Dresden/Dippoldiswalde – The Saxon judge Jens Maier (60), who was classified as a right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is back in office. The former AfD member of the Bundestag on Monday morning at the district court in Dippoldiswalde. He should be responsible there for general civil court matters as well as for estate matters and small ancillary areas.
Maier sat in the Bundestag for the AfD until 2021, before that he was a judge at the Dresden district court until 2017. After losing his Bundestag mandate in the 2021 election, Maier applied to return to the Saxon judicial service.
The Saxon Ministry of Justice had submitted an application to the service court for judges to put Maier into retirement and temporarily ban him from official business. However, the chamber of the service court in Leipzig announced on Friday that it could only decide after March 14th.
The Ministry had justified its action with the “defense of a serious impairment of the administration of justice”. After court approval, Jens Maier is to be retired.