Britta Haßelmann
Britta Haßelmann | |
|---|---|
Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag | |
| In office 8 October 2013 – 7 December 2021 | |
| Leader | Katrin Göring-Eckardt Anton Hofreiter |
| Preceded by | Volker Beck |
| Succeeded by | Irene Mihalic |
| Member of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Assumed office 18 September 2005 | |
| Constituency | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 December 1961 University of Bielefeld |
Britta Haßelmann (born 10 December 1961) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as co-chair of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2021, alongside Katharina Dröge.[1] From 2013 until 2021, she was the group’s first manager (Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin).[2] She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2005.
Early life and career
Haßelmann was born in
Political career
Early beginnings
Haßelmann became a member of the Green Party in 1994. From 2000 until 2006, she served – alongside Frithjof Schmidt – as co-chair of the Green Party in North Rhine-Westphalia, the party's largest chapter.[3] During that period, her party was in a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party under Minister-President Wolfgang Clement.
Member of the German Parliament, 2005–present
Haßelmann has been a member of the German
Within her parliamentary group, Haßelmann served as Chief Whip from 2013 until 2021, under the leadership of the group's co-chairs Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter. In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party following the 2017 elections, she was part of her party's delegation.
From 2018, Haßelmann was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany's electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.[5]
Other activities
- German National Committee for UNICEF, Member of the Board (since 2020)[6]
- Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board[7]
- Terre des Femmes, Member
References
- ^ Helene Bubrowski (7 December 2021), Zwei Frauen an der Spitze: Haßelmann und Dröge sind neue Grünen-Fraktionsvorsitzende Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ^ "Fraktionsspitze: Göring-Eckardt gewinnt Kampfabstimmung bei Grünen". Spiegel Online. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag – Britta Haßelmann". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Vermittlungsausschuss – Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestags".
- ^ Robert Roßmann (20 January 2019), Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- ^ Board German Committee for UNICEF
- ^ Governance Archived 20 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine Heinrich Böll Foundation.