Leif-Erik Holm


Leif-Erik Holm is a German politician of the AfD party and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament.
Holm worked as a radio presenter for the private Antenne MV broadcaster, studied economics in Berlin, and became a politician in 2013.
Holm is since 2013, with a short interruption in 2015, state chairman of his party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
He was the leading AfD candidate in the state in the 2013 German federal elections and was also frontrunner for his party in the 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state elections.
During the campaign Holm warned of the spread of Islam, despite the relatively rare presence of Muslims and migrants in the state.
Holm temporarily worked for fellow AfD politician Beatrix von Storch.