Markus Kurth (politician)

Markus Kurth

Markus Kurth (born April 14, 1966 in Beuel ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and political scientist. Kurth has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002 .

Life and work

After high school in 1985, at Cardinal Frings-Gymnasium in Bonn Kurth made until 1987 his community service at Caritas Bonn, and subsequently graduated in political science at the Free University of Berlin , as which he 1993 Diploma - political scientist concluded. He then worked from 1994 to 1997 as a research assistant at the Sociology Department at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and from 1997 to 1998 as a freelance political advisor. In 1998 he switched to the Emscher Region Initiative Group as a research assistant and in 2002 took on the role of education manager at the Heinrich Böll Foundation in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Markus Kurth is married, has one child and lives in Dortmund .

Kurth became a member of the Greens in the 1990s and was chairman of the Dortmund district association from 2000 to 2003.

Markus Kurth, 2020 in the German Bundestag

He has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002 . From 2002 to 2013 he was the social policy spokesman for the Bundestag parliamentary group Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen . Since 2005 he has also been the parliamentary group spokesman for disability policy and head of the group's working group on green policy for people with disabilities . In December 2013, Kurth took over the post of spokesman for pension policy. He is the chairman of the Greens in the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs . He is a deputy member of the health committee .

Markus Kurth has always entered the Bundestag via the state list of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Kurth is father of one child and of Roman Catholic denomination.

personal data
SURNAME	Kurth, Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bump