Christine Margarete Anderson (born 29 July 1968 in Eschwege) is a German politician who has been serving as a

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

since 2019. A member of the

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(AfD), Anderson is a former activist of the Pegida movement.

Background and education

Anderson was born in

Eschwege Eschwege (), the district seat of the Werra-Meißner-Kreis, is a town in northeastern Hesse, Germany. In 1971, the town hosted the eleventh ''Hessentag'' state festival. Geography Location The town lies on a broad plain tract of the river Wer ...

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. She completed a commercial apprenticeship. She lived in the United States for six years, where she studied economics and worked for a US trading company. Her brother, Ralph Moller, has claimed that Anderson did not complete her studies and that the reported trading company job was actually a sales associate job at an outerwear store.

Political career

In 2013 Anderson became a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). From 2016 to 2018, she was the party's group leader in the

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district assembly. She was elected to the

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in the 2019 election. Before the election, she stated her goal was to "lead Germany out of this EU nightmare". Anderson is a former activist of the anti-Islam,

far-right Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

Pegida movement, having participated in Pegida street protests promoting opposition to immigration, specifically Islamic migrants. She has also appeared on ''

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'', where she stated her support for the

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having supported Canadian anti-mandate protesters since 2021. In the European Parliament, Anderson is a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age, and a deputy member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection. Anderson was appointed to the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic, and in a July 2022 session she entered into the record a complaint that there had been too much emphasis upon getting experimental gene therapy treatments into healthy people. In February 2023, Anderson was pictured alongside three

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MPs,

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and

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, all of whom are members of the Conservative Party. The picture sparked a political controversy in Canada, with several groups, including the

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, criticizing the meeting. Conservative leader

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denounced the meeting, stating: "Frankly, it would be better if Anderson never visited Canada in the first place. She and her racist, hateful views are not welcome here."

Personal life

Anderson has three children and lives in

Fulda Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the city hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival. Histor ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Anderson, Christine 1968 births Living people 21st-century women MEPs for Germany Alternative for Germany MEPs German anti-vaccination activists German expatriates in the United States MEPs for Germany 2019–2024 Pegida activists People from Eschwege MEPs for Germany 2024–2029