Alice Weidel

Alice Elisabeth Weidel was born on 6 February 1979, in Gütersloh. She grew up in Harsewinkel, where she graduated from a Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (CJD) Gymnasium in 1998.{{Cite news |last=Siebert |first=Tobias |date=12 January 2025 |title=Aufwachsen in der Provinz: Keine Heimat |url=https://taz.de/Aufwachsen-in-der-Provinz/!6058279/ |access-date=13 January 2025 |work=Die Tageszeitung: taz |language=de |issn=0931-9085 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250112185951/https://taz.de/Aufwachsen-in-der-Provinz/!6058279/ |archive-date=12 January 2025 |url-status=live}} She studied economics and business administration at the University of Bayreuth and graduated as one of the best in the year in 2004.{{cite web|title=Bayreuther Ökonom: Im Wissenschaftswettbewerb eindeutig positionieren und Stärken herausarbeiten|url=https://idw-online.de/de/news80573|author=Jürgen Abel|language=de|date=24 May 2004|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906182429/https://idw-online.de/de/news80573|archive-date=6 September 2017|url-status=live}} After receiving her undergraduate degree, Weidel went to work for Goldman Sachs Asset Management from July 2005 to June 2006 as an analyst in Frankfurt.{{cite news |author=Marc Felix Serrao |date=2 March 2017 |title=ALICE WEIDEL IM PORTRÄT: Alternative zu Höcke |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/afd-politikerin-alice-weidel-ist-alternative-zu-bjoern-hoecke-14895160-p2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302191702/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/afd-politikerin-alice-weidel-ist-alternative-zu-bjoern-hoecke-14895160-p2.html |archive-date=2 March 2017 |access-date=3 August 2019 |newspaper=Faz.net |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Deutscher Bundestag - Dr. Alice Weidel |url=https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/abgeordnete/biografien19/W/524466-524466 |access-date=15 June 2024 |website=Deutscher Bundestag|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025024642/https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/abgeordnete/biografien19/W/524466-524466|archive-date=25 October 2021|url-status=live}} In the late 2000s, she worked at the Bank of China, and lived for six years in China.{{cite news|first=Anthony|last=Faiola|title=Germany's far right preaches traditional values. Can a lesbian mother be its new voice?|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germanys-far-right-preaches-traditional-values-can-a-lesbian-mother-be-its-new-voice/2017/05/12/3388e06a-34cc-11e7-ab03-aa29f656f13e_story.html|access-date=29 September 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=15 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170515202107/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germanys-far-right-preaches-traditional-values-can-a-lesbian-mother-be-its-new-voice/2017/05/12/3388e06a-34cc-11e7-ab03-aa29f656f13e_story.html|archive-date=15 May 2017|url-status=live}} Subsequently, she wrote a doctoral thesis with the health economist {{ill|Peter Oberender|de}} at the Faculty of Law and Economics in Bayreuth on the future of the Chinese pension system.{{Cite news |date=27 February 2025 |title=The AfD's unusual China connection |url=https://www.economist.com/china/2025/02/27/the-afds-unusual-china-connection |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 March 2025 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250302142953/https://www.economist.com/china/2025/02/27/the-afds-unusual-china-connection |archive-date=2 March 2025 |url-status=live}} In 2011, she received a doctorate in international development.{{cite news|last1=Becker|first1=Sven|title=How Far to the Right Is Alice Weidel?|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-new-face-of-afd-how-right-wing-is-alice-weidel-a-1146038.html|access-date=24 September 2017|work=Der Spiegel|date=4 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504203744/http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-new-face-of-afd-how-right-wing-is-alice-weidel-a-1146038.html|archive-date=4 May 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news|last1=Luyken|first1=Jörg|title='Merkel is insane': meet the woman leading the AfD into the elections|url=https://www.thelocal.de/20170511/merkel-is-insane-meet-the-woman-leading-the-afd-into-the-elections-alice-weidel-elections-2017|access-date=24 September 2017|work=The Local|date=11 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170511135410/https://www.thelocal.de/20170511/merkel-is-insane-meet-the-woman-leading-the-afd-into-the-elections-alice-weidel-elections-2017|archive-date=11 May 2017|url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Schuster |first=Kathleen |url=http://www.dw.com/en/afds-alice-weidel-the-pride-of-the-populists-a-mystery-to-everyone-else/a-40356769|title=AfD's Alice Weidel: The pride of the populists, a mystery to everyone else |work= dw.com |date=4 September 2017 |access-date=21 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905095039/http://www.dw.com/en/afds-alice-weidel-the-pride-of-the-populists-a-mystery-to-everyone-else/a-40356769|archive-date=5 September 2017|url-status=live}} She received her doctorate magna cum laude.{{Cite news |last1=Agarwala |first1=Anant |last2=Scholz |first2=Anna-Lena |last3=Spiewak |first3=Martin |date=19 December 2023 |title=Plagiatsvorwurf gegen Alice Weidel: Hat sie kopiert? |url=https://www.zeit.de/2023/54/alice-weidel-afd-plagiatsvorwurf-dissertation |access-date=8 January 2025 |work=Die Zeit |language=de-DE |issn=0044-2070 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231219114130/https://www.zeit.de/2023/54/alice-weidel-afd-plagiatsvorwurf-dissertation |archive-date=19 December 2023 |url-status=live}} Her doctorate was supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the political party foundation associated with but independent of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).{{cite web|title=Publizierte Dissertationen aus der Promotionsförderung|url=https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=e2594c30-1c99-b60f-55b2-8b89f6c0d3b5&groupId=252038|language=de|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190630020238/https://www.kas.de/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=e2594c30-1c99-b60f-55b2-8b89f6c0d3b5&groupId=252038|archive-date=30 June 2019|url-status=live}}

From March 2011 to May 2013, Weidel worked as Vice President at Allianz Global Investors in Frankfurt. Since 2014, she has worked as a freelance business consultant. In 2015, she worked for Rocket Internet and Foodora.{{cite web|title="Mit völkischem Gerede kann ich nichts anfangen"|url=http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/_mit-voelkischem-gerede-kann-ich-nichts-anfangen_-12940413.html|first=Andreas|last=Clasen|website=Südwest Presse|language=de|date=27 April 2016|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-date=7 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107221057/http://www.swp.de/ulm/nachrichten/politik/_mit-voelkischem-gerede-kann-ich-nichts-anfangen_-12940413.html|url-status=dead}} {{asof|2016}}, Weidel was a member of the Friedrich A. von Hayek Society.{{cite news|title=Marktradikal und blank|first=Pascal|last=Beucker|newspaper=Die Tageszeitung|language=de|date=18 March 2016}}{{cite web |author=Dagmar Pepping |url=https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/Alice-Weidel-Hoffnungstraegerin-der-AfD,aufsteiger110.html |title=Alice Weidel – Hoffnungsträgerin der AfD |work=ndr.de |date=25 July 2016 |access-date=7 January 2017 |archive-date=24 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160724163909/http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/Alice-Weidel-Hoffnungstraegerin-der-AfD,aufsteiger110.html |url-status=dead |language=de}}{{cite web |author=Niklas Wirminghaus |url=https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/wirtschaft/article164725594/Auf-der-Suche-nach-Alice-Weidels-Unternehmer-Story.html |title=Auf der Suche nach Alice Weidels Unternehmer-Story |work=welt.de |date=19 May 2017 |access-date=19 May 2017 |archive-date=11 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200611073357/https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/wirtschaft/article164725594/Auf-der-Suche-nach-Alice-Weidels-Unternehmer-Story.html |url-status=live |language=de}}

