Volker Schnurrbusch

Ralf Volker Schnurrbusch (born 12 January 1958) is a German politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a Member of the European Parliament since 2025. He was a member of the German Bundestag in 2025 and was previously a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein from 2017 to 2022.

Schnurrbusch is married and father of three children. Until his party lost its parliamentary group status in September 2020, he served as its Chief Whip.

On 20 July 2017, the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament lifted Schnurrbusch's . The police searched the MP's premises on suspicion of using symbols of unconstitutional organisations. An SA symbol was allegedly displayed on the AfD Schleswig-Holstein Facebook page, for which Schnurrbusch was regarded as legally responsible. The ruled in June 2018 that the search of his office was unlawful.

In the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election, the AfD failed to be re-elected to the state parliament and Schnurrbusch left the state parliament at the end of the legislative period.

Schnurrbusch was elected to 16th place on the list as the AfD's candidate for the 2024 European elections at a European party conference in Magdeburg on 4 August 2023. However, he narrowly missed out on a place in the European Parliament, as the AfD, with 15.9%, was only allowed to send 15 representatives.

In the 2025 German federal election, Volker Schnurrbusch was elected to the Bundestag. He entered parliament via third place on the AfD Schleswig-Holstein state list, and he also ran in the Ostholstein – Stormarn-Nord constituency, where he came third with 17.3% of the vote. He gave his seat in Bundestag to Alexis Giersch, because Schnurrbusch received a seat in the European Parliament from Maximilian Krah's vacancy.

Political positions Schnurbusch lists his political positions on his party website. According to this, he wants to "fight" against a number of very different circumstances that he sees as a problem: against "political correctness: against bans on speaking and thinking!"; against "GEZ: down with the compulsory fee!" (meaning the ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio Beitragsservice); against "leveling"; against quotas, because "performance must be worth it!"; against "patronization", that history should be understood "from within itself"; "fight against multiculturalism", because every culture has "its place".