# Kerstin Przygodda

# Kerstin Przygodda

Kerstin Przygodda (born 15 August 1962 in Eutin) is a German politician of [the Alternative](/organizations/the-alternative) for Germany (AfD) and a member of the Bundestag for Schleswig-Holstein. The 21st Bundestag constituted itself on 25 March 2025. She holds her seat through the AfD state list and was the party's candidate in constituency 11, Lübeck.

The Bundestag biography, which records members' own statements, lists a Fachhochschulreife, an apprenticeship as a typesetter completed in 1983, employment as a salaried employee from 1986 to 2015 (15 of those years in a leading post), and membership of a supervisory board from 1994 to 1998. From 2017 to 2025 she was office manager to the AfD member of parliament Martin Reichardt, whom NDR identified as the Bundestag group's spokesman on family policy, and she was running for a constituency seat for the first time in 2025 after more than seven years in that role. The same biography lists her as an assessor on the AfD state executive in Schleswig-Holstein from 2022 to 2024 and as a member of the district council of Ostholstein, where she is deputy chair of the AfD group.

On 23 February 2025 voters in Schleswig-Holstein elected a new Bundestag. In Lübeck the AfD received 21,972 first votes, 15.5 percent, 8.9 points above its 2021 share, while the [Social Democratic Party of Germany](/organizations/social-democratic-party-of-germany) took the direct mandate with 39,809 votes (28.1 percent). NDR reported that Przygodda, with 15.5 percent, finished behind the SPD's [Tim Klüssendorf](/people/tim-klussendorf) and entered parliament in fourth place on the AfD state list. The official constituency result put the AfD's second votes at 22,254, or 15.7 percent, also up 8.9 points.

In the 21st Bundestag she is a full member of the Committee on Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and a substitute member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and the Committee on Health. She is also a deputy member of the Kuratorium of the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. A secret ballot for deputy chair of the education and family committee rejected the AfD's nomination of Przygodda, with 11 votes in favour, 25 against and one abstention out of 37 cast; the post passed by seniority to Ansgar Heveling of the [Christian Democratic Union](/organizations/christian-democratic-union-of-germany)/CSU. On 25 March 2026, in a current-affairs debate on violence against women and girls, Bundestag vice-president Andrea Lindholz called Przygodda to order for accusing [Kathrin Gebel](/people/kathrin-gebel) of [Die Linke](/organizations/die-linke) of "pathologischen Männerhass" (pathological hatred of men); the house rejected Przygodda's objection the following day, with only the AfD voting for it.

## Early life and occupation

### Birth, schooling and apprenticeship

Kerstin Przygodda was born on 15 August 1962 in Eutin, then the seat of the district of Eutin in Schleswig-Holstein. The district administration traces that seat to 1937, when the former Oldenburg territory of Lübeck became the Prussian district of Eutin, with the Landrat based in the town. Under a boundary statute of 23 December 1969, the districts of Eutin and Oldenburg in Holstein were dissolved and, on 26 April 1970, combined as the district of Ostholstein, which has kept its administration in Eutin. NDR, reporting her later election, also gave her birthplace as Eutin in 1962, and the Federal Returning Officer's volume of preliminary results for the 2025 Bundestag election records the birth year 1962.

The biographical text on the Bundestag website carries an editorial note that the biographical details rest on the member's own declarations. That declaration is the only published account of her schooling. It lists the Fachhochschulreife, without a school, a year, or a statement of whether the qualification was taken in a gymnasiale Oberstufe, a Fachoberschule, or a vocational programme. Schleswig-Holstein's school-law glossary describes the Fachhochschulreife as a school-based part plus a vocational part, on conditions set out in the state's upper-secondary ordinance. Under a framework of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, the certificate of a Fachoberschule confers the Fachhochschulreife and entitles the holder to study at a Fachhochschule in any Land. The declaration does not say that this was Przygodda's route, or that she enrolled in higher education.

The same declaration records an apprenticeship as a typesetter, worded "Ausbildung zum Schriftsetzer", in 1983, the year she turned 21. The Bundestag text uses the masculine form of the occupational title. The Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training lists Schriftsetzer/Schriftsetzerin as a recognized training occupation under the ordinance of 29 October 1971, amended by ordinances of 24 January and 25 April 1978. A separate institute genealogy records a typesetter occupation as abolished on 4 May 1998 by the ordinance that created the occupation of media designer for digital and print media. The biography names no training firm, chamber, or place, and it does not say whether 1983 is the year the apprenticeship began or the year it was completed.

