Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika von Storch (née Duchess of Oldenburg;[a] 27 May 1971) is a German politician and lawyer, who has been the Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the Alternative for Germany since July 2015 and a Member of the Bundestag since September 2017.
Her maternal grandfather was Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk,[2] who served as finance minister from 1932 in the Weimar Republic until the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.
After the death of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels he additionally served as the Leading Minister and foreign minister of the short-lived Flensburg Government of Karl Dönitz – and so as the de facto last head of government of Nazi Germany announced on 7 May 1945, via radio Reichssender Flensburg the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht, thus ending the war in Europe.
[3] Her cousin, Eilika of Oldenburg, is married to Georg von Habsburg, a son of Otto, the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary.
[4] On 22 October 2010 she married German-Chilean businessman Sven von Storch (born 1970), member of a German noble family from Mecklenburg.
Von Storch also supported the United Kingdom's vote for Brexit and is a friend of British eurosceptic politician Nigel Farage.
[18][19][20] In November 2015, a leading Berlin theatre, the Schaubühne, was brought into legal conflict with Beatrix von Storch over a play, Falk Richter's FEAR, that parodied AfD leaders as zombies and mass murderers.
[24] In late February 2016, von Storch was "pied" by members of the German left-wing group Peng Collective at a party meeting in Kassel.
The activists, dressed as clowns, protested against her assertion that German border control personnel had the right to shoot at incoming illegal immigrants.
[25][26] Von Storch's Twitter account was blocked for twelve hours after she posted a criticism of the Cologne Police Department for publishing a New Years greeting in Arabic as well as in German, French and English.
Other prominent members of the AfD quickly sprang to von Storch's defense, including Alice Weidel.