Pia Schellhammer

Pia Schellhammer 2016

Pia Schellhammer (born February 7, 1985 in Mainz ) is a German politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).

Life and education

Pia Schellhammer grew up in Oppenheim, not far from the Biblis nuclear power plant that was active at the time. The proximity to this nuclear facility aroused her interest in politics early on. At the time of the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2011 , after which she was elected to the state parliament, she was a history student at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with a focus on Middle and Modern History, German Studies and Political Science . She completed her master's degree in summer 2011.

politics

Pia Schellhammer has been a member of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen since 2005. From 2008 to 2009 she was the spokeswoman for the state board of the Green Youth in Rhineland-Palatinate. In 2011 she succeeded Astrid Becker on the Mainz-Neustadt local council . She resigned from this mandate at the beginning of 2012 when she moved her primary residence back to her home town of Oppenheim. Since the local elections in 2019 , Schellhammer has been a member of the non-partisan voter group Wir für Oppenheim in the Oppenheim City Council.

From 2005 to 2008 she was a member of the board of the local association Nierstein-Oppenheim. Until 2011 she was the district board spokeswoman for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen Mainz-Bingen. She ran for the first time for Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen for the 2009 federal election on a list that was not promising for the constituency of Worms . From 2009 to 2011 Schellhammer was active on the state board of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate.

Member of the state parliament

On March 27, 2011, she was elected to the 16th state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate for the constituency of Nierstein / Oppenheim in the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate . Schellhammer was the second youngest member of the 16th state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In the 16th legislative period, Schellhammer was chairman of the parliamentary commission of inquiry for active citizen participation for a strong democracy and a member of the committee for interior and infrastructure and the committee for media and network policy.

After the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate in 2016 and the formation of a cabinet, she moved back into the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate as a replacement for Anne Spiegel via the list of Alliance 90 / The Greens. She is the parliamentary director of her group and belongs to the council of elders of the state parliament.

In her parliamentary group, she is responsible for the topics of democracy , network policy , data protection , strategies against right-wing extremism , queer and youth . In addition, she heads the “Working Group Democracy & Infrastructure” of the parliamentary group of the Greens.

She is a member of the State Parliament's Committee on Home Affairs, Sport and State Planning, the Legal Committee and the Election Review Committee.

Schellhammer is an assessor of the "Rheinhessen gegen Rechts" association. In addition, she represents the Greens on the advisory board of the State Office for Data and Information, on the administrative board of the Institute for European History, in the commission for the country's history and in the commission for the state commissioner for data protection, in the freedom of information advisory board and is a deputy member of the state youth welfare committee.

Schellhammer has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fridtjof Nansen Academy for Political Education at the Ingelheim Training Center since 2012 . She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Worms and of the Maps Advisory Board (media campaigns against right-wing extremism).

For the election to the 18th state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate , Schellhammer was again made a direct candidate for the constituency of Worms at the 2020 assembly meeting .

Web links

Commons : Pia Schellhammer  - Collection of Images

• Biography at the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate
• Official website
• http://www.allgemeine-zeitung.de/politik/rheinland-pfalz/musik-nur-wenn-sie-laut-ist_17554264.htm

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press reports on the local advisory board meetings (2010/2011 ) ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Information on the city council on the website of the city of Oppenheim
3. ↑ Biography on the website of Pia Schellhammer
4. ↑ Members of the Enquete Commission for Citizens' Participation ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ The organizational structures of the Fridtjof Nansen Academy , wbz-akademie.de, accessed on November 29, 2012
6. ↑ Greens choose "two power women" , in: Allgemeine Zeitung from July 18, 2020