AfD Baden-Württemberg

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AfD Baden-Württemberg
Alternative-for-Germany-Logo-2013.svg
Chairperson Alice Weidel
Deputy Martin Hess
Marc Jongen
Markus Frohnmaier
Treasurer Peter Gremminger
executive Director k. A.
Establishment date April 22, 2013
Place of foundation Karlsruhe
Landtag mandates
17/143
Number of members 3,755 (as of January 2017)
Website afd-bw.de

The AFD Baden-Württemberg is the regional association of the party Alternative for Germany (AFD) in Baden-Wuerttemberg . The state association has been led by Alice Weidel as state chairwoman since February 2020 .

With Jörg Meuthen as the top candidate, the state party ran for the first time in the state elections in 2016 and entered the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg with a 23-member parliamentary group . For the 2017 federal election , Alice Weidel also led the state list as a co-top candidate in the federal government, through which eleven members moved into the 19th federal parliament .

history

The AfD Baden-Württemberg was founded at a party congress on April 22, 2013 in Karlsruhe . Bernd Kölmel was elected regional chairman . At another party congress on May 4, 2013 in Stuttgart , he was chosen as the top candidate of the state party for the 2013 federal election . In the 2013 federal election, the state party received 5.2 percent and the 2014 European election with 7.9 percent, slightly above the national average.

In 2015, in the course of a power struggle in the party as a whole, there was also an increasing number of party resignations and resignations in the AfD Baden-Württemberg, including some district chairmen and other officials at district level in addition to the spokesman for the state executive Bernd Kölmel. At a state party conference in Pforzheim on July 25 and 26, 2015, a new state board was elected, chaired by a group of three, consisting of federal chairman Jörg Meuthen , Lothar Maier from Stuttgart and Bernd Grimmer from Pforzheim.

At a further party congress in Horb am Neckar at the end of October , the election program for the state elections in 2016 was decided. In the state elections , the state party achieved 15.1 percent of the votes cast, making it the strongest opposition faction in the state parliament .

At the beginning of March 2017, a new state executive was elected at a state party conference in Sulz am Neckar. For the state chairmanship, there was a runoff election between the state party's top candidate for the 2017 federal election, Alice Weidel, against former office manager Meuthens and employee of the AfD parliamentary group in Baden-Württemberg's state parliament, Ralf Özkara , who won Özkara with 208 to 224 votes. Marc Jongen was elected as a further equal state chairman . In November 2018, Özkara resigned as state chairman and switched to a position as a speaker for the AfD parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament .

The protection of the constitution of the state of Baden-Württemberg announced on November 15, 2018 that it would monitor the AfD youth association JA Baden-Württemberg in the future. According to Interior Minister Thomas Strobl , remuneration is u. a. given to the "Identitarian Movement". The state chairman Moritz Brodbeck and some of the JA members then left the association.

politics

Party program 2016

In its election program for the state elections in 2016, the Baden-Württemberg AfD calls for direct democratic elements to be strengthened. In educational policy, the party stands for a structured school system and a dual system of school and vocational training. The energy transition had failed and should be replaced by a policy "based on scientific knowledge and market economy principles". The AfD in Baden-Württemberg combines a commitment to a social market economy and free trade with its rejection of the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TTIP). In the refugee crisis in Germany from 2015 onwards , the AfD Baden-Württemberg is calling for national upper limits. In the Greek national debt crisis , the AfD Baden-Württemberg is calling for an end to financial support from German tax money.

"Stuttgart Call" 2018 and dispute over direction

At the end of 2018, members of different groups in the regional association wrote the so-called "Stuttgart Call". They criticized the growing number of regulatory and expulsion proceedings against members and officials of the regional association. The first signatories were 60 AfD members and state parliament members. Almost 1,000 people signed up just six days after the appeal was published. The majority of the signatories come from the national conservative to the radical right wing of the party. This included members of right-wing fraternities and AfDler who had attracted attention through racist positions.

The authors saw internal party freedom of expression threatened and wrote: "We oppose all thinking and speaking bans within the party". From 2018 onwards, the AfD federal board tried to avert the threat of observation by the state and federal constitutional protection agencies.

