Siegbert Droese

Siegbert Frank Droese (born 7 June 1969) is a German politician for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and since 2017 member of the Bundestag, the federal legislative body. Droese was born on 7 June 1969 in the city of Leipzig, then in East Germany (GDR). He was raised in a Christian family as the youngest of three siblings. Until he graduated from school, he participated in competitive athletics as a track and field athlete, specializing in the javelin throw. From 1986 to 1988, he trained at Interhotel Leipzig as a restaurant specialist. In July 1989, he fled to West Germany via the open border with the Hungarian People's Republic. In Hamburg, he worked at the Hotel Atlantic Hamburg and trained as a hotel manager. He returned to Hotel Merkur in Leipzig in 1991, where he originally begun his training. Until 1994 he worked there as an assistant, then in the food service department until 1997. From 1998 to 2014 he was self-employed in the Leipzig hotel and restaurant industry.