Alliance for Progress and Renewal Liberal-Konservative Reformer ( Liberal Conservative Reformers )
Which political party did Bernd Lucke belong to between Nov 2015 and Dec 2015?
Bernd Lucke Bernd Lucke ( born 19 August 1962 ) is a German economist and politician . Lucke was elected as Member of the European Parliament ( MEP ) for the Alternative für Deutschland ( AfD ) in 2014 . He failed to get reelected in 2019 . He is a professor of macroeconomics at the University of Hamburg , a co-founder of Wahlalternative 2013 ( translated : Electoral Alternative 2013 ) , and a founding member of the Alternative for Germany . Lucke lost out on the leadership of the AfD against Frauke Petry in July 2015 , which was considered a shift of the party to extremist positions ; he subsequently left the party . In July 2015 he and other former AfD members founded the political party Liberal-Konservative Reformer ( formerly ALFA ) . Biography . Between 1982 and 1984 , Lucke studied economics , history , and philosophy at the University of Bonn and attended graduate studies in economics at the universities of Bonn and Berkeley between 1984 and 1987 . He completed his doctorate in 1991 with a thesis on price stabilization in world agricultural markets . His thesis director was Jürgen Wolters of the Free University of Berlin . After the fall of the Berlin Wall , he worked in the Council of Economic Experts of the East German Government and , after reunification , as an assistant to the Senate of Berlin . His research interests include sovereign default , news-driven business cycles , growth in developing countries , dynamic CGE models , and applied econometrics . Lucke was an advisor to the World Bank and a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver . Lucke is a frequent guest on political talk shows in Germany . He is married and has five children . During a campaign speech in Bremen on 24 August 2013 , Lucke was attacked with pepper spray by two members of Anti-fascist Action . Several people in the audience were treated for irritation of the eyes and throat . On 4 July 2015 , he was displaced as leader of the Alternative for Germany by his former deputy , Frauke Petry , after several months of factional infighting within the party . On 9 July 2015 , Lucke left the Alternative for Germany , saying that the party had fallen irretrievably into the wrong hands after Petrys election , and on 19 July , he and other former members of the AfD established a new party , the Alliance for Progress and Renewal ( ALFA ) . ALFA has since been renamed Liberal-Konservative Reformer ( Liberal Conservative Reformers ) . External links . - University of Hamburg , Bernd Lucke ( de ) - Homepage of Plenum of Economists - Homepage of Bündnis Bürgerwille ( Alliance of Citizens Will ) - Cofounder of Wahlalternative 2013 ( Election Alternative 2013 ) - Party Hompeage Lucke speaker of Alternative für Deutschland ( Alternative for Germany ) - Marsh , David , New anti-euro party intensifies pressure on Merkel , MarketWatch , 15 April 2013 . - Spiegel portrait of Bernd Lucke and AfD , May 2014 - Business Insider : Meet The Influential German Professor Who Wants To Get Rid Of The Euro In Order To Save Europe retrieved 30 March 2013 . - Deutsche Welle interview with Bernd Lucke : Where is the German Euroskeptic party AfD headed ? retrieved July 2015 .