Volker Münz

{{short description|German politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Volker Münz

| office = Member of the Bundestag

| image = Volker Münz .jpg

| caption =

| term_start = 16 July 2024

| term_start1 = 24 October 2017

| term_end1 = 2021

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|8|8|df=y}}

| birth_place = Verden (Aller)

| party = AfD

| nationality = German

}}

Volker Münz (born 8 August 1964 in Verden (Aller)) is a German banker and politician (Alternative for Germany). He is member of the nationalist wing Der Flügel and from 2017 to 2021 member of German Bundestag.

Münz worked in a bank and studied economic science at Universität Hannover. His last position was head of a department in Hypovereinsbank.[http://www.swp.de/goeppingen/lokales/goeppingen/ein-afd-mann-der-ersten-stunde-15698297.html Volker Münz ist AfD-Mann der ersten Stunde.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127193937/http://www.swp.de/goeppingen/lokales/goeppingen/ein-afd-mann-der-ersten-stunde-15698297.html |date=2017-11-27 }} In: Südwestpresse.Karen Schnebeck: [https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.uhingen-die-angst-des-mittelstands-und-ihr-gesicht.8bb6f543-89c6-4fda-91f8-98ee708f04f6.html Die Angst des Mittelstands und ihr Gesicht.] In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. 25 August 2017, retrieved 9 May 2018.

Münz spoke in the summer of 2019 against a candidacy of the Thuringia parliamentary leader Björn Höcke as federal chairman of AfD. He feared a consolidation of polarization within AfD if the prominent representative of the national wing came on the federal executive committee. "We do not need any sharp comments, we also do not need an inappropriate style." He criticized Höcke's style at the Kyffhäuser meeting. There, he had massively attacked the AfD Federal Board and asked his critics to leave the party. "He talks about unity, but he splits," said Münz in 2019.{{cite web|title=Parteiinterne AfD-Kritik an Höcke - "Er redet von Einheit, aber er spaltet"|url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/parteiinterne-afd-kritik-an-hoecke-er-redet-von-einheit.694.de.html?dram:article_id=453875|language=de-DE}}

In July 2024, he returned to the Bundestag, replacing Marc Jongen.{{Cite web |title=Deutscher Bundestag - Volker Münz |url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/M/muenz_volker-857792 |access-date=2024-07-24 |website=Deutscher Bundestag |language=de}} In October 2024 he announced that he was not seeking re-election for Bundestag.{{cite web|access-date=2024-10-02 |author=Helge Thiele |date=2024-09-29 |title=AfD stellt Weichen für Bundestagswahl: Hans-Jürgen Goßner als Kandidat gewählt |url=https://www.swp.de/lokales/goeppingen/afd-stellt-weichen-fuer-bundestagswahl-hans-juergen-gossner-als-kandidat-gewaehlt-77554507.html |website=swp.de}}