Enrico Komning

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Enrico Komning
Enrico Komning in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1968-08-06) 6 August 1968 (age 55)
NationalityGerman
Political partyAfD

Enrico Komning (born 6 August 1968, in Stralsund) is a German lawyer and politician. He is a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). In 2017 he became a member of the Bundestag.

Early life[edit]

Komning earned his Abitur in 1988 and got a degree in construction work.

Career[edit]

He became part of "Wachregiment "Feliks Dzierzynski", a division of Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, the political state security service of the German Democratic Republic. In 1991 Komning studied law at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald.

Since Komning entered the Bundestag in November 2017. From then to July 2019 he earned €760,000. As a member of parliament he earns about 10,000 a month; Komning was earning €36,000 a month extra at his law firm.[1]

Komning is a member of the Greifswald-based fraternity "Rugia". "Rugia" is part of Deutsche Burschenschaft. German Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz said in January 2019 about "Rugia", it is a "group with right-wing extremist reference".[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "760 000 Euro: So erklärt der AfD-Bundestagspolitiker seine Nebeneinkünfte". OZ - Ostsee-Zeitung (in German). 19 August 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  2. ^ NDR.de: Verfassungsschutz blickt auf Burschenschaft (24. April 2019); eingesehen am 6. September 2019