Robert Farle

Robert Farle (born 16 February 1950) is a German tax consultant, lawyer and politician. He has been a Member of the German Bundestag for Mansfeld since 2021. ^[1]

Early life

Farle studied economics and business administration at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1968 to 1974. ^[2] After the end of East Germany, Farle went to Halle and founded a business and tax consulting company there in 1990. From 1999 to 2004, Farle also studied law at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. After his legal traineeship, Farle was admitted to become a lawyer in 2006. ^{[3] [4]}

Early political career

Until 1992, Robert Farle was active in the German Communist Party in North Rhine-Westphalia for 17 years. His roles included that of DKP chairman at the Ruhr University and on the city council in Gladbeck. ^{[5] [6]} In the 1980s, Farle was employed as a full-time official in the DKP Ruhr-Westphalia district in Essen. According to a report by T-online, he received money from the SED for years, which Erich Honecker had personally approved. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, he used his old communist contacts for business purposes. ^[7]

Member of the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag

In May 2015, Farle would join the AfD, and would enter the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt after the 2016 Saxony-Anhalt state election. ^[8] Farle would not run for re-election in 2021.

Member of the Bundestag

In the 2021 federal election, he ran for the direct mandate in the Mansfeld constituency without being on the AfD Saxony-Anhalt state list. He won the direct mandate with 25.1% of the first votes and thus entered the 20th German Bundestag. ^{[9] [10]}

On September 8, 2022, Farle resigned from the AfD parliamentary group and has been a non-affiliated member of parliament since then. According to Zeit Online, he had previously threatened his parliamentary colleagues with resignation in connection with the Russian attack on Ukraine, in anger over their "one-sided accusations" against Russian President Vladimir Putin. ^{[11] [12]}

Farle plans to run for re-election in Mansfeld in the 2025 federal election. ^[13]

See also

• List of members of the 20th Bundestag

References

1. "Deutscher Bundestag - Robert Farle". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-14.
2. Gelsenkirchen, Dietmar Kesten. "Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Aktivitäten politischer Gruppen an der RUB 1971 - Materialien zur Analyse von Opposition". www.mao-projekt.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2024-12-14. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
3. "Farle". 2018-09-01. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
4. "Deutscher Bundestag - Robert Farle". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-12.
5. Eichler, Hagen. "AfD setzt auf das Thema Asyl". www.volksstimme.de (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-12.
6. Redaktion (2016-02-02). "Robert Farle – von der DKP Gladbeck zur AfD Sachsen-Anhalt". DerWesten.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2023-07-24. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
7. "Hoher AfD-Politiker erhielt verdeckte Zahlungen von der SED". t-online (in German). 2021-06-02. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
8. Sachsen-Anhalt, Statistisches Landesamt. "Wahl des Landtages von Sachsen-Anhalt am 13. März 2016". www.statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
9. "Bundestagswahl 2021". www.election.de. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
10. "Ex-Kommunist zieht für AfD in den Bundestag ein". t-online (in German). 2021-09-27. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
11. Steffen, Tilman (2022-09-09). "AfD: Robert Farle verlässt AfD-Bundestagsfraktion". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN   0044-2070 . Retrieved 2025-02-12.
12. "AfD: Robert Farle tritt wegen Russland aus Partei aus". Der Spiegel (in German). 2023-11-03. ISSN   2195-1349 . Retrieved 2025-02-12.
13. DIE DA OBEN! (2024-08-22). Der ABSURDESTE Politiker im Bundestag . Retrieved 2025-02-12– via YouTube.