Alice Weidel

**Alice Elisabeth Weidel** (; born 6February 1979) is a German politician who has been serving as  of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party alongside Tino Chrupalla since June 2022. Since October 2017, she has held the position of leader of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag. She has been the Leader of the Opposition since 2025, having been in this role before from 2017 to 2021.

## Early life

Weidel was born in Gütersloh and grew up in Harsewinkel, where she graduated from a Christliches Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands (CJD) _Gymnasium_ in 1998. She studied economics and business administration at the University of Bayreuth and graduated as one of the best in the year in 2004.

After receiving her undergraduate degree, Weidel went to work for Goldman Sachs Asset Management from July 2005 to June 2006 as an analyst in Frankfurt. In the late 2000s, she worked at the Bank of China, and lived for six years in China.

## Political career

Weidel became a member of the Bundestag (MdB) in the 2017 federal election, where she was the AfD's lead candidate alongside Alexander Gauland. In the 2021 federal election, she once again served as their lead candidate, alongside Tino Chrupalla.

In November 2019, she became the deputy federal spokeswoman for her party. In February 2020, she became chairwoman of the AfD state association in Baden-Württemberg. She left this role in 2022.

She is the first lesbian to serve as a lead candidate of her party. She has been identified by the media as belonging to the more moderate conservative _Alternative Mitte_ faction within the AfD.

In 2024, she was selected as the AfD's chancellor candidate for Chancellor in the 2025 German federal election. The AfD won the second most seats in the election, a total of 152. The party also became the largest party in all five former East German states.

## Personal life

Since 2009, Weidel has been in a lesbian relationship with Sarah Bossard. They have two adopted sons and live in Einsiedeln, Switzerland. Weidel works in Berlin and says her official residence is in her electoral district in Überlingen, Germany.

Weidel identifies herself as an agnostic.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Alice Weidel
- **honorific suffix**: Member of the German Bundestag, MdB
- **image**: Alice Weidel in 2025.jpg
- **caption**: Weidel in 2025
- **title**: Leader of the Opposition (Germany), Leader of the Opposition
- **term start**: 6 May 2025
- **alongside**: Tino Chrupalla
- **chancellor**: Friedrich Merz
- **predecessor**: Friedrich Merz
- **term start1**: 24 October 2017
- **term end1**: 26 October 2021
- **alongside1**: Alexander Gauland
- **chancellor1**: Angela Merkel
- **successor1**: Ralph Brinkhaus
- **title2**: Leader of the Alternative for Germany
- **term start2**: 18 June 2022
- **alongside2**: Tino Chrupalla
- **predecessor2**: Jörg Meuthen
- **title3**: Leader of the Alternative for Germany
in the Bundestag
- **term start3**: 26 September 2017
- **alongside3**: Tino Chrupalla
- **1blankname3**: Chief Whip
- **1namedata3**: Bernd Baumann
- **predecessor3**: _Position established_
- **title6**: Member of the Bundestag
 for Baden-Württemberg
- **term start6**: 2017 German federal election, 24 October 2017
- **predecessor6**: _Multi-member district_
- **constituency6**: _None_
- **title7**: Leader of the Alternative for Germany
 in Baden-Württemberg
- **term start7**: 15 February 2020
- **term end7**: 17 July 2022
- **birth name**: Alice Elisabeth Weidel
- **birth place**: Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
- **party**: AfD (since 2013)
- **partner**: Sarah Bossard (since 2009)
- **children**: 2
- **relatives**: Hans Weidel (grandfather)
- **alma mater**: University of Bayreuth