Tino Chrupalla

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Tino Chrupalla
MdB
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Chrupalla in 2020
Leader of the Alternative for Germany
Assumed office
30 November 2019
Serving with Jörg Meuthen (until 28 January 2022)
Deputy Stephan Brandner
Beatrix von Storch
Preceded by Alexander Gauland
Leader of the Alternative for Germany in the Bundestag
Assumed office
30 September 2021
Serving with Alice Weidel
Chief Whip Bernd Baumann
Deputy Peter Felser
Leif-Erik Holm
Sebastian Münzenmaier
Beatrix von Storch
Preceded by Alexander Gauland
Member of the Bundestag
for Görlitz
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Preceded by Michael Kretschmer
Personal details
Born (1975-04-14) 14 April 1975 (age 49)
Weißwasser, East Germany
(now Germany)
Nationality German
Political party AfD

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. Since 2019, he has served as chairman and lead spokesman for the AfD.[2]

Biography

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][not in citation given] He runs a construction company.[4] Chrupalla is married with two children.[5]

In March 2020, two protestors set fire to Chrupalla's car and he suffered mild injuries putting the blaze out. He condemned the attack as a direct attack on his family that went beyond all conceivable boundaries of political debate.[6]

Political career

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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.[7]

Chrupalla is one of five deputy chief whips of the AfD federal parliamentary group.[8]

Ahead of the 2021 German federal election, Chrupalla was the AfD's leading candidate for the Bundestag alongside Alice Weidel. Together with Weidel, he was elected group leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag on September 30, 2021, replacing Alexander Gauland, who remained as honorary chairman as part of the redefinition of the office.[9]

Positions

German newspaper Zeit has characterized Chrupalla as one of the more relatively moderate members of the AfD parliamentary faction.[10] Ahead of the 2021 German federal election, Chrupalla cited border security as his main concern and called for Germany to reinstate border controls to "curb border crime.”[11]

As federal spokesman, Chrupalla repeatedly called on the AfD to unite and “stop thinking in camps.”[12]

In a Bundestag debate on November 8, 2019 on the subject of 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, he caused a stir when he accused the Chancellor Angela Merkel of having learned from the Free German Youth in East Germany on how to keep a people in check with propaganda and agitation, based on "strategies of domination and disintegration."[13]

In December 2021, Chrupalla expressed opposition to mandatory COVID vaccinations during a debate on the show ZDF-Morgenmagazin, but argued vaccination would make sense for the elderly and those who were previously ill. When the moderator Andreas Wunn stated ICU doctors confirmed that 80 to 90 percent of Covid patients in intensive care units were unvaccinated, Chrupalla claimed the numbers were unconfirmed and blamed budget cuts and downsizing of medical departments as the problem for overloaded ICUs.[14][15]


External links

References

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  4. ↑ https://www.ouest-france.fr/europe/allemagne/allemagne-tino-chrupalla-le-nouveau-visage-lisse-d-une-extreme-droite-encore-plus-radicale-6637065
  5. ↑ Justus Bender: Ein Malermeister fällt aus der Rolle. In: FAZ, 3. August 2021, abgerufen am selben Tag.
  6. ↑ Auto von AfD-Chef Chrupalla abgebrannt. In: FAZ, 2. März 2020, abgerufen am 3. August 2021.
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  13. ↑ Die wüste Gegenwart. Spiegel Online vom 8. November 2019.
  14. ↑ Chrupalla mit kruden Behauptungen und Impfstoff-Kritik www.ksta.de, 15. Dezember 2021
  15. ↑ „Moma“-Moderator streitet mit AfD-Fraktionschef Chrupalla: „Von wem lassen Sie sich denn wissenschaftlich beraten?“ www.rnd.de, 15. Dezember 2021

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