She has two children with a Sri Lankan-born woman, speaks Chinese and previously worked at global financial institutions — an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Shunned by liberal Germans, anti-immigration AfD is now the second strongest party in Germany. It's also favored by President ...

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.

Her position in the party cost Weidel friends, prompting the family to move, she told Weltwoche. An economic liberal, Weidel claims late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as her role model ...