27 Facts About Tino Chrupalla

In November 2019, Chrupalla was nominated by Alexander Gauland to replace the latter as co-chairman of the AfD; he later won election as co-chair.

In March 2020, Tino Chrupalla's car caught fire on his property in Gablenz, a town in northeastern Saxony.

Tino Chrupalla condemned the act as a direct attack on his family, one that went beyond all conceivable boundaries of political debate.

In October 2023, Tino Chrupalla was hospitalised following a suspected attack with a syringe that occurred shortly before he was due to speak at an election rally.

Tino Chrupalla entered the AfD in 2015, and was elected to its district committee for Gorlitz in 2016.

Tino Chrupalla is one of five deputy chief whips of the AfD's federal parliamentary group.

Ahead of the 2021 German federal election, Tino Chrupalla was the AfD's leading candidate for the Bundestag alongside Alice Weidel.

Just before the 2021 German federal election, Tino Chrupalla cited border security as his main concern, calling for Germany to reinstate border controls to "curb border crime".

In 2017 Tino Chrupalla called for an end to the sanctions imposed on Russia following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, because the economy of his district was suffering as a result.

In February 2020, in the run-up to the 75th anniversary of the Bombing of Dresden in World War II, Tino Chrupalla cast doubt on the figure of around 25,000 fatalities determined by a commission of historians headed by Rolf-Dieter Muller between 2004 and 2010.

Rolf-Dieter Muller and historian Sven Felix Kellerhoff criticized these statements, which contradict the scientifically based findings of the commission; Tino Chrupalla is thus basing his calculations on figures that come from Joseph Goebbels' propaganda and are only postulated by history falsifiers such as David Irving, the NPD and other right-wing extremists.

In June 2021, Tino Chrupalla traveled to Moscow with several other AfD MPs to mark the 80th anniversary of the Wehrmacht's attack on the Soviet Union and laid a wreath there.

Tino Chrupalla alleged that the Allied victors' reeducation of ordinary Germans after the war had had a lasting impact on the country's national identity.

Tino Chrupalla compared the policies of the Allies after 1945 with Nazi propaganda.

Tino Chrupalla spoke out against arms deliveries to Ukraine, because they would not "pacify or end the conflict, but rather prolong it" and weapons systems delivered to Ukraine would " be fired on Russian territory".

Tino Chrupalla had previously explained Russia's aggressive warfare in Ukraine by saying that "every reaction results in a counter-reaction" and that Putin reacts to Ukrainian strikes like the destruction of the Crimean bridge.

Tino Chrupalla supported peace negotiations on the Russo-Ukrainian War with the participation of Russia.

In January 2025, Tino Chrupalla accepted an invitation from the Republican Party and attended the second inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, DC.

Tino Chrupalla has voiced opposition to restrictions on Chinese technology, and in 2023 backed Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang in his efforts to broker a peace in Ukraine after Russia's invasion.

In 2024, the AfD reversed its previously pro-Israel position, with Tino Chrupalla calling for an end to Germany's current relationship with Israel, which Tino Chrupalla described as "one-sided", as well as an end to arms exports to Israel during the Gaza war.

Tino Chrupalla criticized the German government's support for Israel during the Gaza war and rejected "blanket" Islamophobia.

Tino Chrupalla further spoke out against mandatory mask wearing in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic and advocated voluntary wearing, as he stated that there are differing opinions about the effectiveness of masks.

In December 2021, Tino Chrupalla expressed opposition to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations during a debate on the TV discussion programme ZDF-Morgenmagazin; he argued that vaccination would make sense for the elderly and for those who had been previously ill.

Tino Chrupalla instead blamed budget cuts and the downsizing of medical departments for recently overwhelmed ICUs in Germany.

In February 2020, in the run-up to the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, Tino Chrupalla cast doubt on the figure of around 25,000 deaths determined by a commission of historians led by Rolf-Dieter Muller between 2004 and 2010.

Tino Chrupalla, they argued, was thus basing his calculations on figures derived from Joseph Goebbels' propaganda and postulated only by history falsifiers such as David Irving, the NPD, and other right-wing extremists.

FDP politician Gerhart Baum, who had experienced the air raids on Dresden as a 12-year-old, vehemently contradicted Tino Chrupalla and accused him and the AfD of abusing the victims' suffering for political purposes.