Harald Weyel


Harald Weyel is a German politician. Born in Herborn, Hesse, he represents Alternative for Germany. Harald Weyel has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.

Early life

Weyel is the son of an African-American soldier and a cook from the Westerwald. One year after his birth, his father left the family and returned to Raleigh, North Carolina.

Political career

He became member of the Bundestag after the 2017 German federal election. He is a member of the Committee on European Union Affairs. He voted against a resolution in the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe which determined that forced detention and deportation of children from Russian occupied territories of Ukraine is “genocide”, the sole parliamentarian to do so.