The Bürgerinitiative für ein sicheres Bergedorf (Citiziens initiative for a safe Bergedorf), a racist organization, performs a piece of street theater titled ‘Bergedorf 2010: The Last German’, an agitation against the supposed over-foreignization of Germany. Neo-Nazis dress as caricatures of Muslims and place the ‘last German’ in a cage.

When a man with a child in a baby carriage attempts to enter a subway train, he is verbally attacked with a racist slur. A Black woman follows the perpetrator, who also insults her racially and punches her in the face.

An Iranian man is shown the Nazi salute and verbally attacked with antisemitic and racist slurs. When he confronts the perpetrator he is thrown to the ground.

A group of young men abuse a taxi driver with racist slurs and attack him physically.

A man in a subway train repeatedly performs the Nazi salute, insults Muslims, and spits on two women who he believes are non-Germans.

Several men shouting ‘Seig Heil!’ enter a fast food restaurant and threaten an employee because of his race.

A man is racially insulted as a ‘fucking Black man’, pulled by the hair and punched in the face. According to witnesses, one of the two perpetrators also tried to stab him with a screwdriver.

40 neo-Nazis and right-wingers demonstrate against a refugee center. Over 600 people protest against the march and block part of the route. After the demonstration, one of the demonstrators threatens counter-demonstrators with a knife.

Hamburg tax official Kim-Alexander M. sets fire to a house where six Iraqi refugees were to move in the following day. A few hours before the attack, he and other racist neighborhood residents stormed the office of the administrative official responsible for placing refugees and pressured her about the plans. One resident had already threatened to flood the house and make it uninhabitable. M. receives a suspended sentence of two years from the Lübeck district court.

The deputy chairman of the AfD, Alexander Gauland, speaks to 170 people at an event organized by the Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft e.V. (SWG). The audience includes Holocaust denier Ursula Haverbeck as well as other guests from the extreme right.

Members of the Identitarian Movement occupy the balcony of the SPD party headquarters. They spread the conspiracy narrative of a ‘Great Replacement’ on banners. In the same year, the Hamburg fraternity Germania invites the Identitarian Movement to joint military sports exercises.

At short notice, the convention center is chosen as a shelter for 1,200 refugees. Under the banner of ‘Refugees Welcome’, many Hamburg residents welcome the new arrivals and support them with language courses, counselling, and clothing donations. The clothing donation drop-off in the convention center eventually becomes the Hanseatic Help e.V. aid organization.

Three neo-Nazis call a man the N-word and punch him.

A Muslim woman wearing a hijab and her brother are subjected to racist abuse. The perpetrator tries to tear off the woman's headscarf and punches her brother in the face.

The northern German regional branches of the AfD call for a demonstration in Hamburg under the slogan ‘Against political failure! Stop the asylum chaos!’. Among the 240 participants are neo-Nazis from the NPD and Freie Kameradschaften as well as from a network of völkische Siedler. More than 1,000 people organized a spontaneous blockade to prevent the demonstration from taking place. The march is canceled and a rally is held instead.

A Syrian refugee is attacked with a broken bottle.

An Eritrean refugee is attacked with a gas pistol shooting steel pellets. His face and head are injured.

Unknown persons flood a house into which a refugee family was to move. The faucets were turned on and drains blocked in the cellar and on the ground floor.

A man hurls racist abuse at a person, threatens them with the words ‘You fucking foreigner, you asylum seeker, I’ll shoot you in the leg’ and hits them on the head with his handgun.

Two unknown persons insult a taxi driver as a ‘fucking refugee’ and hit him.

Three young refugee men on their way back to their accommodation from a snack bar are attacked by a man with a knife. One of them is critically injured and requires emergency surgery. Local residents had been campaigning against the refugee center since 2014. A pub regularly frequented by neo-Nazis is located near the scene of the crime.

After local residents used a car blockade to prevent tree felling for the construction of a refugee shelter, anti-racist activists call for a ‘chainsaw massacre.’ The activists symbolically saw at a tree and demand ‘real solidarity with the refugees.’

Fire is set to an empty villa where underage refugees are to be housed. The police find the remains of car tires and fire accelerants. Swastikas had been found on the interior walls of the house in April.

The walls of the toilets in the central reception center for asylum seekers are graffitied with ‘Heil Hitler’ and SS runes.

A man rides his bike to the central reception center for asylum seekers, chants racist slogans, and shoots several times into the air with blank cartidges.

Unknown persons throw stones at the windows of a central reception center for asylum seekers. The center is attacked several times in the following months.

On the site of a planned refugee shelter, water pipes and valves are manipulated in such a way that the construction site is partially flooded twice.

Bullet holes are discovered in the office windows on the grounds of the Central Reception Center for asylum seekers.

