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Ms. Doris Barnett

Head of Delegation, Treasurer of the OSCE PA

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 72072

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76072

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Social Democratic Party of Germany

  • Parliament member since

    1994

  • Home District

    Ludwigshafen/Frankenthal

  • Positions in Parliament

    Chair of the Committee of Labour and Social Affairs (1998 – 2002)

Educational background:

Jurist

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the Budget Committee

Ms. Renata Alt

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 75262

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 70262

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Free Democratic Party

  • Parliament member since

    2017

  • Home District

    Nürtingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg)

  • Positions in Parliament

    Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Spokeswoman of the FDP parliamentary group on the Subcommittee on civil crisis prevention, head of the parliamentary friendship group on Germany-Czech Republic-Slovakia-Hungary

Mr. Alois Karl

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 75351

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 70062

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union

  • Parliament member since

    2005

  • Home District

    Amberg-Sulzbach-Neumarkt, Bavaria, Germany

Educational background:

Attended elementary school and Willibald Gluck grammar school in Neumarkt, where he obtained his Abitur (schoolleaving certificate giving right of entry to university) in 1972. In autumn of 1972 began to study law and economics at the University of Regensburg. Completed law studies, passing the first state examination during the second wave of exams in 1976, followed by the compulsory period of practical legal training, culminating in the second state examination which he passed during the first wave in 1979.

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the German Bundestag since 18 October 2005 (directly elected constituency seat “Amberg-SulzbachNeumarkt”). Member of the Budget Committee (rapporteur on departmental budget “Federal Foreign Office”); Vice-chairman Subcommittee on European Union Issues; Vice-chairman working group “local politics” CDU/CSU-parliamentary group; Chairman German-Baltic parliamentary friendship group, Member of OSCE Parliamentary Assembly

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Born on 22 November 1950 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz.
Since 24 September 1974 has been married to Hildegard Karl; has two daughters.
From 1 October 1979 onwards worked as a lawyer in the Nuremberg law firm “Dr. Uebelein & Kollegen”.
From 1 January 1981 onwards served as head of the Neumarkt town legal department.
From 1 May 1990 onwards served as mayor of Neumarkt.

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Dr. Daniela De Ridder

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 71585, 71586

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76585

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Social Democratic Party of Germany

  • Parliament member since

    2013

  • Home District

    Wahlkreis 31 Mittelems (Lower Saxony)

  • Positions in Parliament

    Member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment (from 2013 to 2017)

Positions held in Parliament:

Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Comprehensive Approach

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Born on 27 November 1962 in Kiel; Protestant; married, two children.
Obtained Abitur (higher-education entrance qualification) at Königliches Athenäum Eupen, Belgium; completed traineeship at daily newspaper GrenzEcho in
Eupen, Belgium; studied social and communication sciences, Romance languages and literature, and art education at RWTH Aachen, the Institut Supérieur des
Beaux Arts Saint-Luc in Liège, Belgium, and the University of Göttingen; obtained doctorate in economics and social sciences at Osnabrück University.
Editor at the Göttinger Woche; research assistant, head of the equal opportunities offices and full-time equal opportunities officer at the universities of
Göttingen, Lüneburg and Osnabrück and the University of Applied Sciences North-East Lower Saxony in Lüneburg and Osnabrück, including Lingen campus;
project manager at a consulting firm in Gütersloh; self-employed management consultant for diversity management since 2012.
Joined the SPD in 1992; chairwoman of the Working Group of the Osnabrück county branch of Social Democratic Women (ASF) from 2008 to 2011; member of
the executive committee of the Osnabrück county branch of the SPD from 2009 to 2011; district commissioner candidate for the SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens
and Emlichheim Citizens’ Forum in Grafschaft Bentheim county in 2011; chairwoman of the Grafschaft Bentheim county branch of the SPD from November
2011 to August 2014.
Received award from the German-speaking Community of Belgium; received doctoral award from the civic educational organisation Arbeit und Leben; member
of the National Association for Workers’ Welfare, the Catholic Workers’ Movement (KAB), member of the German federal parliament/Bundestag since October
2013.
Parliamentary Committees and Groups (Deutscher Bundestag)
Full Member
• Member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment (from 2013 to 2017)
• Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (since 2018)
• Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Comprehensive Approach (since 2018)
Substitute Member
• Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure (since 2013)
• Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development (since 2018)
Parliamentary Groups
• Member and Vice-Chair (2013 – 2018) of the German-Belgium-Luxembourg Parliamentary Group
• Vice-Chair of the German-French Parliamentary Group
• Member of the Parliamentary Group for Maghreb countries
In the Social Democrat Group:
• Rapporteur for Transatlantic Relations (Canada)
• Rapporteur for the Middle East
• Rapporteur for BeNeLux
• Rapporteur for International Research and Educational Policy
• Rapporteur for Foreign Trade Policy and Arms Exports Policy
• Member of German Delegation: Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (PA-OSCE)
• Co-rapporteur for the Maghreb
• Co-Rapporteur for South Asia, South East Asia, Pacific (incl. Australia)
• Co-rapporteur for West Africa and Central Africa
• Co-rapporteur for France and Switzerland
• Alternate Member of German Delegation: Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
• Head of discussion: Group on Regional Structural Development

