Martin Renner (born 5 May 1954 in

Reutlingen Reutlingen (; Swabian: ''Reitlenga'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the capital of the eponymous district of Reutlingen. As of June 2018, it has a population of 115,818. Reutlingen has a university of applied sciences, which ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

) is a German politician of Alternative for Germany (AfD), previously of CDU. Martin Renner has served as a member of the

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Common ...

from the state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

since 2017.

Life

Renner studied Business Administration at

Reutlingen University __FORCETOC__ Reutlingen University (in German ''Hochschule Reutlingen''; formerly ''FHTW Reutlingen'') is a university of applied sciences, involved in education and research. It is located in Reutlingen in the southern German state of Baden-Wü ...

and worked as a marketing director in an international pharmaceutical and cosmetics company and other positions in the cosmetic industry. Renner was a member of the CDU from 1998 to 2005. In 2012 he joined Bernd Lucke's "Alternative" of which he became the NRW state representative in November 2012 and of which he was a member of the spokesperson's council. At the beginning of 2013 he was one of the 15 founding initiators as well as a member of the founding board of the Alternative für Deutschland party, where he also developed the party name and the logo on behalf of the initiators. Renner organized the founding party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalian state association of the AfD and was elected deputy state spokesman there. He became member of German

after the

2017 German federal election Federal elections were held in Germany on 24 September 2017 to elect the members of the 19th Bundestag. At stake were at least 598 seats in the Bundestag, as well as 111 overhang and leveling seats determined thereafter. The Christian Democr ...

. He is a member of the Committee for Culture and Media. Renner participated in 2015 at an unauthorized demonstration. In December 2017 the Bundestag lifted Renner's immunity in the course of ongoing criminal proceedings. Renner is author in the right-wing blog Pollitcialy Incorrect.

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Bundestag biography
1954 births Living people Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia Members of the Bundestag 2021–2025 Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021 Members of the Bundestag for the Alternative for Germany {{Germany-AFD-politician-stub