extremist and former speaker of the Austrian Identitarian movement Roland Hartwig, former member of the German parliament for the AfD, and the personal advisor
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went to the Bergische Universität Wuppertal as a research assistant to Hartwig Brandt, where he habilitated in 2003 on German constitutional historiography