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Steffen Janich (born 22 January 1971) is a German politician for Alternative for Germany (AfD). He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2021 and represents the constituency of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge.

Janich graduated from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe Polytechnic in Pirna and became a police officer. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) until 2013 after which he joined the newly formed AfD. In the 2021 German federal election, he ran both as a list candidate in Saxony and as a direct candidate for the constituency of Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, which had previously been represented by former AfD leader Frauke Petry. With a 33% share of the vote and a 13.8% lead over Corinna Franke-Wöller (CDU), the wife of Saxony Interior Minister Roland Wöller, he won the direct mandate as a member of the German Bundestag.

References

1. "Steffen Janich, AfD". bundestag.de.
2. ^ "MDB Steffen Janich". Archived from the original on 2021-10-01. Retrieved 2021-11-16.
3. "Gewählte in Landeslisten der Parteien in Sachsen - Der Bundeswahlleiter".

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