Since 2019, the inner-party power struggle in the AfD Baden-Württemberg both in the AfD parliamentary group and in the committees of the state association. In February 2019, a nine-member state executive around state chairman Bernd Gögel was elected at the party congress. This is in conflict with a group around the co-party leader Dirk Spaniel and the state treasurer Frank Kral. Although the latter are outnumbered in the committees of the state executive, they secured the support of the Volkish wing . In the AfD parliamentary group, the moderate forces are fighting over group leader Gögel and the more radical members of the right over Emil Sänze.

At the 2nd party conference in June 2019, Dirk Spaniel tried, with the support of five district associations, to have Bernd Göggel's current state board voted out. He was supported by the right-wing extremist youth organization Junge Alternative, but failed. Federal executive Alice Weidel suggested a " mediation " in the quarreling state executive in order to make him able to work again. In a letter dated June 11th, state treasurer Frank Kral had his lawyer Nicole Schneiders u. a. Gögel and seven other board members have been asked to submit declarations of cease and desist. This calls on them to refrain from allegations against him and the Spaniel, which the board had raised in a letter to the AfD district associations at the end of May 2019. Kral's choice of lawyer was also publicly noticed: Schneiders is known to the constitutional protection authorities and defended the supporter of the NSU right-wing terrorist Ralf Wohlleben .

AfD in the state parliament

After the state elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2016 , the 75-year-old former doctor Heinrich Kuhn took over the office of senior president . With the votes of all other parliamentary groups, the office of second vice-president was abolished. The office would have fallen to the AfD. Rainer Podeswa was to take over the chairmanship of the finance committee for the AfD, initially the largest opposition faction in the state parliament; the election was postponed as a Podeswa because of false claims to cease and desist had to give. After the AfD parliamentary group broke up, Rainer Stickelberger (SPD) was elected chairman of the finance committee in July 2016 .

Dispute about Wolfgang Gedeon

The AfD member of the state parliament, Wolfgang Gedeon, described in a book the memory of the Holocaust as the “ civil religion of the West” and Holocaust deniers as dissidents . He was referring to the anti-Semitic inflammatory pamphlet Protocols of the Elders of Zion . The party's federal executive board then pushed for Gedeons to be expelled from the party. Even in the event of a party exclusion, Gedeon can exercise his state parliament mandate as a non-party member of parliament.

Within the AfD parliamentary group, there were then disputes about a possible exclusion of Gedeon. Emil Sänze , Rainer Balzer and Bernd Grimmer asked in the run-up to the planned vote on the exclusion on June 21, 2016, the parliamentary group chairman Jörg Meuthen to have the case examined by a scientific expert. Meuthen linked his political fate with the exclusion of Gedeon and announced that he would otherwise leave the parliamentary group. In the meeting on June 21, 2016, there was no vote on the exclusion of Gedeon, as Gedeon proposed to suspend his membership in the parliamentary group until an expert assessment of his statements was available. Thereupon the group commissioned a commission to search for three independent scientists.

After it became clear that it was not legally possible to suspend membership in the parliamentary group and there was disagreement within the parliamentary group about the appointment of the reviewers, the conflict escalated on July 5, 2016. In another attempt at exclusion, for which a two-thirds majority was necessary, 13 AfD MPs for and nine against the exclusion of Gedeons.

Division of the faction

After Gedeon's expulsion failed, Meuthen declared that he would leave the group with twelve other members. The AfD federal board announced that it only recognized the group around Meuthen as the AfD parliamentary group. Later that day, Gedeon also announced that he was leaving the faction. After Frauke Petry , together with Meuthen spokeswoman for the AfD at federal level, published a press release on the evening of July 5, 2016, according to which the split in the parliamentary group had been averted by Gedeon's move, Meuthen declared that the separation would continue.

The parliamentarians who resigned from the AfD parliamentary group with Meuthen ( Anton Baron , Lars Patrick Berg , Heinrich Fiechtner , Stefan Herre , Heinrich Kuhn , Claudia Martin , Thomas Axel Palka , Rainer Podeswa , Daniel Rottmann , Udo Stein , Klaus-Günther Voigtmann , Carola Wolle , Rainer Balzer ) were constituted on July 6, 2016 as the group "Alternative for Baden-Württemberg" and aimed for parliamentary group status. Like the future parliamentary representation of the AfD Baden-Württemberg, this was checked by the state administration. Also on July 6, 2016, Rainer Balzer left the AfD parliamentary group and joined the “Alternative for Baden-Württemberg” group. In the evening, Frauke Petry stated that, contrary to the statement made by the federal executive board on July 5, she did not recognize the group around Jörg Meuthen, but only the remaining members of the AfD parliamentary group as representatives of the party in the state parliament.

