Kay Gottschalk | |
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 Gottschalk in 2020 | |
| Deputy Leader of theAlternative for Germany | |
| In office 2 December 2017 – 1 December 2019 Serving with Beatrix von Storch | |
| Leader | Alexander Gauland Jörg Meuthen |
| Preceded by | Alexander Gauland |
| Succeeded by | Andreas Kalbitz |
| Chair of theWirecard scandal inquiry Committee | |
| In office 18 October 2020 – 25 June 2021 | |
| Deputy | Hans Michelbach |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Member of theBundestag forNorth Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Constituency | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1965-12-12)12 December 1965 (age 59) |
| Political party | Alternative for Germany (since 2013) |
| Residence | Nettetal |
| Occupation |
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| Website | Official website |
Kay Gottschalk (born 12 December 1965) is a German politician of theAlternative for Germany (AfD) and member of theGerman federal parliament.
He is a co-founder of the AfD. He was one of three deputy federal spokespersons for the AfD from 2017 to 2019 and was re-elected deputy federal spokesperson in 2024. He has been the AfD parliamentary group's financial policy spokesperson since May 2018. In February 2022, he was elected deputy state chairman of the AfD inNorth Rhine-Westphalia and confirmed in office two years later.[1]
Gottschalk was born 1965 inHamburg and studiedbusiness administration andlaw. He went on to become an insurance manager.[2][3]
At the 2017 Germanfederal election he was elected member of parliament through a list place inNorth Rhine-Westphalia.[2]
In December 2017 he was elected as a deputy leader of the AfD.[4] Since 2019 he was married. His husband died on 1 March 2023.[5]
FollowingRussian invasion of Ukraine, Gottschalk, alongside AfD MEPGuido Reil and a delegation of NRW Landtag visited Ukraine and declared solidarity, representing a minority in the generally pro-Russian party.[6]
In a speech on January 24, 2018 at the AfD's New Year's reception inKrefeld, Gottschalk said: "I call on all citizens of good will: Boycott the stores of theTurks in Germany, because 70 percent of them are going forErdoğan"[7][8] According to his own statements, it was important to him to make a statement against Turkey's attack on Kurdish citizens in Syria, and just as Germans are held responsible for the election of theNSDAP, Turkish citizens and citizens of Turkish origin in Germany should also be held responsible for the policies of said head of state.[9] AfD member of parliamentMartin Renner called on Gottschalk to resign from all offices.[10] The state security authorities began investigating him because of Gottschalk's statement.[11] However, these were discontinued by the Krefeld public prosecutor's office in summer 2018, as the offense of Section 130 StGB was not fulfilled.[12]
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