Steffen Janich

Steffen Janich
Member of the Bundestag
for Saxony
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Preceded byFrauke Petry
ConstituencySächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
Personal details
Born (1971-01-22) 22 January 1971 (age 53)
Pirna, East Germany
Political partyCDU (before 2013)
AfD (2013–present)
Occupation
  • Police officer
  • politician

Steffen Janich (born 22 January 1971) is a German politician for Alternative for Germany (AfD). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2021 and represents the constituency of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge.[1]

Janich graduated from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Polytechnic in Pirna and became a police officer.[2] He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) until 2013 after which he joined the newly formed AfD. In the 2021 German federal election, he ran both as a list candidate in Saxony and as a direct candidate for the constituency of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, which had previously been represented by former AfD leader Frauke Petry. With a 33% share of the vote and a 13.8% lead over Corinna Franke-Wöller (CDU), the wife of Saxony Interior Minister Roland Wöller, he won the direct mandate as a member of the German Bundestag.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Steffen Janich, AfD". bundestag.de.
  2. ^ a b "MDB Steffen Janich". Archived from the original on 2021-10-01. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
  3. ^ "Gewählte in Landeslisten der Parteien in Sachsen - Der Bundeswahlleiter".