Here’s everything you need to know about AfD leader Alice Weidel. Weidel joined the party in October 2013, previously saying she was first attracted to the party due to her opposition to the Euro.

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to many to lead Germany's far-right and anti-immigration AfD into Sunday's ...

Alice Weidel of the nationalist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany lives in Switzerland and is married to a Sri Lankan-born woman. She had led her party to second place before Sunday’s ...

She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...