Ulrich Siegmund

Ulrich Siegmund (born 25 October 1990) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) who has served as a member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt since 2016. He has served as co-group leader of the far-right party AfD since 2022. On 25 November 2023, Siegmund took part in the 2023 Potsdam far-right meeting. Siegmund was chair of the social affairs committee until February 2024 when the parliament voted to remove him from the role due to his participation in the meeting.

Siegmund is running as the lead candidate for the AfD in the 2026 Saxony-Anhalt state election. On 13 August 2026, German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel had a mug-shot style photo of him on its cover , calling him ‘the most dangerous man in Germany.’ Siegmund used the magazine cover for his campaign, signing many copies, while the Der Spiegel had to defend the move.

Life Ulrich Siegmund was born on 25 October, 1990 in Havelberg, Germany.

He did an apprenticeship in Wholesale and Foreign Trade Specialist (Groß- und Einzelhandelskaufmann). He registered a company to sell room fragrance. Later he studied Business Psychology and Business Administration in a Distance Learning modi at the private European Distance University Hamburg GmbH (:de:Europäische Fernhochschule Hamburg).

He became member of AfD in 2013 or 2014.

In a state party conference in Magdeburg, he was selected by AfD to be their lead candidate, getting 98.3% of the votes. Since 2016, Siegmund has been a member of the State Landtag. In 2022, Oliver Kirchner, chair of the AfD parliamentary group in Saxony-Anhalt, proposed that both of them could be lead candidate. Shortly after, Siegmund began co-chairing the parliamentary group with Kirchner.

Siegmund is married to school social worker Julia Siegmund. He is father of one child from an earlier relationship.