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Weidel joined the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in October 2013.{{cite news|title=AfD-Politikerin Alice Weidel: Die neue Rechte|url=https://taz.de/AfD-Politikerin-Alice-Weidel/!5443023/|first=Sabine|last=am Orde|newspaper=Die Tageszeitung|language=de|date=9 September 2017|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909132357/https://taz.de/AfD-Politikerin-Alice-Weidel/!5443023/|archive-date=9 September 2017|url-status=live}} According to Weidel, she was first attracted to the party due to her opposition to the euro.{{cite news|last1=Ma|first1=Alexandra|title=Meet Alice Weidel, the ex-Goldman Sachs banker who could lead a far-right party to its best German election result since the Nazis|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-afd-alice-weidel-everything-you-need-to-know-2017-9/#her-views-were-not-always-extreme-her-old-friends-say-4|access-date=24 September 2017|work=Business Insider|date=22 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922142712/http://www.businessinsider.com/germany-afd-alice-weidel-everything-you-need-to-know-2017-9/#her-views-were-not-always-extreme-her-old-friends-say-4|archive-date=22 September 2017|url-status=live}} She was elected to the federal executive committee of the AfD in June 2015.{{cite magazine|title=Neue AfD-Spitzenkandidatin Wer ist Alice Weidel?|url=https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/alice-weidel-werdegang-und-lebensstil-widerspricht-den-glaubenssaetzen-der-afd-a-1145861.html|first1=Melanie|last1=Amann|first2=Sven|last2=Becker|magazine=Der Spiegel|language=de|issue=18/2017|date=3 May 2017|access-date=3 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170503200527/https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/alice-weidel-werdegang-und-lebensstil-widerspricht-den-glaubenssaetzen-der-afd-a-1145861.html|archive-date=3 May 2017|url-status=live}} In April 2017, she was elected co-lead candidate of the party. She is the first lesbian to serve as a lead candidate of her party.{{cite web|first=Barbara|last=Woolsey|url=https://global.handelsblatt.com/politics/alice-weidel-afd-germany-far-right-populist-819466|title=Cosmopolitan Lesbian Turns Far-Right Agitator|website=Handelsblatt Global|date=20 September 2017|access-date=22 September 2017|archive-date=23 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923095858/https://global.handelsblatt.com/politics/alice-weidel-afd-germany-far-right-populist-819466|url-status=dead}} She has been identified by the media as belonging to the more moderate conservative Alternative Mitte faction within the AfD.{{Cite web|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article169285283/Diese-Geste-finden-gemaessigte-AfDler-verfassungsfeindlich.html|title=Diese Geste finden "gemäßigte" AfDler verfassungsfeindlich|work=WeltN24|date=3 October 2017|access-date=3 October 2017|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171004020802/https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article169285283/Diese-Geste-finden-gemaessigte-AfDler-verfassungsfeindlich.html|archive-date=4 October 2017|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://taz.de/AfD-Fraktion-im-Bundestag/!5452904/|title=Alternative Mitte "gegen" Flügel|work=Die Tageszeitung|date=6 October 2017|access-date=6 October 2017|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171008141334/https://taz.de/AfD-Fraktion-im-Bundestag/!5452904/|archive-date=8 October 2017|url-status=live |last1=am Orde |first1=Sabine}}

The Switzerland-based property billionaire Henning Conle supported AfD. He donated a total of 132,000 euros by means of straw men for the 2017 federal election campaign of Alice Weidel. Conle disguised his donation from Switzerland in 18 tranches.{{Cite news |last=am Orde |first=Sabine |title=Immobilienhai Henning Conle: Der große AfD-Finanzier? |language=de |work=Die Tageszeitung |url=https://taz.de/!5752727/ |date=10 March 2021 |access-date=7 August 2023 |issn=0931-9085 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230808000837/https://taz.de/!5752727/ |archive-date=8 August 2023 |url-status=live}} The AfD had to pay the Bundestag a high fine for this donation, but Weidel and three other officials went unpunished.{{Cite web |last=Riedel |first=Katja |date=20 September 2021 |title=AfD: Strafverfahren im Parteispendefall um Alice Weidel eingestellt |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/afd-weidel-verfahren-eingestellt-1.5415743 |access-date=8 August 2023 |website=Süddeutsche.de |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210920131236/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/afd-weidel-verfahren-eingestellt-1.5415743 |archive-date=20 September 2021 |url-status=live}} A German-wide record-setting donation of 2.35 million Euros to AfD by local Austrian FPÖ politician Gerhard Dingler in early 2025 has been identified as being linked to Conle.{{Cite web |title=Schwere Verdachtsmomente bei Millionenspende an AfD aus Österreich |url=https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/story/3000000257896/schwere-verdachtsmomente-bei-millionenspende-an-afd-aus-oesterreich |access-date=19 February 2025 |website=DER STANDARD |language=de-AT |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250305200942/https://www.derstandard.at/consent/tcf/story/3000000257896/schwere-verdachtsmomente-bei-millionenspende-an-afd-aus-oesterreich |archive-date=5 March 2025 |url-status=live}} If substantiated, such a donation would break both German and Austrian laws and would be heavily penalized.

In January 2024, Weidel fired advisor Roland Hartwig after he attended a controversial meeting with German far-right activists in which plans to deport millions of people living in Germany were discussed.{{Cite web |date=18 January 2024 |title=German far-right party assailed over report of extremist meeting |url=https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-deportations-parliament-7a29129a6f50853791004d21ffea2a92 |access-date=7 February 2024 |website=AP News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240118164912/https://apnews.com/article/germany-far-right-deportations-parliament-7a29129a6f50853791004d21ffea2a92 |archive-date=18 January 2024 |url-status=live}}

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Weidel vigorously defends economic liberalism and declares former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to be her role model.{{Cite web |date=29 October 2017 |title=Germany's far-right AfD leader: 'Margaret Thatcher is my role model' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/29/germanys-far-right-afd-leader-margaret-thatcher-is-my-role-model |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029020703/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/29/germanys-far-right-afd-leader-margaret-thatcher-is-my-role-model |archive-date=29 October 2017 |website=The Guardian}}

In terms of economic policy, Weidel argued against the abolition of cash. During the euro area crisis, she called for economically weak states, such as Greece, Spain, and Portugal to leave or be expelled from the Eurozone.{{Cite web |date=23 April 2017 |title=Alexander Gauland und Alice Weidel sind AfD-Spitzenkandidaten |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/bundestagswahl/alexander-gauland-und-alice-weidel-sind-afd-spitzenkandidaten-14983992.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=FAZ.NET |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423122810/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/bundestagswahl/alexander-gauland-und-alice-weidel-sind-afd-spitzenkandidaten-14983992.html |archive-date=23 April 2017 |url-status=live}}

