1. Eberhardt Alexander Gauland was born on 20 February 1941 and is a German politician, journalist and lawyer who has served as leader of the political party Alternative for Germany in the Bundestag since September 2017 and co-leader of the party from December 2017 to November 2019.
Alexander Gauland has been a Member of the Bundestag since September 2017.
Alexander Gauland was born in 1941 in Chemnitz, a city that became part of East Germany in 1949 and was renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt.
Alexander Gauland studied political science and law at Marburg, where he received his doctorate.
In 1972, Alexander Gauland entered the Federal Press Office and worked as the Director of the Office of the Mayor of Frankfurt am Main for 10 years.
In February 2014, Alexander Gauland received about 80 percent of the vote during an Extraordinary National Congress in Diedersdorf, becoming chairman of the Brandenburg State Association of Alternative for Germany.
On Tuesday, 10 July 2014 Alexander Gauland opened the inaugural session of the Landtag of Brandenburg:.
Alexander Gauland is a supporter of a line that is both conservative on the societal level and liberal on the economic level.
Alexander Gauland opposed the idea of an aid plan for Greece, which was then plunged into an economic crisis.
Alexander Gauland called for the closure of Germany's and the European Union's borders, targeting Muslims in particular.
Alexander Gauland said he can not detect any right-wing extremists or radicals at the PEGIDA-Demonstrations.
In May 2016, Alexander Gauland reportedly made comments about Bayern Munich and black German international footballer Jerome Boateng in a conversation with.
Alexander Gauland defended himself, saying he was fooled by the newspaper and it had been a background discussion, which was classified as confidential and thus not intended for publication.
Alexander Gauland was quoted as saying: "If the French are rightly proud of their emperor and the Britons of Nelson and Churchill, we have the right to be proud of the achievements of the German soldiers in two world wars".
Alexander Gauland's comment was defended by numerous right-leaning supporters both publicly and on social media.
In 2018, Alexander Gauland said "Hitler and the Nazis are just a speck of bird poop in more than 1,000 years of successful German history".
Alexander Gauland resigned as party leader in Brandenburg, when he led the AfD in the 2017 German federal election next to Alice Weidel, with whom he's now leading the AfD group in the Bundestag.
In November 2024, Alexander Gauland announced that he would run for Bundestag again, this time in his birthtown of Chemnitz in the state of Saxony.
Alexander Gauland suffered a heart attack in 2007, and has been taking medication to lower his blood pressure ever since.
Alexander Gauland is a member of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
Alexander Gauland's daughter is a Protestant pastor and publicly distanced herself from her father's statements on refugees in 2016.