Beatrix von Storch

Beatrix von Storch
Von Storch in 2019
Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany
Assumed office
5 July 2015
LeaderAlice 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
ConstituencyGermany
Personal details
Born
Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika Duchess of Oldenburg

(1971-05-27) 27 May 1971 (age 53)
Lübeck, West Germany
Political partyAlternative for Germany (2013–present)
Other political
affiliations
Free Democratic Party (2011–2013)
Spouse
(m. 2004)
RelationsLutz 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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  1. ^ "8th parliamentary term | Beatrix von STORCH | MEPs | European Parliament". MEPs European Parliament. 27 May 1971. Archived from the original on 21 June 2019. Retrieved 20 December 2019.