Weidel expresses support for tax cuts and the abolition of inheritance tax and opposes the minimum wage.{{cite news |date=25 April 2017 |title=Die Positionen der AfD-Spitzenkandidatin |url=https://www.manager-magazin.de/fotostrecke/alice-weidel-die-positionen-der-afd-spitzenkandidatin-fotostrecke-146891.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029020703/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/29/germanys-far-right-afd-leader-margaret-thatcher-is-my-role-model |archive-date=29 October 2017 |access-date=30 December 2022 |work=Manager Magazin |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Alice Weidel von der AfD: Die Frau im Hintergrund tritt an |url=https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.alice-weidel-von-der-afd-die-frau-im-hintergrund-tritt-an.e68f11d8-1857-4e1b-939b-eaa9d2253c0d.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=stuttgarter-nachrichten.de |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113193403/https://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.alice-weidel-von-der-afd-die-frau-im-hintergrund-tritt-an.e68f11d8-1857-4e1b-939b-eaa9d2253c0d.html |archive-date=13 November 2016 |url-status=live}}

Weidel supports continued German membership in the European Union; however, in an interview with the London Financial Times published in January 2023, Weidel outlined her party's approach in the event of a government takeover: if an attempt by the AfD to resolve the EU's "democratic deficit" were unsuccessful, Germany's exit from the EU would be put to a vote following the example of Great Britain.{{Cite web |date=22 January 2024 |title=AfD-Chefin Alice Weidel sieht Brexit als "Modell für Deutschland" |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/afd-chefin-alice-weidel-sieht-brexit-als-modell-fuer-deutschland-19465903.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=FAZ.NET |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122154711/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/afd-chefin-alice-weidel-sieht-brexit-als-modell-fuer-deutschland-19465903.html |archive-date=22 January 2024 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Connolly |first=Kate |date=22 January 2024 |title=Far-right AfD leader vows to campaign for Brexit-style EU exit vote in Germany |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/22/germany-far-right-afd-leader-alice-weidel-eu-exit-campaign |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122142917/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/22/germany-far-right-afd-leader-alice-weidel-eu-exit-campaign |archive-date=22 January 2024 |access-date=23 May 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} Leading economists consider this to be the economic worst-case scenario.{{Cite news |last1=Böcking |first1=David |last2=Hülsen |first2=Isabell |last3=Sauga |first3=Michael |date=23 January 2024 |title=(S+) Alice Weidel: Ökonomen zerpflücken ihre Dexit-Idee |url=https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/alice-weidel-oekonomen-zerpfluecken-ihre-dexit-idee-a-594e8eb0-6d22-4c80-a552-6aa68c1f02ee |access-date=5 January 2025 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240123201428/https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/alice-weidel-oekonomen-zerpfluecken-ihre-dexit-idee-a-594e8eb0-6d22-4c80-a552-6aa68c1f02ee |archive-date=23 January 2024 |url-status=live}} In 2015, she also spoke out in favor of Germany leaving the euro/Eurozone and called for a return to a gold-backed currency.Sabine am Orde, Konrad Litschko, Andreas Speit: Auf dem rechten Weg, TAZ, 11. Juli 2015, S. 7. In early 2025 she indicated that she no longer believes in a return to the Deutsche Mark, saying it would be "far too late to leave the euro“. Thereby she relativized her party's demands for a return to national currency, which the AfD laid out in its programme for the 2025 federal election. However, she forecasted that the Euro would be abolished in an unorganized manner and that this would cost huge amounts of wealth.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL2NhcmVuLW1pb3NnYS8yMDI1LTAyLTAyXzIxLTQ1LU1FWg |title=Caren Miosga: Was für ein Deutschland wollen Sie, Frau Weidel? - hier anschauen |language=de |access-date=3 February 2025 |via=www.ardmediathek.de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250203085344/https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL2NhcmVuLW1pb3NnYS8yMDI1LTAyLTAyXzIxLTQ1LU1FWg |archive-date=3 February 2025 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=AfD-Co-Chefin Weidel: Für den Euro, gegen den "Schuldkult" |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/weidel-afd-miosga-100.html |access-date=3 February 2025 |website=tagesschau.de |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250203024249/https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/weidel-afd-miosga-100.html |archive-date=3 February 2025 |url-status=live}}

During the AfD party conference in June 2024, she said that it was in the interests of Germany and Europe that "Ukraine does not belong to the European Union".{{Cite web |title=AfD-Parteitag in Essen geht weiter |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/afd-parteitag-essen-102.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=tagesschau.de |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240630080831/https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/afd-parteitag-essen-102.html |archive-date=30 June 2024 |url-status=live}}

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Since 2025, the AfD has been working with Hungary's nationalist and right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Weidel praised Hungary as a model for the AfD, saying that the AfD shares Hungary's opposition to illegal immigration and stance on the European Union.{{cite news |title=Hungary's Orban hosts Germany's AfD leader Alice Weidel |url=https://www.dw.com/en/hungarys-orban-hosts-germanys-afd-leader-alice-weidel/a-71590300 |work=Deutsche Welle |date=13 February 2025 |archive-date=15 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250215035231/https://www.dw.com/en/hungarys-orban-hosts-germanys-afd-leader-alice-weidel/a-71590300 |url-status=live}} In February 2025, Weidel stated about the AfD's policy towards the European Union: "We should work together to reform the European Union at all costs. And that can only be done from within. We can achieve this by reducing the competences of the European Union, by dismantling the entire bureaucratic, expensive — and, in my view, corrupt — superstructure."{{cite news |title=German far right wants to join forces with Orbán to dismantle EU from within |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/alternative-for-germany-afd-alice-weidel-far-right-viktor-orban-hungary/ |work=Politico |date=12 February 2025 |archive-date=13 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250213082923/https://www.politico.eu/article/alternative-for-germany-afd-alice-weidel-far-right-viktor-orban-hungary/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |title=Hungary's Orbán meets head of far-right German party AfD, calling her 'the future of Germany' |url=https://apnews.com/article/orban-weidel-hungary-germany-afd-election-musk-4ef8646f5fcf11bb0f8a12d9fcb09461 |work=AP News |date=12 February 2025 |archive-date=13 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250213100354/https://apnews.com/article/orban-weidel-hungary-germany-afd-election-musk-4ef8646f5fcf11bb0f8a12d9fcb09461/ |url-status=live}}

In December 2016, Weidel said that German chancellor Angela Merkel was "of course" partly responsible for the rape and murder of Maria Ladenburger.{{Cite web |last=Bau |first=Walter |date=8 December 2016 |title=Kritik an Sandra Maischberger nach Auftritt von AfD-Politikerin Alice Weidel |url=https://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/tv/article208919203/Kritik-an-Maischberger-nach-Auftritt-von-AfD-Politikerin.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=Morgenpost |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209161252/https://www.morgenpost.de/kultur/tv/article208919203/Kritik-an-Maischberger-nach-Auftritt-von-AfD-Politikerin.html |archive-date=9 December 2016 |url-status=live}}