### Employment and supervisory-board service

From 1986 to 2015 the declaration describes her as a salaried employee (Angestellte), of which 15 years were in a leading position (leitender Position). It names no employer, industry, or workplace, does not say what the leading position involved, and does not date those 15 years or say whether they were continuous. The interval between the 1983 apprenticeship entry and employment from 1986 is also unexplained. No electoral notice and no parliamentary disclosure identifies a firm for those years.

Within those years the declaration lists membership of a supervisory board (Aufsichtsrat) from 1994 to 1998, without naming the body or saying whether the seat was an employee, shareholder, or outside mandate. Notices published beside the biography, filed under the code of conduct in sections 45 and following of the Members of the Bundestag Act, do not repeat that seat. The pre-membership occupation they record is a later post, as office manager (Büroleiterin) to a member in Berlin. Those notices cover matters subject to a publication duty, so silence on a seat that ended in 1998 neither confirms nor contradicts the self-reported line, and the board's name is not given in either place.

In the alphabetical list of provisionally elected candidates in 2025, the Federal Returning Officer gives her occupation or status as "Angestellte, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin" (employee and research staff member), with birth in 1962, fourth place on the Schleswig-Holstein list, and constituency 011. That designation refers to her position at the election, not to the unnamed employment of 1986–2015. The Bundestag biography treats 2017 to 2025 separately, as head of a member's office, after the employee entry ends in 2015, and the profile heading on the parliamentary site uses the shorter label "wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiterin".

## Party membership and local offices

### Joining the AfD and the state executive

Przygodda is a member of the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) in Schleswig-Holstein. A report published by HL-Live on 23 December 2024, credited to the AfD, stated that she had belonged to the party since 2017 and described her as an ordinary member of the Ostholstein district council who lived in the district. The Bundestag biography, which the parliament notes is based on members' own information, does not give a separate date of joining. It records that from 2022 to 2024 she was a Beisitzer — the biography uses that form — on the AfD state executive in Schleswig-Holstein, an assessor's seat rather than the chair or a deputy chair.

That interval falls between two state congresses in Henstedt-Ulzburg. In a report published on 1 September 2022, the *taz* described a congress there at which about 125 members elected a state chair after almost three years in which the state association had had no elected chair. NDR reported that the state executive was elected again on the Saturday of the congress held over the weekend of 2–3 November 2024, with the incumbent chair confirmed on 54.4 percent of the vote. Neither account named Przygodda or published a tally for the assessor posts. The state association's published list of its executive does not include her among the Beisitzer.

### The Ostholstein district council

At the Ostholstein district election of 14 May 2023 she stood for the AfD both as the direct candidate in constituency 12 (Eutin) and in tenth place on the party list. The district election committee's notice of admitted nominations, dated 30 March 2023, gave her occupation as *Angestellte*, her year of birth as 1962 and her address as 23714 Malente. In constituency 12 she received 207 votes. Marcel Kriwet of the Christian Democratic Union was elected there with 1,020 of 3,231 valid votes.

Across the district the AfD received 7,293 votes, 8.8 percent of the valid vote, up 2.7 percentage points on the previous election, on a turnout of 48.8 percent. The official final result, announced from Eutin on 30 May 2023, named six AfD councillors chosen from the list: Thomas Bock, Ronald Schröder, Norbert Spieckermann, Uwe Resch, Ulrich Kalscheuer and René Billiau. Together with the candidates declared elected for the other lists and the 25 directly elected members, the result accounted for 65 councillors. Przygodda was not among those declared elected.

The district's council information system later records her as an AfD *Kreistagsabgeordnete* and as a member of the AfD faction from 6 November 2024, with no end date shown. From the same day it lists her as a full member of the committee for schools, education and sport and of the social-affairs committee, and as a deputy member of the youth-welfare committee; from 10 December 2024 she is recorded as a deputy member of the main and finance committee. On the faction page the same system lists Thomas Bock as faction chair, dated from 1 December 2022, and Przygodda only as a faction member.

