Armin-Paul Hampel

Armin-Paul Hampel
Armin-Paul Hampel (2014)
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1957-07-23) 23 July 1957 (age 67)
NationalityGerman
Political partyAfD

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

  1. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Armin-Paulus Hampel".
  2. ^ "Zur Person: Armin Paul Hampel". Die Welt. 1 December 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2020 – via www.welt.de.
  3. ^ "Hampels Sorge um die Heimat". HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine. Archived from the original on 2018-09-17. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  4. ^ 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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