Matthias Helferich

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Matthias Helferich
Member of the Bundestag
for North Rhine-Westphalia
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Parliamentary groupIndependent
(2021–2025)
AfD (since 2025)
ConstituencyAfD Party List
Personal details
Born (1988-10-14) 14 October 1988 (age 36)
Dortmund, West Germany
Political partyAfD (since 2016)
Other political
affiliations		Young Union (formerly)
Alma materBonn University
OccupationLawyer • Politician

Matthias Helferich (born 14 October 1988) is a German right-wing politician for the Alternative for Germany party.[1] He has been a factionless member of the Bundestag since 2021.[2] In 2025, he was re-admitted to the AfD parliamentary group like the fellow controversial politician Maximilian Krah.[3][4]

Career

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Helferich was born in 1988 in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He served at Bundeswehr in guard unit (Wachbataillon) in Siegburg and begann to study 2009 law at University Bonn.

Helferich was elected to the Bundestag in 2021.[2] Although a party member of AfD, he never entered the party faction and is currently a factionless member of the Bundestag.

Within the AfD, Helferich is part of the ethnic-national wing under Björn Höcke.[5]

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In 2025, he was re-admitted back into the AfD faction.[6][7]

Political views

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Helferich called himself a "democratic Freisler", referring to a Nazi-era judge.[8] He later said that his statements were meant as parody: "If you are confronted with Nazi accusations as frequently as AfD politicians, you compensate for that in private spheres. You ridicule it."[9][10][11]

References

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  1. ^ "Bundeswahlleiter (Federal Election Commissioner of Germany) - Elected Politicians in the Federal Election 2021". bundeswahlleiter. Retrieved 16 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Deutscher Bundestag - Matthias Helferich". Deutscher Bundestag.
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  5. ^ deutschlandfunk.de (2025-02-25). "AfD-Fraktion - Umstrittene AfD-Politiker im Bundestag". Die Nachrichten (in German). Retrieved 2025-02-27.
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  8. ^ Joswig, Gareth (2025-02-25). "AfD mit Helferich und Krah: Das „freundliche Gesicht des NS"". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). ISSN 0931-9085. Retrieved 2025-02-27.
  9. ^ "Matthias Helferich: AfD-Politiker verzichtet nach NS-Äußerung auf Fraktionszugehörigkeit". Der Spiegel (in German). 2021-09-30. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  10. ^ Weiland, Severin (2021-08-09). "AfD und Matthias Helferich: Jörg Meuthen scheitert im Streit über AfD-Landesvize". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-11-22.
  11. ^ "Going to the extreme: Inside Germany's far right". BBC. 2024-05-08. Retrieved 2024-12-11.