In 2017, Weidel criticized the immigration policies of Merkel, stating that "the country will be destroyed through this immigration policy. Donald Trump said that Merkel is insane and I absolutely agree with that. It is a completely nonsensical form of politics that is being followed here." Weidel saw Merkel's asylum policy as a violation of "international agreements". Weidel called for a "Fortress Europe" and "effective development aid".{{Cite web |date=22 May 2017 |title=AfD-Landesparteitag in Kehl: Weidel wird Spitzenkandidatin der AfD BW |work=SWR.de |url=http://www.swr.de/swraktuell/bw/afd-landesparteitag-in-kehl-weidel-wird-spitzenkandidatin-der-afd-bw/-/id=1622/did=18516492/nid=1622/svjpl3/index.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170522140059/http://www.swr.de/swraktuell/bw/afd-landesparteitag-in-kehl-weidel-wird-spitzenkandidatin-der-afd-bw/-/id=1622/did=18516492/nid=1622/svjpl3/index.html |archive-date=22 May 2017 }} Weidel opposes health insurance for asylum seekers, criticises what she sees as a "naive approach" to radical Islamic preachers in Germany and has warned against excessive expectations regarding the integration of refugees into the labour market. In the context of the German refugee debate, she speaks of an incalculable burden on the economy and the welfare state, and that voters of established parties (CDU/CSU and SPD) have, in her opinion, "lost their minds".{{Cite news |last=Bartsch |first=Matthias |date=11 March 2016 |title=(S+) »Einfach abfackeln« |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/einfach-abfackeln-a-434ba2a8-0002-0001-0000-000143591172 |access-date=5 January 2025 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905103403/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/einfach-abfackeln-a-434ba2a8-0002-0001-0000-000143591172 |archive-date=5 September 2021 |url-status=live}} According to her, "no important question of our time [...] can be separated from the migration question".{{Cite web |title=Regierende aus dem Amt jagen |url=https://www.pressreader.com/germany/heidenheimer-neue-presse/20170520/281702614651032 |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=Heidenheimer Neue Presse |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007101228/https://www.pressreader.com/germany/heidenheimer-neue-presse/20170520/281702614651032 |archive-date=7 October 2024 |url-status=live}} Weidel wants to ban the burqa and niqāb and has also spoken out in favour of a headscarf ban: the headscarf should be "banned from public spaces and the streets" because it is an "absolutely sexist symbol" and represents an "apartheid between men and women".{{Cite web |date=28 May 2017 |title=AfD: Alice Weidel will Burka-Tragen unter Strafe stellen |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/bundestagswahl/afd-alice-weidel-will-burka-tragen-unter-strafe-stellen-15036098.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=FAZ.NET |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529111654/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/bundestagswahl/afd-alice-weidel-will-burka-tragen-unter-strafe-stellen-15036098.html |archive-date=29 May 2017 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |title=AfD-Spitzenkandidatin Alice Weidel: "Das Kopftuch gehört nicht zu Deutschland" |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/das-kopftuch-gehort-nicht-zu-deutschland-3834487.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |language=de-DE |issn=1865-2263 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006114924/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/das-kopftuch-gehort-nicht-zu-deutschland-3834487.html |archive-date=6 October 2022 |url-status=live}}

She has called for the German government to invest in "special economic zones" in the Middle East to encourage educated and skilled persons to remain in their home countries and avoid the possibility of brain drain, but also says she supports a "Canadian-style system" which would prioritize skilled, over unskilled, immigrants.{{cite news |last1=Wildman |first1=Sarah |date=5 July 2017 |title=The German far right is faltering. They're hoping a lesbian mom can reenergize the party. |url=https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/5/15856998/germany-afd-alice-weidel-populist-lesbian-mom-far-right |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705150427/https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/5/15856998/germany-afd-alice-weidel-populist-lesbian-mom-far-right |archive-date=5 July 2017 |access-date=24 September 2017 |work=Vox}}

In October 2022, she said that the AfD slogan "Our country first" (based on the "French first" of the Front National under Jean-Marie Le Pen) called for "not a values-based foreign policy", but "an interest-driven foreign policy for our country".

According to Weidel, Germany had damaged itself and was being "crushed between the major powers" with its sanctions policy against Russia. The "big loser", according to Weidel, would not be Russia or Ukraine, but Germany, because "an economic war is being waged against Germany". Although the Russian attack on Ukraine was "contrary to international law", she sees no need to "interfere", because what it ultimately meant for Ukraine and for Russia, for the division of territory, was "not our issue at all". Putting President Vladimir Putin before a war crimes tribunal is "completely unrealistic", according to Weidel. The hostilities must stop and Ukraine must also be "held accountable" because it cannot be "that the West accepts the Ukrainian maximum demands without thinking about it".{{Cite web |date=16 October 2022 |title=AfD-Co-Vorsitzende - Weidel sieht einen "Wirtschaftskrieg gegen Deutschland" |url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/alice-weidel-afd-ukraine-krieg-100.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=Deutschlandfunk |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014144033/https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/alice-weidel-afd-ukraine-krieg-100.html |archive-date=14 October 2022 |url-status=live}}

Although advocating for economic relations with Russia, Weidel is not considered to be part of the AfD pro-Russia movement; Weidel responded to the question why she – unlike her co-chair Tino Chrupalla – did not attend the Russian embassy's reception to celebrate the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany: "Celebrating the defeat of one's own country with a former occupying power is something I have personally decided - also with my father's escape story - not to take part in."{{Cite web |date=13 September 2023 |title=Deutsche "Niederlage": Alice Weidel empört mit Aussage zum Ende der NS-Zeit |url=https://www.fr.de/politik/zeit-nationalsozialismus-deutschland-niederlage-alice-weidel-empoerung-aussage-ende-ns-92514163.html |access-date=7 January 2025 |website=www.fr.de |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928171629/https://www.fr.de/politik/zeit-nationalsozialismus-deutschland-niederlage-alice-weidel-empoerung-aussage-ende-ns-92514163.html |archive-date=28 September 2023 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Geschichtspolitik: AfD-Chefin Alice Weidel und der 8. Mai - WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article247432074/Geschichtspolitik-AfD-Chefin-Alice-Weidel-und-der-8-Mai.html |access-date=7 January 2025 |website=DIE WELT |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230914083101/https://www.welt.de/geschichte/article247432074/Geschichtspolitik-AfD-Chefin-Alice-Weidel-und-der-8-Mai.html |archive-date=14 September 2023 |url-status=live}}

In contrast to her AfD co-leader Tino Chrupalla, Weidel expressed support for Israel in context to the Gaza war. During an interview with Elon Musk she said she supported the state of Israel and its right to self-defense but expressed uncertainty on how to resolve the conflict between Israel and Palestine.{{cite news |url=https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/09/elon-musk-and-germanys-far-right-chief-host-online-chat-the-eu-warns-could-be-illegal |title=Germany's far-right AfD chief pushes back on Nazi claims in chat with Elon Musk on X |access-date=19 February 2025 |work=Euronews |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250110044233/https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/09/elon-musk-and-germanys-far-right-chief-host-online-chat-the-eu-warns-could-be-illegal |archive-date=10 January 2025 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2024-11-26/ty-article/.premium/how-the-israel-gaza-war-has-divided-germanys-far-right-afd-party/00000193-63d7-db85-a593-67df42400000 |title=How the Israel-Gaza War Divided Germany's Far-right AfD Party |work=Haaretz |access-date=19 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127023751/https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2024-11-26/ty-article/.premium/how-the-israel-gaza-war-has-divided-germanys-far-right-afd-party/00000193-63d7-db85-a593-67df42400000 |archive-date=27 November 2024 |url-status=live}}

