Axel Gehrke Explained

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.

Life and politics

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Deutscher Bundestag - Prof. Dr. Axel Gehrke.
  2. Web site: Prof. Dr. med. Axel Gehrke. AfD-Fraktion im deutschen Bundestag. 7 September 2019. 30 October 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201030014729/https://www.afdbundestag.de/person/prof-dr-med-axel-gehrke/. dead.
  3. https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wahlen-kiel-gescheiterte-wahl-haelt-nord-afd-in-fuehrungskrise-fest-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-210605-99-875430 Sueddeutsche.de: Wahlen in Kiel (german)