Arno Bausemer | |
|---|---|
 Bausemer in 2021 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 December 1982 |
| Political party | Alternative for Germany (2016–present) Free Democratic Party (until 2016) |
| Other political affiliations | Europe of Sovereign Nations |
| Alma mater | Leipzig University |
Arno Bausemer (born 2 December 1982) is a German politician of Alternative for Germany who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024. [1]
Bausemer was born in Havelberg in 1982. [2] He grew up in Hohengöhren and went to school in Schönhausen and Tangermünde, [3] and studied journalism and political science at Leipzig University. [4] While in school he interned at Lok Stendal,and was later responsible for sports broadcasts at Offener Kanal Stendal for 15 years. [4] He has been an extra in several Til Schweiger films. [4] In 2009 he became a lay judge at the Magdeburg Administrative Court,appearing at 3–4 hearings per year. [4] He interned at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Leipzig for nine months in 2010. [5]
Bausemer's father was a member of the Kreistag representing the FDP,leading him to join the party. [3] He worked with the FDP for ten years,and was the party's district treasurer and group chairman in Elbe-Havel-Land. [4] Bausemer was a critic of the party's district chairman Marcus Faber, [3] and began to turn away from the party following its approval of the Greek bailout,ultimately leaving it due to the Stendal electoral fraud case. [4] He announced his departure in January 2016,expressing disappointment that the fraud case,as well as the party's 2013 constituency result,had not led to a change in the local leadership,and criticizing the federal party's policies on Greece and refugees. [6]
Having been a skeptic of CDU chancellor Angela Merkel's border policies in 2015,he looked for an alternative party. [7] He joined Alternative for Germany in February 2016,and in the same year became a member of its district board and its candidate for mayor of Elbe-Havel-Land, [4] as well as a member of its executive committee in Saxony-Anhalt. [3]
In the spring of 2017,Bausemer became the first leader of the Young Alternative in Stendal upon its founding, [8] and he began working as chief of staff to Oliver Kirchner in November 2017. [3] He became leader of the AfD in the city council of Stendal,and in 2019 was elected to the Kreistag and was the party's candidate for Landrat. [3] In the 2021 German federal election,he was the party's candidate in the Altmark –Jerichower Land constituency. [7]
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