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CDU Panic Disinformation: Schulze’s Hydrogen Fairy Tale and the Grammatically Challenged Job Killer

With the AfD polling above 40 percent and Sven Schulze (CDU), Minister-President candidate and lead candidate for September 6, 2026, fighting for his political survival, the CDU has resorted to the classic tool of desperation: fear, exaggeration, and half-baked disinformation.

On August 5, 2026, Schulze posted a graphic claiming that the AfD is "switching off" jobs in Leuna because it is critical of wind power and green hydrogen. Germany's largest integrated chemical production site, he argues, is building its future on hydrogen from Bad Lauchstädt—so anyone opposing that is destroying employment. "You can be against everything. But nobody gets paid for that." And: "This is how Saxony-Anhalt is governed. CDU, the party of Saxony-Anhalt."

It sounds dramatic. And it is—but unfortunately, mainly as a textbook example of CDU panic rhetoric. The same party that, with Ursula von der Leyen at the helm of the European Commission, likes to rail against "disinformation" has delivered a prime example of it itself.

A Grammatical Disaster and the Multiple-Job Myth

Even the slogan "The AfD switches off your jobs" is embarrassing. "Switches off your jobs"—using the singular possessive "your" with the plural "jobs" in a clumsy construction—sounds as though a tired advertising agency produced it without a proofreader. Or does the CDU assume that people now have multiple jobs because one job is no longer enough to make a living?

More likely, it is simply poor workmanship. The CDU wants to create the impression that the AfD is turning off people's livelihoods. In reality, it is the CDU itself that is twisting the truth.

Hydrogen Hype Meets Global Reality: Expensive, Uneconomical, and Cancelled

Schulze's claim systematically ignores the sobering global track record of green hydrogen. Green hydrogen (produced by electrolysis using renewable electricity) often costs €5–10 per kilogram, while grey hydrogen (made from natural gas) costs around €1–2. Without massive subsidies and guaranteed buyers, it remains an expensive experiment. The result has been a wave of cancelled projects worldwide.

Examples:

ArcelorMittal in Germany: Plans to convert the Bremen and Eisenhüttenstadt plants to green hydrogen have been halted despite €1.3 billion in promised subsidies. Too expensive, markets too uncertain, and imported steel too cheap.
BP: Withdrawal from major projects in Australia (Australian Renewable Energy Hub), Oman (Duqm), and the United Kingdom (H2Teesside). Multi-billion-euro investments shelved.
Shell and Equinor: Projects in Norway cancelled due to insufficient demand.
Iberdrola and Repsol (Spain): Targets drastically reduced (Iberdrola by almost two-thirds, Repsol by up to 63 percent).
LEAG in Eastern Germany: Plans for one of the largest green energy hubs have been postponed indefinitely.
Further examples include Fortescue, Air Products, Origin Energy, and dozens more. In 2025 alone, around 60 major projects were cancelled or put on hold, representing roughly 4.9 million tonnes of annual production capacity. Germany is also falling dramatically short of its own 2030 targets, with many projects frozen or abandoned because costs have spiralled while customers failed to materialise.

Leuna and the Bad Lauchstädt Energy Park (around 50 MW of wind power, 30 MW of electrolysis capacity, with the TotalEnergies refinery as its anchor customer) are genuine projects—but they are not a miracle cure, nor do they prove that criticism of wind power and mandatory hydrogen policies automatically destroys jobs. The chemical industry needs energy—cheap and reliable energy. Pretending that everything depends solely on subsidised green hydrogen from local wind turbines is wishful thinking.

The Fear of a Loser

Schulze's post is a classic example of political damage control. The CDU in Saxony-Anhalt is under enormous pressure: the AfD is leading the polls while the CDU's own numbers are languishing. Instead of addressing high energy costs, bureaucracy, warmongering, misguided EU policies, or the actual economic viability—or lack thereof—of its own transformation promises, the opposition is portrayed as a job killer. This is projection: the risks of the CDU's own policies (expensive, subsidy-dependent projects that are failing across the globe) are shifted onto its political opponent.

Psychologically, it resembles the strategy of a cornered patriarch: "We know what's best for you. The others will destroy your future." The paternalistic slogan ("CDU, the party of Saxony-Anhalt") is meant to signal belonging and competence while simultaneously stoking fear. The grammatical blunder and the oversimplification ("without wind power, Leuna loses jobs and you lose income") reveal haste and a lack of substance. It is election campaigning in crisis mode: facts are presented selectively, risks are ignored, and the CDU's own responsibility for the framework conditions (energy prices, subsidy chaos) is conveniently overlooked.

The CDU, which claims to be fighting disinformation, is spreading one itself here: namely, that the logical consequence of the AfD's programme would be job losses—even though the AfD's criticism of uneconomical aspects of the energy transition is increasingly being borne out by international developments.

With this panic-driven post, Sven Schulze and the CDU once again create the impression that they have lost control.

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