Who is Alice Weidel?
Alice Weidel was born in Gütersloh in 1979, earned a doctorate in economics and worked in finance and business, including several years in China. She entered the Bundestag in 2017 and has co-led the AfD group since then, and became party co-chair with Tino Chrupalla in June 2022. She was the AfD's candidate for Chancellor in 2025 and was re-elected party co-chair with 81.3 percent at the Erfurt congress in July 2026.
Previously: Co-leader of the AfD Bundestag group (since 2017), the largest opposition group since May 2025 · AfD candidate for Chancellor (2025 federal election) · Member of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg (since 2017)
Documented positions
- Said in January 2025 that an AfD government would restart functioning nuclear plants, tear down wind turbines and leave the common EU asylum system.Source: zdfheute.de
- Backed the 2025 programme goal of remigration, defined by the AfD as deporting people obliged to leave and returning refugees once their grounds for protection lapse.Source: stuttgarter-zeitung.de
- Voted in March 2026 against rejecting an AfD motion to require eight years of residence before naturalisation.Source: abgeordnetenwatch.de
- Voted in April 2026 against rejecting an AfD motion that opposed a windfall tax and called for lower fuel taxes and abolishing the CO2 levy.Source: abgeordnetenwatch.de
- Voted against the March 2026 Grundsicherung law that replaced the Bürgergeld.Source: abgeordnetenwatch.de
- Voted in July 2026 against a Greens motion for additional military and humanitarian support for Ukraine.Source: abgeordnetenwatch.de
- Voted against the December 2025 military service law and against the government's pension package the same day.Source: abgeordnetenwatch.de
Record
In May 2025 the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified the AfD as a confirmed right-wing extremist effort. Earlier, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster had upheld in May 2024 its classification as a suspected case, a ruling that became final when the Federal Administrative Court rejected the AfD's appeal in May 2025. On 26 February 2026 the Cologne Administrative Court granted the AfD's urgent application: the agency may not use the confirmed extremist label until the main case is decided, while the court found a strong suspicion of anti-constitutional efforts within the party, which remains a suspected case. Weidel welcomed the ruling on X, saying the court had indirectly blocked a party ban. The Federal Interior Ministry said in March 2026 that it would not appeal the interim decision and would argue its case in the main proceedings.
In September 2026 the AfD came first in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Supporters cite its focus on migration, energy prices and sovereignty; critics cite the intelligence assessments and its positions on migrants and Russia.
In their words
“Wir werden rigoros abschieben!”
