27 Facts About Martin Kohlmann

Martin Kohlmann is the founding chairman of the Free Saxons and was a member of Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz, the German Social Union and The Republicans.

Martin Kohlmann is being monitored by the Saxony State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which recognises him as a "long-standing activist in the right-wing extremist scene".

Martin Kohlmann has stated he seeks the return of the Saxon Monarchy and the increased independence of the state of Saxony.

Martin Kohlmann completed part of his legal traineeship in the Russian city of Krasnojarsk.

Martin Kohlmann's clients included convicted Holocaust denier Gunter Deckert, chairman of the NPD from 1991 to 1996.

One of Martin Kohlmann's legal focuses is the legal representation of rejected asylum seekers, especially from the former Soviet Union.

Martin Kohlmann is a member of the Burschenschaft Arminia zu Leipzig fraternity.

On 8 November 2022, Martin Kohlmann was sentenced by the Chemnitz District Court to a fine of 120 daily rates of 50 euros each for incitement to hatred.

On 12 April 2023, it was announced that the Chemnitz public prosecutor's office had applied for a penalty order of 7,500 euros against Martin Kohlmann for withholding and embezzling wages because Martin Kohlmann was alleged to have paid two employees a wage below the minimum wage for three years.

Martin Kohlmann was first elected to the city council of Chemnitz in 1999.

Martin Kohlmann was a candidate in the 2004 European Parliament election on the third place list of The Republicans.

Mario Heinz accused the faction chairman Martin Kohlmann of being a "right-wing political clown".

In March 2006, Martin Kohlmann switched to the German Social Union and wanted to run for them in the mayoral election.

However, the candidacy was not approved because Martin Kohlmann did not provide the necessary supporting signatures.

In 2009, Martin Kohlmann founded the Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz together with Reinhold Breede, former CDU member and former president of the City Council of Chemnitz, which ran under the name Citizens' Movement Pro Chemnitz in the 2009 local elections.

Martin Kohlmann refused to leave and was carried out of the hall by the police.

Martin Kohlmann was sentenced by the Chemnitz District Court to a fine of 2,275 euros for trespassing, but acquitted of the charges of insulting Brehm and Gintschel.

Martin Kohlmann is chairman of the Pro-Chemnitz faction in the Chemnitz city council.

Martin Kohlmann is a member of various committees of the Chemnitz city council: the planning, construction and environment committee and the administration and finance committee as a member, and the petitions committee, the social committee and the school committee as a deputy member.

Martin Kohlmann was a candidate in the 2013 mayoral election in Chemnitz.

Martin Kohlmann had previously proposed to all of the incumbent's challengers that they agree on a new, non-partisan candidate for the new election and forego a re-election in his favour, but was unable to prevail.

On 25 May 2014, Martin Kohlmann was re-elected to the city council.

Martin Kohlmann justified the distribution of an illegally photographed arrest warrant for one of the alleged perpetrators to the ARD.

In connection with the knife attack in Chemnitz, Martin Kohlmann spoke out in favour of Saxony's autonomy and rapprochement with Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.

On 26 February 2021, Martin Kohlmann became chairman of the newly founded organization "Freie Sachsen".

In September 2023, Martin Kohlmann explained that the Free Saxons' reasons for running in the 2024 local elections were that they wanted to gain information in local parliaments; in addition, potential city and municipal councillors should acquire skills and knowledge of public administration so that they could fall back on such people after a "change".

Martin Kohlmann was his party's top candidate in the 2024 Saxony state election.