Dietmar Friedhoff

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Dietmar Friedhoff (born June 18, 1966 in Hagen / Westphalia ) is a German politician ( AfD ) and engineer . He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017 .

Life

Friedhoff completed an apprenticeship as a radio electronics technician and then did his basic military service . After graduating from a university of applied sciences , Friedhoff began studying electrical engineering , which he completed as a graduate engineer (FH). He then worked in sales in various companies , most recently as a sales trainer. He is a lieutenant colonel in the reserve .

Friedhoff is divorced and has two daughters. According to his own statement, his grandfather was interned as a communist in a concentration camp during the Nazi era .

politics

Friedhoff joined the AfD in 2013. He is the deputy chairman of the AfD district association Hannover Land and a member of the board of the AfD city association Neustadt am Rübenberge . Since the local elections in Lower Saxony in 2016 , he has been a member of the city council of Neustadt am Rübenberge, where he is chairman of the AfD parliamentary group.

Friedhoff has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2017. In the 2017 federal election he ran as a direct candidate in the Hanover-Land I constituency , but entered the Bundestag via the Lower Saxony state list .

In the 19th German Bundestag Friedhoff chairman is the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development . He is also represented as a deputy member of the Defense Committee and the Mediation Committee.

defense of Constitution

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution called in 2019 Friedhoff notably in its opinion that the classification of the AFD as a test case justified. His statement is quoted there that Chancellor Angela Merkel wanted to "wipe out" the German people and that this had to be "radically" combated.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. German Bundestag plenary proceedings 19/143. January 30, 2020, accessed February 6, 2020 .
  2. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  3. netzpolitik.org: Verfassungsschutz report on the AfD. January 28, 2019, accessed November 6, 2019 .