Stephan Brandner

Stephan Brandner
Stephan Brandner
	Stephan Brandner in 2016
Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 30 November 2019 Serving with Alice Weidel and Beatrix von Storch
Leader	Jörg Meuthen ; 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
	Incumbent
	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, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Nationality	German
Political party	AfD (2013-present)

Stephan Brandner (born 29 May 1966) is a German far-right politician. He has been a member of the German Bundestag for Alternative for Germany (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

Stephan Brandner was born on 29 May 1966 in Herten. He became an 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

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 Gemans".[1] 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.[2][3]

References

Lau, Mariam (2017-10-05). "Frauke Petry: Hinter den Kulissen lauert sie". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2019-10-21.
WELT (2019-10-16). "AfD-Politiker Brandner: "Nicht geeignet, diesen Ausschuss zu führen"". Retrieved 2019-10-21.
"Äußerungen zu Halle: Juristenverbände fordern Rücktritt von AfD-Mann Brandner von Rechtsausschuss-Vorsitz". www.handelsblatt.com (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-21.

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[1] Lau, Mariam (2017-10-05). "Frauke Petry: Hinter den Kulissen lauert sie". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2019-10-21.

[2] WELT (2019-10-16). "AfD-Politiker Brandner: "Nicht geeignet, diesen Ausschuss zu führen"". Retrieved 2019-10-21.

[3] "Äußerungen zu Halle: Juristenverbände fordern Rücktritt von AfD-Mann Brandner von Rechtsausschuss-Vorsitz". www.handelsblatt.com (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-21.