Björn Höcke

Björn Uwe Höcke (also known as Bernd Höcke) (born 1 April 1972 in Lünen) is a German politician for the right-wing populist, eurosceptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Höcke was born in Lünen, Westphalia. His grandparents were expelled ethnic Germans. After his Abitur at the Rhein-Wied-Gymnasium Neuwied in 1991, he served in the Bundeswehr and went to law school at the University Bonn, which he did not finish. Höcke then studied sports and historical sciences for teaching at secondary schools and completed a master's degree in school management.

After curricular activities in various schools he worked as a senior teacher at the Rhenanus School in Bad Sooden-Allendorf. In addition to the education policy, the family policy is one of his main interests.

He is married and has four children.

Höcke was member of the Junge Union.

As one of the founders of AfD Thuringia, he became Member of the Landtag of Thuringia, the state assembly of the federal state of Thuringia in Germany during the 2014 Thuringian State Elections. Höcke is the speaker of the parliamentary group of the AfD and he is the spokesman of the Thuringia Landesverband (English: regional association) of his party. He is said to be part of the "national-conservative wing" of the AfD.

He is one of the initiators of the "Erfurter Resolution", whose former leader and co-founder, Bernd Lucke, was forced to resign.

Höcke supports border control in the refugee crisis and a limit on asylum laws. He supports the return to national currencies to end the European debt crisis.

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