Kristin Brinker (born April 6, 1972 in Bernburg) is a German politician. A member of the Alternative for Germany (AFD) party, Brinker has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 2016. Brinker has been state chair of the Berlin AfD since March 2021.
Kristin Brinker was born in Bernburg in the Bezirk Halle of East Germany in 1972 and, according to her own account, grew up working-class. Brinker became an investment advisor at the Berliner Volksbank and trained as a cooperative bank clerk. [1] [2]
Brinker was head of German Taxpayers Federation Berlin from 2012 to 2016 and then founding the Berlin state organization of far-right Alternative for Germany. [3] [4]
Brinker joined the AfD in 2013 and is considered part of the “more liberal" wing of the party. [5] Brinker defeated Beatrix von Storch in 2021 to become chair of the Berlin AfD. [6]
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Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika von Storch is a German politician and lawyer, who has been the Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany since July 2015 and a Member of the Bundestag since September 2017. She previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. From April 2016 to 2017 she was also a member of the right-wing populist Anti-EU group Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy. She is part of the right-wing conservative wing of the parliamentary group of the AfD. She belongs ancestrally to the royal House of Oldenburg which reigned over the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg until 1918.
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