Lars Patrick Berg

Lars Patrick Berg (born 22 January 1966 in Frankfurt) is a German politician who was serving as a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2024.

He was a member of the AfD Baden-Württemberg state executive committee from April 2013 to October 2014 and from July 2015 to March 2016.

Berg was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Baden-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ).

There he was a member of the Identity and Democracy Group (ID) and a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and the Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, including the EU-Morocco, EU-Tunisia and EU-Algeria Joint Parliamentary Committees (DMAG).

Through his membership in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, he frequently participated in meetings with representatives of other countries, e.g. in October 2019 he met with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.

Small inquiries from Berg included illegal entries across the borders between Baden-Württemberg and Switzerland as well as France, the number of child marriages and Salafism in Germany which he described as "an acute threat to our democracy".

On the subject of the Syrian conflict, Berg has sharply criticized Turkey's military actions against the Kurdish population.