Robert Farle | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office German Bundestag in 2021 – German Bundestag in 2025 | |
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| Born | (1950-02-16)16 February 1950 (age 75) |
| Nationality | German |
Robert Farle (born 16 February 1950) is a German tax consultant, lawyer and politician. He had been aMember of the German Bundestag forMansfeld since2021; after he lost reelection inthe 2025 federal election, his term ended in March 2025.[1]
Farle studied economics and business administration at theRuhr University inBochum from 1968 to 1974.[2] After the end ofEast Germany, Farle went toHalle and founded a business and tax consulting company there in 1990. From 1999 to 2004, Farle also studied law at theMartin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. After his legal traineeship, Farle was admitted to become a lawyer in 2006.[3][4]
Until 1992, Robert Farle was active in theGerman Communist Party in North Rhine-Westphalia for 17 years. His roles included that of DKP chairman at the Ruhr University and on the city council inGladbeck.[5][6] In the 1980s, Farle was employed as a full-time official in the DKP Ruhr-Westphalia district in Essen. According to a report byT-online, he received money from theSED for years, whichErich Honecker had personally approved. After the fall of theBerlin Wall and reunification, he used his old communist contacts for business purposes.[7]
In May 2015, Farle would join the AfD, and would enter theLandtag of Saxony-Anhalt after the2016 Saxony-Anhalt state election.[8] Farle would not run for re-election in2021.
In the2021 federal election, he ran for the direct mandate in theMansfeld constituency without being on the AfD Saxony-Anhalt state list. He won the direct mandate with 25.1% of the first votes and thus entered the20th German Bundestag.[9][10]
On September 8, 2022, Farle resigned from the AfD parliamentary group and has been a non-affiliated member of parliament since then. According toZeit Online, he had previously threatened his parliamentary colleagues with resignation in connection with theRussian attack on Ukraine, in anger over their "one-sided accusations" against Russian President Vladimir Putin.[11][12]
Farle ran for re-election in Mansfeld in 2025, however he received 1.9% of the vote as anindependent while the AfD'sKay-Uwe Ziegler won the seat with 43.8% of the vote.[13]
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