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Mr. Thomas Erndl

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 77220

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 70221

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany

Mr. Markus Frohnmaier

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 78320

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 78320

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Alternative for Germany

  • Parliament member since

    2017

  • Home District

    Böblingen Constituency (No. 260)

  • Positions in Parliament

    Speaker of the Young MP’s Group of the AfD Parliamentary Party Deputy Speaker of the AfD Parliamentary Party for Economic Cooperation and Development

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development Deputy Member of the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid

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Born on 25 February 1991 in Craiova (Romania), Protestant, married, one child.
2001 to 2006 Hauptschule Grafenau-Döffingen, 2006 to 2008 Fachschule Werner-Siemens-Schule Stuttgart, 2008 to 2011 Wirtschaftsgymnasium in Calw,
since 2011 student of law at Eberhardts-Karl-Universität Tübingen.
2015 to 2016 assistant of the AfD Parliamentary Party in the municipal council of Stuttgart, 2016 press spokesman for Dr. Frauke Petry, 2017 press spokesman
for Dr. Alice Weidel.
2013 to 2017 member of the board of the AfD Baden-Württemberg, 2013 to 2015 and 2016 to 2017 chairman of the JA (AfD’s youth wing) Baden-Württemberg,
2015 to 2018 federal chairman of the JA.
Vice President of the “Forum Carolus” Franco-German think tank, supporting member of an air rescue charity

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Mr. Manfred Grund

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 72370

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 56545

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union

  • Parliament member since

    1994

  • Home District

    Eichsfeld – Nordhausen – Kyffhäuser

  • Positions in Parliament

    Committee on Foreign Affairs

Educational background:

Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from Dresden University of Technology in 1980

Positions held in Parliament:

Parliamentary Secretary

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Born July 3, 1955, Zeitz
Entered politics in the wake of the 1989 revolution in the GDR, in the course of which he acted as speaker of the Heiligenstadt people's movement. In January
1990 he joined the CDU and assumed various positions with the CDU in Eichsfeld county and the state of Thuringia.
In 1994, he was first elected to the German Bundestag for Heiligen-Worbis-Nordhausen in Thuringia, a seat he has held ever since (renamed as EichsfeldNordhausen-Kyffhauserkreis
in 2017).
He has served as parliamentary secretary of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group since 1998.
Current committee assignments:
Council of Elders
Joint Committee (Gemeinsamer Ausschuss under Article 53a of the Basic Law)
Committee on Foreign Affairs
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Deputy member of IPU
Chairmanships:
Thuringian Committee of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group
German-Central Asian parliamentary group

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Mr. Juergen Hardt

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 71750

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76750

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union

  • Parliament member since

    2009

  • Home District

    Remscheid, Solingen, Wuppertal II

Positions held in Parliament:

Spokesman for Foreign Policy of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group

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30.05.1963 Born in Hofheim am Taunus (Hessen)
1982-1986 Officer candidate and naval officer (sub-lieutenant); ship securitiy officer and technical diver (frigate Augsburg)
1986-1993 Studied economics in Heidelberg & Cologne
1987-1989 Federal Chairman of Association of Christian Democratic Students
1992-1998 CDU party headquarters; Head of the Social Policy Dept; Head of Secretary-General Peter Hintze's office
1999-2001 CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag; European policy desk officer
2001-2009 Head of Corporate Communications at Vorwerk
Since 2009, member of the German Bundestag
04/2014-04/2018 Federal Foreign Office Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation in the field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural & Information Policy
Since Sept. 2015, Spokesman for Foreign Policy of CDU/CSU parliamentary group
Membership of Bundestag bodies & parliamentary posts:
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Substitute member of the Committee on the Affairs o the EU, Substitute member of the Defence Committee
Menbership of other bodies:
NATO Parliamentary Assembly
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Member of the Board, European People's Party
Substitute member of PACE
Substitute member of the Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign & Security Policy and the Common Security & Defence Policy

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Mr. Johannes Kahrs

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 77331, 79222

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76415

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Social Democratic Party of Germany

