Franziska Schreiber (born 1990 in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

) is a former German politician and media-personality. She is a former member of the Junge Alternative (Young Alternative), the "Youth Organization" of the right-wing

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(AfD). Schreiber authored a critical semiautobiography about her involvement in the AfD.

Life

Franziska graduated from high school in 2008. She studied law for some time after which she studied politics at an open university. She joined the AfD in 2013 and just a year later was made chairman of JA in Saxony and deputy spokesperson. Later in 2017 she became a member of the Federal Board. Shortly before the elections in 2017, she resigned from the AfD in support of the

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(FDP). In March 2019 she started a

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, which is a part of the

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network run by

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(ARD), and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF).

History

She joined

(AfD) in 2013. Before leaving the AfD in 2017, she was on the board of the Young Alternative for Germany. She sees herself as libertarian and publicly recommended the FDP in the 2017 federal elections and caused a sensation with her book ''Inside AFD: Der Bericht einer Aussteigerin'', published by Europa-Verlag on August 3, 2018, in which she describes the AfD behind the scenes. The mass media focused in particular on their assertion that former party leader

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was once advised by the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution,

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. She supported this claim with an affidavit after the denial of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz).

Literature

* 2018 ''Inside AFD: Der Bericht einer Aussteigerin, Europa Verlag'',

External links

Franziska Schreiber
on

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References

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