Stephan Protschka

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Stephan Protschka
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
2017
Personal details
Born (1977-11-08) 8 November 1977 (age 47)
Dingolfing, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party AfD

Stephan Protschka (born 8 November 1977) is a German politician. Born in Dingolfing, Bavaria, he is a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Stephan Protschka has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

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He became member of the bundestag after the 2017 German federal election. [1] He is a member of the Committee for Food and Agriculture. [2] In 2019 he was involved in controversy after funding and supporting a memorial in Poland honoring German soldiers in WWII and the Nazi paramilitary organization Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz. The construction of the memorial was partially initiated by the neo-Nazi organization Junge Nationalisten which is being monitored by the German intelligence services. Polish courts started an investigation against Protschka for supporting Nazism and defamation of victims of the holocaust. [3] [4]

In 2024, Protschka agreed to pay a 12,000 euro fine in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges related to his calling Bavarian state premier Markus Söder "a traitor to the country" and "Södolf" at a political event in 2023. [5]


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References

  1. ↑ "Stephan Protschka - AfD-Fraktion im deutschen Bundestag". www.afdbundestag.de (in German). Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "German Bundestag - Food and Agriculture". German Bundestag. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "AfD-Politiker und Neonazis stifteten offenbar Kriegsdenkmal in Polen". Der Tagesspiegel Online.
  4. ↑ Weiland, Severin (22 November 2019). "AfD und Gedenkstein: Polen lässt Aufstellung untersuchen". Der Spiegel.
  5. ↑ "German politician agrees to pay fine over insulting Bavarian leader". Yahoo News. DPA International. Retrieved 12 November 2024.


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