Siegbert Droese
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1969-06-07) 7 June 1969 (age 54)
NationalityGerman
Political partyAfD

Siegbert Droese (born 7 June 1969) is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the federal legislative body. He is a member of the völkisch-nationalistic Flügel of his party.

Life

Droese was born 1969 in the East German city of Leipzig and became a hotelier.[1]

Politics

Within AfD Droese is referred as "ultra-nationalist".[2][3] Droese is believed to be a fan of Adolf Hitler. In 2016, it became known that one of his cars bore the Leipzig license plate "AH 1818". In the nazi symbolism, "AH" stands for Adolf Hitler as well as "18".

With a swollen chest and right hand on his heart, Droese had himself photographed at "Hitlers Wolfsschanze" ("Wolf`s Lair"), the former Führer's headquarters in Poland.

Droese entered the than newly founded AfD and got at 2017 German federal election elected to Bundestag.

References

  1. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Siegbert Droese".
  2. ^ Fiedler, Maria (25 September 2017). "Das sind die Radikalen in der AfD-Fraktion". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ^ Biermann, Kai; Geisler, Astrid; Holzinger, Christina; Middelhoff, Paul; Polke-Majewski, Karsten; Steffen, Tilman (24 October 2017). "AfD-Abgeordnete: Rechts bis extrem im Bundestag". Die Zeit.


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