

At least in the case of Rote Hilfe, this is most likely due to pressure from the US, more precisely altered banking regulations that expand existing blacklists. Rote Hilfe suspects it to be connected to their legal support for antifascists persecuted by Hungary in the so-called Budapest Complex, which has led to the Trump administration declaring a nebulous “Antifa Ost” as an international terrorist organization.







The difference here being that these only affected two states (and ones in which the AfD traditionally performs worse than average), and especially that the AfD could then just move to another bank. Both DKP and Rote Hilfe are facing serious organisational problems because of this, such as no longer being able to pay employees, receiving donations or in the case of Rote Hilfe especially paying for the legal counsel and other aid that they offer to political prisoners.
And unlike these AfD chapters, they have not yet been able to open a new account anywhere else, most likely because they have been put on some anti-terror blacklist that all banks in Europe use as a reference to avoid liability. This isn’t just two banks making that decision, this is coming from higher up. In case of Rote Hilfe, the banks have already cited “new regulations and terms of service” as reason for the debanking.