Armin-Paul Hampel | |
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.jpg) Armin-Paul Hampel (2014) | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
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| Born | 23 July 1957 |
| Nationality | German |
| Political party | AfD |
Armin-Paul Hampel (born 23 July 1957) is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and from 2017 - 2021 member of the Bundestag.
Life and achievements
Hampel was born 1957 in the then-West German city of Bielefeld and became a freelancer journalist. [1] In his career he worked mostly for public broadcasting stations, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Central German Broadcasting) and later ARD. [2]
Hampel entered the newly founded AfD in 2013 and was chairman of the Landesverband (federal state association) of the party in Lower Saxony from 2013 to 2017. [3]
In 2017 a criminal investigation alleging fraud and tax evasion was conducted against Hampel; the lawsuit was abandoned without further action. [4]
At the German federal election in September 2017, AfD — which was previously unrepresented in the Bundestag — became the third party in the Bundestag with 12.6% of the vote. The AfD got 94 of the 709 Bundestag seats; Hampel has one of them.
References
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Armin-Paulus Hampel".
- ^ "Zur Person: Armin Paul Hampel". Die Welt. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2020 – via www.welt.de.
- ^ "Hampels Sorge um die Heimat". HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine. Archived from the original on 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
- ^ Müller, Uwe (23 April 2017). "Streit in AfD Niedersachsen: "Er gebärdet sich zunehmend als Chef-Intrigant der AfD"". Die Welt – via www.welt.de.
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