Christine Margarete Anderson (born 29 July 1968) is a German politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. A member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Anderson has been described as an activist of the Pegida movement.
Background and education
Anderson was born in Eschwege, Hesse, West Germany. She completed a commercial apprenticeship. She lived in the United States for six years, where she studied economics and worked for a US trading company.
Political career
In 2013 Anderson became a member of Alternative for Germany (AfD). From 2016 to 2018, she was the party's group leader in the Limburg-Weilburg district assembly. She was elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 election. Before the election, she stated her goal was to "lead Germany out of this EU nightmare".
Der Spiegel has described Anderson as an activist of the Pegida movement. She has participated in Pegida street protests promoting immigration reform and opposition to Islam. She has also appeared on Rebel News, where she stated her support for the Canada convoy protest.
In the European Parliament, Anderson is a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in the Digital Age, and a deputy member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.
Most recently, Anderson was appointed to the Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic, and in a July 2022 session she entered into the record a complaint that there had been too much emphasis upon getting experimental gene therapy treatments into healthy people.
Personal life
Anderson has three children and lives in Fulda.