Background
Gauland was born in Chemnitz, that became part of the East Germany in 1949, and after graduating from high school in 1959, he fled to West Germany.
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Gauland was born in Chemnitz, that became part of the East Germany in 1949, and after graduating from high school in 1959, he fled to West Germany.
He studied political science and law at Marburg, where he also received his doctorate.
He possesses two juristical Staatsexamen and a Doctorate. Gauland is a leading politician of the right-wing AfD. In 1972 Gauland entered the Federal Press Office and worked as the Director of the Office of the Mayor of Frankfurt am Main for 10 years. From 1991-2006 worked as an editor of the local newspaper in Potsdam.
Founding the AfD On the morning of March 25, 2010 German Chancellor Angela Merkel publicly assured that there would be no direct financial aid to Greece, only to break that promise a few hours later by agreeing with the leaders of the euro states to send the first of many "rescue packages" to Greece.
Gerd Robanus, Assessor in the Federal Executive of the Christian Democratic Union-Business Association cited this as the reason for founding the "Election Alternative 2013" together with Alexander Gauland, Konrad Adam and Bernd Lucke. In February 2014 Gauland received about 80 percent of the vote during an Extraordinary National Congress in Diedersdorf, becoming chairman of the Brandenburg County Association of the Alternative for Germany.
Landtag of Brandenburg The AfD earned a voting share of 12.2 percent in the Brandenburg state election, 2014 for the first time. On Tuesday, 10/07/2014 Gauland opened the inaugural session of the Landtag of Brandenburg: In 2012 Gauland became involved in the Berliner Kreis ("Berlin circuit"), loose association of federal and state politicians within the Christian Democratic Union, which has been trying for years to make the Christian Democratic Union become conservative again, because they consider the region of Angela Merkel to be contrasting to this ideal.
PEGIDA Alexander Gauland said he can not detect any right-extremists and radicals at the PEGIDA-Demonstrations.
He is the AfD"s federal spokesman and state chairman of Brandenburg.
Christian Democratic Union, Alternative for Germany.
Afterwards he became the head of a department of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in Bonn and Member of the Hessian Prime Minister´s cabinet. As part of this speech, after quoting Edmund Burke, Gauland wished the other members of parliament "all the strength and the courage, to tackle the tasks now ahead of them, in the interest of the voters and in the interest of the common good". Before becoming an AfD founding member Gauland was member of the Christian Democratic Union.
