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The Institute for State Policy (German: Institute für Staatspolitik, IfS)

Based in Schnellroda (A) on a manorial estate with Antaios publishing company and Sezession publication (C)

Status eines steuerbegünstigten gemeinnützigen Vereins (E)

History
Founded in 2000 by Kubitschek (A)

Kubitschek a leader of the New Right (A)

Part of Kubitschek's right-wing network (B)

BfV Verdachtsfall rechtsextrem April 2020. Allows extended surveillance (C)

Monitored by BfV (B)

Declared by BfV to be a confirmed far-right extremist organisation in October 2021

Political activities
BfV: IfS ideology violates principles set out in the German constitution (A)

Sees itself as corrective to an alleged left-wing shift of mainstream politics (A)

Organises "academies", in which the works of right-wing revolutionaries are disseminated (B)

While IfS considers these events to be of an academic nature, academics dispute that claim. (B)

Historian Volker Weiß: No new ideas, old ideas being recycled ("epigone of epigone") (B)

academies organised twice a year to train far-right activists and junior AfD members (E)

Closely connected to the radical wing of the AfD (D).

Alice Weidel (D) and other AfD politicians have spoken at IfS events (C) also Alexander Gauland (E)

Sezession publication is well-known among the far-right according to the BfV (E)

Try to distance themselves from the NPD (F)