The IBD has close links to a variety of actors in Germany's new and old right. These include the AfD, ProNRW, the IfS, the Blaue Narzisse, the junge freiheit magazine, and the German Burschenschaften (student associations. It mainly organises protest activities which are meant to promote awareness of the supposed dangers of immigration to the existence of the German ethnic nation ('Grosser Austausch') and German identity. The also demand 'remigration' of illegal immigrants. In the past, members of the IBD have scaled the Brandenburg Gate and an open air piece of art in Dresden to unfold banners protesting against sale of arms, military intervention and immigration.

The Identitarian Movement Germany is a registered charity and one in a number of European groups of the same kind.

The IBD cooperates with Jürgen Elsässer's Compact-Magazin. The Austrian Identitarian Movement's speaker Martin Sellner cooperated with Elsaesser on his Initiative Ein Prozent, together with Götz Kubitschek and Hans-Thomas Tillschneider (Alternative für Deutschland). The Ein Prozent group still exists.