Ms. Katja Keul

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 71664

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76591

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Alliance 90/The Greens

  • Parliament member since

    2009

  • Home District

    NienburgII/Schaumburg

Educational background:

Lawyer

Positions held in Parliament:

Defence Committee member, Committee on Leagl Affairs Member

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Date of birth: November 30, 1969
Since 2006 Member of Alliance 90/The Greens
2006 - 2009 Member of the Executive Committee of the Nienburg County Branch
Since 2009 Member of the German Bundestag
2009 - 2017 Parliamentary Secretary
2009 - 2013 Member of the Defence Committee, Substitute Member of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Member of the International Parliamentary Conference
on CFSP/CSDP, Substitute Member of the NATO PA
2013 - 2017 Spokeswoman on Legal Affairs, Spokeswoman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Member of the Subcommittee on European Law, Member of
the Defence Committee, Member of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Member of the OSCE PA
Since 2017, Spokeswoman on Legal Affairs, Spokeswoman of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Member of the Committee for Legal Affairs and Consumer
Protection, Member of the Defence Committee, Member of the Subcommittee on Disarmament, Member of the OSCE PA
Member of the German Federation for Environment & Nature Conservation (BUND), Member of the German Women Lawyers Association, Member of the
German Bar Association, Member of the German Section of the International Association of Lawyers against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Founding Member of the
Association of Green and Green-related Lawyers
Key focus areas:
Legal affairs, European Law, Disarmament, arms control, crisis prevention, conflict management, Common Security and Defense Policy of the European
Unioin, OSCE, MENA-Region

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Mr. Michael Georg Link

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 79363

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 70362

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Free Democratic Party

  • Home District

    Baden-Württemberg/Heilbronn

  • Positions in Parliament

    2005-2009 Spokesperson on European Union Budget and Finance for the FDP Parliamentary Group 2006-2013 Member of the OSCE PA 2009-2012 Spokesperson on European Affairs and Chairman of the Parliamentary Group on International Affairs 2009-2012 Deputy Chairman of the Bundestag's Committee on European Union Affairs 2012-2013 Minister of State for Europe, responsible for EU, Council of Europe, UN, NATO and OSCE affairs

Educational background:

Link studied Russian, French, Political Science, Public Law and Eastern European History at the University of Augsburg, the University of Lausanne and Heidelberg University.

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the German Bundestag, currently serving his third term in parliament (2005-2013; 2017-present) Spokesperson on European Affairs for the FDP Parliamentary Group Member of the Bundestag's Committee on European Affairs Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

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Born in Heilbronn in 1963. He served as the Director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights from July 2014 to July 2017 and was a member of the German government as the Minister of State for Europe, responsible for EU, Council of Europe, NATO and OSCE affairs, from January 2012 to December 2013. Throughout his parliamentary career, Michael Georg Link was an active member of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, where he participated in numerous election observation missions. As ODIHR Director, he oversaw some of the biggest and most challenging election observation activities ever deployed by the OSCE, amongst others in such diverse places as Ukraine, Belarus, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Kazakhstan as well as the Russian Federation and the United States of America. He was recently appointed spokesperson for European affairs by the FDP Parliamentary Group in the Bundestag and remains firmly committed to human rights and democracy promotion in Europe and beyond.

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Ms. Elisabeth Motschmann

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 73738

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76738

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union

  • Parliament member since

    2013

  • Home District

    Bremen

Positions held in Parliament:

Spokeswoman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group on Cultural and Media Affairs

Ms. Michaela Noll

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 73732

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76122

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union

  • Home District

    Mettmann I (Wahlkreis 104)

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee

Mr. Paul Viktor Podolay

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 74203

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 70206

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Alternative for Germany

  • Parliament member since

    2017

  • Home District

    Erlangen

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the German Parliament Member Foreign Affairs Committee and Health Committee

Ms. Helin Evrim Sommer

Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 77518

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 70516

  • Political Party Affiliation

    The Left

Ms. Veronika Bellmann

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 77607

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76602

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union

Mr. Dietmar Friedhoff

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 77156

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 70158

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Alternative for Germany

Ms. Barbara Hendricks

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 74903; +49 30 227 73213

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76213

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Social Democratic Party of Germany

  • Parliament member since

    1994

  • Home District

    Kleve

  • Positions in Parliament

    1998 - 2007 - Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance

Educational background:

1970 - Abitur (higher education entrance qualification) in Kleve 1970 - 1976 - Degree in History and Sociology at the University of Bonn; state examination for secondary school teachers 1980 - Awarded PhD, with a thesis in History

