Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that depicts itself as a defender of ...

That is the point when Weidel will have arrived as Germany’s most uncomfortable and unavoidable politician. She was born in 1979 into a middle-class family in the Westphalian town of Gütersloh.

Ms. Weidel grew up in a middle-class Catholic family in Harsewinkel, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the country’s west, with two siblings and a dachshund. Her father was a salesman and her ...

Weidel has avoided any curiosity regarding her relationship due to her LGBT+ status, which clashes with the AfD’s ideology of promoting a traditional nuclear family and dismissing “alternative ...

2024 [Ralf Hirschberger/AFP] Weidel, who grew up in a middle-class family in a town in northwest Germany, came to politics after a career in finance. She studied economics as an undergraduate ...

BERLIN – When US Vice-President J.D. Vance criticised his German hosts on Feb 14 for sidelining far-right parties, he did not mention by name the Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD.

The official platform of the AfD defines a family as a “father, mother and children.” ­Weidel’s does not fit that mold. Her partner is a woman, the Sri Lankan-born filmmaker Sarah Bossard ...

Ms Weidel, a gay parent, has endorsed the definition of a family as being specifically mother, father and children. She says legalising gay marriage is unimportant. She has claimed that Germany is ...

"And I must honestly say that I will not tolerate any interference in my life or my family," she said. Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses an ...

Ms Weidel, a gay parent, has endorsed the definition of a family as being specifically mother, father and children. She says legalising gay marriage is unimportant. She has claimed that Germany is the ...