The Bundestag's register of interests that members must file under the Members of the Bundestag Act lists two functions for her at Kreis Ostholstein in Eutin: member of the Kreistag and deputy chair of the faction (*Stellvertretende Fraktionsvorsitzende*). Abgeordnetenwatch, which republishes those filings, dates both entries to 31 October 2025 and records a later change to the dataset on 13 April 2026. The deputy-chair title therefore appears in the parliamentary disclosure. It does not appear in the role the district information system assigns her inside the faction.

## Staff work before the 2025 Bundestag

### Office of Martin Reichardt

From 2017 to 2025 Kerstin Przygodda worked in the parliamentary office of Martin Reichardt, an [Alternative for Germany](/organizations/alternative-for-germany) member of the Bundestag for the Saxony-Anhalt constituency Burgenland–Saalekreis. Her own Bundestag biography, which the parliament notes is based on members' self-reported information, lists "2017 bis 2025 Büroleiterin des MdB Martin Reichardt." The heading of that page gives her occupation as "wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiterin," while the narrative biography uses the office-manager title. In the disclosures required under the members' code of conduct, the occupation she reported for the period before her own membership is Büroleiterin for "Martin Reichardt, MdB, Berlin."

Reichardt has sat in the Bundestag since 2017 and is listed as a full member of the Committee on Education, Family, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. A *[Die Welt](/organizations/die-welt)* profile of 25 June 2026 described him as the AfD parliamentary group's spokesman on family policy. That is the post to which NDR attached Przygodda's work. On 24 February 2025 the broadcaster wrote that she had for more than seven years been Referentin to the family-policy spokesman of the AfD group in the Bundestag. The same article said that for the 2025 election she was standing herself for the first time, in the Lübeck constituency. She had already been placed on a Bundestag state list in 2021, though not as a constituency candidate.

The employer named in the disclosure is in Berlin, and the biography carries the Büroleiterin post through to 2025, when Przygodda herself became a member. NDR's "Referentin" and the Bundestag's "Büroleiterin" are the descriptions those two accounts give of the job; neither one lists particular drafts or other casework.

### The 2021 state-list candidacy

Przygodda stood for the AfD in Schleswig-Holstein at the [2021 German federal election](/facts/2021-german-federal-election) of 26 September 2021. On 30 July 2021 the state electoral committee admitted the state lists, and the state returning officer published them the same day under the file number IV 314 - 115.21 - BW 21 - 9. She was third on the AfD list. The notice records her occupation as "Schriftsetzer, Büroleiterin MdB Büro" (typesetter and office manager in a member's office), her birth as 1962 in Eutin, and her residence as Malente. First and second were Uwe Witt and [Gereon Bollmann](/people/gereon-bollmann). The candidate-comparison archive Wen Wählen states that she did not contest a constituency and appeared only in that list place.

In Schleswig-Holstein the AfD received 119,566 second votes, 6.8 percent of valid second votes and 1.4 percentage points below its 2017 share. Its first-vote total was 113,641, or 6.5 percent. In the first stage of the federal returning officer's seat calculation the AfD's Schleswig-Holstein contingent was two seats, and the party won no constituency in the state. The final table of those elected from state lists shows two AfD members from Schleswig-Holstein, in list places 1 and 2. Third place did not produce a seat at that election. Przygodda's biography continues the Reichardt office-manager post through 2025, the year she entered the Bundestag on a later state list.

## Candidacy in the 2025 federal election

### Nomination in Lübeck and the state list

On 20 December 2024, members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) unanimously chose Kerstin Przygodda as the party’s direct candidate in Bundestag constituency 11 for the 2025 German federal election, and at the same time for fourth place on its Schleswig-Holstein state list. A party statement carried by HL-Live quoted Lübeck district spokesperson Andrea Gaidetzka as saying that Przygodda had received 100 percent of the votes. In the same text Przygodda, described there as an AfD member since 2017 and for more than seven years an adviser to Bundestag member Martin Reichardt, thanked the local party and tied the campaign to the attack in Magdeburg, saying it showed the need for a government concerned with Germany’s security and interests.

