Susan Sziborra-Seidlitz: “I am highly dangerous to the AfD”

At a campaign stall on Aschersleben’s small marketplace, Green Party supporters hand out leaflets and serve coffee. Susan Sziborra-Seidlitz is speaking with a friendly-looking man who tells her that not all AfD voters are Nazis.

The exchange may be almost routine in Germany’s heated political climate, but the Green Party’s lead candidate struggles to remain calm. Her husband has become the focus of a right-wing campaign that has once again brought his neo-Nazi past into the spotlight.

Sziborra-Seidlitz has agreed to discuss the allegations in detail for the first time. She also wants to talk about her own family history, which the article presents as unusual for a Green politician, and about how the years after German reunification shaped her political outlook.

The campaign dispute has generated questions about why her husband’s past is being raised again and how both family history and the post-reunification period influence her political position.