Bernd Lucke

Bernd Lucke
Lucke in 2017
Leader of the Alternative for Germany
In office
14 April 2013 – 5 July 2015
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byJörg Meuthen
Leader of the Liberal Conservative Reformers
In office
10 November 2018 – 28 September 2019
Preceded byStephanie Tsomakaeva (interim)
Succeeded byJürgen Joost
In office
19 July 2015 – 4 June 2016
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byUlrike Trebesius
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019
Preceded bymulti-member district
Succeeded bymulti-member district
ConstituencyGermany
Personal details
Born
Bernd Lucke

(1962-08-19) 19 August 1962 (age 62)
West Berlin, West Germany (now Germany)
Political partyWe Citizens (2015–present)
Other political
affiliations
CDU (1978–2011)
Free Voters (2013)
AfD (2013–2015)
SpouseDorothea Lucke
Children5
ResidenceWinsen (Luhe)
Alma mater
Signature
Websitewww.bernd-lucke.de

Bernd Lucke (born 19 August 1962) is a German economist, professor, author and former politician. He co-founded the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2013 and served as the party's federal chairman until July 2015, when he was displaced and left the party soon after. He had been elected a member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the AfD in 2014 and served the five-year full term as a member of various other new parties, similar to some other former AfD MEPs.

Lucke was a professor of economics at the University of Hamburg before helping to found Wahlalternative 2013 ("Electoral Alternative 2013"), which would become the AfD. Lucke served as the party's spokesman until he lost a leadership election to Frauke Petry in July 2015. Petry's election was considered a party shift to extremist positions; Lucke subsequently left the party. In July 2015, he and other former AfD members founded the political party We Citizens (formerly known as Liberal-Konservative Reformer)[1][2][3] He failed to win reelection in 2019 and has since returned to an academic career.[4]

  1. ^ "Ex-chief of German anti-euro party starts new eurosceptic group". Yahoo News. 19 July 2015.
  2. ^ "Germany's ex-AfD leader sets up new eurosceptic party". Reuters UK. Archived from the original on 21 August 2015.
  3. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg, Germany (19 July 2015). "ALFA: AfD-Gründer Bernd Lucke gründet neue Partei". SPIEGEL ONLINE.
  4. ^ "Europawahl 2019: Vorläufiges amtliches Ergebnis – der Bundeswahlleiter".

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