Birgit Malsack-Winkemann (born 12 August 1964) is a German far-right^[3][4][5] politician and former judge, and a member of the Patriotic Union. She was a member of the 19th Bundestag from 2017 to 2021 for the Alternative for Germany (AfD), of which she has been a member since 2013. After losing re-election to the Bundestag in 2021, Winkemann returned to her previous position as a judge in the Berlin regional court.

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Birgit Malsack-Winkemann MdB a.D.
Malsack-Winkemann in 2020
Member of the Court of Arbitration of the Alternative for Germany for the Second Chamber
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 2020[1] Serving with Walter Wissenbach, Roland Ulbrich[2]
Preceded by	Monica-Ines Oppel
Member of the Bundestag for Berlin
In office 24 October 2017 – 26 October 2021
Preceded by	multi-member district
Succeeded by	multi-member district
Constituency	Alternative for Germany List
Personal details
Born	(1964-08-12) 12 August 1964 (age 59) Darmstadt, Hesse, West Germany
Political party	Alternative for Germany (2013–)
Children	2
Alma mater	Heidelberg University (Dr. jur.)
Occupation	Politician Judge
Website	Bundestag website

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On 7 December 2022, she was arrested during a large-scale raid against an alleged right-wing terrorist association with roots stemming from within the Reichsbürger movement.^[6]

Malsack-Winkemann was born on 12 August 1964 in Darmstadt^[7] and studied jurisprudence^[8] at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.^[7] From 2003 to 2017 Malsack-Winkemann was a judge for legal affairs in Berlin.^[7] In 2013 she joined the newly founded AfD and became a member of the Bundestag in 2017.^[9] In June 2021 she was nominated in 5th position on the AfD state candidate list for Bundestag^{[clarification needed This doesn't make sense in English]}, after she lost against Georg Pazderski - with the state party only winning 3 seats proportionally allocated seats, she lost re-election.^[10]

She has been a member of the AfD's party Court of Arbitration since June 2022.^[2]

Malsack-Winkemann has two children.^[7]

In the morning of 7 December 2022, she was arrested for her alleged involvement with a group of right-wing extremists connected to the Reichsbürger movement, which had planned a coup against the German government.^[11][12] She would have become the Minister of Justice of the government which would be formed if they had managed to realise their plan.^[13]