Frank Magnitz Explained

Frank Magnitz
Office:Member of the Bundestag
Constituency:Bremen
Term Start:2017
Birth Date:29 June 1952
Birth Place:Neuenkirchen, Lower Saxony, West Germany
Birthname:Frank Rüdiger Heinrich Magnitz
Citizenship:German
Party:Alternative for Germany
Children:6
Residence:Bremen
Occupation:Politician

Frank Rüdiger Heinrich Magnitz (born 29 June 1952) is a German politician from the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) party. Magnitz has been a Member of the Bundestag from 2017 to 2021.

Biography

Magnitz was born in Neuenkirchen in the district of Diepholz in Lower Saxony.[1] He has qualifications in banking and teaching, has worked for Bremen social services and founded a commercial construction company,[2] and is a property manager and estate agent.[1] [3]

Political career

Originally a German Communist Party member, he joined the AfD in 2013, the year it was founded,[3] largely over anti-Muslim and anti-euro sentiments.[2] He became speaker of the Bremen branch in June 2015. In May 2015 he was elected to the council for the borough of,[4] and in the 2017 German federal election he won a levelling seat in the German parliament, the Bundestag,[5] where he is a member of the committees for construction, housing, urban development and community and for traffic and digital infrastructure and a deputy member of the committee for environment, protection of nature and nuclear security.[1]

On 7 January 2019, Magnitz was attacked after leaving a reception at the Bremen Kunsthalle, and badly injured.[6] Surveillance video showed three people, one of whom struck him a blow to the base of the skull with an elbow.[7] [8] From 2015 to 2019 Magnitz was chairman of the AfD federal state association in Bremen. He resigned in September 2019 after party internal disputes over his double mandate in Bremen and in the federal government Bundestag. His successor is Peter Beck.[9]

Personal life

Magnitz is married and has six children.[1] [2] He lives in the St. Magnus section of Burglesum.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Frank Magnitz, AfD . . 2019-01-12 . de .
  2. News: AfD-Kandidat Frank Magnitz im Porträt. Gegen Merkel und Mohammed. . 2019-01-09. Jürgen Theiner. 8 September 2017 . de .
  3. Web site: Frank Magnitz. Sprecher des Landesvorstandes. Vita. Alternative für Bremen. https://web.archive.org/web/20151029081433/http://www.alternativefuer-bremen.de/wp/frank-magnitz/ . 2015-10-29 . de .
  4. News: Jürgen Theiner . Beiräte ohne klare Mehrheiten . Weser-Kurier . 15 May 2015 . 2019-01-13 . de .
  5. News: Frank Hethey . Bremer AfD-Mann schafft es in den Bundestag . Weser-Kurier . 25 September 2017 . de . 2019-01-12 .
  6. News: German far-right MP Frank Magnitz badly hurt in Bremen attack . . 8 January 2019 . 2019-01-12 .
  7. News: Ansgar Siemens . AfD: Frank Magnitz spricht über den gewaltsamen Angriff . . 9 January 2019 . 2019-01-12 . de .
  8. News: Police release CCTV of an attack on German MP Frank Magnitz . BBC News . video . 11 January 2019 . 2019-01-13 .
  9. News: Bremen: AfD wählt Ex-Bundespolizisten Peter Beck zum neuen Landeschef - DER SPIEGEL - Politik. SPIEGEL. DER. Der Spiegel. 15 September 2019 . de. 2020-03-01.