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Frank Magnitz
Frank Magnitz (2019)
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2017
ConstituencyBremen
Personal details
Born
Frank Rüdiger Heinrich Magnitz

(1952-06-29) 29 June 1952 (age 71)
Neuenkirchen, Lower Saxony, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
Political partyAlternative for Germany
Children6
ResidenceBremen
OccupationPolitician

Frank Rüdiger Heinrich Magnitz (born 29 June 1952) is a German politician from the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) party. Magnitz has been a Member of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.

Biography

Magnitz was born in Neuenkirchen in the district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony.[1] He has qualifications in banking and teaching, has worked for Bremen social services and founded a commercial construction company,[2] and is a property manager and estate agent.[1][3]

Political career

Originally a German Communist Party member, he joined the AfD in 2013, the year it was founded,[3] largely over anti-Muslim and anti-euro sentiments.[2] He became speaker of the Bremen branch in June 2015. In May 2015 he was elected to the council for the borough of Burglesum [de],[4] and in the 2017 German federal election he won a levelling seat in the German parliament, the Bundestag,[5] where he is a member of the committees for construction, housing, urban development and community and for traffic and digital infrastructure and a deputy member of the committee for environment, protection of nature and nuclear security.[1]

On 7 January 2019, Magnitz was attacked after leaving a reception at the Bremen Kunsthalle, and badly injured.[6] Surveillance video showed three people, one of whom struck him a blow to the base of the skull with an elbow.[7][8] From 2015 to 2019 Magnitz was chairman of the AfD federal state association in Bremen. He resigned in September 2019 after party internal disputes over his double mandate in Bremen and in the federal government Bundestag. His successor is Peter Beck.[9]

Personal life

Magnitz is married and has six children.[1][2] He lives in the St. Magnus section of Burglesum.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Frank Magnitz, AfD" (in German). Bundestag. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d Jürgen Theiner (8 September 2017). "AfD-Kandidat Frank Magnitz im Porträt. Gegen Merkel und Mohammed". Weser-Kurier (in German). Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Frank Magnitz. Sprecher des Landesvorstandes. Vita" (in German). Alternative für Bremen. Archived from the original on 29 October 2015.
  4. ^ Jürgen Theiner (15 May 2015). "Beiräte ohne klare Mehrheiten". Weser-Kurier (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  5. ^ Frank Hethey (25 September 2017). "Bremer AfD-Mann schafft es in den Bundestag". Weser-Kurier (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  6. ^ "German far-right MP Frank Magnitz badly hurt in Bremen attack". BBC News. 8 January 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  7. ^ Ansgar Siemens (9 January 2019). "AfD: Frank Magnitz spricht über den gewaltsamen Angriff". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  8. ^ "Police release CCTV of an attack on German MP Frank Magnitz". BBC News (video). 11 January 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2019.
  9. ^ SPIEGEL, DER (15 September 2019). "Bremen: AfD wählt Ex-Bundespolizisten Peter Beck zum neuen Landeschef - DER SPIEGEL - Politik". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.


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