Heinrich Fiechtner | |
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| Member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg | |
| In office 2016–2021 | |
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| Born | 29 September 1960 |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | (non-party, formerly AfD, CDU and FDP). |
Heinrich Ekkehard Fiechtner (born 29 September 1960 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt) is a German conspiracy theorist, haematologist and internal oncologist, palliative medicine specialist and politician (non-party, formerly AfD, CDU and FDP).
From 2016 to 2021 he was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg for Alternative for Germany (AfD). He resigned from the party and parliamentary group at the end of November 2017, because he felt there were too many individuals holding anti-Semitic sentiments within the party. He identifies as a supporter of Israel and Germany's Jewish population. [1] Fiechtner and AfD legislator Wolfgang Gedeon, both doctors, exchanged certificates for exemption from the mask requirement in a video in 2020. [2]
Fiechtner has been described as a radical critic of public health measures against COVID-19, including mask mandates, tests, and lockdowns. He refused to receive vaccinations for COVID-19, and was a member of a pseudoscientific medical group "World Doctors Alliance" which was found to be spreading false and conspiratorial claims about COVID-19. [3]
Fiechtner was expelled from the Stuttgart State Parliament in 2021 by the police after rebuking members of the other parties for being responsible for a riot during the night in the center of Stuttgart. [4] Later, he won a related case on partial claims before the State Constitutional Court of Baden Wuerttemberg. [5]
