Beatrix von Storch | |
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Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany | |
Assumed office 5 July 2015 | |
Leader | Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla |
Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 24 September 2017 | |
Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 July 2014 – 27 October 2017 | |
Constituency | Germany |
Personal details | |
Born | Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika Duchess of Oldenburg 27 May 1971 Lübeck, West Germany |
Political party | Alternative for Germany (2013–present) |
Other political affiliations | Free Democratic Party (2011–2013) |
Spouse | |
Relations | Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (maternal grandfather) Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (paternal grandfather) |
Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika von Storch (née Duchess of Oldenburg;[a] 27 May 1971) is a German politician and lawyer, who has been the Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany since July 2015 and a Member of the Bundestag since September 2017. She previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany.[1] From April 2016 to 2017 she was also a member of the right-wing populist Anti-EU group Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy. She is part of the right-wing conservative wing of the parliamentary group of the AfD. She belongs ancestrally to the royal House of Oldenburg which reigned over the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg until 1918.
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