Bernd Baumann

Bernd Baumann (born 31 January 1958) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and chief whip of the AfD Group who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hamburg since 2017.[1]

Bernd Baumann
Baumann in 2020
Chief Whip of the AfD Group in the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Preceded byOffice established
Member of the Bundestag
for Hamburg
Assumed office
24 October 2017
ConstituencyAfD List
Personal details
Born (1958-01-31) 31 January 1958
Wanne-Eickel, West Germany
Political partyAlternative for Germany
Alma materRuhr University Bochum

Life and politics

Baumann was born 1958 in the West German city Herne and studied economics at the Ruhr University Bochum and achieved his PhD in 1991.

Baumann eventuated the newly founded populist AfD in 2013 and was presider (Landessprecher) of the party in the city state of Hamburg from 2015 to 2017.[2]

In 2017 Baumann became the first chief whip (Erster Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer) of the AfD in the reichstag.[3][4]

References
  1. "Dr. Bernd Baumann, AfD". Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  2. "Dr. Kurt Duwe ist neuer Vizepräsident der Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft". hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  3. ""Man spürt die Präsenz der AfD"". tagesschau.de (in German). 2017-10-24. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  4. "AfD verändert Debattenkultur". BR24 (in German). 2017-11-22. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
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