Bernd Baumann
Baumann in 2020
Chief Whip of the Alternative for Germany in the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 October 2017
Leader	Alexander Gauland Alice Weidel Tino Chrupalla
Preceded by	Office established
Member of the Bundestag for Hamburg
Incumbent
Assumed office 24 October 2017
Constituency	AfD List
Personal details
Born	(1958-01-31) 31 January 1958 (age 65) Wanne-Eickel [de], West Germany
Political party	Alternative for Germany
Alma mater	Ruhr University Bochum

Bernd Baumann (born 31 January 1958) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and chief whip of the AfD Group who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.^[1]

Life and politics

Baumann was born 1958 in the West German city Herne and studied economics at the Ruhr University Bochum and achieved his PhD in 1991.^{[citation needed]}

Baumann eventuated the newly founded populist AfD in 2013 and was presider (Landessprecher) of the party in the city state of Hamburg from 2015 to 2017.^[2]

In 2017 Baumann became the first chief whip (Erster Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer) of the AfD in the Bundestag.^[3][4]

Positions

Bernd Baumann suspects an “infamous campaign” against his party by the “Correctiv” investigation into a conspiratorial meeting of right-wing radicals in November 2023 in which AfD and CDU politicians as well as Martin Sellner (BI) took part. This is the responsibility of a “left-green class” of politicians and “large parts of the media,” he said in the ARD magazin Report from Berlin.^[5]