Tatiana Cavalcanti
São Paulo, SP (Folhapress) – granddaughter of one of the ministers of Adolf Hitler and one of the exponents of the German far right, Beatrix von Storch lost his chair in Parliament to the left party leader (Die Linke), Ines Schwerdtner, in the elections Sunday (23).
In Brazil, Beatrix, 53, gained notoriety by meeting then President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) in 2021, when he defended a global alliance among conservatives. They posed for photos, smiling at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia. About the Brazilian, she said: “Contrary to what the press says, he is humble, lovely and humorous in the personal treatment.” Beatrix has also met Eduardo Bolsonaro.
Currently, Beatrix performs leadership functions within the Alternative Party for Germany (AFD) and was running in the Berlin-Lichtenberg district. She got 33,703 votes (21.9%), while Ines, a 35 -year -old journalist, won with 52,374 votes (34%).
Beatrix is the granddaughter of Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887-1977), finance minister at Nazi Germany from 1932 to 1945. He was sentenced in the courts of Nuremberg for war crimes and complicity with the Nazi regime, serving a reduced penalty. After his release, he withdrew from public life to his death.
Supporter of US President Donald Trump, Beatrix has troubled political trajectory. According to the BBC, she became involved in episodes that earned her investigation for possible violation of the law against hate crimes in Germany.
In 2018, the German police asked Beatrix to be investigated after posts by the deputy on social networks. At the time, she questioned the decision of the Cologne City police to publish messages in Arabic as part of a multilingual campaign.
The parliamentarian said, “What the hell is going wrong in this country?” He said. “Are they wanting to please the barbarians, the Muslims, and this horde of rapist men?” Twitter (current X) and Facebook have removed the posts, classified as a hate speech.
In 2016, she argued that German police opened fire on immigrants, including women and children, trying to get illegally entering Germany, something that the then Prime Minister, Angela Merkel, classified as absurd.
Descendant of Oldenburg’s Grand Doubling, who would later compose Germany, Beatrix is against homosexual marriage and the existence of the European Union. She stated, in an interview with the BBC in 2018, that it would be a patriotic act of the Germans having more babies given to low birth in the nation.
