The extremism category "delegitimization of the state relevant to the protection of the constitution" introduced by the domestic intelligence service in 2021 is becoming increasingly less important. As the German Press Agency has learned from security circles, the number of those who now consider it unnecessary has recently risen among federal and state constitution protectors. Saxony has already decided to no longer use the category in future. For practical reasons, the changeover is to take place on January 1, 2026.
The category was created during the coronavirus pandemic. At the time, the new phenomenon area served as a kind of catch-all for extremist actors who, at first glance, could not be assigned to any of the known categories - Islamism, right-wing extremism, left-wing extremism, foreign-related extremism, so-called Reichsbürger and self-administrators.
