Well,
- cutting transparency laws
- enabling the secret service to act on the information they have instead of having to cooperate with the police
- re-enabling forced military conscription of the youth
Yeah it's not an authoritarian regime yet, but the direction also isn't promising. And some people in the government absolutely can be called authoritarian. Most prominently the Innenminister Dobrindt. One of his first speeches in the current legislative period contained the following:
Die Sicherheitsbehörden sind schon zu oft unter den Generalverdacht gestellt worden, sie könnten etwas falschmachen. Wir müssen Schluss machen mit den Kennzeichnungspflichten, den Kontrollquittungen und den Beschwerdestellen, die eingeführt worden sind. Unsere Sicherheitsbehörden, sie haben unser Vertrauen verdient. Sie machen nicht alles falsch. Wir geben ihnen die Chance, dass sie bei dem, was sie schon alles verdammt richtigmachen, in der Zukunft noch mehr richtigmachen dürfen. Das ist die Aufgabe.
Which translates as follows:
The security authorities have too often been put under a general suspicion, they could be doing something wrong. We have to put a stop to the duty of identification, receipts of controls, and the complaints office that have been introduced. Our security authorities have earned our trust. They do not do everything wrong. We give them a chance, so that they are allowed, with all that they already do correctly, in the future to do even more correctly. That's the task.
If this is not textbook authoritarian mindset I don't know what is. Trust the police, remove accountability, even in the face of an ongoing streak of occurences in rightwing networks in the police force, and claim, all they do is good and well.