Stephan Protschka

Stephan Protschka (born 8 November 1977) is a German politician. Born in Dingolfing, Bavaria, he is a member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Stephan Protschka has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Bavaria since 2017.

Stephan Protschka
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2017
Personal details
Born	(1977-11-08) 8 November 1977 (age 47) Dingolfing, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	AfD

Life

He became member of the bundestag after the 2017 German federal election.^[1] He is a member of the Committee for Food and Agriculture.^[2] In 2019 he was involved in controversy after funding and supporting a memorial in Poland honoring German soldiers in WWII and the Nazi paramilitary organization Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz. The construction of the memorial was partially initiated by the neo-Nazi organization Junge Nationalisten which is being monitored by the German intelligence services. Polish courts started an investigation against Protschka for supporting Nazism and defamation of victims of the Holocaust.^[3][4]

In 2024, Protschka agreed to pay a 12,000 euro fine in exchange for prosecutors dropping charges related to his calling Bavarian state premier Markus Söder "a traitor to the country" and "Södolf" at a political event in 2023.^[5]