On July 7, 2016, after Meuthen and Balzer left the decimated AfD parliamentary group, a new parliamentary committee was elected. Heiner Merz was chosen as chairman and Emil Sänze and Rüdiger Klos as deputies. Bernd Grimmer was confirmed as Parliamentary Managing Director.

The dispute over Wolfgang Gedeon is perceived as part of the conflict over the leadership role in the AfD federal board between Frauke Petry and Jörg Meuthen.

The splitting of a parliamentary group into two independent parliamentary groups was in some cases sharply criticized by all other parliamentary groups. The Baden-Württemberg state parliament administration commissioned an expert opinion to examine the legality of the faction split. The three experts came to the conclusion that MEPs were free to choose their parliamentary group and could therefore found a new parliamentary group. The chairman of the AfD parliamentary group Heiner Merz described the expertise as "obsolete", since the parliamentary groups wanted to merge again in the foreseeable future. On July 23, 2016, a majority of the AfD district chairmen in the Baden-Württemberg state association also spoke out in favor of “reunification”. With the help of a mediator, the parliamentary groups should be brought together again and then a new leadership elected. MEPs who oppose the agreement should resign and, if necessary, be expelled from the party.

Approaches to bring the political groups together

On September 14, 2016, the group chairmen of the two AfD groups announced the results of a three-day closed meeting of their groups. They would have agreed on common leadership; Jörg Meuthen (AfBW parliamentary group) should be chairman of the parliamentary group and Anton Baron (AfD BW parliamentary group) parliamentary manager. According to a press release, a formal merger should take place in the near future as soon as further details have been clarified.

The Reuters agency reported that the AfD federal chairman Meuthen was able to avert a surprising candidate for a fight at the meeting. Rainer Podeswa from his own parliamentary group “Alternative für Baden-Württemberg” wanted to run against him in the election of the parliamentary group chairman and only did not stand for election after talks with the party leader. Meuthen's supporters saw the Podeswas project as an initiative by supporters of the co-federal chairwoman Frauke Petry.

Andreas Stoch (SPD) saw a delaying tactic in the reunification of the two parliamentary groups, because only in their position as two separate parliamentary groups could they have applied for the committee of inquiry into left-wing extremism in Baden-Württemberg.

Committee of Inquiry into Left-Wing Extremism

The parliamentary group “Alternative für Baden-Württemberg” (ABW) and the AfD remaining parliamentary group applied for an investigation committee “Left-wing extremism in Baden-Württemberg” in August 2016. The motion had become possible because two political groups were calling for this committee. At least two political groups must vote to set up a committee of inquiry. All the other groups saw this as the feared abuse of the faction split in order to gain political advantages for themselves. It was also criticized that the AfD is striving for mediation and at the same time the two AfD factions made a political common cause.

In July 2017, after the riots on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg , the AfD again called for a committee of inquiry into left-wing extremism, but the Greens, CDU, SPD and FDP unanimously voted against it.

Reunification of the political groups

In October 2016, both factions reunited. Jörg Meuthen was re-elected as parliamentary group leader and a joint statute was adopted. The ABW went on in the AfD parliamentary group. In a parliamentary group statute passed in October 2016 it was said that the voting behavior in the Gedeon case was “in no way associated with anti-Semitism”, but was a “protest against a perceived restriction of freedom of expression”. In November 2017, Meuthen announced that he would accept the AfD's mandate in the European Parliament. He resigned the chairmanship of the parliamentary group, but remained a member of the parliament. Bernd Gögel was elected as his successor in the parliamentary group chairmanship .

Approach of the parliamentary group to Wolfgang Gedeon

Despite the fact that Wolfgang Gedeon was non-attached, the cooperation with his former AfD parliamentary colleagues continued. Together with four AfD members of the state parliament, Gedeon submitted three applications to the federal party congress in December 2017. Furthermore, on November 21, 2017, he was accepted by the state parliamentary group in their working group Europe.

