Lars Schütze

Previously representing the Alternative for Germany and Citizens for Thuringia, he has been an independent politician since 2022.

Schütze was expelled from the AfD parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament in October 2021.

In 2022, he joined the new Citizens for Thuringia party after leaving the AfD months earlier.

On 20 June 2022 Schütze founded the Citizens for Thuringia parliamentary group together with former Free Democrat MP Ute Bergner [de] and the two former AfD MPs Birger Gröning and Tosca Kniese [de].

After this he sat in the Landtag as an independent member until the 2024 Thuringian state election in which he stood down from office.