Bernd Baumann
Bernd Baumann | |
|---|---|
Baumann in 2020 | |
| Chief Whip of the Alternative for Germany in the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 3 October 2017 | |
| Leader | Alexander Gauland Alice Weidel Tino Chrupalla |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Member of the Bundestag for Hamburg | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
| Constituency | AfD List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 January 1958 Wanne-Eickel, West Germany |
| Political party | Alternative for Germany |
| Alma mater | Ruhr University Bochum |
Bernd Baumann (born 31 January 1958) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and chief whip of the AfD Group who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.[1]
Life and politics
Baumann was born 1958 in the West German city Herne and studied economics at the Ruhr University Bochum and achieved his PhD in 1991.
Baumann eventuated the newly founded populist AfD in 2013 and was presider (Landessprecher) of the party in the city state of Hamburg from 2015 to 2017.[2]
In 2017 Baumann became the first chief whip (Erster Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer) of the AfD in the Bundestag.[3][4]
Positions
Bernd Baumann states there is an “opprobrious campaign” against his party by the largely tax-funded nonprofit journalism organisation “Correctiv” against a private function of right-wing politicians and business people in November 2023 in which AfD and CDU politicians as well as Martin Sellner (BI) took part. Baumann blamed a “left-green class” of politicians and “large parts of the media” in the ARD magazin Report from Berlin.[5] Courts later found key parts of the "Correctiv" article to be deliberately misleading to the point the article may be publicly called a "dirty lie".[6]
References
- ^ "Dr. Bernd Baumann, AfD". Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ "Dr. Kurt Duwe ist neuer Vizepräsident der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft". hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ ""Man spürt die Präsenz der AfD"". tagesschau.de (in German). 24 October 2017. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ "AfD verändert Debattenkultur". BR24 (in German). 22 November 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Baumann sieht "infame Kampagne" gegen AfD". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
- ^ "AfD-Politikerin darf Correctiv 'dreckige Lüge' vorwerfen". Legal Tribune Online (in German). 19 December 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2025.