In 2018, there was criticism that the AfD parliamentary group employed the AfD member Laurens Nothdurft as a parliamentary advisor for an investigative committee. Nothdurft, who worked as a lawyer, was the "second federal leader" of the right-wing extremist elite association " Heimattreue Deutsche Jugend " (HDJ) and NPD activist, which was banned in 2009 . He later worked for the AfD parliamentary group in Bavaria and was also released there in 2019.

Exclusion from the party of Wolfgang Gedeon and Stefan Räpple

On March 20, the Federal Arbitration Court excluded Wolfgang Gedeon, member of the AfD state parliament, from the AfD because of his anti-Semitic stance. Ten days later, the AfD member of the state parliament, Stefan Räpple, followed, and the state arbitration court revoked his party membership. He announced that he would like to appeal.

organization

The party organs of the state association are the state party congress, the state executive committee and the state election assembly for the federal election. The regional arbitration tribunal decides on internal party disputes and can expel members.

State party conference

The highest party organ is the state party congress . It elects the state board , the auditors and the state arbitration court. If the number of party members exceeds 5000, the state party congress does not take place as a general assembly, but as an assembly of delegates. The district associations each send a representative for five members.

State party conferences
No. date place State Chairperson /
Leading Candidate
Election result theme 
01st state party conference April 22, 2013 Karlsruhe Elke Fein
Bernd Kölmel
Hansjörg Scheel
Establishment of the regional association; Election of the state executive
02nd state party conference 4th / 5th May 2013 Stuttgart Bernd Koelmel Election of the state list for the 2013 federal election
03rd state party conference 23/24 November 2013 Pforzheim Bernd Kölmel
Jens Zeller
69%
54%
New election of the state executive; Election of the delegates to the federal party congress
04th state party conference 11./12. January 2014 Pforzheim Repetition of the election of the delegates to the federal party congress
05th state party conference 4th / 5th October 2014 Kirchheim / Teck Bernd Kölmel
Jens Zeller
60%
59%
Re-election and re-election of state board members
06th state party conference 17./18. January 2015 Karlsruhe Bernd Koelmel 62% New election of the state executive
07th state party conference 25./26. July 2015 Pforzheim Bernd Grimmer
Lothar Maier
Jörg Meuthen
71%
95%
93%
New election of the state executive
08th state party conference 24./25. October 2015 Horb am Neckar Jörg Meuthen Election of the state list and decision on the election platform for the state elections in 2016
09th state party conference 23/24 April 2016 Waiblingen
State election
meetings
19./20. November 2016
21./22. January 2017
6./7. May 2017
Kehl
Nürtingen
Rastatt
Alice Weidel 66% Election of the state list for the 2017 federal election
10th state party conference 4th / 5th March 2017 Sulz am Neckar Ralf Özkara
Marc Jongen
52%
56%
New election of the state executive
11th state party conference 17./18. June 2017 Karlsruhe Election of new delegates to the Federal Convention; Amendment of the state statutes
12th state party conference 17./18. March 2018 Heidenheim Change of state statutes; By-elections to the regional arbitration tribunal
13th state party conference 23/24 February 2019 Heidenheim Bernd Gögel
Dirk Spaniel
54%
52%
New election of the state executive
14th state party conference February 15, 2020 Boeblingen Alice Weidel 54% New election of the state executive

State Board

Since February 2020, the state executive has consisted of the following members:

State chairman Alice Weidel (Member of the Bundestag)
Deputy State Chair Martin Hess (Member of the Bundestag), Marc Jongen (Member of the Bundestag), Markus Frohnmaier (Member of the Bundestag)
Treasurer Peter Gremminger
Deputy Treasurer Rebecca white bread
Secretary Rosa-Maria Reiter
Assessor Marc Bernhard (Member of the Bundestag), Anne C. Samland, Rainer Balzer (Member of the Bundestag), Volker Keck, Stefan Kothe
MdL = member of the state parliament; MdB = member of the Bundestag

District associations

The state association of Baden-Württemberg is currently divided into 37 district associations. These associations are headed by contact persons who essentially perform communication and coordination tasks and are in some cases elected by the members. After the district structure, city or local groups should be formed.

