD party program.
On Thursday he wants to make a second part of his video statement public and address specific allegations in the AfD party expulsion process. He says goodbye to the video message with the words: “Thank you for watching, Alexander Eichwald my name, people’s politicians at your service.”
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