Philip Steinbeck  Philip Steinbeck is a German property-businessmen and supporter of traditional far-rights as well as the New Rights. He is engaged in Alternative for Germany state organization of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Steinbeck is natively from Hamburg and lives in Southern Mecklenburg. He owns several properties in Lübtheen in southern Mecklenburg. He lives in his manor-house Jessenitz (Herrenhaus); he rents at least ten more houses. In the Volkshaus Lübtheen bought by Steinbeck in 2008, an AfD district party conference took place in December 2016, and his Herrenhaus had previously been used for a party event. Steinbeck is considered to be well networked in the right-wing scene and as a puller for the right wing faction of AfD in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. He made contacts from the AfD to the far-right nationalistic Nationaldemocratic Party of Germany (NPD). Steinbeck worked in the 1990s for the parliamentary group of the right-wing extremist party German League for People and Homeland in Schleswig-Holstein. He and his business partner Christian Schöppe were members of the Hamburg fraternity Hansea until 2008. Both were known to the Hamburg intelligence agency as actors in right-wing circles. Steinbeck also had well contacts to the NPD, such as the former NPD Federal Chairman Udo Pastörs. Steinbeck was on a donation list of the NPD in 2011. Steinbeck has been involved in the AfD since 2015. He was active for them in the state election campaign, but has so far not run for any position in the party. Right-wing AfD politicians like Dennis Augustin were supported by Steinbeck. Augustin ran for 4th place on the AfD state list in the 2017 federal election, but failed to enter state-parlament. Augustin was considered the preferred candidate Steinbeck. In November 2018, Steinbeck appeared as a speaker at a joint demonstration by the NPD, AfD and Reichsbürger. About 2017 Steinbeck and others founded in the Herrenhaus a AfD-internal group referring to medieval crusaders with an Islamophobic attitude. Accordingly, the group has existed for around two years and its members wear small red crosses on the lapels of their suits. The symbol apparently refers to the Santiago Order of battle, which existed in the Middle Ages and fought in the Reconquista to recapture the Iberian Peninsula.