AfD on foreign affairs and defence

The AfD wants the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) to stay visible in Hamburg, for example through promotion ceremonies on Rathausmarkt, and wants youth officers to keep access to schools. It also wants the military's sports support unit to move from Appen to Hamburg.

The AfD is proud of the soldiers. The army should be easy to see in Hamburg. Promotion ceremonies should be public. Best on the square by City Hall. Army officers should keep visiting schools. An army sports group should move to Hamburg.

The program recalls the Bundeswehr's deployment during the 1962 storm flood under Helmut Schmidt. According to the program, around 2,500 soldiers are stationed in Hamburg. Annual promotion ceremonies should be held publicly, preferably on Rathausmarkt. Youth officers should continue to be allowed into schools, like police officers. The regional command should be supported in relocating the sports support unit from Appen to the Olympic training center in Dulsberg.

The AfD wants to promote Hamburg as a location for consulates and international institutions and strengthen its sister-city partnerships. A new partnership should be formed with an Israeli port city such as Haifa.

More countries should open offices in Hamburg. These are called consulates. Hamburg should advertise for that. Hamburg has sister cities around the world. These ties should grow stronger. A new sister city should be in Israel, for example Haifa.

City marketing campaigns should promote Hamburg internationally as a location for institutions, while information boards and school curricula should make this known to residents. Sister cities should regularly receive civic gifts such as Hans Hummel sculptures. Coats of arms at city entrances, time-zone clocks at the main station and airport, and a signpost in front of City Hall should make the partnerships visible. Festivals on anniversaries with school participation and exchanges involving city-owned companies and business associations are also planned.

The AfD wants Hamburg's spending on development projects reviewed for measurable results and aligned more closely with Hamburg's interests. If the human rights situation in Dar es Salaam does not change in the coming years, projects there should be phased out and the sister-city partnership ended.

Hamburg pays for aid in poor countries. The AfD wants to check if it works. The aid should also help Hamburg. Hamburg has a sister city in Africa: Dar es Salaam. Gay people are persecuted there. If that does not change, the partnership should end.

The program treats development aid as part of migration and foreign policy and as a way to reduce migration through help toward self-reliance. Existing Hamburg budget funds for development should be reviewed for measurable outcomes. Aid should also serve Hamburg's interests, explicitly including marketing the "Hamburg brand" abroad. The program says the Dar es Salaam partnership is not between equals and has shown no measurable success, and it points to a police unit there that persecutes gay people.