In early 2025, in an interview with The American Conservative, she said regarding the demand of US president Donald Trump that Germany had to increase its military spending, while allegedly having to stay under the political influence of the US, that the US could not have it both ways. She compared Germany with a slave and said that "slaves don’t fight. A slave who fights will invariably demand freedom as a reward." Weidel said that, if Germany has to take responsibility for its own security in the future, this comes with the price of independence from the US, especially regarding energy policy, Nord Stream in particular.{{Cite web |last=Maitra |first=Sumantra |date=6 January 2025 |title='Slaves Don't Fight': AfD's Weidel Speaks Exclusively to The American Conservative |url=https://www.theamericanconservative.com/slaves-dont-fight-afds-weidel-on-germanys-future/ |access-date=3 February 2025 |website=The American Conservative |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250106122037/https://www.theamericanconservative.com/slaves-dont-fight-afds-weidel-on-germanys-future/ |archive-date=6 January 2025 |url-status=live}}

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Weidel's stance changed. In March 2020, she said that COVID-19 could "spread unhindered" in Germany, while all EU countries were "practically shutting down public life." This would have "fatal consequences" for Germany, and the government must "finally take appropriate steps now." She spoke of a "negligent game with the lives and health of our citizens," because, according to everything we know, the virus "poses a higher risk of infection and a greater risk of mortality than the common flu." After the shutdown, however Weidel called for the economy to be restarted "immediately"; the "chaos policy of the federal government" was "disastrous." At the end of May 2020 she called the federal government's Corona policy "pre-democratic" and accused it of "a blanket restriction of basic rights and then distributing them again piecemeal as if by an act of mercy".{{Cite web |date=4 June 2020 |title=Maske der "Freiheit": Das blau-braune Corona-Chaos der AfD |url=https://www.fr.de/meinung/afd-alice-weidel-coronavirus-maskenpflicht-schutzmaske-demo-corona-frankfurt-13786091.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=www.fr.de |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612112838/https://www.fr.de/meinung/afd-alice-weidel-coronavirus-maskenpflicht-schutzmaske-demo-corona-frankfurt-13786091.html |archive-date=12 June 2020 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Was Populisten wollen - Marcel Lewandowsky |url=https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/marcel-lewandowsky-was-populisten-wollen-9783462006728 |access-date=5 January 2025 |work=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231012142938/https://www.kiwi-verlag.de/buch/marcel-lewandowsky-was-populisten-wollen-9783462006728 |archive-date=12 October 2023 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |title=Eine kurze Geschichte der AfD |url=https://www.rowohlt.de/buch/eva-kienholz-eine-kurze-geschichte-der-afd-9783498007348 |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=Rowohlt |page=224 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240722192230/https://www.rowohlt.de/buch/eva-kienholz-eine-kurze-geschichte-der-afd-9783498007348 |archive-date=22 July 2024 |url-status=live}} After party leader Jörg Meuthen had criticized the party for showing too much solidarity with the COVID-19 protests in Germany, Weidel said that she could "recommend to anyone who tries to defame this movement to simply attend a demonstration. She described the Infection Protection Act as unconstitutional; therefore, they "were right to take to the streets".{{Cite web |date=28 November 2020 |title=AfD-Parteitag: Alice Weidel bricht Interview nach Frage zur Sozialpolitik ab |url=https://www.rnd.de/politik/afd-parteitag-alice-weidel-bricht-interview-nach-frage-zur-sozialpolitik-ab-S2SA6U4HEBCIDABC5EXHHBAGOU.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=RND |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128135941/https://www.rnd.de/politik/afd-parteitag-alice-weidel-bricht-interview-nach-frage-zur-sozialpolitik-ab-S2SA6U4HEBCIDABC5EXHHBAGOU.html |archive-date=28 November 2020 |url-status=live}}

In July 2021, Weidel stated that she would not be vaccinated against COVID-19 for the foreseeable future and complained that healthy unvaccinated people in Germany were being discriminated against - she also did not believe in an implied vaccination requirement.{{Cite news |date=30 July 2021 |title=Coronavirus: AfD-Spitzenkandidatin Weidel will sich vorerst nicht impfen lassen |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/coronavirus-afd-spitzenkandidatin-weidel-will-sich-vorerst-nicht-impfen-lassen-a-48bf08ca-5133-41fb-b2be-14ef663f6599 |access-date=5 January 2025 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210730104933/https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/coronavirus-afd-spitzenkandidatin-weidel-will-sich-vorerst-nicht-impfen-lassen-a-48bf08ca-5133-41fb-b2be-14ef663f6599 |archive-date=30 July 2021 |url-status=live}} In mid-November 2021, she contracted COVID-19 and had to go into quarantine at home.{{Cite web |date=11 November 2021 |title=Alice Weidel hat Corona |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/id_91126832/alice-weidel-ungeimpfte-afd-fraktionschefin-hat-sich-mit-corona-infiziert.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=t-online |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111171219/https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/id_91126832/alice-weidel-ungeimpfte-afd-fraktionschefin-hat-sich-mit-corona-infiziert.html |archive-date=11 November 2021 |url-status=live}} In an interview with journalist Erhard Scherfer for the Phoenix on 8 December 2021, Weidel emphatically denied his statement that the majority of hospital intensive care units were unvaccinated. When asked where she obtained the figures, Weidel cited the Federal Statistical Office as her source. The Federal Office itself, however, quickly clarified that it did not have such data at all, which triggered considerable media attention.{{cite web |author=Patrick Gensing |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/weidel-intensivstationen-ungeimpfte-101.html |title=Weidel zu Intensivpatienten: Falsche Quelle, falsche Behauptung |work=Tagesschau |date=8 December 2021 |access-date=9 December 2021 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208155643/https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/weidel-intensivstationen-ungeimpfte-101.html |archive-date=8 December 2021 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.rnd.de/politik/afd-alice-weidel-blamiert-sich-mit-behauptung-zu-covid-patienten-auf-intensivstationen-KZJPQXN6P5FBZOBWMDONI7TJZI.html |title=Hitziges Interview: Alice Weidel blamiert sich mit Behauptung zu Covid-Patienten auf Intensivstationen |work=RND |date=9 December 2021 |access-date=9 December 2021 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208200006/https://www.rnd.de/politik/afd-alice-weidel-blamiert-sich-mit-behauptung-zu-covid-patienten-auf-intensivstationen-KZJPQXN6P5FBZOBWMDONI7TJZI.html |archive-date=8 December 2021 |url-status=live}} At an AfD event in Heilbronn in March 2024, Weidel asked who actually takes responsibility “for all the vaccine-damaged people, who are in wheelchairs, who have died.”

