Leif-Erik Holm Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Biermann. Kai. Bundestag: AfD-Abgeordnete beschäftigen Rechtsextreme und Verfassungsfeinde. 21 March 2018. Die Zeit. 1 March 2020. Geisler. Astrid. de-DE. 0044-2070. Radke. Johannes. Steffen. Tilman.
  2. News: East is east: In a German backwater, anti-immigrant feeling thrives. 3 September 2016. The Economist. 3 September 2016.
  3. https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article157869434/Der-Mann-der-die-AfD-vom-Schmuddelimage-befreien-will.html Der Mann, der die AfD vom Schmuddelimage befreien will