District associations (as of Apr. 2019)
District association Chairman Seat
Baden-Baden / Rastatt Joachim Kuhs; Roland Colonel Gaggenau
Biberach Matthias Stiel Tannheim
Lake Constance Detlev Gallandt Überlingen
Boeblingen Markus Frohnmaier Because of the city
Breisgau-Upper Black Forest Martina Böswald Neuchâtel
Calw / Freudenstadt Günther Schöttle Nagold
Emmendingen Rosa-Maria Reiter Emmendingen
Esslingen Vera Kosova Esslingen
Freiburg Andreas Schumacher Freiburg
Goeppingen Michael Busch; Simon Dennenmoser Ebersbach an der Fils
Heidelberg Painted businessman Heidelberg
Heidenheim Heiner Merz
Heilbronn Dennis Klecker; Jürgen Koegel; Rainer Podeswa Heilbronn
Hohenlohe / Schwäbisch Hall Jens Moll Buhlertann
Karlsruhe-Land Rainer Balzer Linkenheim-Hochstetten
Karlsruhe city Paul Schmidt Karlsruhe
Constancy Walter Schwäbsch To sing
Loerrach Wolfgang Fuhl; Nils Schmidt
Ludwigsburg Gottfried Minnich Korntal-Münchingen
Main deaf Christina Baum Tauberbischofsheim
Mannheim Rüdiger Ernst Mannheim
Neckar-Odenwald Johann Martel Mosbach
Ortenau Thomas Kinzinger Rheinau
Eastern Alb Wolfgang Wacker Schwäbisch Gmünd
Pforzheim / Enz Bernd Grimmer ; Bernd Gögel ; Alfred Bamberger Pforzheim
Ravensburg Carmen Haug Forest castle
Rhine-Neckar Thomas Brackmann St. Leon-Rot
Rems-Murr Jürgen Braun basket
Reutlingen Hansjörg Schrade Reutlingen
Rottweil / Tuttlingen Emil Sänze Rottweil
Black Forest Baar Martin Rothweiler Donaueschingen
Sigmaringen Ralf Felder; Hans-Peter Hörner; Sibylle Schol Hechingen
Stuttgart Wolfgang Röll Stuttgart
Tübingen Wolfram Schillinger Neustetten
Ulm / Alb-Danube Eugene Ciresa Allmendingen
Waldshut Matthias Jehle Bad Säckingen
Zollernalb Hans-Peter Hörner; Peter Rebstock Albstadt

Party leader

Party chairman Term of office
Bernd Koelmel Elke Fein, Bernd Kölmel , Hansjörg Scheel (until May 2013) April 2013 - November 2013
Bernd KoelmelJens Zeller Bernd Kölmel , Jens Zeller November 2013 - January 2015
Bernd Koelmel Bernd Koelmel January 2015 - July 2015
Bernd GrimmerJörg Meuthen Bernd Grimmer , Lothar Maier , Jörg Meuthen (until October 2016) July 2015 - March 2017
Marc Jongen Marc Jongen , Ralf Özkara (until Nov. 2018) March 2017 - February 2019
Dirk Spaniel Bernd Gögel , Dirk Spaniel February 2019 - February 2020
Alice Weidel Alice Weidel since February 2020

Group leaders

Parliamentary group leader Term of office
Jörg Meuthen Jörg Meuthen May 2016 - July 2016
AfD: Heiner Merz / ABW: Jörg Meuthen July 2016 - October 2016
Jörg Meuthen Jörg Meuthen October 2016 - November 2017
Bernd Gögel since December 2017

Young alternative Baden-Württemberg

The Badische Zeitung , according to the "Young Alternative Baden-Wuerttemberg" falls (YES Baden-Wuerttemberg) by personal and contextual links to rightly nationalists. The research team of the “Autonomous Antifascists” in Freiburg, which has been known “for years with viable revelations of right-wing extremist connections” ( Stuttgarter Zeitung ), assumes that the youth organization was deliberately infiltrated by “right-wing extremists of various origins”.

According to the “Autonomous Antifascists”, the state chairman Moritz Brodbeck is a member of the Identitarian Movement in Baden-Württemberg and has brought the youth of the party under his control with other members of the Identitarian Movement.

Markus Frohnmaier , the JA federal chairman and press spokesman for Frauke Petry , spoke in media of the New Right such as the Blue Narcissus , the Aula and the Junge Freiheit .

