Nicole Höchst (born 10 February 1970) is a German politician for the

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(AfD) and since 2017 member of the

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. Her positions are described by various interest groups as

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and hostile, which Höchst disputes.

Life and politics

Höchst was born in 1970 in the

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town of

Homburg (Saar) Homburg (; , ; ) is a town in Saarland, Germany and the administrative seat of the Saarpfalz-Kreis, Saarpfalz district. With a population of 43,029 inhabitants (2022), it is the third largest town in the state. The city offers over 30,000 workpl ...

and became a teacher. Höchst entered the AfD in 2015 and became after the

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a member of the Bundestag. She is a member of the Committee for Education, Research and Technology Assessment and the Committee on Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. She criticized the concept of a

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, partially in response to the Federal Constitutional Court's ruling that a third gender option was constitutionally necessary. (See also: '' Third gender law (Germany)''). Her daughter is a member of the youth city council in

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. In late 2018, her daughter participated in a poetry competition, in which she read a poem that was widely deemed as racist, in which she criticized

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, so-called

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and mass

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. She was disqualified and Speyer's mayor Monika Kabs later accused her of using racist comments to further her mother's political campaigns.

References

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