Alexis Giersch

Alexis Leonard Giersch (born 25 September 1963 in London)^[1] is a German politician for the AfD. He has been a member of the 21st Bundestag since March 2025.^[2]

Giersch is chairman of the AfD district association in Plön.^[3] In the 2021 federal election, he ran for a direct mandate in the Plön – Neumünster constituency and came fifth with 7.1% of the first vote. A year later, in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, Giersch ran in the Plön-Nord constituency and won 4.3% of the votes. The AfD failed to clear the five percent hurdle at the time and has not been represented in the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein since. He ran for the 2025 federal election on the AfD Schleswig-Holstein state list.

The AfD won five seats in Schleswig-Holstein,^[4] however, after Volker Schnurrbusch gave up his Bundestag mandate in favor of a mandate in the European Parliament, Giersch took his place in the Bundestag.^[5]