Local residents protest against the construction of a refugee shelter by erecting a coffin with the inscription ‘Victims of red/green narrow-mindedness’ (the colors refer to the SPD and the Green Party) . There had been racist protests against two other sites in Eppendorf. The first shelter in the district, accommodating 102 refugees, was not opened until May 2020.

Unknown persons attempt to set fire to the refugee shelter. Traces of fire are discovered on four shutters. No one is injured.

Stephan Kronbügel detonates an explosive device filled with screws on the train platform in Veddel. At least one person is injured. In 1992, Kronbügel and the neo-Nazi Stefan S. killed Captain Gustav Schneeclaus. Despite Kronbügel’s criminal record, the police did not investigate the bombing as a politically-motivated crime. Hamburg media trivialized the perpetrator as a ‘drinker’ and ‘ex-Nazi’. The Hamburg district court, on the other hand, considered a right-wing motive for the crime to be very likely and sentenced Kronbügel to ten years in prison for attempted murder in October 2018.

A woman is insulted by a man as a ‘dirty Asian whore’, spat at and threatened with a knife, which he holds to her face. When she tries to flee, he hits her from behind on the head.

With the slogan ‘Merkel must go’, 60 right-wingers and neo-Nazis gather for a rally under the guise of a citizens’ protest. Like the Pegida demonstrations in Dresden, which took to the streets every week to protest Muslims and refugees, the protests are to take place every Monday. They call for the borders to be closed and for deportations. In the following weeks, the size of the rallies increases to up to 300 people. The protests continue until November of 2018.

For the first time, the Hamburg AfD calls for a ‘Merkel must go’ rally. These rallies are regularly attended by neo-Nazis, hooligans, and extreme right-wingers from the NPD, the Identitarian movement, and fraternities. One participant carries a poster with the words ‘Die, Merkel’. The right-wing rally is moved from Gänsemarkt to Dammtor due to the constant counter-protest of more than 1,000 people.

On a bus, a man perpetrates a racially-motivated attack on a child.

The NPD mobilizes against refugees with an unregistered information stand in the immediate vicinity of a refugee shelter and distributes an inflammatory video. It contains footage from a refugee shelter that suggests that those who filmed it had been inside the shelter. The AfD also uses the footage.

Almost 180 people attend the 11th ‘Merkel must go’ rally, including Holocaust deniers and neo-Nazis from the NPD and the Blood & Honour network. An AfD official from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania speaks alongside a founding member of Pegida. The Gänsemarkt is surrounded by around 10,000 counter-demonstrators.

One man insults another on the subway, calling him as a ‘shitty dago’, then beat him and pushed him off the train.

Three racists insult and attack a 31-year-old Egyptian man at a bus stop at night. The men kick him in the back, knocking him to the ground, and then beat him with a telescoping baton. He is seriously injured and has to have an operation on his spine.

Organizers of the ‘Merkel must go’ rallies attempt to revive the right-wing protests with the slogan ‘Deutscher Michel, wach endlich auf’ (German Michel, wake up at last). The keynote speaker is journalist and Pegida activist Michael Stürzenberger, who was convicted of incitement to hatred. Around 120 people attend the rally.

Around 70 right-wingers come to the ‘Deutscher Michel, wach endlich auf’ (German Michel, wake up at last) rally. In addition to AfD functionaries, the participants include well-known neo-Nazis such as Bernd Tödter, who had previous convictions for racially motivated crimes, and members of the Aryan Circle Germany Kameradschaft that he founded. Also taking part is Tony E., who, together the Gruppe S., planned assassinations of Muslims, politicians, and anti-fascists and was convicted in 2023 as the ringleader of the right-wing terrorist group.

A woman is racially insulted and kicked so hard that she falls to the ground.

A 12-year-old boy is called the N-word by two men. As he tries to flee, the men grab him and beat him.

Two men accost a group of children on the bus and call them racist names. When the children exit the bus at the station, the men follow and physically attack them. They punch a 12-year-old girl in the face.

Neo-Nazi Ulf M. shoots through the closed door of a neighbor’s apartment with the intention of killing her. Only by chance are she and her mother-in-law physically unharmed. M. films himself committing the crime and comments his actions. He had terrorized the young woman and her partner for weeks. He had also threatened young refugees. He shared racist, anti-Semitic and Nazi-glorifying propaganda in chat groups. M. was known in the neighborhood as an extreme right-winger, but no one intervened. In December 2023 he was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempted murder.

A Black family from Ghana is attacked by a neighbor. He sticks racist pictures with death threats and the AfD logo on their front door, dumps rubbish on their welcome mat, and burns their baby carriage. After the crime becomes public, thousands of people show solidarity with the family and protest against racism in the neighborhood. The public prosecutor’s office closes the investigation after only a short time.