Frithjof Schmidt
Frithjof Schmidt (born April 17, 1953 in Bad Harzburg ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and a member of the German Bundestag . From 2004 to 2009 he was a MEP in the group The Greens / European Free Alliance .
Job and life
Schmidt holds a doctorate in social science with stays abroad at universities in Italy , France and the USA. He has been active in North-South Solidarity since the late 1960s, and from 1984 to 1988 he was editor of the magazine Südostasien Informationen . Since 1991 he has been a board member of the Southeast Asia Information Center in Essen , and since 1989 has been co-editor of the magazine Weltwirtschaft, Ökologie und Entwicklung . From the beginning of July 2006 to December 2011 he was co-editor of the weekly newspaper der Freitag .
politics
Schmidt has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 1988 , from 1989 to mid-1992 he was the managing director of the European Green Group in the European Parliament, from mid-1992 to the end of 1994 he was an international policy advisor to the federal board of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, and from 1994 to 1996 spokesman of the Federal Working Group on Peace and International Politics, 1996 to 1998 member of the federal board of the Greens, 2000 to 2002 member of the policy commission, since 2004 member of the policy commission of the federal board of the Greens, since 2000 board member of the European Green Party. Until February 11, 2006 he was, alongside Britta Haßelmann , spokesman for the NRW Greens, the largest state association of the Greens in Germany with over 10,000 members. He belongs to the left wing of the party and is a member of the coordinating team of “Green.links.think”.
European Parliament
In the 2004 European elections he was elected to the European Parliament. There he was Vice President of the Development Committee , Deputy Member of the Committee on International Trade and a member of the Delegation for Relations with the Countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the EU-ACP Assembly.
Bundestag
In the 2009 Bundestag election , he ran in the Bundestag constituency of Bochum I and entered the Bundestag with fourth place on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia. In the general election in 2013 he was re-elected. He has been a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and a deputy member of the Defense Committee since 2009 and is one of the deputy chairmen of the Greens. In the 2017 federal election , Schmidt ran again in the Bochum I constituency and moved back to the Bundestag with sixth place on the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Web links
- Biography at the German Bundestag
- Entry on Frithjof Schmidt in the Members' database of the European Parliament
- Homepage of Frithjof Schmidt
- Frithjof Schmidt on parliamentwatch.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint. Grün.Links.Denken Orgateam, June 8, 2011, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
- ↑ GRÜNE NRW elect a strong team for the Bundestag. Grüne NRW, December 2, 2016, accessed on May 19, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Frithjof |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), MEP, MdB |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Harzburg |