Dennis Augustin
Dennis Augustin (born 26 August 1970 in Hamburg) is a German politician and right-wing activist. He was one of two chairmen of Alternative for Germany state organization of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He got thrown out the party in 2019. Augustin is an architect. In November 2017 Augustin was elected as one of two chairmen of AfD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Augustin was supported by the influential AfD-activist Philip Steinbeck. At the end of June 2019, local newspaper Nordkurier reported that he had taken part in an in-party training course for the far-right Nationaldemocratic Party of Germany (NPD ) in Iseo, Northern Italy in 1989. The newspaper published photos from the NPD party newspaper "Deutsche Stimme" and cited NPD sources and witnesses that this course was only accessible to "party's young political leaders". This concluded that Augustin must have been a member of the NPD or a member of the NPD youth organization "Young Nationaldemocrats". The board of the AfD state association Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania then declared the party membership of Augustin ineffective because he had kept his NPD contacts secret when he joined the AfD. From a legal point of view, this was not an exclusion from  the party, but a subsequent denial of accession. Augustin appealed against this decision by the state executive. The responsible state arbitration court of the AfD confirmed in the first instance the exclusion from the party.