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Rainer Kraft (politician)

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Rainer Kraft
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
24 October 2017
Personal details
Born (1974-01-08) 8 January 1974 (age 50)
NationalityGerman
Political partyAfD

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

Life and politics

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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

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