The state returning officer’s notice of 30 January 2025, recording decisions of the state election committee on 24 January, confirmed the list place. On the admitted AfD list she stood fourth, after Kurt Klaus Kleinschmidt, Gereon Martin Bollmann and Ralf Volker Schnurrbusch and ahead of [Sven Wendorf](/people/sven-wendorf). The notice gave her occupation as employee and research staffer, her birth as 1962 in Eutin, and her residence as Malente. State lists were closed, so voters could not change the order fixed by the party.

### The constituency and the campaign

Constituency 11 consists of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and part of the District of Duchy of Lauenburg: all of Amt Berkenthin, and 16 municipalities of Amt Sandesneben-Nusse, with that Amt’s other municipalities placed in constituency 10. Przygodda’s home was outside that area. The party statement placed her in Malente, in the district of Ostholstein, and described her as a full member of the Ostholstein district council.

NDR reported that this was her first own candidacy, after more than seven years as adviser to the AfD Bundestag group’s family-policy spokesman. The broadcaster summarized the themes she stressed as internal security, less bureaucracy, a limit on illegal immigration, a stronger place for families in the Basic Law, and recognition of only two sexes. Nine candidates stood for the constituency seat. With Przygodda they were Tim Klüssendorf of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Nils Christopher Lötsch of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany, Bruno Hönel of Alliance 90/[The Greens](/organizations/the-greens), Robert Schörck of the Free Democratic Party, Andreas Müller of Die Linke, Kathrin Ostertag of Volt, Sebastian Kai Ising of the [Free Voters](/organizations/free-voters), and Lüder Möller of the MLPD. On the state lists Klüssendorf, an economist born in 1991 in Lübeck and already a member of the Bundestag, was first for the SPD, while Hönel, a psychologist living in Lübeck, was sixth for the Greens.

Each voter had two votes. The first vote selected a person in the constituency; from 2025 a party’s candidate took that seat only with the most first votes and only if the seat was covered by the party’s second-vote entitlement in the Land, the rule called Zweitstimmendeckung. The second vote selected a closed state list and, through the Sainte-Laguë/Schepers method, determined how many seats a party received; constituency winners were seated first, in descending order of their first-vote share, and any seats still due went down the list. NDR’s constituency report noted that, because of the reform, the candidate with the most first votes was not automatically assured of a Bundestag seat.

### Results and the list seat

Polling was on 23 February 2025. In constituency 11 the final count showed 178,245 people eligible to vote and a turnout of 80.2 percent, 6.9 points above 2021, with 141,752 valid first votes and 142,170 valid second votes. Przygodda received 21,972 first votes, 15.5 percent, a rise of 8.9 points. Klüssendorf won the seat with 39,809 votes, 28.1 percent, down 6.0 points, and the state result records him as elected. Lötsch was second on 33,695 votes, 23.8 percent, and Hönel third on 27,477, 19.4 percent. Müller took 10,175 votes (7.2 percent), Schörck 4,028 (2.8), Ostertag 2,350 (1.7), Ising 1,960 (1.4) and Möller 286 (0.2).

Second votes in the constituency put the CDU first on 22.5 percent, then the SPD on 21.1, the Greens on 17.9 and the AfD on 15.7 percent, or 22,254 votes, up 8.9 points. Die Linke received 10.5 percent, the FDP 3.9, the Bündnis [Sahra Wagenknecht](/people/sahra-wagenknecht) 3.7 without a constituency candidate, and the South Schleswig Voters' Association, which stood only by list, 1.9. Within the city of Lübeck, turnout was 79.5 percent; Przygodda’s first-vote share was 15.2 percent (19,469 votes) and the AfD’s second-vote share 15.3 percent (19,687 votes), each up 8.7 points, which is the city figure NDR gave for the party’s second votes in Lübeck.

Across Schleswig-Holstein the AfD took 16.3 percent of second votes, 306,165 ballots, up 9.5 points, with turnout at 83.5 percent. The official state result lists five AfD candidates as elected from the state list rather than from a constituency: Kleinschmidt, Bollmann, Schnurrbusch, Przygodda and Wendorf, in that order. The allocation therefore reached list place 4, and Przygodda’s seat was a list seat. The state result notes that Zweitstimmendeckung depended on the nationwide figures, which the Federal Returning Officer published on 14 March 2025. On 24 February, NDR had already reported that she entered through list place 4 despite finishing behind Klüssendorf on first votes.

