Armin-Paul Hampel
{{short description|German politician}}
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| name = Armin-Paul Hampel
| office = Member of the Bundestag
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| caption = Armin-Paul Hampel (2014)
| term_start = 24 October 2017
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|7|23|df=y}}
| party = AfD
| nationality = German
}}
Armin-Paul Hampel (born 23 July 1957) is a German politician for the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) and from 2017 - 2021 member of the Bundestag.
Life and achievements
Hampel was born 1957 in the then-West German city of Bielefeld and became a freelancer journalist.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/H/520072-520072|title=Deutscher Bundestag - Armin-Paulus Hampel}}
In his career he worked mostly for public broadcasting stations, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Central German Broadcasting) and later ARD.{{Cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/politik/article159876141/Zur-Person-Armin-Paul-Hampel.html|title=Zur Person: Armin Paul Hampel|newspaper=Die Welt |date=1 December 2017|access-date=10 April 2020|via=www.welt.de}}
Hampel entered the newly founded AfD in 2013 and was chairman of the Landesverband (federal state association) of the party in Lower Saxony from 2013 to 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Politik/Niedersachsen/Armin-Paul-Hampels-von-der-AfD-hat-Sorge-um-die-Heimat|title=Hampels Sorge um die Heimat|website=HAZ – Hannoversche Allgemeine|access-date=2019-09-07|archive-date=2018-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917222351/http://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Politik/Niedersachsen/Armin-Paul-Hampels-von-der-AfD-hat-Sorge-um-die-Heimat|url-status=dead}}
In 2017 a criminal investigation alleging fraud and tax evasion was conducted against Hampel; the lawsuit was abandoned without further action.{{Cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article163912987/Er-gebaerdet-sich-zunehmend-als-Chef-Intrigant-der-AfD.html|title=Streit in AfD Niedersachsen: "Er gebärdet sich zunehmend als Chef-Intrigant der AfD"|first=Uwe|last=Müller|newspaper=Die Welt |date=23 April 2017|via=www.welt.de}}
At the German federal election in September 2017, AfD — which was previously unrepresented in the Bundestag — became the third party in the Bundestag with 12.6% of the vote. The AfD got 94 of the 709 Bundestag seats; Hampel has one of them.
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