Harald Weyel

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Harald Weyel
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Weyel in 2022
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 September 2017
Personal details
Born (1959-08-30) 30 August 1959 (age 65)
Herborn, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party AfD (2013–present)
Other political
affiliations
Free Voters (2009–2013)
Children1
Alma mater University of Oldenburg
University of Cologne

Harald Weyel (born 30 August 1959) is a German politician. Born in Herborn, Hesse, he represents Alternative for Germany. Harald Weyel has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.

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Earl.y life

Weyel is the son of an African-American soldier and a cook from the Westerwald. One year after his birth, his father left the family and returned to Raleigh, North Carolina. [1]

Political career

He became member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election. [2] He is a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs. He voted against a resolution in the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe which determined that forced detention and deportation of children from Russian occupied territories of Ukraine is “genocide”, the sole parliamentarian to do so. [3]

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References

  1. "Harald Weyel: Zurück ins Kaiserreich | ZEIT ONLINE". archive.ph. 21 November 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2024.
  2. "Prof. Dr. Harald Weyel". AfD-Fraktion im deutschen Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  3. "Voting results (participants)". Parliamentary Assembly. Retrieved 27 April 2023.