Rebuttal / Correction

On 17 December 2024, the daily newspaper Kieler Nachrichten published the news that the diver Hubert Pinto de Kraus had been nominated as a direct candidate for the AfD Kiel in the 2025 Bundestag election in constituency 5 (Kiel, Kronshagen and Altenholz).

The report also states that Hubert Pinto de Kraus is President of the ‘International Association of Scientific Divers’. This designation is misleading and false. It suggests that Hubert Pinto de Kraus is connected to the German or European scientific research diver community. This is not the case.

In fact, the ‘International Association of Scientific Divers’ is a registered association that operates locally in Kiel. This association has no connection whatsoever with professional scientific diving in Germany or Europe. It is neither a member of the German Scientific Diving Commission (KFT) nor of the European Scientific Diving Panel (ESDP).