 Holm is since 2013, with a short interruption in 2015, state chairman of his party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.He was the leading AfD candidate in the state in the 2013 German federal elections and was also frontrunner for his party in the 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state elections.During the campaign Holm warned of the spread of Islam, despite the relatively rare presence of Muslims and migrants in the state.