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the German Bundestag

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Born 29 April 1952 in Kleve, North Rhine-Westphalia; Catholic 1972 - Joined the SPD 1976 - 1978 - Press services and public relations work for the German Student Union 1978 - 1981 - Desk Officer in the press office of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag 1981 - 1990 - Spokesperson for the Minister of Finance of North Rhine-Westphalia 1991 to 1994 Ministerial Counsellor in the Ministry for the Environment, Regional Planning and Agriculture of North Rhine-Westphalia, Head of the Cross-Border Planning Division since 1994 - Member of the German Bundestag 2007 - 2013 - Treasurer of the SPD 2013 - 2018 - Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety since 2018 - Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag and Rapporteur of the SPD-Parliamentary Group for the Eastern Partnership Countries and Central Asia

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Mr. Andrej Hunko

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 79133

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76133

  • Political Party Affiliation

    The Left

  • Parliament member since

    2009

  • Home District

    Aachen

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union Member of the Subcommittee on European Union Issues Substitute member of the Budget Committee Substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Member of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

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Dr. Barbel Kofler

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 77599, 75304

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76599

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Social Democratic Party of Germany

Mr. Christoph Neumann

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    -49 30 22772434

  • Fax

    -49 30 227 70434

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Alternative for Germany

  • Parliament member since

    2017

  • Home District

    Leipzig

  • Positions in Parliament

    Spokesperson on Committee on Tourism, Alternate Member of Defence Committee

Dr. Andreas Nick

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 73208

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76559

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union

  • Parliament member since

    2013

  • Home District

    204 Montabaur

  • Positions in Parliament

    Member: Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on the Digital Agenda, Substitute member: Finance Committee

Positions held in Parliament:

Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Head of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Ranking Member of the conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the parliament's subcommittee on United Nations, international organizations and globalization, member: Committee on Foreign Affairs, Substitute member: Finance Committee and Committee on the Digital Agenda

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Andreas Nick has been a CDU member of the German Bundestag since 2013. He serves on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and is inter alia rapporteur for
Turkey, Hungary, South America and globalization issues. 2018 he was elected as Head of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the
Council of Europe and Ranking Member of the conservative CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the parliament's subcommittee on United Nations, international
organizations and globalization . In addition, Andreas Nick is a substitute member of the Finance Committee and the Digital Agenda Committee.
Andreas Nick was elected to the Bundestag following a professional career in Banking. He worked in Corporate Finance for Barclays/BZW, Credit Suisse First
Boston and UBS both in Frankfurt and London. His final positions were as Head of M&A at Sal. Oppenheim Jr. & Cie. and as Professor of Corporate Finance at
the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
Andreas Nick holds a Masters degree and a Doctorate in Business Administration from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management in Vallendar as well as a
Master of International Public Policy (MIPP) from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University in
Washington DC.
He has a member of Westerwald County Council since 1998 and was elected Chairman of the CDU in his home county in 2014.

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Mr. Manuel Sarrazin

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 71736

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76737

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Alliance 90/The Greens

  • Parliament member since

    2008

  • Home District

    Hamburg-Harburg

Educational background:

University of Hamburg and University of Bremen Law and Eastern European Studies, degree obtained in 2013

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the Committee on European Affairs / Foreign Affairs

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Date of Birth : February 6th, 1982
Place of Birth: Dortmund (Northrhine Westfalia)
Occupation : Historian
Political Responsibilities
Responsibilities in the Party
1999 - 2001 Board member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, Harburg, Hamburg
2002 - 2003 Contribution to the work of the extended board of the Green Youth’s regional association of Hamburg
2001 - 2004 Spokesperson of the executive board of the Alliance 90/The Greens, Har-burg, Hamburg
2005 Advisory board member of the Alliance 90/The Greens, Harburg, Hamburg
2008 - 2011 Advisory member to the executive board of the Alliance 90/The Greens’ regional association of Hamburg
2011 - 2015 Deputy Chairman of the Alliance 90/The Greens’ regional association of Hamburg
Responsibilities as Member of Parliament
2004 - 2008 Member of the Hamburg City Parliament for Alliance 90/The Greens, Spokesperson for European Affairs, International Affairs and Youth Participation
since 2008 Member of the German Parliament
2008 Member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union
2009 - 2017 Spokesperson on the Affairs of the European Union of the Alliance 90/The Greens’ parliamentary group in the German Parliament, member of the
Committee on the Affairs of the European Union, substitute member of the Budget Committee, member of the Budget Committee’s subcommittee on the issues
of the European Union
Since 2018 Spokesperson for Eastern Europe of the Alliance 90/The Greens´s parliamentary group of the German Parliament, Member of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, Member of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union
Other political functions and memberships in special-interest groups
Since 1998 Member of Alliance 90/ The Greens, Hamburg
1999 - 2002 Founding member, treasurer and coordinator of Jugendinitiative Politik e.V.
Since 2004 Member of Europe Union Hamburg e.V.
2006 - 2015 Deputy chairman of Europe Union Hamburg e.V.
Since 2009 Executive board member of Help e.V.
2010 - 2015 Executive board member of the German German-Cypriot Forum e.V.
Since 2010 Chairman of the Europe Union Parlamentary Group
in the German Parliament
Since 2012 Member of the board of trustees of the Institute for European Politics (Institut für Europäische Politik, IEP)
Since 2014 Vice-President of the Southeast Europe Association
(Südosteuropa Gesellschaft, SOG)
Since 2014 Executive board member of the European Movement Germany (Europäische Bewegung Deutschland e.V., EBD)
Since 2018 Chairman of the German-Polish Parlamentary Group in the German Parliament

