Leak in the “One Percent” project: AfD money flows into right-wing extremist clubs

The “One Percent” association prides itself on being the “largest patriotic network” in Germany and a “resistance platform”. The course is clear: it is against “mass immigration” and the “political caste”. As early as 2023, the association was classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In the scene he collects donations - and hands them out for right-wing protests or trials against comrades. Who gave his money for this was still unknown. Not anymore: Due to a leak, some of the donors are now known.

According to their own information, a hacker collective called “Propane” stole the data from “One Percent” in July. They cover the period from there back to 2021. The taz and other media were now able to check and evaluate this data. Meanwhile, “One Percent” confirmed the data outflow and the period. The association speaks of around 1,000 people affected.

“One Percent” was launched in 2016, co-founded by the right-wing extremist journalists Götz Kubitschek and Jürgen Elsässer. The project is now led by Philipp Stein, a right-wing publisher and fraternity member. Former Identitarians are also involved in the association - which consequently also propagates the fighting formula of “remigration”, the mass expulsion of people with a migration background.

The club’s “solidarity fund” is now affected by the leak. This was launched in 2021 and, according to its own information, distributes money to “victims of migrant and left-wing extremist violence”, but also goes to those accused of incitement to hatred. “One Percent” claims to have paid out a good 148,000 euros in recent years.

Donations to the fund from 2021 range from one euro to 31,000 euros from a former activist against the Corona measures from Hesse. Above all, however, a large number of AfD politicians support the “One Percent” project. These include AfD members of the Bundestag Hannes Gnauck, Sebastian Maack, Robert Teske, Uwe Schulz, Lars Schieske, Thomas Dietz and Thomas Ladzinski - as well as former MP Peter Bystron.

Various AfD members of the state parliament also donated amounts. This also includes Saxony-Anhalt's AfD prime ministerial candidate Ulrich Siegmund, who gave 500 euros. Siegmund has long made no secret of his support for “One Percent” and has already appeared on the podcast there and declared that he had supported the club. “One Percent,” in turn, praised Siegmund in 2021 as a “friend and supporter of the patriotic, extra-parliamentary run-up.”

The “One Percent” donors also include Jean-Pascal Hohm, head of the AfD youth “Generation Germany” and member of the AfD state parliament in Brandenburg. He has also been cooperating with the club for a long time, was previously an intern there and later made explanatory videos for the project. Three regional associations of the former AfD youth group “Junge Alternative”, which dissolved in spring 2025, also donated to the association: Saxony-Anhalt, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia - the latter with at least 2,500 euros. The AfD district association Hochsauerlandkreis also transferred 150 euros.

And there are also relevant supporters outside the AfD. A donation of 1,000 euros from the right-wing extremist small party “Free Saxony” is noted. Another came from the ethnic settler group “Weda Elysia” from Saxony-Anhalt. The neo-Nazi Sven Krüger from the right-wing extremist village community of Jamel in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is also one of the supporters. He was recently sentenced to a fine of 7,000 euros for illegal possession of explosives and weapons. And the well-known neo-Nazi Alexander Deptolla, once from Dortmund, now in Saxony-Anhalt, also donated to “One Percent”. Deptolla used to organize the martial arts scene events “Battle of the Nibelungs” and runs a label of the same name.

“One Percent” itself also supported the Identitarian spokesman Martin Sellner in the past. Among the donors to the association - in addition to several German identities - was Sellner's Viennese partner Philipp Huemer, who gave 100 euros. Huemer recently founded an “Institute for Remigration” with Sellner, a right-wing extremist pseudo-think tank. He himself was formerly head of the Identitarian group in Vienna, later editor-in-chief of the right-wing extremist Heimatkurier and the right-wing extremist broadcaster AUF1. It is not surprising that Huemer supports “One Percent”. “One percent” recently provided him and the home courier with 2,000 euros for legal proceedings. The home courier lost the case.

The donors mentioned here did not respond to taz inquiries. “One percent” itself explained that only donors via the “Solifonds” website, which was specially set up for this purpose, were affected – not people who sent money traditionally via bank transfer or were other sponsors of the association. The association also raised doubts that the data obtained could have been subsequently changed. However, taz checks have so far revealed no evidence of this.

The hacker group Propane justified their action to the taz by saying that “anti-fascist research is still indispensable”. This is shown, for example, by the recent attack by a young neo-Nazi in Schleswig-Holstein that was prevented by the Antifa research group Exif. Hacking is a way to “illuminate right-wing structures from within.”