Weidel has said she supports civil partnership for gay and lesbian couples, noting she is a lesbian herself and in a civil partnership with another woman.{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Dennis |date=31 July 2017 |title=AfD macht Wahlkampf gegen Homo- und Transsexuelle |url=https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=29380 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810113804/https://www.queer.de/detail.php?article_id=29380 |archive-date=10 August 2017 |accessdate=9 July 2024 |website=queer.de |language=de }}

She combines this position with her negative attitude towards asylum in Germany and Islam. Weidel said that she sees family policy as more liberal than her party: "Family is where children are."{{Cite web |date=28 June 2017 |title="Ehe für alle": Der Alice-Weidel-Effekt in der AfD |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/ehe-fuer-alle-der-alice-weidel-effekt-in-der-afd-15080234.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=FAZ.NET |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170628174814/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/ehe-fuer-alle-der-alice-weidel-effekt-in-der-afd-15080234.html |archive-date=28 June 2017 |url-status=live}}

Weidel has stated her opposition to discussion of sexuality prior to puberty saying that "I don't want anyone with their gender idiocy or their early sexualisation classes coming near my children." She has also expressed her opposition to legalization of same-sex marriage, stating that she supports protection of the "traditional family" while also supporting "other lifestyles".

At the end of 2017, Weidel accused the two biggest churches in Germany, the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church, of "playing the same inglorious role that they played in the Third Reich", accusing both churches of being "thoroughly politicized" and stating that AfD is "the only Christian party that still exists" in Germany.{{Cite web |title="Rolle wie im Dritten Reich": AfD-Weidel erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen die Kirche |work=FOCUS online |url=https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/alice-weidel-afd-fraktionschefin-erhebt-schwere-vorwuerfe-gegen-die-kirche_id_8036449.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226205842/https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/alice-weidel-afd-fraktionschefin-erhebt-schwere-vorwuerfe-gegen-die-kirche_id_8036449.html |archive-date=26 December 2017 |accessdate=9 July 2024 |language=de}} Such statements were dismissed by the Catholic German Bishops' Conference and the Evangelical Church as "polemics" and "derailment".{{Cite web |date=9 April 2018 |title=SZ-Online: Weidel provoziert Kirchen mit Vergleich zur Nazi-Zeit |url=http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/weidel-provoziert-kirchen-mit-vergleich-zur-nazi-zeit-3844710.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409044232/http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/weidel-provoziert-kirchen-mit-vergleich-zur-nazi-zeit-3844710.html |archive-date=9 April 2018 |access-date=9 December 2020}}

Weidel has expressed doubts about global warming;{{Cite web |title=ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl |url=https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2F2019-06%2Falice-weidel-afd-klimawandel-weltklimarat |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804063655/https://www.zeit.de/zustimmung?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2Fpolitik%2Fdeutschland%2F2019-06%2Falice-weidel-afd-klimawandel-weltklimarat |archive-date=4 August 2020 |accessdate=9 July 2024}} in 2019, Weidel expressed that she did not believe "that human influence on global warming is decisive." The AfD had previously modified its position on this during the election campaign for the 2019 European elections and spoke of signs of human influence.{{Cite news |date=13 June 2019 |title=Alice Weidel: "Ich glaube nicht, dass der menschliche Einfluss maßgeblich ist" |url=https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2019-06/alice-weidel-afd-klimawandel-weltklimarat |access-date=5 January 2025 |work=Die Zeit |language=de-DE |issn=0044-2070 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190613022700/https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2019-06/alice-weidel-afd-klimawandel-weltklimarat |archive-date=13 June 2019 |url-status=live}} Weidel cited the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark, who believes that the influence of carbon dioxide (CO₂) on the climate is overestimated. Weidel's press officer named the geophysicist Eigil Friis-Christensen, who worked at the NBI until 2006, as another source besides Svensmark. However, his research on this subject, which was taken up by Weidel and other climate skeptics, is unsubstantiated.{{Cite web |author1=Patrick Gensing |author2=Konstantin Kumpfmüller |title=Debatte um Klimawandel: AfD macht die Sonne verantwortlich |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/weidel-klimawandel-101.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=tagesschau.de |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614153701/https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/weidel-klimawandel-101.html |archive-date=14 June 2019 |url-status=live}}

With regard to the Fridays for Future rallies, Weidel spoke of "this campaigning ability that is rolling towards us," and said: "The power of this cumulative stupidity is frightening."{{Cite web |date=31 October 2019 |title=Weidel nennt Klima-Demos beängstigend |url=https://www.fr.de/politik/rechte-hetze-alice-weidel-nennt-klima-demos-beaengstigend-13046887.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=www.fr.de |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601204151/https://www.fr.de/politik/rechte-hetze-alice-weidel-nennt-klima-demos-beaengstigend-13046887.html |archive-date=1 June 2021 |url-status=live}}

At the AfD party conference in Riesa in January 2025, Weidel said that an AfD government would "naturally bring functioning nuclear power plants back online"; she called for longer operating times for coal-fired power plants. She also promised to restart Nord Stream to supply Russian gas through the Baltic Sea. She also said that a government with her participation would "tear down all wind turbines," calling them "windmills of shame."{{cite news|url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/bundestagswahl/id_100571484/alice-weidel-ist-afd-kanzlerkandidatin.html |title=Alice Weidel will "alle Windräder niederreißen" |work=www.t-online.de |date=11 January 2025 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125103617/https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/bundestagswahl/id_100571484/alice-weidel-ist-afd-kanzlerkandidatin.html |archive-date=25 January 2025 |url-status=live}}{{cite news|author=Julie Kurz |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/parteien/portraet-alice-weidel-100 |title=Radikal mit bürgerlichem Anstrich |work=Tagesschau |date=24 January 2025 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250220190529/https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/bundestagswahl/parteien/portraet-alice-weidel-100 |archive-date=20 February 2025 |url-status=live}}

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In April 2017, Weidel railed against political correctness, saying that it belonged in the "dustbin of history". In response, on 27 April, TV presenter Christian Ehring of the satire program extra 3 addressed this, saying "That's right! Let's put an end to political correctness. The Nazi slut is right. Was this incorrect enough? I hope so!" Weidel sued the channel seeking to forbid re-airing of the program, and on 17 May the Hamburg District Court ruled against her, stating that a public figure must tolerate exaggerated criticism.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-afd-nazi-idUSKCN18D29T |title=AfD leader loses case versus German TV show that calls her 'Nazi bitch' |date=17 May 2017 |work=Reuters |access-date=13 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518111400/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-afd-nazi-idUSKCN18D29T |archive-date=18 May 2017 |url-status=live}} Weidel disagreed with the decision and promised to bring it to the {{lang|de|Oberlandesgericht}} (Higher Regional Court).{{Cite news|url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/gericht-weist-antrag-zurueck-satiriker-darf-afd-frau-weidel-als-nazi-schlampe-bezeichnen-1.3509959|title=Satiriker darf AfD-Frau Weidel als "Nazi-Schlampe" bezeichnen|date=17 May 2017|work=sueddeutsche.de|access-date=17 May 2017|language=de|issn=0174-4917|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517153636/http://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/gericht-weist-antrag-zurueck-satiriker-darf-afd-frau-weidel-als-nazi-schlampe-bezeichnen-1.3509959|archive-date=17 May 2017|url-status=live}} {{As of|2017|09}}, no further action had taken place.{{cite news | last1 = Charter | first1 = David | title = TV show's 'Nazi slut' jibe at politician is legal, say judges|url=https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/nazi-slut-joke-was-free-speech-say-judges-2wjlfv9cm|work=The Times|access-date=18 May 2017|date=18 May 2017|location=Berlin|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519175623/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/nazi-slut-joke-can-stand-say-german-judges-2wjlfv9cm|archive-date=19 May 2017|url-status=live}}

