Wiebke Muhsal
{{Short description|German politician (born 1986)}}
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| name = Wiebke Muhsal
| image = File:Landtagsprojekt Thüringen 2016 Wiebke Muhsal IMG 9855 LR10 by Stepro.jpg
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| caption = Muhsal in 2016
| office = Member of the Landtag of Thuringia
| term_start = 2014
| term_end =
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1986|4|6|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Lüdinghausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
(Now Germany)
| party = Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)
| children = 5
| education = University of Jena
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Wiebke Muhsal (born 6 April 1986)[http://www.thueringer-landtag.de/landtag/abgeordnete-und-fraktionen/abgeordnete/biografien/daten/81785/index.aspx Lebenslauf auf der Internetseite des Thüringer Landtages] is a German politician with the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Since 2014, she is a member of the Landtag of Thuringia and deputy chairman of the AfD caucus. She is also her party's critic on family and education policy and is a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Youth and Sports.
Life and education
Muhsal was raised in Münster and Bad Salzuflen. In 2005 she began studying Jurisprudence at the University of Jena, from which in 2012 she graduated with a Diplom-Juristin degree. After completing her studies, she devoted herself primarily to raising her three sons until her election to the Thuringian Landtag in 2014. Muhsal is married and lives in Jena. She is a practising Roman Catholic.{{cite news|url=http://jena.otz.de/web/lokal/politik/detail/-/specific/Jenaer-Landtagskandidaten-vorgestellt-Wiebke-Muhsal-150794811|title=Jenaer Landtagskandidaten vorgestellt: Wiebke Muhsal|publisher=Ostthüringer Zeitung|date=10 September 2014}}
Political engagement
Muhsal joined the AfD in November 2013. She is the AfD spokeswoman for the Jena-Gera-Saale-Holzland district, and a member of the working group on family, health, and demography as well as leader of the working group on education, science, and culture. After the 2014 state elections in Thuringia, she was elected to the Thuringian Landtag. In July 2015 she was selected as the state representative for the Young Alternative for Germany.
In 2016, Muhsal wore a Niqab to the Thuringian Landtag (state parliament) in a protest calling for a ban on the face covering.https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10154025371686939{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEzr2U7Bz_c | title=Burqa in German Parliament - AfD Deputy Chairwoman Wiebke Muhsal exposes Socialist Hypocrisy | website=YouTube }}
The Thuringian AfD parliamentary group wants to propose Wiebke Muhsal as a candidate for the office of state parliament president in 2024.{{Cite web |last=mdr.de |title=AfD nominiert Wiebke Muhsal als Kandidatin für Landtagspräsidentschaft {{!}} MDR.DE |url=https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/thueringen/landtag-wahl-afd-landtagspraesidentin-muhsal-100.html |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=www.mdr.de |language=de}}
Positions
Muhsal is primarily interested in education and family policy. She advocates a marriage loan (Ehekredit) for young couples similar to practises in the former GDR and a basic allowance for children (Baukindergeld). She also argued for the preservation of the state education allowance (Landeserziehungsgeld) and stood for a further developing the family allowance. In March 2015 she was the first signatory to the so-called "Erfurt Resolution".
Conviction for fraud
Wiebke Muhsal predated an employment contract with an employee by two months in 2014 in order to receive additional money from the state parliament administration. According to the court, she used the alleged salary for the employee to finance office equipment, a smartphone and a website.
In June 2015 at the request of the public prosecutor in Erfurt, the Thuringian Landtag lifted the parliamentary immunity on Muhsal to enable a criminal investigation against her. {{cite news|url=http://www.thueringer-allgemeine.de/web/zgt/politik/detail/-/specific/Immunitaet-von-Thueringer-AfD-Abgeordneter-Muhsal-aufgehoben-780916823|title=Immunität von Thüringer AfD-Abgeordneter Muhsal aufgehoben|date=6 June 2015|publisher=Thüringer Allgemeine}} Muhsal denied the allegations and launched a counter-accusation of libel. Erfurt Regional Court sentenced her to a fine of 8,000 euros. The appeal against this was finally dismissed by the Thuringian Higher Regional Court in 2017.{{Cite web |last=mdr.de |title=Oberlandesgericht: Urteil gegen Wiebke Muhsal ist rechtskräftig {{!}} MDR.DE |url=https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/thueringen/ost-thueringen/jena/wiebke-muhsal-verurteilung-rechtskraeftig-100.html |access-date=2024-09-26 |website=www.mdr.de |language=de}}
Links
- [http://www.thueringer-landtag.de/landtag/abgeordnete-und-fraktionen/abgeordnete/biografien/daten/87243/index.aspx Official biography] (in German) at the Landtag of Thuringia.
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References
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Category:People from Lüdinghausen
Category:German Roman Catholics
Category:Alternative for Germany politicians
Category:Members of the Landtag of Thuringia
Category:Women members of state parliaments in Germany
Category:21st-century German women politicians