Petr Bystron

A Life For Freedom

Petr Bystron

Petr Bystron is the highest-ranking foreign politician in the AfD: He is the foreign policy speaker as well as the AfD spokesperson on the Foreign Policy Commitee in the German Bundestag. He was the first AfD politician to be officially received by an incumbent president.

He also became the first European laureate to receive the “Eagle Award” from the conservative Phyllis Schlafly Foundation.

Refugee from Communism

He was born in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, from which he f led to Germany at the age of 16 because of political persecution, a country where he was granted political asylum.

Thirty years later he faced similar persecution in Bavaria: during the 2017 election campaign, an illegal house search was conducted and it was disclosed that he was under surveillance by the Bavarian secret service.

In addition to these state reprisals, he repeatedly has been the target of attacks by left- wing extremists.

He is actively involved in supporting the politically persecuted. In 2018, with the help of Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, he was able to free the journalist Billy Six from Venezuelan custody.

Parliamentary initiatives

Below you will find my parliamentary initiatives in the European Parliament.
Parliamentary initiatives

Chairman and Election Winner

He is one of the founding members of the AfD. From 2015 to 2017 he was the party state chairman in Bavaria. He took over the party in a crisis and led it from 3,5% polling results to achieve the best election result of all western federal states in the 2017 federal election with 12.7%.

He founded the state committee for European and foreign policy (2013-2015) of his party and launched the higly reputable series of events „Consular Talks“.

Award Wining Publicist

Petr Bystron is an author and publicist. He won several creative competitions, including an essay competition held by the EU on the future of Europe. His articles on economics and politics have been published in renowned daily newspapers and magazines in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland.

In 2016, the University of Geneva published his anthology „25 Years after the Wall“ on the transformation processes in Central Europe with contributions from well-known scientists and politicians, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Polish President Lech Walesa and the economics professor and Czech President Václav Klaus.

His current book “Make Europe Great Again” contains portraits of leading conservative politicians such as Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Penn and Nigel Farage.

Father, Husband, Entrepreneur

Petr Bystron is married and has two children.

He resides in his constituency, Munich North, since more than 30 years. He graduated in political science at the Bavarian School of Public Policy and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and was admitted to doctoral studies.

During his studies he was active as an entrepreneur and founded an international advertising agency, which he sold to a public corporation after ten successful years.

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