A September 2017 report by Die Zeit claimed that Weidel had illegally hired a Syrian refugee to do housework at her home in Switzerland. The report also alleged that the asylum seeker did not have a written work contract, nor were there invoices for her work. Weidel responded in a tweet that the Die Zeit report was "fake news" and "false" and Weidel's lawyer stated that Weidel had a Syrian stay at her home as a guest but not as a worker.{{Cite news|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/alice-weidel-afd-germany-election-far-right-leader-accused-of-illegally-hiring-syrian-refugee-report/|title=German far-right leader accused of illegally hiring Syrian refugee: report|date=13 September 2017|work=POLITICO|access-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913233009/http://www.politico.eu/article/alice-weidel-afd-germany-election-far-right-leader-accused-of-illegally-hiring-syrian-refugee-report/|archive-date=13 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.dw.com/en/far-right-afd-leader-alice-weidel-employed-syrian-refugee-as-cleaner/a-40495560|title=Far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel 'employed Syrian refugee as cleaner'|website=Deutsche Welle|language=en|access-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914155213/http://www.dw.com/en/far-right-afd-leader-alice-weidel-employed-syrian-refugee-as-cleaner/a-40495560|archive-date=14 September 2017|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-afd-leader-syrian-refugee-cleaner-alice-weidel-a7945621.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914014321/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/germany-afd-leader-syrian-refugee-cleaner-alice-weidel-a7945621.html |archive-date=14 September 2017 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=Lead election candidate of far-right German party secretly employed Syrian asylum seeker as cleaner|date=13 September 2017|work=The Independent|access-date=25 September 2017|language=en-GB}}

In June 2023, Weidel commented on the election polls results in former East Germany without Berlin, stating that AfD has great support in this region. However, she referred to the region as Mitteldeutschland (Central Germany), which was seen by some in Poland as suggesting that the so-called Recovered Territories belong to Germany, which caused controversies with the Polish politician Beata Szydło.{{cite web |title=Niemiecka polityk wywołała oburzenie swoim wpisem. Beata Szydło komentuje |url=https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C1582947%2Cniemiecka-polityk-wywolala-oburzenie-swoim-wpisem-beata-szydlo-komentuje |website=pap.pl |publisher=Polish Press Agency |access-date=28 December 2023 |language=pl |date=9 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004055925/https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/news%2C1582947%2Cniemiecka-polityk-wywolala-oburzenie-swoim-wpisem-beata-szydlo-komentuje |archive-date=4 October 2023 |url-status=live}}

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In May 2018, Weidel was reprimanded by Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU), the then President of the Bundestag, after Weidel made the following statement in a speech in the Bundestag: "Burkas, girls in headscarves, knifemen on subsidies and other good-for-nothings will not secure our prosperity, economic growth and, above all, the welfare state."

These remarks were sharply criticized. Weidel subsequently asserted in an interview that she had in no way intended these terms as a provocation against all women who wear a headscarf.{{Cite web |title="Kopftuchmädchen": Weidel will sich gegen Schäubles Tadel wehren - WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article176402564/Kopftuchmaedchen-Weidel-will-sich-gegen-Schaeubles-Tadel-wehren.html |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=DIE WELT |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517191632/https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article176402564/Kopftuchmaedchen-Weidel-will-sich-gegen-Schaeubles-Tadel-wehren.html |archive-date=17 May 2018 |url-status=live}}

In the same speech, Weidel also spoke of an "increase in the population through immigrant criminals with multiple identities" and a "strategy of generational replacement through unregulated immigration" and accused the government of wanting to "select and assemble the people themselves". This was interpreted as a reference to the "Great Replacement" theory.{{Cite book |last=Patrick |first=Bahners |title=Die Wiederkehr: Die AfD und der neue deutsche Nationalismus |publisher=Klett-Cotta |isbn=978-3-608-98689-1 |publication-date=14 January 2023 |pages=160, 163 |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Die Wiederkehr von Patrick Bahners |url=https://www.klett-cotta.de/produkt/patrick-bahners-die-wiederkehr-9783608986891-t-5510 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20231108120707/https://www.klett-cotta.de/produkt/patrick-bahners-die-wiederkehr-9783608986891-t-5510 |archive-date=8 November 2023 |access-date=5 January 2025 |website=Klett Cotta Verlag |pages=160, 163 |language=de-DE}}

On 9 January 2025, in a live broadcast with Elon Musk on X Spaces, both Weidel and Musk claimed that "Hitler was a communist."{{Cite news |date= 9 January 2025 |first1= Sarah |last1= Marsh |first2= Thomas |last2= Escritt |title=Elon Musk doubles down on endorsement of far-right German party in conversation on X |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/09/elon-musk-german-far-right-party-hitler/77584508007/ |access-date=11 January 2025 |website=USA Today |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250109223858/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/01/09/elon-musk-german-far-right-party-hitler/77584508007/ |archive-date=9 January 2025 |url-status=live}}{{Cite magazine |first= David |last= Gilbert |title=Elon Musk and Far-Right German Leader Agree 'Hitler Was a Communist' |url=https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-far-right-german-leader-weidel-hitler-communist/ |access-date=11 January 2025 |magazine=Wired |date= 9 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250109221128/https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-far-right-german-leader-weidel-hitler-communist/ |archive-date=9 January 2025 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/weidel-im-talk-mit-musk-hitler-war-ein-kommunist-li.3180020 |title=Weidel im Talk mit Musk: "Hitler war ein Kommunist" |work=sueddeutsche.de |date=9 January 2025 |access-date=10 January 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250110115515/https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/weidel-im-talk-mit-musk-hitler-war-ein-kommunist-li.3180020 |archive-date=10 January 2025 |url-status=live}} The vast majority of historians reject the classification of Hitler and the National Socialists as "left" and "socialist",{{Cite web|author=Nils Metzger |url=https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/faktencheck-weidel-musk-100.html |title=Elon Musk und Alice Weidel im Faktencheck |work=zdf.de |date=10 January 2025 |access-date=10 January 2025 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250110084027/https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/deutschland/faktencheck-weidel-musk-100.html |archive-date=10 January 2025 |url-status=live}} and the Tagesschau claims that Hitler himself declared in 1928 that the Nazi Party was not socialist.{{Cite web|author=Carla Reveland, Pascal Siggelkow, ARD-faktenfinder |url=https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/musk-weidel-102.html |title=Musk und Weidel: Falschaussagen von Migration bis Nationalsozialismus |work=tagesschau.de |date=10 January 2025 |access-date=10 January 2025 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250109233533/https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/musk-weidel-102.html |archive-date=9 January 2025 |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |author=Felix Huesmann |url=https://www.rnd.de/politik/alice-weidel-und-elon-musk-der-talk-auf-x-im-faktencheck-NXHDQUIPJBA2VFSKNYCG5NFVVE.html |title=Alice Weidel und Elon Musk: Der Talk auf X im Faktencheck |work=rnd.de |date=9 January 2025 |access-date=10 January 2025 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250110115515/https://www.rnd.de/politik/alice-weidel-und-elon-musk-der-talk-auf-x-im-faktencheck-NXHDQUIPJBA2VFSKNYCG5NFVVE.html |archive-date=10 January 2025 |url-status=live}} However Hitler claimed to be a socialist in his second book, also written in 1928, stating "I am a socialist. I see no class and no social estate before me, but that community of the folk, made up of people who are linked by blood [...]"{{Cite book |last=Hitler |first=Adolf |title=Hitlers Zweites Buch |date=1928 |publication-date=1961 |language=DE |trans-title=Hitler's Second Book}}, and several historians and economists such as Henry Ashby Turner{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Henry Ashby |title=German big business and the rise of Hitler |date=1987 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-504235-1 |location=New York Oxford}}, Peter Temin{{Cite journal |last=Temin |first=Peter |date=1991 |title=Soviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the 1930s |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2597802 |journal=The Economic History Review |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=573–593 |doi=10.2307/2597802 |jstor=2597802 |issn=0013-0117}}, Götz Aly{{Cite book |last1=Aly |first1=Götz |title=Hitler's beneficiaries: plunder, racial war, and the Nazi welfare state |last2=Chase |first2=Jefferson S. |date=2008 |publisher=Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co |isbn=978-0-8050-8726-0 |edition=1st Holt Paperbacks |location=New York}}, George Reisman{{Cite web |date=2021-10-01 |title=Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian {{!}} Mises Institute |url=https://mises.org/mises-daily/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian |access-date=2025-06-03 |website=mises.org |language=en}}, and Ludwig von Mises{{Cite book |last=Von Mises |first=Ludwig |title=Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War |date=2014 |publisher=Liberty Fund Inc |isbn=978-0-86597-754-9 |series=Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig Von Mises Ser |location=Indianapolis}} have noted the presence of socialist elements in national socialist ideology and the nazi regime.

