Editing Holger Apfel (section)

===Resignation===
On 19 December 2013, he resigned with immediate effect from his leadership positions at both the national and the state level.<ref name="rücktritt">{{cite news |last=Bender |first=Justus |date=19 December 2013 |title=NPD-Chef Holger Apfel tritt zurück |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/rechtsextremismus/burn-out-syndrom-npd-chef-holger-apfel-tritt-zurueck-12718526.html |language=de |publisher=[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] |access-date=20 December 2013}}</ref> Media outlets initially reported that Apfel was in poor health and suffering from "[[Burnout (psychology)|burnout syndrome]]".<ref name="rücktritt" /><ref name="rücktritt-spiegel">{{cite news |last1=Hebel |first1=Christina |last2=Röbel |first2=Sven |date=19 December 2013 |title=Rechtsextreme: NPD-Chef Apfel tritt zurück |url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/npd-chef-apfel-tritt-zurueck-a-940028.html |language=de |publisher=[[Spiegel Online]] |access-date=20 December 2013}}</ref>

Three days after the announcement, the party presidium held an emergency meeting to discuss rumours about Apfel's private life. It subsequently issued a statement asserting that Apfel "has not yet refuted ongoing allegations concerning past transgressions".<ref name="sondersitzung">{{cite news |date=22 December 2013 |title=Rechtsextreme in der Krise: NPD-Spitze droht Apfel mit Parteiausschluss |url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/rechtsextreme-npd-spitze-droht-apfel-mit-parteiausschluss-a-940575.html |language=de |publisher=[[Spiegel Online]] |access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref> Amid the threat of an expulsion proceeding, Apfel resigned from the party entirely on 24 December.<ref name="austritt">{{cite news |last=Schölermann |first=Stefan |date=24 December 2013 |title=Apfel tritt aus NPD aus |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/npd316.html |language=de |publisher=[[Tagesschau (Germany)|Tagesschau]] |access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>

Apfel resigned from his seat in the [[Landtag of Saxony|Saxon Parliament]] on 17 January 2014.<ref name="landtagsmandat">{{cite news |date=17 January 2014 |title=Holger Apfel legt auch Landtagsmandat nieder |url=http://www.rp-online.de/politik/deutschland/holger-apfel-legt-auch-landtagsmandat-nieder-aid-1.3969953 |language=de |publisher=[[Rheinische Post|RP Online]] |access-date=12 August 2014}}</ref>