Tino Chrupalla

Tino Chrupalla
MdB
Chrupalla in 2020
Leader of the Alternative for Germany
Assumed office
30 November 2019
Serving with Jörg Meuthen
DeputyStephan Brandner
Beatrix von Storch
Preceded byAlexander Gauland
Leader of the Alternative for Germany in the Bundestag
Assumed office
30 September 2021
Serving with Alice Weidel
Chief WhipBernd Baumann
DeputyPeter Felser
Leif-Erik Holm
Sebastian Münzenmaier
Beatrix von Storch
Preceded byAlexander Gauland
Member of the Bundestag
for Görlitz
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Preceded byMichael Kretschmer
Personal details
Born (1975-04-14) 14 April 1975
Weißwasser, East Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partyAfD

Tino Chrupalla (born 14 April 1975) is a German politician, and Member of the Bundestag since 2017[1] of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Party. In November 2019 he was nominated by Alexander Gauland to replace him as co-chairman and later elected to the position.[2]

Life and politics

Chrupalla was born 1975 in Weißwasser[1] in eastern Germany and passed his Meister exam (Meisterprüfung) as House painter and decorator in 2003.[1][3] He runs a construction company.[4]

Tino Chrupalla (2020)

In the 1990s, Tino Chrupalla joined the Christian Democratic Youth, linked to the CDU. Chrupalla entered the AfD in 2015 and in 2016 was elected to its district committee for Görlitz.[1] At the 2017 German federal election, he defeated Michael Kretschmer, later Minister-President of Saxony, in the electoral district of Görlitz.[5]

Chrupalla is one of five deputy chief whips of the AfD federal parliamentary group.[6]

References
  1. "Biography on the website of the Bundestag". bundestag.de. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  2. "AfD wählt Tino Chrupalla zum Nachfolger von Gauland". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 30 November 2019. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
  3. Fromm, Anne (January 2, 2018). ""Sächsische Zeitung" und die AfD: "Da gehört er hin"". Die Tageszeitung: Taz. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  4. https://www.ouest-france.fr/europe/allemagne/allemagne-tino-chrupalla-le-nouveau-visage-lisse-d-une-extreme-droite-encore-plus-radicale-6637065
  5. "AfD gewinnt an der Neiße". Sächsische Zeitung (in German). 24 September 2017. Archived from the original on 25 September 2017.
  6. Biermann, Kai; Geisler, Astrid; Holzinger, Christina; Middelhoff, Paul; Polke-Majewski, Karsten; Steffen, Tilman (October 24, 2017). "AfD-Abgeordnete: Rechts bis extrem im Bundestag". Zeit.de. Retrieved 2 September 2019.


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