Birger Gröning (born 1975 in Schwerin) is a German politician from
Thuringia
Thuringia (; officially the Free State of Thuringia, ) is one of Germany, Germany's 16 States of Germany, states. With 2.1 million people, it is 12th-largest by population, and with 16,171 square kilometers, it is 11th-largest in area.
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. Previously representing the
Alternative for Germany
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Citizens for Thuringia, he has been an independent politician since 2022.
Life
Gröning completed an apprenticeship as a hotel specialist with the additional qualification of a training qualification in 1995. From 1995 to 2005 he was in the
German Army
The German Army (, 'army') is the land component of the armed forces of Federal Republic of Germany, Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German together with the German Navy, ''Marine'' (G ...
as a sergeant in the air force security force and staff service. He then became a physiotherapist and worked in a rehabilitation clinic.
On 27 October 2019 he was elected to the Thuringian state parliament for the AfD as a direct candidate in the
Gotha I constituency. On 23 March 2022, he announced his resignation from the AfD parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament and the party.
On 20 June 2022 Gröning founded the ''
Citizens for Thuringia'' parliamentary group together with former
Free Democrat MP and the two former AfD MPs
Lars Schütze and . Two days later, the application for parliamentary recognition was submitted to the president of the Thuringian State Parliament, which was accepted by the Parliament in the July plenary session. In December 2022, Gröning resigned from the Citizens for Thuringia party and state parliamentary group, thus pre-empting a party expulsion procedure. Since then he has sat in the Landtag as an independent member.
In the
2024 Brandenburg state election, Gröning ran as an independent in the constituency of
Gotha II but was not elected.
Gröning is married and lives in
Gotha
Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...
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External links
Birger Gröning auf der Website des Thüringer Landtags
References
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Living people
1975 births
People from Gotha (district)
German physiotherapists
Alternative for Germany politicians
Citizens for Thuringia politicians
Members of the Landtag of Thuringia