36 Facts About Alice Weidel

From February 2020 to July 2022, Alice Weidel held the position of chairwoman of the AfD state association in Baden-Wurttemberg.

Alice Weidel was born in Gutersloh and grew up in Harsewinkel, where she graduated from a Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands Gymnasium in 1998.

Alice Weidel studied economics and business administration at the University of Bayreuth and graduated as one of the best in the year in 2004.

Alice Weidel's doctorate was supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the political party foundation associated with but independent of the Christian Democratic Union.

Alice Weidel joined the Alternative for Germany in October 2013.

Alice Weidel was elected to the federal executive committee of the AfD in June 2015.

Alice Weidel is the first lesbian to serve as a lead candidate of her party.

Alice Weidel has been identified by the media as belonging to the more moderate conservative Alternative Mitte faction within the AfD.

Alice Weidel donated a total of 132,000 euros by means of straw men for the 2017 federal election campaign of Alice Weidel.

In January 2024, Alice Weidel fired advisor Roland Hartwig after he attended a controversial meeting with German far-right activists in which plans to deport millions of people living in Germany were discussed.

Alice Weidel vigorously defends economic liberalism and declares former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to be her role model.

In terms of economic policy, Alice Weidel argued against the abolition of cash.

Alice Weidel expresses support for tax cuts and the abolition of inheritance tax and opposes the minimum wage.

Alice Weidel supports continued German membership in the European Union; however, in an interview with the London Financial Times published in January 2023, Alice Weidel outlined her party's approach in the event of a government takeover: if an attempt by the AfD to resolve the EU's "democratic deficit" were unsuccessful, Germany's exit from the EU would be put to a vote following the example of Great Britain.

Alice Weidel praised Hungary as a model for the AfD, saying that the AfD shares Hungary's opposition to illegal immigration and stance on the European Union.

Alice Weidel called for a "Fortress Europe" and "effective development aid".

Alice Weidel opposes health insurance for asylum seekers, criticises what she sees as a "naive approach" to radical Islamic preachers in Germany and has warned against excessive expectations regarding the integration of refugees into the labour market.

Alice Weidel has called for the German government to invest in "special economic zones" in the Middle East to encourage educated and skilled persons to remain in their home countries and avoid the possibility of brain drain, but says she supports a "Canadian-style system" which would prioritize skilled, over unskilled, immigrants.

In contrast to her AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla, Alice Weidel expressed support for Israel in context to the Gaza war.

Alice Weidel described the Infection Protection Act as unconstitutional; therefore, they "were right to take to the streets".

In July 2021, Alice Weidel stated that she would not be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the foreseeable future and complained that healthy unvaccinated people in Germany were being discriminated against - she did not believe in an implied vaccination requirement.

Alice Weidel has said she supports civil partnership for gay and lesbian couples, noting she is a lesbian herself and in a civil partnership with another woman.

Alice Weidel combines this position with her negative attitude towards asylum in Germany and Islam.

Alice Weidel cited the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark, who believes that the influence of carbon dioxide on the climate is overestimated.

At the AfD party conference in Riesa in January 2025, Alice Weidel said that an AfD government would "naturally bring functioning nuclear power plants back online"; she called for longer operating times for coal-fired power plants.

Alice Weidel promised to restart Nord Stream to supply Russian gas through the Baltic Sea.

Alice Weidel disagreed with the decision and promised to bring it to the.

In June 2023, Alice Weidel commented on the election polls results in former East Germany without Berlin, stating that AfD has great support in this region.

Alice Weidel subsequently asserted in an interview that she had in no way intended these terms as a provocation against all women who wear a headscarf.

Since 2009, Alice Weidel has been in a lesbian relationship with Sarah Bossard, a Sri Lankan-born film producer who was adopted as a child by a Swiss couple.

In terms of religion, Alice Weidel identifies herself as an agnostic.

On her father's side, Alice Weidel's family came from Neustadt and Leobschutz in Upper Silesia, in what is Poland.

Alice Weidel's grandfather Hans Weidel was a Nazi judge, appointed directly by Adolf Hitler.

Alice Weidel joined the NSDAP at the end of 1932 and the SS in January 1933.

Alice Weidel's father was born 1939 in Upper Silesia and fled with his mother and sister to Verl in February 1945.

Alice Weidel founded a sales agency for office furniture in 1972 and worked as a sales representative for furniture, furnishings and antiques.