Gerrit Huy

Huy 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]