Enrico Komning
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Enrico Komning | |
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![]() Enrico Komning in 2020 | |
Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | 6 August 1968 |
Nationality | German |
Political party | AfD |
Enrico Komning (born 6 August 1968, in Stralsund) is a German lawyer and politician. He is a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). In 2017 he became a member of the Bundestag.
Early life
Komning earned his Abitur in 1988 and got a degree in construction work.
Career
He became part of "Wachregiment "Feliks Dzierzynski", a division of Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, the political state security service of the German Democratic Republic. In 1991 Komning studied law at Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald.
Since Komning entered the Bundestag in November 2017. From then to July 2019 he earned €760,000. As a member of parliament he earns about 10,000 a month; Komning was earning €36,000 a month extra at his law firm.[1]
Komning is a member of the Greifswald-based fraternity "Rugia". "Rugia" is part of Deutsche Burschenschaft. German Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz said in January 2019 about "Rugia", it is a "group with right-wing extremist reference".[2]
References
- ^ "760 000 Euro: So erklärt der AfD-Bundestagspolitiker seine Nebeneinkünfte". OZ - Ostsee-Zeitung (in German). 19 August 2019. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
- ^ NDR.de: Verfassungsschutz blickt auf Burschenschaft (24. April 2019); eingesehen am 6. September 2019