Alternative for Germany is a right-wing populist political party in Germany. AfD is known for its Euroscepticism,as well as for opposing immigration to Germany. As a right-wing party,AfD is commonly positioned on the radical right,a subset of the far-right,within the family of European political parties that does not oppose democracy.
Eberhardt Alexander Gauland is a German politician,journalist and lawyer who has served as leader of the right-wing political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the Bundestag since September 2017 and co-leader of the party from December 2017 to November 2019. He has been a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) since September 2017. Gauland was the party's co-founder and was its federal spokesman from 2017 to 2019 and the party leader for the state of Brandenburg from 2013 to 2017.
We Citizens is a centre-right to right-wing political party in Germany. Formerly Liberal Conservative Reformers,it was known from July 2015 to November 2016 as ALFA.
Björn Höcke is a German politician and a member of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Along with Andreas Kalbitz,Höcke was the leader of the AfD's far-right Der Flügel faction,which the German government's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution declared a right-wing extremist organization.
Jörg Hubert Meuthen is a German economist,academic and politician,serving as an Independent Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Germany since 2017.
Federal elections were held in Germany on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the 20th Bundestag. State elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern were also held. Incumbent chancellor Angela Merkel,first elected in 2005,chose not to run again,marking the first time that an incumbent Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany has not sought re-election.
Martin Johannes Sichert is a German merchant and politician (AfD). He has been a member for the 19th Bundestag and was AfD Bavarian state chairman from 2017 to 2019.
Tino Chrupalla is a German politician of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party,and Member of the Bundestag since 2017. In November 2019,he was nominated by Alexander Gauland to replace him as co-chairman and later elected to the position. Since 2019,Chrupalla has served as chairman and lead spokesman for the AfD.
Joana Cotar is a German politician who has been a member of the Bundestag since the 2017 German federal election. Until November 2022,she was a member for the Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Roland Hartwig is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and member of the Bundestag between 2017 and 2021.
Udo Hemmelgarn is a German politician for the party Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.
Bruno Hollnagel is a German politician and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.
Stefan Keuter is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag since 2017.
Der Flügel is a far-right faction within Germany's Alternative for Germany,a right-wing populist opposition party. The group was led by Björn Höcke and Andreas Kalbitz. Approximately 20 percent of AfD members are organized also in the "Flügel". Following the request by the AfD executive board to dissolve Der Flügel by the end of April 2020,the group's online presence went offline. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has no reliable knowledge of an actual dissolution. Within the party,Der Flügel now calls itself the "social-patriotic faction".
Birgit Malsack-Winkemann is a German far-right politician and former judge,and a member of the Patriotic Union. She was a member of the 19th Bundestag from 2017 to 2021 for the Alternative for Germany (AfD),of which she has been a member since 2013. After losing re-election to the Bundestag in 2021,Winkemann returned to her previous position as a judge in the Berlin regional court.
Frank Pasemann is a German politician. He got excluded from the party in 2020. Pasemann has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony-Anhalt since 2017.
Martin Renner is a German politician of Alternative for Germany (AfD),previously of CDU. Martin Renner has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.
The Desiderius Erasmus Stiftung e.V. is a German political party foundation. It is politically associated with but independent of the right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD). The foundation's headquarters are located in Berlin. Its current chairwoman is the former Christian-democratic Member of Parliament Erika Steinbach.
Events in the year 2023 in Germany.
