Rainer_Kraft_(politician)

Rainer Kraft (politician)

Rainer Kraft (politician)

German politician

Rainer Kraft (born 8 January 1974) is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag.

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Life and politics

Kraft was born 1974 in the West German town of Gräfelfing and studied chemistry and reached his PhD in 2002.[1] Kraft entered the newly founded populist AfD in 2013 and became after the 2017 German federal election a member of the Bundestag.[2] Kraft is considered to be part of the right-wing factional cluster Der Flügel (the wing).[3]

Kraft denies the scientific consensus on climate change.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Deutscher Bundestag – Dr. Rainer Kraft". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  2. [2]
    Schwäbische Zeitung 25 September 2017; print edition (in German)
  3. [3]
    "AfD holt Fan der Identitären nach vorn" (in German). 21 February 2018. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Rainer Kraft zum Klimawandel: AfD will aus Klimaschutz aussteigen". www.zdf.de (in German). Retrieved 23 September 2019.


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