Under Urban's leadership, the Saxon AfD state association developed so strongly towards the right-wing, that the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution has classified and is monitoring the party as a "secure right-wing anti constitutional effort" in 2023.

He completed three years of voluntary military service with the National People's Army and studied hydraulic engineering at the Dresden University of Technology.

[2] Urban was formerly affiliated with Grüne Liga, an East German conservationist political movement.

[5][6] After the 2019 elections, the AfD became the second largest party in the Saxon landtag, and Urban became the Leader of the Opposition.

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