Leif-Erik Holm
| Leif-Erik Holm | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 24 October 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 August 1970 Schwerin, East Germany | 
| Political party | AfD | 
Leif-Erik Holm (born 1 August 1970) is a German politician of the AfD party and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the German federal parliament. He is also chairman of the AfD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Holm worked as a radio presenter for the private Antenne MV broadcaster, studied economics in Berlin, and became a politician in 2013. Holm is since 2013, with a short interruption in 2015, state chairman of his party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He was the leading AfD candidate in the state in the 2013 German federal elections and was also frontrunner for his party in the 2016 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state elections. During the campaign Holm warned of the spread of Islam.
Holm temporarily worked for fellow AfD politician Beatrix von Storch.