Joschka Knuth

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Joschka Knuth (born May 24, 1993 in Kiel ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90 / The Greens ). He has been a member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament since July 1, 2019 .

Life and work

Knuth was born in Kiel. After graduating from high school in 2013 at the Waldorf School in Eckernförde , he studied geography at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 2016 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. He then entered the service of the State of Schleswig-Holstein and worked as a personal advisor to the Minister for Energy Transition, Agriculture, Environment and Rural Areas Robert Habeck , as deputy head of the department for liaison and political coordination matters in the State Chancellery and as press spokesman in the Ministry for Energy transition, agriculture, the environment, nature and digitization . When Habeck left state politics as the new federal chairman of the Greens in 2018, Knuth left the state service and became a senior consultant for the public sector at Ernst & Young auditing company.

politics

From 2013 to 2017 Knuth was the local chairman of the Greens in Eckernförde . As a civic member he was a member of the committee for youth, culture, education and sport of the city of Eckernförde and in 2011 initiated the “Fair Trade Town Campaign”. From 2014 to 2017 he was a member of the state party council of the Schleswig-Holstein Greens and from 2016 to 2018 an assessor in the district board of the Greens in the Rendsburg-Eckernförde district . In the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein in 2017 , he ran for twelfth place on the green state list and initially missed entry into the state parliament. On July 1, 2019, he replaced the new MEP Rasmus Andresen in the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament , where he is a deputy member of the finance committee. In the parliamentary group he is responsible for the topics of economy, work, digitization, animal welfare, sport and consumer protection.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Körner and Knuth as green double top" , on www.shz.de, accessed on July 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Knuth, Joschka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Alliance 90 / Greens), Member of the State Parliament Schleswig-Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel