Michael Espendiller (born 5 May 1989) is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany and since 2017 a member of the Bundestag.

Michael Espendiller
Michael Espendiller (2020)
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born(1989-05-05)5 May 1989
NationalityGerman
Political partyAfD

Life and politics

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Espendiller was born 1989 in the West German town of Leonberg and studied Mathematics and macroeconomics at the University of Münster. [1]

He achieved his Dr. rer. nat. in 2017.[2]

Espendiller entered the newly founded AfD in 2013 and after the 2017 German federal election he became a member of the Bundestag and Parlamentarischer Geschäftsführer (parliamentary managing secretary) of his party's group.[3]

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

References

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  1. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Dr. Michael Espendiller".
  2. ^ Espendiller, Michael; Kateri, Maria; Kamps, Udo (September 7, 2017). Association in contingency tables: an informationtheoretic approach (Thesis) – via publications.rwth-aachen.de.
  3. ^ Biermann, Kai; Geisler, Astrid; Holzinger, Christina; Middelhoff, Paul; Polke-Majewski, Karsten; Steffen, Tilman (2017-10-24). "AfD-Abgeordnete: Rechts bis extrem im Bundestag". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  4. ^ "Energiewende basiert auf falschen Klimamodellen! - Dr. Michael Espendiller - AfD-Bürgerdialog". AfD-Fraktion im deutschen Bundestag. January 31, 2019.