## Mandate and committee roles

### The 21st Bundestag and the state delegation

The 21st Bundestag held its constituent sitting on Tuesday, 25 March 2025, in the plenary chamber of the Reichstag building. Members had been elected on 23 February 2025 at the federal election. Przygodda sits for the term on a list mandate. The Bundestag's page for her records the seat as election via the Schleswig-Holstein state list of Alternative for Germany, and records a constituency candidacy in Wahlkreis 011, Lübeck, rather than a constituency won on the first vote. The same page states that the biographical paragraph rests on the member's own information; the mandate and the committee posts are published separately from that self-reported text.

In the federal returning officer's final result the AfD received 306,165 second votes in Schleswig-Holstein, 16.3 percent of the valid second votes, 9.5 percentage points more than in 2021. NDR reported that the state returned 25 members: eight for the Christian Democratic Union, five each for the AfD and the Social Democratic Party, four for Alliance 90/The Greens, two for Die Linke and one for the South Schleswig Voters' Association. The returning officer's roll of candidates elected from state lists names five for the AfD, in list order: Kurt Klaus Kleinschmidt, Gereon Bollmann, Ralf Volker Schnurrbusch, Przygodda and Sven Wendorf.

Schnurrbusch did not take up the Bundestag seat. On 26 February 2025 NDR reported that he would sit in the [European Parliament](/organizations/european-parliament) instead, and that [Alexis Giersch](/people/alexis-giersch), sixth on the AfD state list, would succeed him. The Bundestag lists Giersch as a member elected on the Schleswig-Holstein state list. The AfD delegation from the state with which Przygodda sits is therefore Kleinschmidt, Bollmann, Giersch, herself and Wendorf.

### Committee assignments

The Bundestag lists Przygodda as an ordinary member of the Committee on Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (Ausschuss für Bildung, Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend). It also lists her as a deputy member (stellvertretendes Mitglied) of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and of the Committee on Health, a status distinct from the deputy chair of a committee.

The education and family committee was constituted on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, at a meeting conducted by Bundestag vice-president [Josephine Ortleb](/people/josephine-ortleb). It has 38 members: 13 from the CDU/CSU, nine from the AfD, seven from the SPD, five from the Greens and four from the Left. [Saskia Esken](/people/saskia-esken) (SPD) was elected chair in a secret ballot. The nine AfD ordinary members named that day included two from the Schleswig-Holstein delegation, Przygodda and Bollmann.

The Federal Agency for Civic Education describes its board of trustees (Kuratorium) as 22 members of the Bundestag who review the agency's work for effectiveness and political balance, with the parliamentary groups represented according to their strength in the house. A list of deputy trustees dated 11 September 2025, issued by the agency, places Przygodda among the AfD deputies, with [Birgit Bessin](/people/birgit-bessin), [Tobias Ebenberger](/people/tobias-ebenberger), Nicole Hess and Sven Wendorf. Her Bundestag page, which itemises committee posts under memberships in the house, does not list that trusteeship.

### The deputy-chair ballot

The AfD parliamentary group proposed Przygodda as deputy chair of the education and family committee. In a secret ballot on Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 37 votes were cast: 11 in favour, 25 against and one abstention. She did not obtain the majority required. The Bundestag's parliamentary news service, in hib 244/2025, reported that the deputy chairmanship therefore passed to the longest-serving member of the committee, Ansgar Heveling of the CDU/CSU. Heveling had been among the CDU/CSU ordinary members named when the committee was constituted on 21 May.

## Plenary debates and procedural disputes

### Questions and speeches

In the question hour of the Bundestag's 67th sitting, on Wednesday 25 March 2026, Kerstin Przygodda of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) put two oral questions to the Federal Ministry of Transport. Parliamentary State Secretary [Christian Hirte](/people/christian-hirte) answered under Vice-President [Andrea Lindholz](/people/andrea-lindholz); Przygodda asked no supplementaries.

Question 15 asked whether, once works on the Lübeck–Schwerin line were finished, Deutsche Bahn planned to run long-distance trains between Berlin and Lübeck via Schwerin and, if not, why not. Hirte replied that the extent and design of long-distance services, including which lines were served, were a matter for the railway undertakings, and that binding statements on individual routes in commercially operated long-distance passenger rail were not possible. Question 16 asked whether the line between Stralsund and Rostock was to be double-tracked throughout and, if so, by when. Hirte said that, after the 2010 review of the federal railway demand plan, double-tracking of Rostock–Ribnitz-Damgarten West and Velgast–Stralsund was not being pursued, because forecast traffic could be handled without it.

