Robert Farle

Farle studied economics and business administration at the Ruhr University in Bochum from 1968 to 1974.{{Cite web |last=Gelsenkirchen |first=Dietmar Kesten |title=Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Aktivitäten politischer Gruppen an der RUB 1971 - Materialien zur Analyse von Opposition |url=https://www.mao-projekt.de/BRD/NRW/ARN/Bochum_Ruhr-Universitaet_Aktivitaeten_politischer_Gruppen_1971.shtml |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241214140645/https://mao-projekt.de/BRD/NRW/ARN/Bochum_Ruhr-Universitaet_Aktivitaeten_politischer_Gruppen_1971.shtml |archive-date=2024-12-14 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=www.mao-projekt.de |language=de}} After the end of East Germany, Farle went to Halle and founded a business and tax consulting company there in 1990. From 1999 to 2004, Farle also studied law at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. After his legal traineeship, Farle was admitted to become a lawyer in 2006.{{Cite web |date=2018-09-01 |title=Farle |url=http://www.fsw-steuerkanzlei-farle.de/farle.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180901215757/http://www.fsw-steuerkanzlei-farle.de/farle.html |archive-date=1 September 2018 }}{{Cite web |title=Deutscher Bundestag - Robert Farle |url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/F/farle_robert-863326 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=Deutscher Bundestag |language=de}}

Until 1992, Robert Farle was active in the German Communist Party in North Rhine-Westphalia for 17 years. His roles included that of DKP chairman at the Ruhr University and on the city council in Gladbeck.{{Cite web |last=Eichler |first=Hagen |title=AfD setzt auf das Thema Asyl |url=https://www.volksstimme.de/sachsen-anhalt/afd-setzt-auf-das-thema-asyl-1851148 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=www.volksstimme.de |language=de}}{{Cite news |last=Redaktion |date=2016-02-02 |title=Robert Farle – von der DKP Gladbeck zur AfD Sachsen-Anhalt |url=https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/gladbeck/robert-farle-von-der-dkp-gladbeck-zur-afd-sachsen-anhalt-id11521111.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230724113304/https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/gladbeck/robert-farle-von-der-dkp-gladbeck-zur-afd-sachsen-anhalt-id11521111.html |archive-date=2023-07-24 |access-date=2025-02-12 |work=DerWesten.de |language=de-DE}} In the 1980s, Farle was employed as a full-time official in the DKP Ruhr-Westphalia district in Essen. According to a report by T-online, he received money from the SED for years, which Erich Honecker had personally approved. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, he used his old communist contacts for business purposes.{{Cite web |date=2021-06-02 |title=Hoher AfD-Politiker erhielt verdeckte Zahlungen von der SED |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/parteien/id_87161990/von-der-sed-afd-politiker-robert-farle-erhielt-verdeckte-zahlungen.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=t-online |language=de}}

In May 2015, Farle would join the AfD, and would enter the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt after the 2016 Saxony-Anhalt state election.{{Cite web |last=Sachsen-Anhalt |first=Statistisches Landesamt |title=Wahl des Landtages von Sachsen-Anhalt am 13. März 2016 |url=http://www.statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/lt16/erg/wkr/lt.33.ergtab.frametab.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20180311202654/http://www.statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de/wahlen/lt16/erg/wkr/lt.33.ergtab.frametab.html |archive-date=2018-03-11 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=www.statistik.sachsen-anhalt.de |language=de}} Farle would not run for re-election in 2021.

In the 2021 federal election, he ran for the direct mandate in the Mansfeld constituency without being on the AfD Saxony-Anhalt state list. He won the direct mandate with 25.1% of the first votes and thus entered the 20th German Bundestag.{{Cite web |title=Bundestagswahl 2021 |url=https://www.election.de/cgi-bin/showcandres_btw21.pl?wahlkreis=74 |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=www.election.de}}{{Cite web |date=2021-09-27 |title=Ex-Kommunist zieht für AfD in den Bundestag ein |url=https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/bundestagswahl/id_90872254/ex-kommunist-zieht-fuer-afd-in-den-bundestag-ein.html |access-date=2025-02-12 |website=t-online |language=de}}

On September 8, 2022, Farle resigned from the AfD parliamentary group and has been a non-affiliated member of parliament since then. According to Zeit Online, he had previously threatened his parliamentary colleagues with resignation in connection with the Russian attack on Ukraine, in anger over their "one-sided accusations" against Russian President Vladimir Putin.{{Cite news |last=Steffen |first=Tilman |date=2022-09-09 |title=AfD: Robert Farle verlässt AfD-Bundestagsfraktion |url=https://www.zeit.de/politik/2022-09/bundestag-robert-farle-afd-fraktion |access-date=2025-02-12 |work=Die Zeit |language=de-DE |issn=0044-2070}}{{Cite news |date=2023-11-03 |title=AfD: Robert Farle tritt wegen Russland aus Partei aus |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/robert-farle-tritt-aus-afd-aus-a-7a9c8574-1110-488c-8758-75e3e30e7fb4 |access-date=2025-02-12 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}

Farle ran for re-election in Mansfeld in 2025, however he received 1.9% of the vote as an independent while the AfD's Kay-Uwe Ziegler won the seat with 43.8% of the vote.{{Cite web |last=mdr.de |title=Bundestagswahl 2025: AfD gewinnt Wahlkreis 73 Mansfeld {{!}} MDR.DE |url=https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/halle/mansfeld/bundestagswahl-wahlkreis-dreiundsiebzig-direktkandidaten-112.html |access-date=2025-03-03 |website=www.mdr.de |language=de}}

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