Photo raises questions
Club bosses celebrate with AfD man-Dynamo Dresden under pressure
17.07.2025 – 04:46 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
A photo shows club bosses with an AfD politician at a private celebration. Dynamo Dresden now emphasizes that it is not an official event of the club.
A photo that circumnavigates on social media triggers a statement from the second division club Dynamo Dresden. The picture shows several high-ranking officials of the club in an exuberant round with an AfD MP from Saxony.
Vice President Peter Krüger, member of the supervisory board Thomas Blümel, and the traditional representative Jens Genschmar can be seen. Together they pose with Thomas Ladzinski, elected direct candidate in the constituency of Dresden I of the Saxon AfD state association.
The photo was posted by the FDP politician and entrepreneur Holger Zastrow, who can also be seen in the picture. Zastrow, former state chairman of the FDP Saxony, had posted the photo on his Instagram profile. According to the caption, the photo is said to have been taken on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Supervisory Board member Blümel in mid -May at the lugturm in Dresden.
Since the Saxon State Association of the AfD is classified as “secured right -wing extremist”, according to the Saxon Higher Administrative Court of January 21, 2025, questions about the values of the club are now loud, which, among other things, expressly speaks against racism and discrimination.
When asked by the sports portal “Kicker”, Dynamo Dresden said that it was “a private ceremony on the occasion of a 60th birthday and therefore not an official event by SG Dynamo Dresden”. The association also clarified that “everyone who is part of the sports community has to behave our mission statement and the fanchara according to the values of the association”.
At the same time, Dynamo emphasized that it was “clearly distant from any right-wing extremist ideas” and refer to actions such as the “Love Dynamo-Hate Racism” game day, with which the club underlines its diversity year after year. The campaign was launched in 2010. With her message on the jerseys, advertising gangs and stadium screens of the association, she is supposed to be responsible for football and remind you to actively work against racism and discrimination.
Ladzinski said in an interview with the “Sächsische Zeitung” in February that he saw himself as a “national liberal”. “I am certainly not right -wing extremist. It bothers me that the AfD is referred to as a right -wing extremist.” The AfD is in no way right -wing extremist, he said. “It is a pragmatic party that puts the well -being of the well -being of its own population.” He did not want to comment on extremists like Björn Höcke. “I don’t know him personally,” said Ladzinski.