Career
Bachmann resigned from his role at after a photograph of him with a toothbrush moustache was printed in the media, a picture he months later claimed had been partially doctored. Bachmann stated that the picture was a forgery and that he had momentarily stepped down pending the outcome of the investigation, and has been fully reinstated as chairman of the organization. Born in 1973 in Dresden, East Germany, Bachmann had a working class upbringing.
He is the son of a butcher.
He was a (trained) chef and graphic designer, and played professional soccer for teams in Dresden and Düsseldorf. Bachmann has a criminal record for sixteen burglaries, drunk driving, dealing cocaine and assault.
In 1998, after Bachmann had been sentenced to several years in prison, he fled to South Africa but was deported back to Germany. According to Bachmann, during his time as a fugitive, he opened a nightclub in Cape Town.
Bachmann is the owner of a public relations and advertising company in Dresden that he founded in 1992, and has been a publicist for nightclubs.
Bachmann started in October 2014 to protest plans to add 14 refugee centres in Dresden, Germany. Bachmann publicly renounces extremist violence of any kind and insists his enemy is not religion itself. As a result of his involvement with he has been threatened with death and had to cancel a march in Dresden.
In mid-January 2015, Bachmann was hit with criticism after a now-discredited picture surfaced showing him with a mustache and hair style similar to Adolf Hitler.
According to Bachmann, it was an old photo that was meant as a joke. After the photo had sparked international outrage, Bachmann stepped down as de facto leader of A few weeks later, Bachmann was reinstated as a co-leader following a vote.
The Sächsische Zeitung later discovered the picture to be a forgery, reporting that a moustache was added after the photo was taken.