I’ve seen two public forums where Bernd Lucke came into the picture (all before the summer of 2015). He wanted a one-topic political party, and I think he wanted more to siphon votes off away from the FDP Party (my humble opinion). He is a lawyer...fairly competent...hyped up on having a German currency. Beyond that...he had no other real platforms. There are a couple of marginal parties in existence around Germany which functioned in this fashion.
If you go and read through the Reformer’s literature...it centers purely on economics: negative talk on low or zero interest policies of the ECB. They favor free trade and support the TTIP only if there’s pro-Germany stance coming out of it. When they do chat about immigration, they chat on the Canadian-model...point-system, and to only bring qualified applicants into Germany. They hate the minimum wage law of Germany, but they support some crafted yearly minimum income for every citizen (never explaning how it’d work other than writing a check from the government to each citizen). Then at the bottom of all topics....they reject all extremism.
At best, with this new Lucke-team....they might have 2,000 people on a good day who are hyped up and fully supporting their political agenda.