| Stephan Brandner | |
| Office: | Deputy Leader of the Alternative for Germany |
| Alongside: | Mariana Harder-Kühnel Beatrix von Storch Peter Boehringer |
| Term Start: | 30 November 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Albrecht Glaser |
| Office1: | Chair of the Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection Committee |
| Term Start1: | 31 January 2018 |
| Term End1: | 13 November 2019 |
| Predecessor1: | Siegfried Kauder |
| Successor1: | Heribert Hirte |
| Office2: | Member of the Bundestag for Thuringia |
| Term Start2: | 24 September 2017 |
| Constituency2: | Alternative for Germany List |
| Office3: | Member of the Landtag of Thuringia |
| Term Start3: | 14 September 2014 |
| Term End3: | 24 September 2017 |
| Constituency3: | Alternative for Germany List |
| Birth Date: | 29 May 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Herten, West Germany |
| Party: | AfD (2013–present) |
Stephan Brandner (born 29 May 1966) is a German politician. He has been a member of the Bundestag for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) since 2017 and served as chairman of the Bundestag's Legal Affairs Committee from 31 January 2018 to November 2019. He was the front runner candidate of the AfD in the state of Thuringia for the 2017 German federal election. Since November 2019, Brandner has been one of three chairman deputies of the AfD.
Brandner was born on 29 May 1966 in Herten. He became an industrial management assistant (Industriekaufmann) and then studied law at Universität Regensburg. Since 1997 he has been working as a lawyer, previously in Munich, then in Gera.
He is member of German: KStV Agilolfia Regensburg in German: [[Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine]].
After the Halle synagogue shooting, Brandner shared a message on Twitter, criticizing that politicians were "lingering" with candles in front of synagogues and mosques, whereas the two casualties were neither Jews nor Muslims, but "organic Germans". Social Democratic politicians and associations of German lawyers called on Brandner to resign from his office as chairman of the Bundestag's Legal Affairs Committee.[1] [2] Brandner is close to the positions of the ultra-nationalist wing (Der Flügel) within the AfD.[3]