Leif-Erik Holm | |
Office: | Member of the Bundestag |
Term Start: | 24 October 2017 |
Birth Date: | 1 August 1970 |
Party: | AfD |
Birth Place: | Schwerin, East Germany |
Leif-Erik Holm (born 1 August 1970) is a German politician of the AfD party and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.
Holm worked as a radio presenter for the private Antenne MV broadcaster, studied economics in Berlin, and became a politician in 2013.Holm is since 2013, with a short interruption in 2015, state chairman of his party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[1] He was the leading AfD candidate in the state in the 2013 German federal elections and was also frontrunner for his party in the 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state elections.During the campaign Holm warned of the spread of Islam.[2]
Holm temporarily worked for fellow AfD politician Beatrix von Storch.[3]