Johannes Huber (born 12 January 1987) is a German politician and since 2017 member of the

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Life and politics

Huber was born 1987 in the West German town of

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and studied

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at the

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt The Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is a Catholic research university in Eichstätt and Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. It is the only Catholic university in Germany. Compared to other German universities it is a rather small ...

. Huber entered the AfD in 2014 and became after the

2017 German federal election The 2017 German federal election was held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the List of members of the 19th Bundestag, members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 Overhang seat, overhan ...

member of the bundestag. In December 2021 Huber left the AfD and their parliamentary group.

Political positions

At the end of November 2021, Johannes Huber wrote instructions in a closed

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group on how to achieve a false positive test result in a PCR test for a Covid-19 infection. After two weeks of quarantine, one could have achieved the status of a recovered person and, despite the lack of a vaccination, would not be subject to the access restrictions imposed by the 2G rule. When his statements became public he wrote that his instructions were obviously useless and "obviously not serious".

References

1987 births Living people Members of the Bundestag for Bavaria People from Freising (district) Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Members of the Bundestag for the Alternative for Germany {{Germany-AFD-politician-stub