Bernd Baumann | |
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 Baumann in 2020 | |
| Chief Whip of theAlternative for Germany in theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 3 October 2017 | |
| Leader | Alexander Gauland Alice Weidel Tino Chrupalla |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Member of theBundestag forHamburg | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
| Constituency | AfD List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1958-01-31)31 January 1958 (age 67) |
| Political party | Alternative for Germany |
| Alma mater | Ruhr University Bochum |
Bernd Baumann (German pronunciation:[ˈbɛɐ̯ntˈbaʊman]; born 31 January 1958) is a German politician of the right-wingAlternative for Germany (AfD) andchief whip of the AfD Group who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofHamburg since 2017.[1]
Baumann was born 1958 in the West German cityHerne and studiedeconomics at theRuhr University Bochum and achieved hisPhD in 1991.[citation needed]
Baumann eventuated the newly foundedpopulist AfD in 2013 and was presider (Landessprecher) of the party in the city state ofHamburg from 2015 to 2017.[2]
In 2017 Baumann became the first chief whip (Erster Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer) of the AfD in the Bundestag.[3][4]
Bernd Baumann states there is an “opprobrious campaign” against his party by the largely tax-fundednonprofit journalism organisation “Correctiv” against a private function of right-wing politicians and business people in November 2023 in which AfD and CDU politicians as well asMartin Sellner (BI) took part. Baumann blamed a “left-green class” of politicians and “large parts of the media” in the ARD magazin Report from Berlin.[5]
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