On 19 March 2026, in the 65th sitting, she opened debate on the AfD motion "Frauen schützen – Im Namen der Familienehre versuchte und vollendete Morddelikte statistisch erfassen" (Drucksache 21/4752), seeking separate statistics on killings in the name of family honour. She invoked a 2006 Cologne conference, "Vergesst niemals Hatun!", on the killing of Hatun Sürücü, argued that such cases were being folded into "Femizid", and quoted a 2019 interjection by [Renate Künast](/people/renate-kunast) of Alliance 90/The Greens: "Es gibt keinen ‚Ehrenmord‘!" She declined an SPD question. When [Rasha Nasr](/people/rasha-nasr), in a short intervention allowed by Vice-President [Bodo Ramelow](/people/bodo-ramelow), asked whether she accepted that Künast had meant there was nothing honourable in murdering a woman, Przygodda said the term was being dropped and that “Femizid” concealed what she called the truth.

### The 25 March 2026 debate and call to order

Later that Wednesday the House took Zusatzpunkt 1, an *Aktuelle Stunde* requested by the CDU/CSU and the SPD, titled "Jegliche Gewalt gegen Frauen und Mädchen bekämpfen – Staatliche Aufgabe und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung". The Bundestag's account says speakers from across the House demanded more protection against physical and digital violence; Justice Minister [Stefanie Hubig](/people/stefanie-hubig) and Family Minister Karin Prien spoke for the government.

For the AfD, Przygodda said the CDU had no business scheduling the debate, because responsibility for what she called a massive rise in violence against women lay with the CDU and "ihre Politik der offenen Grenzen". The official summary records the same charge against the CDU-led government. She called the occasion a case of "virtueller Vergewaltigung" in a "links-woken Schickeriamilieu", resting, she said, on unproven statements by an actress long in contact with non-governmental organisations, and she named Collien Fernandes.

She said the father of Ann-Marie Kyrath was in touch with more than 1,000 families who had lost relatives to violence, always with the same offender profile, weapon, course of events and motive. Among them she named Ece, 14, from Illerkirchberg, whom she said an Eritrean had stabbed, and Liana, 16, from Friedland, whom she said an Iraqi had pushed in front of a train, while attention, she complained, went to Fernandes. She blamed "moralische Verkommenheit" and what she called the CDU's refusal to leave the "Brandmauer".

She quoted the influencer Leonie Löwenherz on Christian Ulmen "und alle anderen Täter": that they should be hanged by their big toes in the nation's marketplaces and publicly castrated. Przygodda answered that the AfD did not want "Mustafa, Mohammed und all die anderen Täter" hanged and castrated, but deported. She opposed a real-name requirement online, which she said Fernandes's case was meant to legitimise, and said the AfD would not join what she called an authoritarian restriction of speech on the internet. When Lindholz offered a question from the CDU/CSU, Przygodda declined.

She then said she wanted to make a personal statement: "Auch ich bin Opfer einer Vergewaltigung geworden." Unlike "Frau Genossin Gebel von den Linken" — Kathrin Gebel of Die Linke — she said, that had not led her to "pathologischem Männerhass"; she had entered politics to confront those she held responsible, "Und die sitzen hier." Speaking "als Opfer realer Gewalt", she expressed "tiefe Verachtung" for the claim that digital violence is real violence, and asked whether anyone present had gone into the street when the parents of Ece, Liana, Ann-Marie and Mia wept.

Lindholz replied: "Frau Kollegin, dafür, dass Sie der Kollegin Gebel „pathologischen Männerhass“ vorgeworfen haben, erhalten Sie jetzt von mir einen Ordnungsruf." The record notes applause from the SPD, the Greens and Die Linke and from some CDU/CSU members, and interruptions from the AfD. Prien, speaking next, said that a man striking a woman and a man spreading deepfake pornography were both violence, and that Przygodda should be ashamed of setting one group of victims against another.