In February 2025, Weidel argued that the Holocaust is being used in Germany for political instrumentalization.

Since 2009, Weidel has been in a lesbian relationship with Sarah Bossard, a Sri Lankan-born film producer who was adopted as a child by a Swiss couple. Since 2019 the pair have lived with their two adopted sons in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Weidel works in Berlin and says her official residence is in her electoral district in Überlingen, on the German side of the German-Swiss border, allowing her to avoid Swiss taxation.{{Cite web |last=Studer |first=Ruedi |date=17 February 2025 |title=Darum zahlt Alice Weidel in der Schweiz wohl keine Steuern |url=https://www.blick.ch/politik/trotz-familie-in-einsiedeln-darum-zahlt-alice-weibel-keine-steuern-in-der-schweiz-id20600871.html |access-date=19 February 2025 |website=Blick |language=de-CH |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250217191505/https://www.blick.ch/politik/trotz-familie-in-einsiedeln-darum-zahlt-alice-weibel-keine-steuern-in-der-schweiz-id20600871.html |archive-date=17 February 2025 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://rtlnext.rtl.de/cms/afd-kandidatin-alice-weidel-mit-coming-out-auf-der-wahlkampf-buehne-ich-bin-homosexuell-4127276.html|title=AfD-Kandidatin Alice Weidel mit Coming-out auf der Wahlkampf-Bühne: "Ich bin homosexuell" |language=de |work= RTL Next |date=21 September 2017 |access-date=21 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922050714/http://rtlnext.rtl.de/cms/afd-kandidatin-alice-weidel-mit-coming-out-auf-der-wahlkampf-buehne-ich-bin-homosexuell-4127276.html |archive-date=22 September 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Steiner |first=Thomas |url=https://www.badische-zeitung.de/deutschland-1/das-neue-gesicht-der-afd-wer-ist-eigentlich-alice-weidel--135970692.html |title=Das neue Gesicht der AfD: Wer ist eigentlich Alice Weidel? |language=de |work=Badische Zeitung |date=23 April 2017 |access-date=1 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427131308/https://www.badische-zeitung.de/deutschland-1/das-neue-gesicht-der-afd-wer-ist-eigentlich-alice-weidel--135970692.html |archive-date=27 April 2017 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article164121228/AfD-Frontfrau-Alice-Weidel-hat-einen-Wohnsitz-in-der-Schweiz.html |title=AfD-Frontfrau Alice Weidel hat einen Wohnsitz in der Schweiz |language=de |work=Die Welt |date=29 April 2017 |access-date=6 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170429115222/https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article164121228/AfD-Frontfrau-Alice-Weidel-hat-einen-Wohnsitz-in-der-Schweiz.html |archive-date=29 April 2017 |url-status=live}}

In terms of religion, Weidel identifies herself as an agnostic.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpjKbWKZn00&ab_channel=TheEconomicTimes |title=Elon Musk-Alice Weidel Full Conversation: Tesla CEO speaks to German far-right party AfD chief |date=9 January 2025 |last=The Economic Times |access-date=12 January 2025 |via=YouTube |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250109214535/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpjKbWKZn00 |archive-date=9 January 2025 |url-status=live}}

On her father's side, Weidel's family came from Neustadt and Leobschütz in Upper Silesia, in what is now Poland.{{Cite web |date=2 November 2024 |title=Mroczna przeszłość dziadka szefowej skrajnie prawicowej partii w Niemczech. Ślady prowadzą do Głubczyc i Prudnika |url=https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/dziadek-alice-weidel-ma-mroczna-przeszlosc-slady-prowadza-do-polski/q5besx6?utm_source=de.wikipedia.org_viasg_wiadomosci&utm_medium=referal&utm_campaign=leo_automatic&srcc=undefined&utm_v=2 |access-date=8 January 2025 |website=Onet Wiadomości |language=pl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241110185320/https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/dziadek-alice-weidel-ma-mroczna-przeszlosc-slady-prowadza-do-polski/q5besx6 |archive-date=10 November 2024 |url-status=live}} Her grandfather Hans Weidel was a Nazi judge, appointed directly by Adolf Hitler.{{Cite web |date=2 November 2024 |title=The hidden Nazi heritage of Germany's far-right leader |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/hidden-nazi-heritage-germany-far-right-leader-afd-alice-weidel-hans-weidel-warsaw/ |access-date=4 January 2025 |website=POLITICO |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241102113905/https://www.politico.eu/article/hidden-nazi-heritage-germany-far-right-leader-afd-alice-weidel-hans-weidel-warsaw/ |archive-date=2 November 2024 |url-status=live}} He joined the NSDAP at the end of 1932 and the SS in January 1933. Weidel's father was born 1939 in Upper Silesia and fled with his mother and sister to Verl (in East Westphalia) in February 1945. He founded a sales agency for office furniture in 1972 and worked as a sales representative for furniture, furnishings and antiques.{{Cite web |title=Alice Weidel: Die unbekannte Geschichte von Weidels Großvater - WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus254277656/Alice-Weidel-Die-unbekannte-Geschichte-von-Weidels-Grossvater.html |access-date=8 January 2025 |website=DIE WELT |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241124170737/https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/plus254277656/Alice-Weidel-Die-unbekannte-Geschichte-von-Weidels-Grossvater.html |archive-date=24 November 2024 |url-status=live}}TOP (Trade Opportunities Program) Bulletin, hg. v. U.S. Department of Commerce und dem U.S. Foreign Service-U.S. Department of State, 21 August 1978, S. 24 f.

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