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Tobias Peterka

German politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ40881740 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tobias Peterka (born 4 September 1982) is a German politician for the right-wing populist AfD. Since 2017, he has been a member of the Bundestag, the German federal diet.

Life and achievements

Peterka was born in 1982 in the West German town of Achern. He studied jurisprudence at the University of Bayreuth. He joined the newly founded AfD in 2013 and became a member of the Bundestag in 2017.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Tobias Peterka” as german politician. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tobias, Peterka and German.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2017, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tobias, Peterka and German providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q40881740. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2017 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tobias Peterka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.