Arno Bausemer (born 2 December 1982) is a German politician of Alternative for Germany who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1]
Arno Bausemer | |
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.jpg) Bausemer in 2021 | |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | Germany |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 December 1982 |
| Political party | Alternative for Germany (2016–present) Free Democratic Party (until 2016) |
| Other political affiliations | Europe of Sovereign Nations |
| Alma mater | Leipzig University |
Early life and career
editBausemer was born in Havelberg in 1982.[2] He grew up in Hohengöhren and went to school in Schönhausen and Tangermünde,[3] and studied journalism and political science at Leipzig University.[4] While in school he interned at Lok Stendal, and was later responsible for sports broadcasts at Offener Kanal Stendal for 15 years.[4] He has been an extra in several Til Schweiger films.[4] In 2009 he became a lay judge at the Magdeburg Administrative Court, appearing at 3–4 hearings per year.[4] He interned at Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in Leipzig for nine months in 2010.[5]
Political career
editBausemer's father was a member of the Kreistag representing the FDP, leading him to join the party.[3] He worked with the FDP for ten years, and was the party's district treasurer and group chairman in Elbe-Havel-Land.[4] Bausemer was a critic of the party's district chairman Marcus Faber,[3] and began to turn away from the party following its approval of the Greek bailout, ultimately leaving it due to the Stendal electoral fraud case.[4] He announced his departure in January 2016, expressing disappointment that the fraud case, as well as the party's 2013 constituency result, had not led to a change in the local leadership, and criticizing the federal party's policies on Greece and refugees.[6]
Having been a skeptic of CDU chancellor Angela Merkel's border policies in 2015, he looked for an alternative party.[7] He joined Alternative for Germany in February 2016, and in the same year became a member of its district board and its candidate for mayor of Elbe-Havel-Land,[4] as well as a member of its executive committee in Saxony-Anhalt.[3]
In the spring of 2017, Bausemer became the first leader of the Young Alternative in Stendal upon its founding,[8] and he began working as chief of staff to Oliver Kirchner in November 2017.[3] He became leader of the AfD in the city council of Stendal, and in 2019 was elected to the Kreistag and was the party's candidate for Landrat.[3] In the 2021 German federal election, he was the party's candidate in the Altmark – Jerichower Land constituency.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Arno Bausemer: Vom Geflügelhof ins EU-Parlament" (in German). Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. 14 June 2024.
- ^ "Arno Bausemer". European Parliament.
- ^ a b c d e f "Bausemer will Landrat werden". Volksstimme (in German). 3 October 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Arno Bausemer will Unbequemes angreifen". Volksstimme (in German). 11 October 2016.
- ^ "AfD-Mann Bausemer behält EU-Listenplatz trotz Falschangaben" (in German). Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. 19 September 2023.
- ^ "Bausemer verlässt die Liberalen". Volksstimme. 6 January 2016.
- ^ a b "Arno Bausemer (AfD) tritt für den Wahlkreis Altmark an - Er ruft stets laut nach Recht und Ordnung". Volksstimme (in German). 6 September 2021.
- ^ "Altmärkischer AfD-Nachwuchs schießt gegen die CDU". AZ-Online (in German). 15 May 2019.