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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Bernd Lucke
- Succeeded by
- Alice Weidel
- Chief whip
- Anton Baron
- Constituency
- Alternative for Germany list
- Born
- Jörg Hubert Meuthen , ( 1961-06-29 ) 29 June 1961 (age 64) , Essen , West Germany (now Germany)
- Party
- Values Union (since 2024)
- Other political affiliations
- Christian Democratic Union (1977), Alternative for Germany (2013–2022), Zentrum (2022–2023)
- Spouse
- Natalia Zvekic ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2018 )
- Alma mater
- University of Münster (no degree), University of Mainz , University of Cologne (Dr. rer. pol.)
- Occupation
- Economist Politician Public Servant Professor
- Website
- Official website
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hubert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Essen
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- Political party
- Values Union
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Participant in
- 2017 German presidential election
- Official website
- meuthen.afd-fraktion-bw.de
- Image
- Member of the European Parliament for Germany Jörg Hubert Meuthen.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Jörg Hubert Meuthen ( German: [ˈjœɐ̯k ˈmɔʏtn̩]; born 29 June 1961) is a German economist, academic and politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Germany from 2017 until 2024.
He was the frontrunner for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party at the 2016 Baden-Württemberg state election and was a Member of Parliament and parliamentary leader from March 2016. He was the leading candidate of the AfD for the 2019 European Parliament election. He served as federal spokesman for, and thus leader of, the AfD from July 2015 until his resignation in January 2022, caused by conflict with right-wing extremist elements in the party. From June 2022 to September 2023, he sat as a member of the German Centre Party. He sat as an independent MEP for the remainder of his term. Since September 2024, he's been part of Values Union.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jörg Meuthen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.