Jörg Urban
Leader of the Opposition in the Landtag of Saxony
Assumed office
20 December 2019
Preceded byRico Gebhardt
Leader of the Alternative For Germany in Saxony
Assumed office
26 September 2017
Preceded byFrauke Petry
Leader of the Alternative For Germany in the Landtag of Saxony
Assumed office
30 September 2017
Preceded byFrauke Petry
Member of the Landtag of Saxony
Assumed office
29 September 2014
ConstituencyList
Personal details
Born (1964-08-04) August 4, 1964
Meissen, East Germany
Political partyAlternative for Germany
Children3
Alma materTU Dresden
Military service
AllegianceNational People's Army

Jörg Urban (born 4 August 1964) is a German politician for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party and has been a member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony since 2014.

Since 2017, Urban has been the head of the AfD-fraction at Saxony State Parliament (Landtag).

Under Urban's leadership, the Saxen AfD state association developed so strongly towards right-wing extremism that the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution is classified and monitored AfD Saxony as a "secure right-wing extremist effort" in 2023.[1]

Career

Urban was born in 1964 in Meißen. He completed three years of voluntary military service with the National People's Army and studied hydraulic engineering at the Dresden University of Technology.[2]

Urban was formerly affiliated with Grüne Liga, a east German conservationist political movement. He was also briefly a member of German Pirate Party.

In 2013, Urban became a member of the far-right AfD and runed for the City Council of Dresden.[3] Until November 2014 he was chairman of the AfD district association in Dresden.[4] He was elected to the Landtag of Saxony in 2014 on a list seat. In 2017, he succeeded Frauke Petry as the leader of the AfD party in the state of Saxony and the leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Landtag of Saxony.[5][6] After the 2019 elections, the AfD became the second largest party in the Saxon landtag, and Urban became the Leader of the Opposition.

In March 2023 Urban stated that he aims to be top candidate for 2024 Saxony State election. AfD-federal chairmen Tino Chrupalla is supporting Urban.[7]

Personal life

Jörg Urban has lived in Dresden since 1986, is married, has three children.[6] He is a Non-denominational Christian.

References

  1. LTO. "Sächsische AfD geht juristisch gegen Einstufung vor". Legal Tribune Online (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-04.
  2. Urban, Jorg. "CV". www.joerg-urban.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
  3. Mueller, Wiebke (August 3, 2014). "Grüne-Liga-Chef will nichts mehr von den Grünen wissen". Bild.de. Bild.de. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
  4. "Kreisvorstand". AfD-dd.de. Archived from the original on October 31, 2014. Retrieved March 15, 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. Rafael, Simone (August 16, 2019). "WER IST EIGENTLICH JÖRG URBAN?". belltower.news. belltower.news. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
  6. 1 2 "Jörg Urban: "Wir sehen uns im Fahrwasser von Donald Trump"". LVZ - Leipziger Volkszeitung. 22 July 2018.
  7. dpa (2023-03-25). "AfD-Landeschef: Jörg Urban will AfD in die Landtagswahl 2024 führen". Die Zeit (in German). ISSN 0044-2070. Retrieved 2024-01-04.


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