### The rejected objection

On Thursday 26 March 2026, in the 68th sitting, the House took her *Einspruch* against the call to order as Zusatzpunkt 12, under § 39 of the rules of procedure. Vice-President [Omid Nouripour](/people/omid-nouripour) said the objection concerned the *Ordnungsruf* of the 67th sitting, that it had been circulated as a printed paper, and that it was to be decided without debate. The AfD voted for it; the CDU/CSU, the SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens and Die Linke voted against; no abstentions were recorded, and the objection was rejected. The Bundestag's text archive reported the same division, after Lindholz had called Przygodda to order for imputing "pathologischen Männerhass" to Gebel.

## Political positions

### Family, gender and education

Before the 2025 federal election, NDR reported that Alternative for Germany candidate Kerstin Przygodda, standing in Lübeck, wanted family-friendliness anchored more strongly in the Basic Law, recognised only two genders, and wanted families and children given more weight in politics. In a 9 February 2025 *Lübecker Nachrichten* questionnaire, with answers limited to 180 characters, she said German should be compulsory at school entry, the performance principle restored and cancelled lessons cut sharply. On social division she called for “common sense,” a ban on gender-inclusive language in schools and authorities, “only two genders,” and protection of freedom of opinion.

On 7 May 2026 she spoke in the Bundestag for a motion she introduced, Drucksache 21/5758, “Babys willkommen heißen – Nationaler Aktionsplan für eine familienfreundliche Gesellschaft.” It calls the “traditional family of father, mother and children” the nucleus of society and asks for a plan of 75 million euros a year: a campaign for that model, a test of whether laws are family-friendly, and more flexible working time. In the debate she called government policy a “war against families,” cited a 2002 remark by [Olaf Scholz](/people/mig-olaf-scholz) about “air supremacy over the children’s beds,” opposed ending spousal income-splitting and free co-insurance, and criticised Labour Minister [Bärbel Bas](/people/barbel-bas) for wanting mothers in work 14 months after a birth.

On 4 December 2025, on a motion by Alliance 90/The Greens on the [Istanbul Convention](/facts/istanbul-convention), she said protection from violence must not serve what she called “trans ideology.” She stated that “trans women are men” and that the Self-Determination Act had removed women’s protected spaces. On 16 April 2026 she backed an AfD motion pressing the Länder to ban children’s headscarves in public preschools and schools, calling the garment a sexual symbol and “the flag of political Islam,” and cited a 2024 Terre des Femmes teacher survey in which, she said, 71 percent taught girls under 14 who wore one.

### Migration, crime and internal security

NDR also named internal security and a limit on illegal immigration as her campaign focus. In the same questionnaire she said illegal immigration had to stop because it meant a loss of internal security and strained municipal budgets, while qualified immigration was needed. She said the police had been “ruined by spending cuts.” She wanted asylum-seeker support in kind where possible, cuts if work was refused, and child benefit paid abroad adjusted to local costs.

On 10 July 2025, in the education and family budget debate, she said women and girls were paying for “limitless illegal immigration,” spoke of an “Islamisation of classrooms” in which sharia rather than the Basic Law ruled, and said women’s shelters were full of women of “Islamist background.” On 19 March 2026, for an AfD motion to record killings “in the name of family honour,” she recalled the murder of Hatun Sürücü and argued that such acts were archaic and foreign to “our culture,” not ordinary murders of women. She cited 55 attempted and completed cases in the ten years to 2006 as the last figures published.

On 25 March 2026, in a current-affairs hour on violence against women and girls requested by the CDU/CSU and the SPD, she blamed the rise on the CDU’s “policy of open borders,” named girls she said migrants had killed, and called for deportation rather than real-name rules or limits on online speech. On 9 July 2026 she called forced marriage human trafficking and often the path to an honour killing, and, for an AfD motion, demanded a national count through shelters, schools and advice centres. She said the Basic Law, not sharia, should rule.

### Bureaucracy and social policy

Less bureaucracy was the third priority NDR reported. Asked for an immediate economic step, she told the *Lübecker Nachrichten*: more net from gross pay, less bureaucracy, lower taxes and charges, lower energy prices, less state and more competition. For housing she proposed ending the real-estate transfer tax for owner-occupiers and simplifying building law. She would not fix defence spending at 2 or 5 percent of GDP before a European military target existed, answered “less” on further climate spending, and put roads before public transport in a large territorial state. Her motto for municipalities was “our money for our citizens.” The May 2026 family motion would add “family-friendliness” to the federal sustainability strategy so that bills, especially in social, tax and education law, could be checked against it.

