A local politician from the far-right, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has converted to Islam, media reported on Tuesday.
Arthur Wagner, AfD’s vice-president in the eastern Havelland district, declined to make a comment on his decision.
“It is a private matter,” the 48-year-old politician told Der Tagesspiegel newspaper.
The AfD adopted explicitly anti-Islamic rhetoric and argued that Germany was under the threat of “Islamization”, especially after nearly one million refugees, mostly from Syria and Iraq, arrived in the country since 2015.