Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg

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Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg

Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg (born June 5, 1976 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) is a German - French - Swiss politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ). She has been a member of the European Parliament since May 2019 .

Career

Deparnay-Grunenberg grew up as the daughter of a French doctor and a German-Swiss in different places. At the age of four she left Berlin with her mother, after which she lived in the Palatinate, central France, the Pyrenees, Alsace and the French Alpine region. She returned to Germany to study in 1995 when she settled in Freiburg . She studied forest and environmental sciences at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg there and in Vancouver . In 2000 she studied "nature conservation" at UBC in Vancouver. In 2001 Deparnay-Grunenberg settled near Stuttgartdown to write her thesis at the Haus des Waldes there . She has had German citizenship since 2014, and she also has a Swiss and a French passport.

In 2008 Deparnay-Grunenberg worked briefly as a district manager for the Greens in Stuttgart and joined the party. She has been a member of the city's municipal council since 2009, and five years later she became parliamentary group leader. In 2017, she also ran for the French National Assembly in the 7th constituency of the French abroad , received just under ten percent of the votes in the first ballot as third place and thus missed the runoff in which Frédéric Petit from LREM prevailed.

In March 2018, she announced her candidacy for the 2019 European elections . Shortly before the nomination party congress in November of that year, she announced that she would no longer stand for the local elections in Baden-Württemberg in 2019 and that she would concentrate on the European election campaign. In the 2019 European elections, she was elected to 15th place in the European Parliament . As part of the Greens / EFA group, she is a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism and an alternate member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development .

Deparnay-Grunenberg is married and has three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Thomas Braun: Local election 2014: The new one at the head of the Green Council group. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. December 31, 2014, accessed July 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg | GREEN City Hall Stuttgart. GRÜNE Rathaus Stuttgart, accessed on July 7, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ a b Josef Schunder: Stuttgart city councilor running: Deparnay-Grunenberg wants to go to Europe. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. March 23, 2018, accessed July 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ FRANÇAIS ÉTABLIS HORS DE FRANCE - 7e circonscription: List of results - Elections législatives 2017 - Assemblée nationale. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Thomas Braun: Deparnay-Grunenberg wants to go to the EU Parliament: the parliamentary group leader strives for Europe. In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten. November 12, 2018, accessed July 7, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Alphabetical list of all elected - The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved May 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Home | Anna DEPARNAY-GRUNENBERG | MPs | European Parliament. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Deparnay-Grunenberg, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-French-Swiss politician (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
DATE OF BIRTH 5th June 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg