# Michael Blos

# Michael Blos

Michael Joachim Blos (born 3 March 1976 in Karlsruhe) is a German geologist and a politician of [the Alternative](/organizations/the-alternative) for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD). The Federal Returning Officer lists him among those elected to the 21st Bundestag, which held its constitutive sitting on 25 March 2025. He entered on place 14 of the AfD state list in Baden-Württemberg and also stood in constituency 283, Emmendingen–Lahr.

The Bundestag biography, which the parliament states is based on members' own information, records that he passed the Abitur in 1995 at the Eichendorff-Gymnasium in Ettlingen, studied geosciences from 1996 to 2003 at the University of Tübingen and Northern Arizona University, and qualified as a Diplom-Geologe. He received a doctorate in natural sciences (Dr. rer. nat.) at Tübingen in 2008. From 2009 to 2011 he worked as a project engineer in geotechnics; from 2011 to 2019 he served as a geoinformation staff officer at the Bundeswehr Geoinformation Centre in Euskirchen, leaving with the rank of lieutenant colonel (Oberstleutnant); and from 2019 to 2024 he again worked as a project engineer in environmental geotechnics, geology, waste and contaminated sites.

The same account states that he belonged from 2004 to 2015 to the [Christian Democratic Union of Germany](/organizations/christian-democratic-union-of-germany) and its youth organisation, the Junge Union, in the Karlsruhe-Land district association, and that he joined the AfD in 2017. It lists service on the Ettlingen council from 2019 to 2023 and, from 2024, a seat on the council of Rheinfelden (Baden) and on the Lörrach district council. He is married and has six children.

The election was held on 23 February 2025. In Emmendingen–Lahr, [Yannick Bury](/people/yannick-bury) of the CDU won the direct mandate with 66,984 first votes (37.0 percent), ahead of [Johannes Fechner](/people/johannes-fechner) of the SPD with 40,204 (22.2 percent). The AfD received 34,282 first votes (19.0 percent) and 35,309 second votes (19.5 percent) in the constituency. Blos was the party's direct candidate. In the Bundestag he is a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture, Food and Home Affairs, and an ordinary member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly. At an AfD campaign meeting in Rheinfelden in February 2025 he called spending on climate protection "burning money" and said wind turbines would spoil the Black Forest and threaten its plants and animals.

## Early life and education

### Childhood and schooling

Michael Blos was born on 3 March 1976 in Karlsruhe. The date appears in the sworn declaration bound with his doctoral thesis, whose title page names the author Michael J. Blos “aus Karlsruhe”; the Bundestag biography gives the same date and records Karlsruhe as the birthplace. The Bundestag states that these biographical details are the members’ own information.

In 1995 he passed the Abitur at the Eichendorff-Gymnasium in Ettlingen, in the Karlsruhe district of Baden-Württemberg. The city lists the school, at Goethestraße 2–10, among the Gymnasien it maintains. The biography does not say in which year he entered the school, or whether he grew up in Ettlingen or elsewhere in the district.

He reports Zivildienst in Karlsruhe from 1995 to 1996. Until conscription was suspended on 1 July 2011, that service was the usual civilian Ersatzdienst for men recognized as conscientious objectors under Article 12a of the Basic Law, generally in work treated as serving the common good. The biography does not name his placement or his duties.

### Studies in Tübingen and Arizona

The same account states that from 1996 to 2003 he studied geosciences at the University of Tübingen and at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, and that he qualified in 2003 as a Diplom-Geologe, the German university diploma in geology. It does not present Northern Arizona University as the body that awarded the diploma, and it does not say how long any stay in Flagstaff lasted. Unlike the doctorate, this part of the record is not matched by a thesis in the Tübingen repository.

### Doctoral research

The biography dates the doctorate to 2003–2008 at Tübingen. The dissertation deposited there was submitted to the geosciences faculty for the degree of Dr. rer. nat. and is titled *Palynofloren und phänologische Daten als Umweltindikatoren – Eine Pilotstudie* (*Palynofloras and phenological data as environmental indicators – a pilot study*). The oral examination was on 12 April 2008. Peter Grathwohl was dean, and the referees were Volker Mosbrugger and Privatdozentin Anita Roth-Nebelsick. The library record places the work in the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, under the department for geography, geoecology and geosciences (handle 10900/49157).

Blos writes that Mosbrugger supervised the project both at Tübingen and at the Senckenberg natural-history museum and research institute in Frankfurt, and that he spent a research year at Senckenberg’s outstation for limnology and nature-conservation research in Gelnhausen. He thanks the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft—called in the acknowledgements the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft—for support of a project he titles “Palynofloren als Umweltindikatoren,” and the Richard-Winter-Stiftung for a further stipend. Data, he writes, came from the Stiftung Deutscher Polleninformationsdienst, the European Aeroallergen Network, the viticulture and fruit-growing institute at Weinsberg, the statistical office of Baden-Württemberg, and the Deutscher Wetterdienst.

The thesis is a pilot study in palynology and phenology. It compares allergy-forecast pollen counts from seven stations in Baden-Württemberg—Freiburg for 1987–2003, and Gerlingen, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Königsfeld, Löwenstein and Wangen mainly for 1997–2003—across 25 tree and herb taxa, using linear regression against weather series and wine-yield statistics. Pollen correlated more strongly with must yield, degrees Oechsle and acidity than either pollen or wine data did with climate alone. Blos reads that result as pollen integrating weather, site and soil, and therefore as a regional indicator of harvest parameters, including for plants that are not crops and depending on grape variety. Phenological stages of the varieties observed at Weinsberg advanced by two to three weeks, which the study attributes to climate change, while shifts in pollen sums and in days with airborne pollen differed by taxon and station. CORINE land-cover comparisons showed relationships but no uniform pattern; the conclusion asks for longer series and a denser network. Scholarly pagination runs to page 188, with the data tables on a CD.

## Professional career

### Project engineering

The Bundestag lists Blos’s occupation as Dipl. Geologe. Its member biography, which the parliament states is drawn from the deputies’ own information, records a 2003 geology diploma and a 2008 doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Tübingen. The university’s bibliography independently catalogues a 2008 dissertation by Michael J. Blos, *Palynofloren und phänologische Daten als Umweltindikatoren – Eine Pilotstudie*, examined on 12 April 2008.

In a self-description published with his [2021 Baden-Württemberg state-election](/facts/2021-baden-wurttemberg-state-election) candidacy, Blos wrote that after the doctorate he worked as a geologist “unter dem Dach des landesweit größten Energieversorgungsunternehmens” (“under the umbrella of the state’s largest energy-supply company”) before entering the armed forces. He did not name the firm. The Bundestag biography places the corresponding self-reported post in 2009–2011 as Projektingenieur für Geotechnik und Netzrehabilitation, a project engineer for geotechnics and the rehabilitation of supply networks, again without an employer. No company filing, personnel notice or other independent source opened for this article identifies the employer for that interval.

### Service in the Bundeswehr

From 2011 until spring 2019, by his own account, Blos was a Soldat auf Zeit, a soldier on a fixed-term engagement, in the Geoinformationsdienst of the Bundeswehr. He describes the career as that of a Geoinformationsstabsoffizier (geoinformation staff officer; abbreviated GeoInfoStOffz or GeoInfoStabsoffizier) at the Zentrum für Geoinformationswesen der Bundeswehr (ZGeoBw) in Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The Bundestag biography gives the same years and posting and states that his last rank was Oberstleutnant (lieutenant colonel). Published sources do not record a particular sub-post, deployment, command or specialist task of his inside [the centre](/organizations/the-centre).

The Geoinformationsdienst is one of three military specialist services, with the medical service and the military music service. It was formed in 2003 by merging the Militärgeographischer Dienst and the Geophysikalischer Beratungsdienst so that the geoscience skills used by the defence establishment sat under one professional direction. The Bundeswehr puts its strength at about 1,700 military and civilian specialists across 18 geoscience disciplines, supplying the forces with geoinformation. The ZGeoBw, with its main site at the Mercator-Kaserne in Euskirchen (Stefan-Kamins-Straße 1), is the service’s central establishment, reports about 1,000 members there, and is a departmental research institution of the federal government. It has been under the Kommando Cyber- und Informationsraum for discipline and organization since 2017, while professional control rests with the defence ministry. Its predecessor, the Amt für Geoinformationswesen der Bundeswehr, set up on 12 March 2003, was renamed the Zentrum during the restructuring the service described in 2012; the task list and strength were left largely unchanged, and the main elements were concentrated in Euskirchen’s Generalmajor-Freiherr-von-Gersdorff-Kaserne and Mercator-Kaserne.

The centre’s stated work is to produce and provide geoinformation, to advise on how geofactors affect military tasks, and to carry out applied geoscience research. Official descriptions of that support include maps and terrain data, meteorological advice, and geological assessments for matters such as camp construction or drinking-water supply, for operations, exercises and routine activity in Germany. The service’s 2023 organizational history calls the Euskirchen centre the central “Arbeitsmuskel” (“working muscle”) through which much of that centralized support is delivered; the description applies to the institution, not to any one staff officer.

### Later consultancy and certification

Blos’s 2021 statement says that when the engagement ended in spring 2019 he returned to private industry as an engineering and environmental geologist. The later Bundestag self-report splits the subsequent posts into Projektingenieur für Umwelt- und Geotechnik in 2019–2022 and Projektingenieur für Geologie, Abfall und Altlasten in 2022–2024: project engineering first in environmental and geotechnical work, then in geology, waste and contaminated sites. Neither that biography nor the statutory register of interests names an employer for those years.

Under the disclosure rules of the Abgeordnetengesetz, the Bundestag publishes “Diplomgeologe, Rheinfelden” both as his occupation before the mandate and as a paid activity carried on alongside it. The published entry gives no client, firm or income band. The same self-reported biography lists a 2025 certification as Spatial Analyst (ArcGIS); that item is not corroborated by an independent public source.

## Party membership and municipal politics

### Years in the CDU and Junge Union

The biography published by the Bundestag, which the parliament states is based on members' own information, lists Blos from 2004 to 2015 as a member of the Junge Union and the CDU in Kreisverband Karlsruhe-Land, the district association for Karlsruhe (district). It names no office in either organisation.

In a February 2025 interview with the regional magazine *Ortenau Journal*, he gave his own account of the change. He said the events of 2015 and the political developments that followed had deeply shaken him, and that after more than ten years in the Junge Union and the CDU, and what he called the party's shift to the left, he joined the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in 2017 in order to work in what he described as a bourgeois alternative. The Bundestag text dates the CDU membership to 2004–2015 and AfD membership from 2017, and names no party for the two years in between.

### Switch to the AfD and local party offices

From 2023 his recorded party posts were on the High Rhine. On 27 October 2023 the *Badische Zeitung* reported that the first AfD branch in Landkreis Lörrach, the district administered from Lörrach, had recently been founded in Rheinfelden (Baden), that Blos was its chairman, and that he wanted to take the party into the municipal council. On Sunday, 2 February 2025, the Lörrach AfD district association held a federal-campaign meeting in the town's Bürgersaal. SWR reported an audience of about 200 inside and a protest of about 600 outside, and named Blos among the speakers.

The Bundestag biography places him, again on his own account, on the board of the AfD city association in Ettlingen from 2019 to 2023 and as deputy speaker of the Karlsruhe-Land district association from 2021 to 2023. From 2023 it describes him as a board member and deputy speaker of the Lörrach district association and as speaker of the Rheinfelden city association. On 20 January 2026 the *Badische Zeitung* reported that the Lörrach district association had elected a new executive with Blos as speaker (*Kreissprecher*), and that the association stated an aim of becoming the strongest political force locally. The deputy-speaker title for 2023 onward is his Bundestag self-report; the newspaper account is what places him as speaker by January 2026.

### Councils in Ettlingen, Rheinfelden and Lörrach

In the 2019 municipal election in Ettlingen the AfD stood for the first time. The city's final result, dated 12 July 2019, gives it 4.24 percent of valid votes (23,154 of 546,337) and one of 32 seats. Blos, first on the AfD list, received 3,840 votes and was marked elected; turnout was 62.84 percent. The CDU took 10 seats and Alliance 90/[The Greens](/organizations/the-greens) eight, with the remaining seats divided among the SPD, a joint Für Ettlingen/[Free Voters](/organizations/free-voters) list, the FDP/Bürgerliste and Unabhängige Liste Ettlingen.

The Ettlingen official gazette of 23 February 2023 reported that the council was replacing Blos because he had moved the centre of his working life abroad. Mayor Johannes Arnold swore in Walter Armbruster as the AfD successor at that sitting.

In Rheinfelden the AfD again stood for the first time at the 2024 municipal election. Figures from the Statistisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg, as published by SWR, give the party 12.4 percent of valid votes (45,567), a gain of 12.4 points, behind the CDU on 30.4 percent and the SPD on 22.8; 13,611 of 24,949 eligible voters cast ballots. The city states that the 32-member council, which began its term on 22 July 2024, includes four AfD seats, up from none, beside 10 for the CDU, seven for the SPD and five for the Free Voters.

The council information system records Blos as an AfD member and the group's chairman from 23 July 2024 until 30 April 2025. Ingo Kohler, Beate Singer and Olga Kaiser are listed from 23 July 2024; Joachim Vetter entered on 26 May 2025 and is recorded as AfD group chairman thereafter. On 24 April 2025 the *Badische Zeitung* reported that he would leave the Rheinfelden council after his election to the Bundestag and would keep his seat on the Lörrach district council. The Bundestag register of outside posts gives 30 April 2025 as the end date for both the Rheinfelden seat and the group chairmanship.

For the district council elected in 2024, the Landkreis Lörrach administration published on 11 June a preliminary result in which the AfD had 11.77 percent and eight seats, against 19 for the CDU and 14 for the Free Voters. Turnout was 58.08 percent, slightly above 2019; final certification was set for 21 June. The district information system for 2024–2029 lists Blos as an ordinary Kreistag member and as second deputy chairman of its AfD group, whose chairman is Wolfgang Fuhl.

The same file lists him as an ordinary member of the assembly of the Regionalverband Hochrhein-Bodensee and, from 24 July 2025, of the Districtsrat of the Trinational Eurodistrict Basel, and records a seat on the supervisory board of Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach GmbH ending on 2 April 2025. The Bundestag disclosure also lists the Kreistag seat, with the title of second deputy group chairman, the regional assembly and the Eurodistrict body, together with an honorary membership of the advisory board of Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach GmbH.

## Candidacies and the 2025 federal election

### 2021 Landtag candidacy in Ettlingen

Blos first stood for a parliamentary seat at the 14 March 2021 election to the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, in constituency 31 Ettlingen, in the district of Karlsruhe. Of 94,043 eligible voters, 63,594 cast ballots, a turnout of 67.62 percent, and 63,101 votes were valid. Barbara Saebel of Alliance 90/The Greens took the direct mandate with 21,148 votes (33.51 percent). Christine Neumann-Martin of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) received 15,297 (24.24 percent) and Alena Trauschel of the Free Democratic Party (Germany) (FDP) 6,457 (10.23 percent). The state election record lists Saebel as holding the direct seat and Neumann-Martin and Trauschel as holding the constituency’s two compensatory seats. Fahir of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) polled 7,457 votes (11.82 percent). Dr. Blos, the candidate of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), finished fifth with 5,979 votes (9.48 percent) and was not returned from Ettlingen.

### Nomination for Emmendingen–Lahr

For the 2025 German federal election he stood in constituency 283, Emmendingen–Lahr, which covers the Emmendingen district and 17 municipalities in the southern Ortenau district and the Kinzig valley, including Lahr and Ettenheim. On 5 October 2024, at a state congress in Ulm, the Baden-Württemberg AfD elected co-leader [Alice Weidel](/people/alice-weidel) as its lead candidate for the Bundestag election, with 86.5 percent of the vote. The state returning officer’s notice of 3 February 2025 places Markus-Cornel Frohnmaier, Martin Alexander Hess and Marc Albert Bernhard in list positions 2 to 4, and in position 14 a geologist born in 1976 in Karlsruhe and living in Rheinfelden (Baden). The federal roll of members elected names that candidate as Dr. Michael Joachim Blos, list place 14, who also stood in constituency 283.

AfD members in the constituency nominated Blos, then a Rheinfelden city councillor, as their direct candidate. The *Badische Zeitung* reported the nomination on 21 October 2024 and wrote that he followed Thomas Seitz, the AfD member for the district, who had left the party in March. Eight constituency nominations were filed by 20 January 2025; on 24 January the constituency election committee admitted seven to the first-vote ballot. The district’s election-night account named them as Yannick Bury (CDU), Johannes Fechner (SPD), Susanne Floß (Greens), Eileen Lerche (FDP), Blos (AfD), Amelie Quotadamo ([Die Linke](/organizations/die-linke)) and Christina Hesse (Free Voters).

### Vote shares and list election

The election was held on 23 February 2025. In constituency 283, 182,311 of 218,790 eligible voters took part, a turnout of 83.3 percent, 6.6 points above 2021. On the second vote, cast for a party’s state list, the CDU led, followed by the AfD, the SPD and the Greens.

In the final count the CDU received 58,425 second votes (32.2 percent, up 7.4 points) and the AfD 35,309 (19.5 percent, up 10.5). The SPD had 28,150 (15.5 percent, down 8.3), the Greens 23,992 (13.2 percent, down 4.0), Die Linke 10,679 (5.9 percent, up 2.8), the FDP 8,497 (4.7 percent, down 8.6) and the Bündnis [Sahra Wagenknecht](/people/sahra-wagenknecht) 7,312 (4.0 percent). Other lists each stayed below 2 percent. Of 180,872 valid first votes, Bury won the constituency for the CDU with 66,984 (37.0 percent, up 9.2). Fechner, the runner-up, received 40,204 (22.2 percent, down 5.6). The AfD’s 34,282 first votes (19.0 percent, up 10.3) were Blos’s, as its only constituency candidate. The Greens received 18,328 (10.1 percent), Die Linke 8,504 (4.7), the Free Voters 6,875 (3.8) and the FDP 5,695 (3.1).

From this election a party candidate wins a constituency seat only with the most first votes and only if that seat is covered by the party’s second votes in the Land: plurality-winners are ranked by vote share, and seats are assigned in that order up to the party’s entitlement in the Land. Second votes set each party’s strength in a Bundestag fixed at 630 members, and state lists are closed. In the federal returning officer’s preliminary calculation the AfD was due 19 seats in Baden-Württemberg and had no constituency plurality there, so all 19 were list seats; place 14 was inside that number. The final roll records Blos as elected from the state list, with constituency 283 noted as a candidacy rather than a seat won, while Bury is recorded as elected in the constituency on 37.0 percent. Fechner is recorded as elected from SPD list place 6, not from the constituency. Provisional figures published the next day counted 79 members from Baden-Württemberg: 29 CDU, 19 AfD, 13 SPD, 12 Greens and six from Die Linke, 47 of them from state lists. The 21st Bundestag met for its constituent sitting at 11:00 on 25 March 2025 in the Reichstag plenary chamber.

## Parliamentary activity

### Environment, climate and nuclear-safety committee

In the 21st Bundestag, Dr. Michael Blos of the Alternative for Germany is an ordinary member of the Committee on the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (Ausschuss für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit). The committee constituted itself on 21 May 2025 under Vice President [Bodo Ramelow](/people/bodo-ramelow) (Die Linke).

*Lorenz Gösta Beutin (Die Linke) at the constitutive meeting of the Bundestag environment committee on 21 May 2025.*

The members elected Lorenz Gösta Beutin (Die Linke) as chair, with 24 votes in favour, three against and ten abstentions. Of 38 ordinary members, 13 were from the CDU/CSU, nine from the AfD—including Blos—seven from the [Social Democratic Party of Germany](/organizations/social-democratic-party-of-germany), five from Alliance 90/The Greens and four from Die Linke.

### Agriculture committee and Franco-German bodies

Blos is a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture, Food and Home Affairs (Ausschuss für Landwirtschaft, Ernährung und Heimat). His constituency office is at Burgheimer Straße 61, 77933 Lahr/Schwarzwald. He stood in constituency 283, Emmendingen–Lahr, in Baden-Württemberg, and holds his seat from the AfD state list.

The Bundestag biography lists him as an ordinary member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly (Deutsch-Französische Parlamentarische Versammlung) and as a member of its bureau, and records no further body under other memberships. The composition page of the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) for the Assemblée parlementaire franco-allemande likewise places him among the members of the bureau.

### Speeches, motions and voting record

On 21 May 2025 the AfD moved a moratorium on dismantling shut-down nuclear plants (Drucksache 21/220). Blos was a named initiator but did not speak; Paul Schmidt and [Rainer Kraft](/people/rainer-kraft) spoke for the AfD, and the motion went to the environment committee. It asked the Bundestag to call the exit from peaceful nuclear power in Germany an energy and economic mistake, to stop dismantling so shut-down plants could be restarted, to lift limits on operating lives and commercial generation, and to join a 22-state “nuclear alliance”, citing the power cuts in Spain and neighbouring countries on 28 April 2025. On 11 September 2025 the plenary adopted, by roll-call, the committee recommendation (Drucksache 21/386) to reject the motion, by 449 votes to 131, with 580 votes cast.

On 10 July 2025 Blos spoke for the AfD in the second and third reading of a CDU/CSU and SPD bill implementing parts of EU Directive 2023/2413 and amending the Wind Area Requirements Act among other laws (Drucksachen 21/568 and 21/797). Citing Article 20 of the Basic Law, he said people in southern Baden should decide locally on wind turbines in the Black Forest and on solar farms, and he called acceleration areas, dropped environmental assessments and a 30-day objection period a centralised regime he opposed. After the AfD disputed a show of hands, a division of the House adopted the bill in second reading by 312 votes to 265, with 577 of 630 members voting and no abstentions; in the final vote the CDU/CSU and SPD were in favour and Die Linke, the Greens and the AfD against. A Left motion for a resolution (Drucksache 21/806) failed, with the AfD voting against it.

On 25 September 2025, in the first reading of Einzelplan 16, the 2026 environment-ministry chapter introduced by Federal Minister [Carsten Schneider](/people/carsten-schneider), Blos criticised a draft he put at about €2.85 billion. Quoting U.S. [President Donald Trump](/people/mig-donald-trump) at the UN General Assembly, he treated human-caused climate change as a fraud, said German spending could not steer the global climate, and contrasted €38.6 million he cited for adaptation with wind turbines and photovoltaic arrays which he said destroyed the habitats the budget claimed to protect. The sitting closed that debate without a vote on the chapter. The same day the House rejected, with only the AfD in favour, an AfD subsidiarity opinion (Drucksache 21/1755), which Blos had co-signed, on a proposed amendment of the EU climate-neutrality regulation.

On 7 November 2025 the AfD motion “180-Grad-Wende bei Windindustrie und Photovoltaik einleiten” (Drucksache 21/2545), co-signed by Blos, had its first reading; he did not speak. It called for ending renewable subsidies, repealing the 2023 Renewable Energy Act, the offshore-wind act and the Wind Area Requirements Act, a gradual return to nuclear energy, and an end to the EU Green Deal, and was referred to the economic-affairs committee as lead, with the agriculture and environment committees among those asked for an opinion. On 14 January 2026 that committee recommended rejection, published as Drucksache 21/4164 of 17 February 2026, by the votes of the CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens and Left against the AfD.

On 18 December 2025, after the scheduled CDU/CSU speaker was initially absent, Blos spoke in the first reading of government bills on resolutions amending Article 6 of the 1996 Protocol to the 1972 London Convention (Drucksache 21/3194) and on the High Seas Dumping Act (Drucksache 21/3195). The drafts were to allow seaborne export of carbon dioxide for disposal under the amended article and offshore storage in the German exclusive economic zone. Blos called that an ideological shifting and injection of CO₂, asked who would bear leaks, monitoring and decommissioning, and said the AfD would not support it; both bills were referred to the environment committee. On 29 January 2026 the Bundestag adopted them with the CDU/CSU and SPD against the AfD and Die Linke, while the Greens abstained. A Left motion preferring nature-compatible measures to carbon capture and storage (Drucksache 21/1546) was rejected, with the AfD against and the Greens abstaining.

## Environmental and energy positions

### Climate science and adaptation

Blos’s 2008 Tübingen dissertation, *Palynofloras and phenological data as environmental indicators — a pilot study*, used airborne pollen from seven sites in Baden-Württemberg and grape-phenology records as environmental indicators. The abstract reports a two-to-three-week advance in the varieties’ phases and states that climate change of recent decades showed in the vegetation. In a *Badische Zeitung* interview of 19 August 2025 he said that human influence on the climate is not quantifiable. The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change](/organizations/intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change) states that it is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land, and gives a likely range of 0.8°C to 1.3°C for the human-caused rise in global surface temperature from 1850–1900 to 2010–2019, with a best estimate of 1.07°C. The Umweltbundesamt, citing that assessment, describes present climate change as human-caused and calls that conclusion a definitive fact.

At an [Alternative for Germany](/organizations/alternative-for-germany) campaign meeting on 2 February 2025 in Rheinfelden, he called spending on climate protection “Geldverbrennung” (burning money). SWR reported that he put Germany’s share of global CO2 emissions at a little over 2 percent and called further billions “schizophrenic” while other countries expanded coal power. In a *Schwarzwälder Bote*/*Lahrer Zeitung* interview of 27 August 2026 he said that he, as a geologist, did not deny climate change; the open question was the human share. He called the present the warm phase of an ice age and again described German climate policy as “reine Geldverbrennung.” On 8 July 2025 he told the Bundestag that adaptation funding in the environment budget was being reduced. On 18 December 2025 he said climate-protection spending would be better used for nature protection or adaptation, because the climate can neither be protected nor preserved, whereas the environment and nature can.

### Wind, solar and nuclear power

On 10 July 2025, in the first reading of a bill to speed permitting under the EU Renewable Energy Directive, Blos said people in southern Baden should decide whether the Black Forest would be studded (“verspargelt”) with wind power turbines, whether protection of the threatened western capercaillie would rank below that build-out, and whether farmland would become “deserts” of solar power farms. He called the acceleration areas a “Genehmigungsdiktat,” with impact assessments dropped and objections limited to 30 days. He described the directive as requiring 42.5 percent of electricity in the European Union from renewables by 2030, and put Germany at 22.5 percent. The revised directive sets a binding EU target of at least 42.5 percent renewable energy in gross final energy consumption by 2030, not a share of electricity alone.

In the 8 July budget debate he called the renewable build-out under the Energiewende a destruction of land and resources, with no recycling strategy for turbines and solar fields, and said about a third of Baden-Württemberg’s electricity came from abroad, including French reactors. Emsland, Isar 2 and Neckarwestheim 2, the last three commercial reactors, disconnected on 15 April 2023; the government says further operation was not possible on legal, technical and business grounds. Nuclear power supplied about 6 percent of electricity in 2022, and the stated aim is at least 80 percent renewable electricity by 2030. At Rheinfelden he had argued for unsubsidized technologies in place of renewables; SWR noted that nuclear electricity is also state-subsidized.

He signed AfD printed paper 21/220 (May 2025), asking for a moratorium on dismantling shut plants that could be restarted, for an end to operating limits in the Atomic Energy Act, and for Germany to join what the motion called a 22-state “Atomallianz” from the 2023 UN climate conference in Dubai. Printed paper 21/3302 (16 December 2025), which he also signed, called for membership of the European Nuclear Alliance, described there as 15 EU states under French leadership since February 2023. On 1 September 2026 he told the *Ortenau Journal* that neither he nor the AfD opposed renewables where they paid without subsidy, which he said they did not, and that wind and solar alone could not supply an industrial country. He said dismantling should stop while closed plants were checked for a possible restart. In August 2026 he said a repository site would be found, and called nuclear energy the clean carrier of the future.

### Landscape, waste and local nature protection

A *Badische Zeitung* interview of 20 August 2025 was headlined “Keine Verspargelung der Landschaft.” In August 2026 he said he was convinced the AfD stood for real environmental protection (“wahren Umweltschutz”) and that wind turbines were disfiguring the Black Forest.

In the July 2025 budget debate he set what he called 1.4 billion euros for radioactive-waste storage, inside an environment-ministry total of 2.7 billion, against 262 million euros for soil, air, water, noise and contaminated sites, which he called an alibi budget. On 18 December 2025 he opposed bills to accept 2009 and 2019 amendments to Article 6 of the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention, so that CO2 could be exported by sea for sub-seabed storage, and to let the High Seas Dumping Act allow offshore injection in Germany’s exclusive economic zone. He called the drafts ideologically motivated sham solutions and a “CO2-Verschiebebahnhof auf See,” and said liability for leaks, monitoring and decommissioning was left open. An amendment of the Carbon Dioxide Storage Act allowing carbon capture and storage beyond research took effect on 28 November 2025. The federal government presents it as a way to handle residual emissions from cement and lime, parts of basic chemicals and waste incineration on the way to climate neutrality in 2045.

## Positions on migration, family and society

### Borders, asylum and deportation

Michael Blos, the Alternative for Germany member of the Bundestag for Emmendingen–Lahr, has set out his asylum and deportation views in regional interviews. On 27 August 2026 he told the *Schwarzwälder Bote*/*Lahrer Zeitung* that borders, "in erster Linie" the European external borders, had to be protected and that people required to leave had to be deported. Anyone who committed crimes, or who permanently did not support themselves, should "grundsätzlich ausreisepflichtig werden," and the "Kontrollverlust der letzten zwölf Jahre" had to end. The law, he said, must not sort Germans by migration background; he called Baden-Württemberg's Partizipations- und Integrationsgesetz unconstitutional, and denied any wish to expel German citizens of migrant origin, citing his Thai wife, an AfD member, and their children. He tied his move to the AfD partly to the "ungesteuerte Migration" after [Angela Merkel](/people/angela-merkel) admitted refugees stranded in Hungary in 2015.

On 1 September 2026 he told the *Ortenau Journal* that internal checks, including at Kehl, should continue until external borders and the Common European Asylum System worked. Courts had blocked [Giorgia Meloni](/people/giorgia-meloni)'s plan for asylum procedures outside the European Union, he said, citing flows at Ceuta, but he still thought that model necessary. "Remigration," in his account, was not a general removal of foreigners or of German passport-holders, who were citizens, but the return of people who did not integrate or who became criminal; he objected that integrated parents were sometimes deported while serious offenders stayed.

On 11 April 2025 he called border refusals and a returns drive in the CDU–SPD agreement "Augenwischerei," feasible at scale only with the AfD in government. On 7 July 2025 he called migration policy "Staatsversagen mit Ansage." Badische Zeitung interviews of 19 and 20 August 2025 listed migration, with nature protection, treated elsewhere. On 22 August Norbert Lange of Sexau wrote, in "Auf kritische Nachfragen bleibt die Antwort aus," that the 19 August interview revealed much about Blos's "gedankliche Leistungsfähigkeit," and Thomas Braun of Teningen, in "Harmlose Fragen, harmlose Überschrift," asked how the paper had come to an idea he called "rechtsextremistisch."

### Family policy and public events

Of Lahr's first Christopher Street Day parade, set for 5 September 2026, Blos said: "Nein, ich besuche keinen CSD und bin auch der Meinung, dass wir keine solche Sexualisierung des öffentlichen Raums brauchen." Anti-AfD placards were, he said, partly incomprehensible: a Berlin attack had shown that homosexuals were threatened above all from the Islamist spectrum, where the AfD wanted firmer measures, and the rejection was "vermutlich" due to its "positiven Familienbild." On 11 April 2025 he objected that the coalition would keep "das verrückte sogenannte Selbstbestimmungsgesetz." On 9 September 2025 he co-signed AfD motion 21/1547 to repeal the Self-Determination Act at once, with interim rules for minors, people with mental illness and women-only spaces.

### Constituency concerns

The 27 August interview was framed as why Blos wanted local employers to reconsider avoiding the AfD. Firms, he said, feared stigma or losing subsidies, and some municipalities had not invited him; voters, he argued, disliked that treatment of what he called the strongest-polling federal party. He said the AfD's line served the seat better than that of Yannick Bury (CDU) and Johannes Fechner (SPD), whom the paper described as visiting mayors and companies. The party had always wanted Lahr's motorway junction; mayor Ibert's expert report was, he said, "ohne Not," so as not to offend "linksgrüne" voters.

A *Badische Zeitung* interview of 14 August 2026 ran under his sentence "Wir schauen zuerst auf unser eigenes Land." In the free excerpt he said he might exchange a few words with Bury, while Fechner had decided the AfD did not exist, and that the divide with the Greens, Die Linke and the SPD was plain. The paper said he also discussed the road near Lahr, the Germany national football team and a difficult relationship with SC Freiburg. Ludwig Hillenbrand of Lahr replied on 19 August in "Der Demokratie kein guter Dienst erwiesen," citing the interview as "Wir schauen zuerst auf Deutschland" and granting that hearing every party was "selbstverständlich legitim."

## Reception

### Regional press and reader response

The *Badische Zeitung* keeps a person page for Blos and has interviewed him as a candidate and as a member of the Bundestag. On 30 January 2025 it reported that the Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate saw a need for his party to catch up on nature protection. On 19 August 2025 he said that, as a geologist, he had sought the environment committee, where he was a full member; the headline quoted him that human influence on climate change was “not quantifiable.” A Lahr edition the next day used the headline “Keine Verspargelung der Landschaft,” and the 14 August 2026 summer interview was headed “Wir schauen zuerst auf unser eigenes Land.”

On 2 February 2025 the AfD district association of Lörrach held a campaign meeting in the civic hall at Rheinfelden (Baden). Südwestrundfunk reported about 200 people inside and about 600 outside, with signs reading “Bunt statt Braun” and “Menschenrechte statt rechte Menschen” and flags of Antifa, the Social Democratic Party and Alliance 90/The Greens. The *Badische Zeitung* quoted police calling the protest peaceful. Blos called climate spending “Geldverbrennung,” put Germany’s share of global emissions at a little over two percent, and said wind turbines were spoiling the Black Forest; the broadcaster noted that he did not mention subsidies for nuclear power.

Thomas Braun of Teningen wrote on 22 August 2025, under “Harmlose Fragen, harmlose Überschrift,” against interviewing what the published opening calls a “rechtsextremistischen” subject. Christian Zimmermann of Emmendingen wrote on 2 September, under “Zwanghaft die Parteilinie vertreten,” that the questions were meant to draw out doubtful positions, and Ludwig Hillenbrand of Lahr answered the 2026 interview under “Der Demokratie kein guter Dienst erwiesen,” while granting that every party may be heard.

### Relations with other parties

On 27 August 2026 the *Schwarzwälder Bote* asked why the other constituency members, Yannick Bury of the Christian Democratic Union and Johannes Fechner of the SPD, visited mayors and firms while Blos did not. He said many businesses feared stigma or a loss of funding if they met the AfD, and that some municipalities had not invited him, while his own citizens’ meetings were well received. He called the CDU/CSU–SPD government a “Zweckehe” that would last because its members knew what a new election would bring. At Rheinfelden, where he appeared with Markus Frohnmaier, the counter-demonstration included SPD and Green flags.

### The AfD and domestic intelligence

The findings below concern the party and its state association; the decisions cited do not name Blos. He sits for the AfD in the Bundestag. On the executive list filed with the federal returning officer, dated 25 August 2026, he is a Beisitzer on the Baden-Württemberg state board.

On 2 May 2025 the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution said it was raising the federal AfD from a “Verdachtsfall” (suspected case) to a “gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung” (confirmed right-wing extremist endeavor), citing an ethnic-descent concept of the people and agitation against migrants and Muslims. After the party sued on 5 May 2025, the office promised not to use the higher label in public until a court ruled. On 26 February 2026 the administrative court in Cologne ordered that, until the main case ends at first instance, the office may not classify, treat or publicly describe the federal party in that higher category. It found efforts inside the party against the free democratic basic order, but not a tendency dominating the party as a whole. The interior ministry told *Tagesschau* it would not appeal. The suspected-case status is separately final: on 20 May 2025 the Federal Administrative Court declined to admit a further appeal from the Münster judgments of 13 May 2024.

The state association is only a suspected case, the status in which the Baden-Württemberg office has observed it since July 2022, with about 8,600 members and an estimated extremist potential of 1,730 people, up from about 1,170. On 6 November 2024 the Higher Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg rejected a complaint against that classification, citing members’ advocacy of an ethnic concept of the people. *[Die Welt](/organizations/die-welt)* reported on 20 March 2025 that the administrative court in Stuttgart had dismissed the main lawsuit and admitted an appeal, which co-chair Markus Frohnmaier said he assumed the association would bring. Blos told the *Schwarzwälder Bote* that the labels came from offices following interior ministries and that the party did not demand expulsion of German citizens with a migration background.

## Personal life

### Family and residence

Library and academic records do not expand his name beyond an initial. The German National Library authority file lists the geologist born in 1976 in Karlsruhe as Blos, Michael J. The title page of his 2008 dissertation at the University of Tübingen reads "Michael J. Blos aus Karlsruhe," and a sworn declaration in the thesis states that Michael Blos was born on 3 March 1976. Those sources, like the Bundestag biography, do not print a middle name in full.

The Bundestag biography, which the parliament notes is based on members' own statements, lists him as born on 3 March 1976 in Karlsruhe, married, and the father of six children. It names neither a spouse nor a private address. In the statutory disclosure on the same page he appears as a *Diplomgeologe* in Rheinfelden (Baden).

Other published accounts differ. A self-description on Abgeordnetenwatch, written for the Baden-Württemberg state election of 14 March 2021, says that he was then 44, married, and the father of five children; the profile's residence field lists Ettlingen. The *Badische Zeitung* candidate profile for the 2024 municipal election in Rheinfelden gives his residence then as Rheinfelden-Degerfelden and his family status as married with six children. In a *Schwarzwälder Bote* interview published on 27 August 2026, Blos said that his wife was Thai and also a member of the Alternative for Germany, and that his children therefore had a migration background. The paper's biographical note calls him married, the father of seven children, and a resident of Rheinfelden, which does not match the six children in the Bundestag self-report or the 2024 *Badische Zeitung* profile.

The Ettlingen official gazette of 23 February 2023 reported that Councillor Dr. Michael Blos was leaving the council because he had moved his professional center of life abroad. The notice names neither the country nor a new home. Later profiles place him in Rheinfelden (Baden): Degerfelden in the 2024 *Badische Zeitung* entry, and Rheinfelden without a district in the 2026 *Schwarzwälder Bote* note.

### Associations

The self-reported Bundestag biography states that he has been a member of the Verein Konservativer Kommunalpolitiker since 2019, a board member since 2021, and is currently deputy speaker. The statutory disclosure on the same page lists him as a board member of the Verein Konservativer Kommunalpolitiker Baden-Württemberg e.V. in Waghäusel, without the deputy-speaker title or the 2019 joining date. The 2024 *Badische Zeitung* profile described him then as second deputy speaker of the association in Baden-Württemberg.

An October 2022 inquiry in the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg, from Green deputies and headed "AfD-nahe Vereine in Baden-Württemberg," named the Verein konservativer Kommunalpolitiker Baden-Württemberg, then applying for registration, with its seat in Waghäusel. The interior ministry replied that none of the associations in the inquiry was under observation by the state domestic intelligence service, and that an AfD connection did not by itself extend that observation.

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## Methodology

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