Marc Jongen | |
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_(3x4_cropped).jpg) Jongen in 2015 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office July 2024 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1968-05-23)23 May 1968 (age 57) |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | AfD |
Marc Stephan Jongen (born 23 May 1968) is a German politician (AfD). From 2003 to 2017 he was a research assistant for philosophy at theStaatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.
Jongen is regarded as a "party philosopher" of the right-wing AfD, having been called "chief ideologue" or "thought leader".[1] He was the chairman of AfDBaden-Württemberg from March 2017 to February 2019 and has been its Deputy State leader ever since. With relatively high ranks on the AfD BW state list of candidates, he got elected to theBundestag for the first time in the2017 federal election, again in 2021, and to theEuropean Parliament in 2024. His seat in the Bundestag was taken byVolker Münz.
Jongen was born in Merano[2] and grew up inLana, South Tyrol.[3] He had Dutch nationality through his father and the Italian one through his mother.[4]
He studied economics from 1987 to 1988 at the University of Vienna. Subsequently and until 1995, he studied philosophy, indology, German history, and philosophy of science. After three months in India, he writes a master's thesis in 1996 entitledThe essence of spiritual knowledge from the Advaita Vedanta Shri Shakaracharyas, which was published byEugen Diederichs in 1998.[5]
Between 1996 and 1999, he wrote for theNeue Südtiroler Tageszeitung inBolzano, and worked on a "Philosophy of Astrology".[6] In 1999, he started a PhD at the State University for Design (HfG) ofKarlsruhe underPeter Sloterdijk, supported by theLeopold Ziegler [de] foundation. From 2001 to 2003, he was supported by the state of Baden-Württemberg. In 2009, he obtained his PhD in philosophy and in 2011, received German citizenship.
Stuttgarter Zeitung noted that Jongen has failed to adequately distance himself from the far-right Flügel faction of the party, led byBjörn Höcke. Jongen also said that there are "differences in mentality between East and West Germany".[7]
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