AfD on other topics

The AfD wants to raise the state lump sum for free use of public sports facilities from five to 20 million euros a year. Sports funding should become a mandatory municipal task, and the state should invest considerably more in sports facilities.

The AfD wants more money for sports facilities. The state should pay 20 million euros a year instead of 5 million. Towns should be required to support sports. Run-down sports facilities and outdoor pools should be kept.

Clubs and municipalities should get a reliable legal basis for maintaining sports facilities so that cuts no longer fall on sports. Funding for the new mandatory task should run through the municipal fiscal equalization system. The platform puts the renovation backlog at Thuringia's sports facilities at about one billion euros and wants state investment to grow markedly. The AfD wants to keep and expand outdoor pools as places for sports, culture and meeting others. Volunteers in clubs should receive appropriate recognition.

The AfD wants to give clubs and associations higher subsidies and adequately equip the Sportgymnasien (sports high schools) in Oberhof, Erfurt and Jena. This is meant to support young talent and ensure coaching by full-time trainers.

The AfD wants to support young sports talent. Clubs should get more money. The three sports high schools in Thuringia should be well equipped. Winter sports in Oberhof should also get support.

Alongside recreational sports, the platform gives competitive and elite sports an important role. Talent should be scouted more effectively starting in elementary school. The AfD calls elite winter sports part of Thuringia's identity and Oberhof a center of national importance. It considers state support justified as long as winter sports are sensibly embedded in their social setting.

The AfD rejects tying funding for sports clubs to political requirements. In its view, clubs and associations should represent their members' sporting interests and not be co-opted politically.

Sports clubs get money from the state. The AfD says this money must not depend on politics. Clubs should be about sports. Politics should play no part there.

The platform sees physical activity, not politics, at the center of club work. It points to periods in German history when sports were co-opted politically. The AfD speaks of a misuse of sports clubs that it wants to end.

The AfD regards allotment gardens as part of the culture and wants to revive sites in rural areas and to keep, expand and create sites in large cities. Owners and tenants would get more freedom, while the gardens remain affordable for everyone.

The AfD wants to protect allotment gardens. These are small garden plots that people rent. Old sites in the countryside should be used again. Big cities should get new gardens. The gardens should stay cheap.

The legal rules would be changed to give owners and tenants more leeway. Allotment garden associations would get more support. At the state level, the AfD calls for an advisory council to represent the associations. State building rules would treat allotment gardens as a part of residential areas.