Sylvia Limmer

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Sylvia Limmer (born February 8, 1966 in Bayreuth ) is a German politician ( Alternative for Germany - AfD). She has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019 .

Life

After completing her degree in biology with a doctorate, Sylvia Limmer worked in a biotech start-up company that specializes in the development of methods and drugs ( RNAi therapeutics ) for the targeted inhibition of certain genes. She was responsible for the cell biology department . She is involved in various international patents.

After several years of raising children, she set up her own business. From 2006 she successfully completed a degree in veterinary medicine .

Limmer is married and has two children.

Political career

Sylvia Limmer has been a member of the AfD since 2016, she is the deputy chairwoman of the AfD district association in Bayreuth. She is involved within the AfD at state and federal level in the areas of environmental, consumer and animal protection. She advocates a change in current climate policy and represents positions critical of Europe. Limmer questions the two-degree target , denies the greenhouse effect caused by carbon dioxide and rejects the concept of anthropogenic climate change as the main cause of global warming .

In 2019 she was elected to the European Parliament. There she is a member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), the Delegation for relations with Israel and the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China. She is also represented as a deputy on the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) and the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI).

On December 1, 2019, she was elected as the first member of the AfD's federal executive committee.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  2. hb: candidates. In: Alternative for Germany. Retrieved on May 24, 2019 (German).
  3. Gerhard Herrmann: European elections: The MPs Hohlmeier and their competitors. In: Obermain-Tagblatt . April 25, 2019, accessed December 1, 2019 .
  4. ^ Sylvia Limmer: Germany, quo vadis? The dangerous Basta concepts of the climate nebulas. In: Jörg Meuthen & Rainer Rothfuß (Eds.): Europe - Securing the Future. Gerhard Hess Verlag, Bad Schussenried 2019, ISBN 978-3-87336-645-9 .
  5. Home | Sylvia LIMMER | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
  6. The new AfD federal board - younger and a little more female. Accessed December 6, 2019 (German).