The AfD Baden-Württemberg and JA Baden-Württemberg have repeatedly denied the alleged references to the extreme right.

The protection of the constitution of the state of Baden-Württemberg announced on November 15, 2018 an observation of the JA Baden-Württemberg, whereupon the state chairman Moritz Brodbeck and some of the members left the association. According to Interior Minister Thomas Strobl, remuneration is u. a. given to the "Identitarian Movement".

Election results

State elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Direct mandates Seats space Top candidate
2016 809.564 15.1%
2/70
23/143
3 Jörg Meuthen
Bundestag elections
year Number of votes Share of votes Direct mandates Seats space Top candidate
2013 295,988 5.2%
0/38
0/78
5 Bernd Koelmel
2017 730.265 12.2%
0/38
11/96
5 Alice Weidel
Municipal council elections
year Valid votes Equal votes Seats
number proportion of number proportion of
2014 1,448,625 1.5% 29,823 0.9%
28/18753
2019
District elections
year Valid votes Equal votes Seats
number proportion of number proportion of
2014 0214.780 0.9% 27,566 0.9%
18/2228
2019
European elections
year Number of votes Share of votes space
2014 309,500 7.9% 4th
2019 486,679 10.0% 4th

Parliamentary group

In the constituent meeting on March 16, 2016, the top candidate Jörg Meuthen was elected as parliamentary group chairman and Bernd Grimmer as parliamentary managing director. As part of the reunification of the two parliamentary groups, the parliamentary group executive committee was re-elected and new statutes and rules of procedure were adopted. Meuthen was again elected as parliamentary group chairman, Bernd Gögel , Rüdiger Klos and Emil Sänze (all AfD) and Rainer Podeswa (ex-ABW) as deputies . The former ABW deputy Anton Baron was appointed as the parliamentary managing director . After Meuthen's resignation from the parliamentary group chairmanship due to the move to the EU parliament , the then deputy Bernd Gögel was elected group chairman. Gögel was re-elected in October 2018.

The elected members of the AfD in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg are:

Member of the political group Entry into the state parliament over Current functions and memberships
in the parliamentary group and in the party
Rainer Balzer Second mandate Bruchsal (29) Deputy Group Chairman
Anton Baron Second mandate Hohenlohe (21) Parliamentary executive director
Christina Baum Second mandate Main-Tauber (23)
Lars Patrick Berg Second mandate Tuttlingen-Donaueschingen (55)
Bernd Gögel Second mandate Enz (44) Group chairman; Deputy State Chairman
Bernd Grimmer First mandate Pforzheim (42)
Rüdiger Klos First mandate Mannheim I (35)
Heiner Merz Second mandate Heidenheim (24)
Thomas Axel Palka Second mandate Eppingen (19)
Rainer Podeswa Second mandate Heilbronn (18)
Daniel Rottmann Second mandate Ehingen (65)
Emil Sänze Second mandate Rottweil (53)
Hans Peter Stauch Second mandate Hechingen-Münsingen (61)
Udo Stein Second mandate Schwäbisch Hall (22)
Klaus-Günther Voigtmann Second mandate Schwetzingen (40)
Carola wool Second mandate Neckarsulm (20)

former members

Regional group in the German Bundestag

The state list for the 2017 federal election was published at two party congresses on 19/20. November 2016 in Kehl and on 21./22. Set up in Nürtingen January 2017 .

The state party moved into the German Bundestag with a total of eleven members who are part of the  AfD parliamentary group :

Member of the political group Moved into the Bundestag over Current functions and memberships
in the parliamentary group and in the party
Marc Bernhard List position 9 Chairman of the regional group
Jürgen Braun List place 6 Second parliamentary managing director of the AfD parliamentary group
Deputy. Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid
Markus Frohnmaier List position 4 Deputy chairman of the regional group
Franziska Gminder List position 11
Martin Hess List position 7
Marc Jongen List position 3 Party chairman in the committee for culture and media ; State Chairman
Lothar Maier List place 2
Volker Münz List place 8
Thomas Seitz List position 5
Dirk Spaniel List place 10 Party chairman in the committee for transport and digital infrastructure
Alice Weidel List position 1 Assessor in the federal executive committee; Chair of the AfD parliamentary group

Web links

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