| Birgit Malsack-Winkemann | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | MdB a.D. |
| Office: | Member of the Court of Arbitration of the Alternative for Germany for the Second Chamber |
| Alongside: | Walter Wissenbach, Roland Ulbrich[1] |
| Term Start: | 29 November 2020[2] |
| Predecessor: | Monica-Ines Oppel |
| Office1: | Member of the Bundestag for Berlin |
| Term Start1: | 24 October 2017 |
| Term End1: | 26 October 2021 |
| Successor1: | multi-member district |
| Predecessor1: | multi-member district |
| Constituency1: | Alternative for Germany List |
| Birth Date: | August 12, 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Darmstadt, Hesse, West Germany |
| Nationality: | German |
| Children: | 2 |
| Alma Mater: | Heidelberg University (Dr. jur.) |
Birgit Malsack-Winkemann (born 12 August 1964) is a German far-right[3] [4] [5] politician and former judge, and a member of the Patriotic Union. She was a member of the 19th Bundestag from 2017 to 2021 for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), of which she has been a member since 2013. After losing re-election to the Bundestag in 2021, Winkemann returned to her previous position as a judge in the Berlin regional court.
On 7 December 2022, she was arrested during a large-scale raid against an alleged right-wing terrorist association with roots stemming from within the Reichsbürger movement.[6]
Malsack-Winkemann was born on 12 August 1964 in Darmstadt[7] and studied law[8] at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.[7] From 2003 to 2017 Malsack-Winkemann worked as a judge in the state of Berlin.[7] In 2013 she joined the newly founded AfD and became a member of the Bundestag in 2017.[9] In June 2021 she was nominated in 5th position on the AfD state candidate list for Bundestag, after she lost against Georg Pazderski - with the state party only winning 3 seats proportionally allocated seats, she lost re-election.[10]
She has been a member of the AfD's party Court of Arbitration since June 2022.[1]
Malsack-Winkemann has two children.[7]
See main article: 2022 German coup d'état plot. In the morning of 7 December 2022, she was arrested for her alleged involvement with a group of right-wing extremists connected to the Reichsbürger movement, which had planned a coup against the German government.[11] [12] She would have become the Minister of Justice of the government which would be formed if they had managed to realise their plan.[13]
At a trial that started on 21 May 2024, Malsack-Winkemann and eight other defendants were charged with terrorism and high treason.[14]