Siegbert Droese (born 7 June 1969) is a German politician for the populist

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(AfD) and since 2017 member of the

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, the federal legislative body. He is a member of the völkisch-

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Flügel of his party.

Life

Droese was born 1969 in the East German city of

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

and became a hotelier.

Politics

Within AfD Droese is referred as "ultra-nationalist". Droese is believed to be a fan of Adolf Hitler. In 2016, it became known that one of his cars bore the Leipzig license plate "AH 1818". In the

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, "AH" stands for Adolf Hitler as well as "18". With a swollen chest and right hand on his heart, Droese had himself photographed at " Hitlers Wolfsschanze" ("Wolf`s Lair"), the former Führer's headquarters in

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. Droese entered the than newly founded AfD and got at

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elected to Bundestag.

References

Living people 1969 births Members of the Bundestag for Saxony Politicians from Leipzig Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 Members of the Bundestag for the Alternative for Germany {{Germany-AFD-politician-stub