Peter Kurth (born 5 April 1960) is a German politician (former CDU) and lobby-manager who served as State Minister of Finance (Senator) in Berlin from 1999 until 2001.

Kurth was president of the influential "Federal Association of the German Waste Management, Water and Raw Materials Industry" (BDE).

[4] In 2023, Kurth invited prominent representatives of the AfD and the radical right to his private apartment in Berlin, including Maximilian Krah, AfD's top candidate for the 2024 European elections, the right-wing extremist publisher Götz Kubitschek and the Austrian IB right-wing extremist Martin Sellner.

[5] The money was transferred to a company associated with the IB and was apparently used to purchase a house near Linz in Austria, which was opened in 2021 as a right-wing meeting place under the name "Castell Aurora".

The IB activist responsible for the purchase was also present at the meeting in Kurth's Berlin apartment in July 2023.