Martin Sichert
{{Short description|German politician (born 1980)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Martin Sichert
|image = 2018-10-12 Martin Sichert AfD 8111.jpg
|office = Chairman of Alternative for Germany Bavaria
|term_start = 25 November 2017
|term_end = 2019
|office1 = Member of the Bundestag for Bavaria
|term_start1 = 24 October 2017
|term_end1 =
|birth_date = {{nowrap|{{birth date and age|1980|06|10|df=y}}}}
|birth_place = Nuremberg, Bavaria, West Germany
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|party = Alternative for Germany
|alma_mater = University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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Martin Johannes Sichert (born 10 June 1980) is a German merchant and politician (AfD). He has been a member for the 19th Bundestag and was AfD Bavarian state chairman from 2017 to 2019.{{citation|surname1=DIE WELT|periodical=Die Welt|title=Martin Sichert neuer Landeschef der AfD: Kampfabstimmung|date=2017-11-25|language=de|url=https://www.welt.de/regionales/bayern/article170951772/Kampfabstimmung.html|access-date=2017-11-26
}}[https://www.br.de/mediathek/video/martin-sichert-afd-wir-haben-unser-ziel-erreicht-av:59c7fb9fcea033001289b64f Martin Sichert (AfD) „Wir haben unser Ziel erreicht“]. Bayerischer Rundfunk[https://www.merkur.de/politik/landesparteitag-afd-bayern-neuer-vorsitzender-gewaehlt-9395585.html Stichwahl beim Parteitag in Greding. Er ist der neue Vorsitzende der AfD in Bayern] von Sebastian Dorn, Münchner Merkur[http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2017-11/bayern-afd-landesvorsitzender-martin-sichert Bayern: AfD wählt Martin Sichert zum Landesvorsitzenden], Die Zeit 25. November 2017[http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/id_82774312/martin-sichert-neuer-landeschef-der-afd-kampfabstimmung.html Martin Sichert neuer Landeschef der AfD: Kampfabstimmung] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201005001/http://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/id_82774312/martin-sichert-neuer-landeschef-der-afd-kampfabstimmung.html |date=1 December 2017 }}, t-online 25. November 2017
Sichert was born in Nuremberg, and completed his studies as a business graduate at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2006. He worked in Regensburg for more than seven years. At the beginning of the millennium, he was a member of the Young Liberals.{{cite web|title=Ehemalige Landesvorstände – JuLis Bayern|url=http://wiki.julis-bayern.de/index.php?title=Ehemalige_Landesvorst%C3%A4nde|access-date=2018-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207182957/http://wiki.julis-bayern.de/index.php?title=Ehemalige_Landesvorst%C3%A4nde|archive-date=2018-02-07|url-status=dead}} Martin Sichert has been chairman of the AfD district association Nuremberg / Schwabach and was 2017 direct candidate in the constituency Nuremberg North.{{citation|surname1=Kai Biermann, Astrid Geisler, Christina Holzinger, Paul Middelhoff, Karsten Polke-Majewski|periodical=Die Zeit|title=AfD-Fraktion: Rechts bis extrem im Bundestag|location=Hamburg|issn=0044-2070|date=2017-09-26|language=de|url=http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2017-09/afd-kandidaten-bundestagswahl-abgeordnete|access-date=2017-10-03
}} From 2017 to 2019 he was State Chairman of the AfD Bayern.{{cite web|title=Martin Sichert nach Kampfabstimmung neuer Landeschef der AfD Bayern|periodical=Welt.de|url=https://www.welt.de/regionales/bayern/article170951772/Kampfabstimmung.html|access-date=2017-11-25}}
Positions
On Facebook, the Wehrmacht's crimes in World War II were trivialized several times. In October 2020, Sichert said in the Bundestag that “there will soon be no difference between an epidemic emergency of national scope and Hitler’s Enabling Act of 1933”.{{Cite news |last=Reinecke |first=Stefan |date=2020-11-20 |title=Debatte über Coronaprovokateure: Die große AfD-Opfershow |language=de |work=Die Tageszeitung: taz |url=https://taz.de/!5727689/ |access-date=2023-10-09 |issn=0931-9085}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/S/-/523672 Martin Sichert, AfD], bundestag.de
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