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Mr. Tankred Schipanski

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 71329; +49 30 227 71330

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76327

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany

  • Parliament member since

    2009

  • Home District

    Gotha-Ilm Kreis

Educational background:

Education and training: Obtained Abitur (higher-education entrance qualification) at the Goetheschule academic secondary school in Ilmenau in 1995; completed compulsory military service in the Panzergrenadier battalion 391 in Bad Salzungen from 1995 to 1996; studied law at the universities of Bayreuth and Vienna from 1996 to 2002, passing first state examination in law; completed additional studies in commercial law at the University of Bayreuth in 2001; completed compulsory period of practical legal training in Rhineland-Palatinate (Mainz) from 2003 to 2005, passing second state examination in law. Completed supplementary post-graduate course at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer in 2004; worked as a research assistant at the Technische Universität Ilmenau’s institute of law in the faculty of public law (specialising in media law) from 2005 to 2009; has been practising as a lawyer since 2006.

Positions held in Parliament:

Spokesman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group on the Bundestag Committee on the Digital Agenda; Member of the Bundestag Committee on the Digital Agenda; Member of the Bundestag Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment; Constant Representative in the Bundestag Budget Committee

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Lawyer Born on 30 December 1976; married; Protestant. Member of various executive boards at the Young Union (youth section of the CDU/CSU), the Association of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS), MIT (the CDU small businesses association), the CDU, and Rotaract and Rotary since 1994; chairman of the Ilm-Kreis county branch of the CDU since 2012.

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Mr. Dirk Voepel

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 71542

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 76542

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Social Democratic Party of Germany

  • Parliament member since

    2013

  • Home District

    Oberhausen - Wesel III

  • Positions in Parliament

    Member of the Defence Committee

Educational background:

1991 Abitur (equivalent to British "A level") 1993 Beginning of law studies at Ruhr University Bochum

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of Parliament, Alternate Member of the Committee on Internal Affairs and Committee on Labour and Social Affairs

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Born on 29 May 1971 in Oberhausen; divorced, one daughter
Since 1998, founder & CEO of SAV (service Agency Vöpel) Company, focus on new media & computer networks
1988 joined the SPD
1988 Head of Young Socialist Group in local SPD assocaition Oberhausen-West
1992-1994 Chairman of Oberhausen Young Socialists
1995-2005 Deputy Chairman of the local SPD association Oberhausen-West
2005-2017 Chairman of the local SPD association Oberhausen-West
1989-1994 Citizen member of the Environmental Committeee of the City of Oberhausen
1994-1999 Member of the District Council Alt-Oberhausen
1999-2014 Member of the City Council of the City of Oberhausen
2011-2014 District Mayor of Alt-Oberhausen
Since 2013 Member of the Bundestag
Since 2015 Chairman of the subdistrict Oberhausen

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Ms. Bettina Margarethe Wiesmann

Alternate Member of Delegation

  • Telephone

    +49 30 227 79552

  • Fax

    +49 30 227 70554

  • Political Party Affiliation

    Christian Democratic Union of Germany/Christian Social Union

  • Parliament member since

    2017

  • Home District

    Frankfurt am Main II

Positions held in Parliament:

Member of the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth; Member of Defence Committee

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Address

German Bundestag, Platz der Republik 1, 11011 Berlin, Germany

Telephone

+49(0) 30 227-0

Website

https://www.bundestag.de/en/

Address

Bundesrat, Leipziger Straße 3-4, 10117 Berlin, 11055 Berlin

Telephone

+49 (0)30 18 9100-0

Website

https://www.bundesrat.de/EN/homepage/homepage-node.html
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