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AfD leader Chrupalla employs wife of a party colleague

Berlin 12. February 2026 17:15 Uhr 2 Min
AfD leader Chrupalla employs wife of a party colleague
AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla (right) shares two citizens' offices with Roberto Kuhnert (center), member of the Saxon state parliament. (Archive photo) / Photo: Sebastian Kahnert/dpa
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Recently, the AfD Saxony-Anhalt was criticized for employing family members of MPs. Now party leader Chrupalla has spoken out about his own constituency offices.

Federal AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla claims to employ the wife of Robert Kuhnert, a member of the Saxon state parliament, in his offices. This is not a problem, emphasizes Chrupalla, who shares the chairmanship of the party and the AfD parliamentary group with Alice Weidel, on Platform X. The woman coordinates citizens' inquiries and visitor trips to the Bundestag for him in the offices in Weißwasser and Niesky. Chrupalla captioned his post with the words "Due to current events". MDR had previously reported on the connections.

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"Disturbing feeling" due to employment of relatives

In Saxony-Anhalt, several cases had recently come to light in which family members of AfD politicians had been employed by other members of the Bundestag. Chrupalla recently spoke of a "disturbing feeling" with regard to this. He said that the contracts in question were legally binding and not objectionable. But: "It does have a flavor."

The employee has been working for him since 2017, her husband was elected to the state parliament in 2019. "We are not related to each other, nor are there any cross-employment in his office," Chrupalla continues, writing in reference to his own family: "At home, we agree that one person in politics is enough."

Roberto Kuhnert, the husband of Chrupalla's long-time colleague, has been a member of the AfD since 2015, according to the Saxon state parliament's website. According to the website of the AfD district association in Görlitz, he shares the citizens' offices in Niesky and Weißwasser with Chrupalla.

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