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Alice Weidel (L) has been with her girlfriend Sarah Bossard since 2009 (Getty\/Instagram)<\/p>\n
In Germany\u2019s federal elections, held in February 2025, Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right organisation, received its highest number of votes ever, becoming the country\u2019s second largest party.<\/p>\n
It was the first time since World War Two that a far-right party finished second in a national election in Germany.<\/p>\n
The AfD\u2019s campaign was dominated by discussions about immigration, violent crime, and rising energy prices, with the party focusing on what it calls \u201ctraditional family values.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was founded in 2013 in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis as a party. \u201cfocused on economic issues and matters of German fiscal sovereignty\u201d but quickly pivoted to focus on migration in 2015 when Germany accepted over one million asylum seekers.<\/p>\n
Support for the AfD has continued to grow in the last 12 years, and is now led by an unlikely person<\/a>: a lesbian woman raising two sons with her girlfriend.<\/p>\n AfD recently made headlines when Weidel\u2019s co-leader, Tino Chrupalla, demanded that the US withdraw its troops from Germany. \u201cLet\u2019s begin to put into practice what our party manifesto says by withdrawing US troops from Germany,\u201d Chrupalla\u00a0told\u00a0a party conference in Saxony on March 30., according to Brussels Signal<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distancing itself from the US would help Germany improve its relations with Iran in the midst of the country\u2019s war with the US and Israel, he argued.<\/p>\n But what about his unlikely LGBTQ+ co-leader? Here\u2019s everything you need to know about Alice Weidel.<\/p>\n When did Alice Weidel join the AfD?<\/p>\n Weidel joined the party in October 2013, previously saying she was first attracted to the party due to her opposition to the Euro.<\/p>\n Since then, her profile in the party has grown. In 2015, she was elected to the federal executive committee of the AfD and has led the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2017.<\/p>\n Weidel was elected as co-chairwoman of the party, alongside Tino Chrupalla, in 2022, becoming the first lesbian to serve as leader of the party.<\/p>\n Alice Weidel\u2019s grandfather was\u00a0Hans Weidel, a prominent Nazi judge who was appointed directly by Adolf Hitler. Hans Weidel was responsible for sentencing opponents of the Third Reich.<\/p>\n Who is Alice Weidel\u2019s girlfriend Sarah Bossard?<\/p>\n Alice Weidel has been a relationship with her partner Sarah Bossard since 2009.<\/p>\n Bossard is a Sri Lankan-born film producer who was adopted as a child by a Swiss couple. Bossard\u2019s work often \u201cdelves into themes that may not resonate with the conservative views espoused by the AfD\u201d, according to the Munich Eye<\/a>.<\/p>\n Weidel and Bossard share two children: both boys, who they adopted. Despite raising her sons in a lesbian relationship, Weidel has previously praised the importance of children being brought up as part of a traditional, nuclear family unit featuring a father and mother.<\/p>\n She has said legalising gay marriage is unimportant, and the couple are not married after 17 years together.<\/p>\n Weidel has also defended her role within the AfD and stated that her sexuality does not conflict with the party\u2019s traditional values.<\/p>\n Where do Alice Weidel and her girlfriend live?<\/p>\n Weidel and Bossard live with their children in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Alice Weidel splits her time between Berlin \u2013 where she works \u2013 and Switzerland and lists her official residence as being in her electoral district in \u00dcberlingen, Germany.<\/p>\n Weidel was born in Gutersloh \u2013 a town halfway between Dortmund and Hanover \u2013 and later studied in Bayreuth.<\/p>\n She also worked for Goldman Sachs and the Bank of China prior to turning to politics, living in China for six years.<\/p>\n What controversies has Alice Weidel been involved in?<\/p>\n Weidel has often been outspoken about her views<\/a>. Despite originally joining the party due to economic policies, she has endorsed and championed the party\u2019s move towards the far-right and its focus on migration and German nationalism.<\/p>\n She previously said that immigrants were made up of \u201cburqas, girls in headscarves, knife-wielding men on government benefits and other good-for-nothing people\u201d, which led to criticism from political rivals in Germany but respect from other right-wing people.<\/p>\n Weidel has also demanded \u201clarge-scale repatriation of foreigners\u201d and claimed that Germany is the real victim of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n She also previously questioned the point of Covid vaccines, cast doubt on climate change, and spoke about the \u201cgreat replacement\u201d theory<\/a>, which falsely claims that white people are being \u201creplaced\u201d by immigrants.<\/p>\n Recently, during a chat with Elon Musk, Weidel claimed that the Nazis were \u201cnot right-wing\u201d and said that Hitler was \u201ca communist, socialist guy\u201d. This is blatantly untrue as communists and socialists were regularly persecuted under the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2196312634.jpg\")
Alice Weidel gives a statement after German MPs narrowly voted against a bill to restrict immigration proposed by the conservative CDU\/CSU with the controversial support of the AfD during a debate at the Bundestag on January 31, 2025 in Berlin. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n