Protesting students on Wednesday prevented Bernd Lucke, an economics professor who was a founding member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) when it was set up in 2013, from lecturing.
“Get lost,” the students shouted repeatedly as they threw balls of crumpled up paper at him,“ they said.
Lucke was unable to proceed with his lecture on macroeconomics.
Lucke was a spokesman for the AfD and its main public face when it was set up as a eurosceptic and conservative party.
Scepticism about the single European currency, the euro, was a central part of the party’s original policy.
He took leave of absence from his university post in 2014 to enter the European Parliament for the AfD.
After the AfD began moving to the right on issues such as immigration, Lucke left the party in 2015 to form a new political alliance that met with little success.
He had always rejected its current focus on immigration.
Meanwhile, all the main parties in Germany had rejected working with the AfD, which secured 12.6 per cent in the 2017 Federal Elections and currently scoring higher in polls, particularly in Eastern states. (dpa/NAN)
