Stephan Brandner
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Stephan Brandner | |
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 Brandner in 2016 | |
| Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany | |
| Assumed office 30 November 2019 | |
| Leader | Alice Weidel Tino Chrupalla |
| Preceded by | Albrecht Glaser |
| Chair of the Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection Committee | |
| In office 31 January 2018 – 13 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Siegfried Kauder |
| Succeeded by | Heribert Hirte |
| Member of the Bundestag for Thuringia | |
| Assumed office 24 September 2017 | |
| Constituency | Alternative for Germany List |
| Member of the Landtag of Thuringia | |
| In office 14 September 2014 – 24 September 2017 | |
| Constituency | Alternative for Germany List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 29 May 1966 Herten, West Germany |
| Political party | AfD (2013–present) |
Stephan Brandner (born 29 May 1966) is a German far-right politician. He has been a member of the Bundestag for the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) since 2017 and served as chairman of the Bundestag's Legal Affairs Committee from 31 January 2018 to November 2019. He was the front runner candidate of the AfD in the state of Thuringia for the 2017 German federal election. Since November 2019, Brandner has been one of three chairman deputies of the AfD.
Biography[edit]
Brandner was born on 29 May 1966 in Herten. He became an industrial management assistant (Industriekaufmann) and then studied law at Universität Regensburg. Since 1997 he has been working as a lawyer, previously in Munich, then in Gera.
He is member of KStV Agilolfia Regensburg in Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine.
Controversies[edit]
After the Halle synagogue shooting, Brandner shared a message on Twitter, criticizing that politicians were "lingering" with candles in front of synagogues and mosques, whereas the two casualties were neither Jews nor Muslims, but "organic Germans". Social Democratic politicians and associations of German lawyers called on Brandner to resign from his office as chairman of the Bundestag's Legal Affairs Committee.[1][2] Brandner is close to the positions of the ultra-nationalist wing (Der Flügel) within the AfD.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ WELT (16 October 2019). "AfD-Politiker Brandner: "Nicht geeignet, diesen Ausschuss zu führen"". Retrieved 21 October 2019.
- ^ "Äußerungen zu Halle: Juristenverbände fordern Rücktritt von AfD-Mann Brandner von Rechtsausschuss-Vorsitz". handelsblatt.com (in German). Archived from the original on 28 August 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
- ^ Müller, Ann-Katrin (21 March 2020). "AfD: Der Flügel flattert trotz Auflösungsbeschluss weiter". Der Spiegel (in German).
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