Axel Gehrke | |
Office: | Member of the Bundestag for Schleswig-Holstein |
Term Start: | 24 October 2017 |
Term End: | 22 September 2021 |
Birth Name: | Axel Gehrke |
Birth Date: | 12 January 1942 |
Birth Place: | Arnswalde, Province of Pomerania, Nazi Germany |
Death Place: | Germany |
Party: | Alternative for Germany (AfD) |
Occupation: | Doctor |
Nationality: | German |
Children: | 3 |
Axel Gehrke (12 January 1942 – 22 September 2021) was a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag from 2017 until 2021.
Gehrke was born 1942 in Arnswalde (now Choszczno) and studied medicine. He became a Doctor of Medicine in 1971.[1]
Gehrke entered the newly founded AfD in 2013 and became after the 2017 German federal election member of the Bundestag.[2] He did not stand for reelection in the 2021 German federal election.[3]