René Springer

René Springer
René Springer
Member of the Bundestag
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2017
Personal details
Born	15 July 1979 (age 44); Berlin, East Germany; (now Germany)
Political party	AfD

René Springer (born 15 July 1979) is a German far-right politician (Alternative for Germany). René Springer has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg since 2017.He is chairmen of AfD Brandenburg.

Life[edit]

He graduated from a secondary school in Berlin in 1996. He was a regular soldier in the German Navy from 1997 to 2009. There he completed training as an electronics technician and further training to become a master in electrical engineering, and later taught at a naval vocational school. In 2006/2007 he spent six months in Afghanistan for ISAF.

He studied political science at the University of Greifswald, which he completed in 2014 with a thesis on emotions and nationalism - fear and secession in Scotland. Following his studies, he briefly worked for the German Society for International Cooperation on a rural electrification project in Mozambique.

From 2004 to 2009 Springer was a member of the SPD.^[1] In 2014, Springer became personal advisor to the then leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Brandenburg state parliament, Alexander Gauland. In 2015 he joined the AfD. In 2016 he became parliamentary group leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the state parliament, and in 2017 he was again Gauland's personal advisor.

He became member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election.^[2] He is a member of the Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.^[3]

René Springer hired the former state chairman of the extremist group Junge Alternative in Brandenburg Jean-Pascal Hohm as an employee, according to investigations by Zeit Online. Hohm had previously been an employee of the AfD Brandenburg state parliamentary group, but was dismissed after reports of contacts with the right-wing radical Identitarian movement.^[4]

In 2024 Springer became chairmen of AfD Brandenburg.^[1]

Politics[edit]

In January 2024, He spoke in favor of Remigration, by writing on X, “We will return foreigners to their homeland. Millions of times. This is not a secret plan. It’s a promise.

“For more security. For more justice. To preserve our identity. For Germany.”^[5]