## Constituency presence and reception

### The Malente office and local role

Przygodda lives in Malente, in the Schleswig-Holstein district of Ostholstein. After the February 2025 federal election the *Lübecker Nachrichten* described her as a district councillor there since 2018 and quoted her plan to open constituency offices in Lübeck and Ostholstein, with events and citizen surgeries. Her Bundestag biography, based on members’ own information and still listing the role in October 2026, names her as a Kreistag member and deputy chair of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) group; Abgeordnetenwatch records both as current outside activities. Kreis Ostholstein, Malente included, lies wholly in federal constituency 9, Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord. She had stood in constituency 11, Lübeck, and entered on the state list.

On 24 July 2025 the *Lübecker Nachrichten* reported that the AfD would take premises on Malente’s Bahnhofstraße (Bahnhofsstraße in that paper) for what it called the party’s first constituency office in the paper’s area. Volker Schnurrbusch, spokesman of the AfD’s Ostholstein association, said the site was chosen because Przygodda lived there. Empty since the start of the year, the unit had last housed the municipality’s centre-management office, used partly for exhibitions and co-working; parliamentary staff were also to work there. No opening date was fixed, and she did not answer an enquiry to her Berlin office. Mayor Heiko Godow, in office since 30 August 2022, said he would have preferred shops on that street to insurers or constituency offices. Schnurrbusch called protest legitimate but said he knew of no reason to object to the local presence of an elected member of the Bundestag. The paper reported that about 18 percent of Malente voters had backed the AfD at the previous Bundestag election, above the average in Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord.

Before any opening, unknown people sprayed the roller shutters on the night of 23–24 July, including “Es gibt Widerstand” (“There is resistance”). NDR reported that police sought witnesses and that state security investigated the damage as apparently politically motivated. A paywalled shz.de report said the façade had been defaced and the party threatened, and that the AfD was surprised. The state association said the office opened the weekend before 6 August 2025, with more than 100 guests, as a contact point for local concerns. shz.de reported on 3 August that the first opening fell on the Saturday of Malente’s Schützenfest parade, watched by thousands, and that municipal staff on their float, and Mayor Godow, made a clear statement, as did others. The headline called this a signal against the AfD; the free text does not quote it. On 16 September 2026 shz.de still described a town-centre citizens’ office “hardly recognisable as such”, headlined “Between protest, support and not knowing”, and said that questions about the local mood drew surprising answers.

### Coverage and political response

The July coverage was already split. The *Lübecker Nachrichten* wrote that an AfD spokesman did not expect protest, “but on the spot enthusiasm is limited”. On 19 July shz.de headlined “AfD causes shock in Malente: hardly anyone reckoned with this”, and summarised that an office in the middle of the town was causing anger; a visible line said there would be protests. The free summary also said she had drawn attention in the Bundestag with sharp language and had promptly received a call to order, without describing the speech.

On 20 September 2025, *der reporter* in Eutin reported, a march under the motto “Ostholstein bleibt bunt” (“Ostholstein stays colourful”) drew 300 to 350 people from across the region, from a rally on Lenter Platz past the Bahnhofstraße office, the party’s address since August. “Omas gegen Rechts” from Lübeck’s old town were among the organisers. A speaker identified as “Oma” Sigrid rejected an ordinary AfD campaign office in the neighbourhood, likened that claim of normality to the NSDAP, and demanded a ban on the AfD and the office’s permanent closure. For the Greens, Elke Weyersberg was quoted calling diversity not a problem but “our solution”. The paper described the march as peaceful, and louder outside the office, where supporters watched, including Hubert Pinto de Kraus, a candidate for mayor of Kiel. He said anyone may demonstrate, that Nazis were unwelcome in the AfD, and that the protest would not change his positions, though many people voted for the party because of such demonstrations. Chants included “Nazis raus”. A family who gave their name as Pieper welcomed the march and said the party should not gain a foothold in the town. Asked about rumours of damaged cars, police reported one complaint: a side window had cracked and been taped, with no glass inside or in front of the car, so a stress crack was also possible, and no concrete link to the demonstration could be made.

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