Dr. Christina Baum is a German politician representing the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Born in 1956 in East Germany (Thuringia), she trained as a dentist, earned a doctorate in dental medicine, and worked in the profession alongside her husband until March 2024, when they sold their practice. Between 2016 and 2021, she served as a member of the state parliament (Landtag) of Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart. Since 2021, she has served as a Member of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag).

Known for her long-standing involvement in the AfD since 2013—including roles in regional leadership and as a former federal executive board member—she is a prominent figure in the party’s health policy discussions and often advocates positions critical of government policies on issues like the COVID-19 response and immigration.

In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Baum lays out a sweeping critique of Germany’s COVID-era response, describing the party’s latest Bundestag Corona Symposium as an effort to confront lockdowns, rampant civil-liberty violations, and the prosecution of dissenting doctors—an issue she says shocked even international participants such as Robert Malone and Alejandro Diaz.

She argues that mainstream media deliberately ignored the event, while noting that indirect support from the Trump administration, including a formal intervention by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has helped spotlight the plight of persecuted physicians.

Dr. Baum sharply questions the credibility of Germany’s official pandemic review commission, which she characterizes as performative and hostile to AfD participation, and lays out the party’s proposals for accountability and compensation for victims of COVID policies. She also links rising healthcare costs, violence against medical staff, and declining standards to mass migration, while describing intense personal and institutional backlash she has faced for her positions. Framing these issues as matters of democratic legitimacy and national sovereignty, she presents the AfD’s agenda as a fundamental reorientation of health policy, governance, and Germany’s role in global institutions such as the WHO.

As someone who’s very active in AfD health policy, could you share your assessment of the Corona symposium that took place in the Bundestag at the end of last year? Who attended? What stood out most in the discussion? And was there significant backlash from the mainstream press, establishment-party politicians, and their radical activist foot soldiers because of the event?

The Corona Symposium of the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, which has now taken place for the fourth time, focused on coming to terms with the Corona years—particularly once again the massive restrictions on fundamental rights, but also the question of responsibility for wrong decisions made during that time and the lessons to be learned from them.

We were especially pleased by the greetings and contributions from Robert Malone (USA), Robert Roos (Netherlands), and Dr. Alejandro Diaz (Mexico/USA), which gave the symposium an international dimension.

Great shock and disbelief were triggered by a panel that I initiated and moderated, which addressed the harsh legal persecution of critical doctors. These doctors, acting contrary to the instructions (“recommendations”) of the time and under enormous pressure from politicians, the media, medical administrative bodies, and ultimately also from an agitated public, chose to act in the best interests of their patients. They issued mask or vaccination exemption certificates due to medical complaints—and were subsequently prosecuted for it.

Although all members of the press were invited by the AfD parliamentary group, primarily alternative media outlets—also international ones—attended. The mainstream press ignored the entire event and, accordingly, did not report on it.

Source: The Gateway Pundit