Anna Christmann

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Anna Christmann (2018)
Anna Christmann at the March for Science Stuttgart (April 2017)

Anna Christmann (born September 24, 1983 in Hanover ) is a German politician of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party and political scientist . Christmann has been a member of the 19th German Bundestag since 2017 and moved in via the green state list of Baden-Württemberg.

Life

Education and career

Anna Christmann was born in Hanover in 1983. After graduating from high school, Christmann moved to Heidelberg in 2002. There she studied political science, economics and mathematics at the university , graduating in 2008 with a master's degree. During her studies, she worked, among other things, as an electoral district employee for Theresia Bauer , a member of the Baden-Württemberg state parliament.

In 2008 Christmann received his doctorate from the University of Bern on the subject of “The Limits of Direct Democracy”. As part of her doctorate, she also spent a semester abroad at the University of California at Irvine . She then briefly worked at the Center for Democracy at the University of Zurich .

In 2013 Christmann returned to Stuttgart and began to work there in the Ministry of Science , including as office manager for State Minister of Science Theresia Bauer.

Political commitment

Anna Christmann says she has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 2003 . During her college days, she was committed to the local university group and was a member of the Heidelberg district committee.

She is also a member of the non-partisan European Union Germany , which advocates a federal Europe and the European unification process.

MPs

In 2016 Christmann ran for a possible candidate for the 2017 federal election. The Stuttgart district association nominated Christmann as a candidate for the Stuttgart II federal constituency alongside Cem Özdemir (for constituency I) . The state party conference of the Baden-Württemberg Greens voted Christmann eleventh on the state list in November 2016. During the election campaign, Christmann campaigned for more political participation (referendums), housing and environmental protection. The SWR referred to them as belonging to the " Realo wing".

In the 2017 federal election, the Greens in Baden-Württemberg achieved 13.4 percent (and thus 2.5 percent more than in 2013). Christmann moved into the Bundestag as the eleventh of 13 elected candidates on the state list.

For the parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , she is the spokesperson for civic engagement as well as innovation and technology policy . She is a full member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment , the Digital Agenda Committee , the Subcommittee on Civic Engagement , Chairwoman of the Study Commission Artificial Intelligence and a deputy member of the Committee on Family, Seniors, Women and Youth . Christmann is also the chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Study Commission .

Anna Christmann has been a member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2019 .

Private

Christmann is married and lives with her husband and two children in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen .

Works

  • In which political direction does direct democracy work? Right fears and left hopes in Germany compared to direct democratic practice in Switzerland . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2009, ISBN 9783832942045 .
  • The limits of direct democracy. Referendums in the tension between democracy and the rule of law . Dissertation. Politics and Democracy in the Smaller Countries of Europe, Volume 2. Nomos , Baden-Baden 2012, ISBN 978-3-8329-7337-7 .

Web links

Commons : Anna Christmann  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Anna Christmann: About me. Retrieved September 25, 2017 (undated).
  2. ↑ Anna Christmann. In: Website of the Europa-Union Germany. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Konstantin Schwarz: Full result for party leader Cem Özdemir. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. September 22, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Ralf Recklies: Commitment for more participation. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Greens choose their country list. SWR.de, November 20, 2016, accessed on September 25, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Preliminary results of the election to the 19th German Bundestag on September 24, 2017 with comparative information from 2013 - State of Baden-Württemberg. (PDF) State Returning Officer Baden-Württemberg, September 24, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Press release: Preliminary results of the 2017 Bundestag election (PDF) Ministry of the Interior, Digital Affairs and Migration Baden-Württemberg, September 25, 2017, accessed on September 25, 2017 .
  8. ↑ MPs. Dr. Anna Christmann. In: Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen - parliamentary group. Retrieved November 20, 2018 .
  9. ^ German Bundestag - Biographies. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Christmann, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen)
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover