Rainer Kraft
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1974-01-08) 8 January 1974 (age 50)
NationalityGerman
Political partyAfD

Rainer Kraft (born 8 January 1974) is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.

Life and politics

Kraft was born 1974 in the West German town of Gräfelfing and studied chemistry and reached his PhD in 2002.[1] Kraft entered the newly founded populist AfD in 2013 and became after the 2017 German federal election a member of the Bundestag.[2] Kraft is considered to be part of the right-wing factional cluster Der Flügel (the wing).[3]

Kraft denies the scientific consensus on climate change.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag – Dr. Rainer Kraft". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  2. ^ Schwäbische Zeitung 25 September 2017; print edition (in German)
  3. ^ "AfD holt Fan der Identitären nach vorn" (in German). 21 February 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Rainer Kraft zum Klimawandel: AfD will aus Klimaschutz aussteigen". www.zdf.de (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2019.


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