Birgit Malsack-Winkemann

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Birgit Malsack-Winkemann
MdB a.D.
2020-02-14 Birgit Malsack-Winkemann (KPFC) 01.jpg
Malsack-Winkemann in 2020
Member of the Court of Arbitration
of the Alternative for Germany
for the Second Chamber
Assumed office
29 November 2020 [1]
ServingwithWalter Wissenbach, Roland Ulbrich [2]
Website Bundestag website

Birgit Malsack-Winkemann (born 12 August 1964) is a German far-right [3] [4] [5] 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.

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On 7 December 2022, she was arrested during a large-scale raid against an alleged right-wing terrorist association with roots stemming from within the Reichsbürger movement. [6]

Biography

Malsack-Winkemann was born on 12 August 1964 in Darmstadt [7] and studied jurisprudence [8] at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. [7] From 2003 to 2017 Malsack-Winkemann was a judge for legal affairs in Berlin. [7] In 2013 she joined the newly founded AfD and became a member of the Bundestag in 2017. [9] In June 2021 she was nominated in 5th position on the AfD state candidate list for Bundestag [ clarification needed This doesn't make sense in English], after she lost against Georg Pazderski - with the state party only winning 3 seats proportionally allocated seats, she lost re-election. [10]

She has been a member of the AfD's party Court of Arbitration since June 2022. [2]

Malsack-Winkemann has two children. [7]

December 2022 arrest

In the morning of 7 December 2022, she was arrested for her alleged involvement with a group of right-wing extremists connected to the Reichsbürger movement, which had planned a coup against the German government. [11] [12] She would have become the Minister of Justice of the government which would be formed if they had managed to realise their plan. [13]

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  2. 1 2 "Bundesschiedsgericht - Alternative für Deutschland". 7 December 2022. Archived from the original on 7 December 2022.
  3. ↑ Joswig, Gareth (7 December 2022). "Umsturz-Verdächtige Malsack-Winkemann - Esoterikerin und QAnon-Anhängerin". Die Tageszeitung: Taz (in German).
  4. ↑ Diekmann, Nicole (8 December 2022). "Nach Reichsbürger-Razzia - Wie gefährlich ist die AfD?". www.zdf.de (in German).
  5. ↑ Löer, Wigbert (8 December 2022). "Erst für die AfD im Bundestag, nun als mutmaßliche Terroristin verhaftet – wer ist Birgit Malsack-Winkemann?". www.stern.de (in German).
  6. ↑ Crossland, David. "Former German MP 'smuggled coup plotters into Reichstag'". Times. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Biografie. Dr. Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, AfD Juristin". Deutscher Bundestag. Retrieved 7 December 2022.
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  10. ↑ RBB24.de: Mit holprigem Start in Richtung Bundestag Archived 24 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine , June 2021
  11. ↑ "Bundesweite Razzia wegen geplanten Staatsstreichs". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 7 December 2022.
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