German Chancellor Angela Merkel — who opened doors to hundreds of thousands of Muslim migrants during the refugee crisis last year — on Tuesday called for a ban on full-veil burqas.

“The full veil is not appropriate here, it should be forbidden wherever that is legally possible. It does not belong to us,” she said in Essen at a conference for the Christian

Democratic Union, where she was re-elected chair of the conservative party.

In the speech, she drummed up support for her fall 2017 re-election as chancellor by promising to stop a flood of migrants, who have caused immense problems for Germany.

“A situation like the one in the late summer of 2015 cannot, should not and must not be repeated. That was and is our, and my, declared political aim,” Merkel said.

A total ban on burqas would violate Germany’s constitution, but Merkel’s party will likely try to push through a ban in certain public forums, including government office, courts and schools.

France in 2011 became the first European nation to prohibit Islamic face veils in public places.

Last year, Merkel was among the biggest supporters of allowing refugees to flee to Germany.

Merkel pushed for policies that “opened doors” and said Germans had a humanitarian duty to accept all those who could make it to its borders.

But her approval ratings plunged after 1 million asylum-seekers, many of them Muslim and stuck in Hungary, arrived en masse last year.

Germans at first largely supported Merkel’s policies but shifted, calling them a drain on resources and a potential terrorism threat.

Merkel gradually toughened her stance on asylum, making it easier to deport foreign-born criminals, as political tides turned.

After her party suffered sharp setbacks in local elections, Merkel in September conceded Germany was being overwhelmed.

“If I could, I would go back in time to be better prepared for the refugee crisis in 2015, for which we were rather unprepared,” she said.

But in October, she insisted she was dedicated to saving lives of those in danger overseas.

“If we take our human image seriously, the claim that human dignity should be inviolable cannot stop at the German national borders — and not at the EU’s external borders,” she proclaimed.

Right-wing politicians have blamed Merkel’s policy for a so-called wave of migrant crime.