[4] Following the request by the AfD executive board to dissolve Der Flügel by the end of April 2020, the group's online presence went offline.

[10] The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) classified Der Flügel in January 2019 as a suspected case of right-wing extremism, since its "propagated policy concept was aimed at exclusion, contempt and deprivation of rights of foreigners, migrants, especially Muslims, and politically dissenting people.

[11][12][9][13] Following the BfV's announcement, the AfD's national leaders demanded the dissolution of Der Flügel, and Höcke and Kalbitz asked members to "cease their activities.

"[1] However, Der Flügel members were not asked to leave the AfD, and in their announcement of the group's disbandment, Höcke and Kalbitz wrote that, "In principle, it is not possible to dissolve what does not formally exist.

[14] He justified this with the fact that he had lost the power struggle with the formally dissolved right-wing extremist Der Flügel over the political direction of AfD.

Meuthen criticized that the party had developed far to the right and was in large parts no longer concurrent with the Liberal democratic basic order in Germany.