Leif-Erik Holm | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
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| Born | 1 August 1970 Schwerin, East Germany |
| Political party | AfD |
Leif-Erik Holm (born 1 August 1970) is a German politician of the AfD party and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament. He is also chairman of the AfD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Holm worked as a radio presenter for the private Antenne MV broadcaster, studied economics in Berlin, and became a politician in 2013. Holm is since 2013, with a short interruption in 2015, state chairman of his party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[1] He was the leading AfD candidate in the state in the 2013 German federal elections and was also frontrunner for his party in the 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state elections. During the campaign Holm warned of the spread of Islam.[2]
Holm temporarily worked for fellow AfD politician Beatrix von Storch.[3]
- ^ Biermann, Kai; Geisler, Astrid; Radke, Johannes; Steffen, Tilman (21 March 2018). "Bundestag: AfD-Abgeordnete beschäftigen Rechtsextreme und Verfassungsfeinde". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "East is east: In a German backwater, anti-immigrant feeling thrives". The Economist. 3 September 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
- ^ Der Mann, der die AfD vom Schmuddelimage befreien will, Die Welt, 26 August 2016, in German