Armin-Paul Hampel

Armin-Paul Hampel (born 23 July 1957) is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.

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

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 because of alleged fraud and tax evasion was conducted against Hampel; the lawsuit was abandoned without taking 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". 1 December 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2020 – via www.welt.de.
  3. "Hampels Sorge um die Heimat". HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine.
  4. Müller, Uwe (23 April 2017). "Streit in AfD Niedersachsen: „Er gebärdet sich zunehmend als Chef-Intrigant der AfD"" – via www.welt.de.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.