Gerrit Huy | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Rose Gerrit Huy 13 May 1953 Braunschweig, West Germany |
| Party | Alternative for Germany |
Gerrit Huy (born 13 May 1953) is a German right-wing politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a former business executive. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021.
Life and politics
editHuy was born in 1953 in the West German city of Braunschweig. She studied at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University on a scholarship. During a discussion there, she caught the eye of Edzard Reuter, who brought her into the Daimler-Benz group as his personal assistant in 1986. From April 1997, Huy served for eleven months as the first female member of the board of directors of Daimler-Benz.[1]
Huy joined the AfD in 2017, stating that the refugee policy of the federal government at the time was too liberal for her.[2] She was elected to the Bundestag in 2021.[3]
On 25 November 2023, Huy attended a meeting at the Landhaus Adlon in Potsdam together with other AfD members, CDU politicians, business figures, and far-right activists, including Martin Sellner, leader of the Identitarian Movement of Austria. The Correctiv research network reported in January 2024 that Sellner had presented a "master plan" at the meeting for the "remigration" of migrants and their descendants, including German citizens of migrant background; the report triggered mass protests against the AfD.[4]
In December 2025, the Hamburg Regional Court dismissed a suit against Correctiv, treating the term "master plan" as protected opinion. In March 2026, the Berlin Regional Court II ruled that Correctiv's central claim — that the meeting concerned a plan to expel German citizens — was substantially untrue; Correctiv is appealing. Huy told the ARD-Hauptstadtstudio that nothing noteworthy had taken place at the meeting and that she had not previously known Sellner or been aware he would attend.[5]
References
edit- ^ Koelbl, Susanne (1997-04-13). "Dornröschens Ende". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ NACHRICHTEN, n-tv. "Die neue AfD-Fraktion und ihre Probleme". n-tv.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ Veröffentlichung (2021-09-26). "Deutscher Bundestag - Gerrit Huy". Bundestag.de. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
- ^ "Secret plan against Germany". Correctiv. 15 January 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
- ^ Halasz, Gabor; Pfeffer, Kilian (17 April 2026). "Wie ein Gericht sein "Correctiv"-Urteil begründet". tagesschau.de (in German). ARD. Retrieved 2026-04-19.
