Svenja Hahn

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Svenja Ilona Hahn (born July 25, 1989 in Hamburg ) is a German politician ( FDP ). Since 2018 she has been President of LYMEC , the European umbrella organization of liberal youth organizations in Europe. For the 2019 European elections , she ran as the top candidate of the Young Liberals on the second place in the FDP federal list and won a seat in the EU Parliament for the first time.

Life

Svenja Hahn grew up in Schleswig-Holstein . She studied history and cultural studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and media studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Hahn currently lives in her native Hamburg and worked for edding AG from 2015 until she was elected to the EU Parliament in 2019 .

Political career

Hahn has been a member of the FDP since 2010. Since 2016 she has been an assessor on the state board of the FDP Hamburg . In the same year she was elected Vice-President of LYMEC, and two years later its President.

Hahn was nominated by the Young Liberals and their FDP regional association as the top candidate for the 2019 European elections. At the FDP European Party Conference 2019 , she prevailed in a vote for second place on the list with 73 to 21 percent against the incumbent MEP Nadja Hirsch .

In the EU election campaign, WirtschaftsWoche Online perceived it as "the new European face of the FDP" and describes itself as "not shaped by the national perspective".

Political positions

digitalization

At a panel discussion on the 2019 European elections, Hahn sharply criticized the European Union's copyright reform with the remark that the EU had "shot itself in the leg". In March 2019, she said at a demonstration against the planned EU copyright reform in Hamburg:

“The planned copyright reform is endangering the Internet as we know it. Upload filters are the technical consequence of Article 17, which was previously called Article 13. These filters are poison for freedom of expression! There is an acute risk that the filters will also block legal content. That would be censorship. The copyright reform would destroy the idea of ​​the Internet. ... I am very happy that so many people across Europe have taken to the streets for freedom on the Internet today. Many of the demonstrators are young people. The fact that they use their free time to stand up for this issue shows how important it is for our generation in all EU countries. The EU Parliament should take seriously the many citizens who take to the streets across Europe. In view of the protests, Parliament must not simply wave through the controversial reform. After the European elections in May we can start a new and better initiative that does not destroy the idea of ​​the Internet. "

European economic policy

While the FDP acknowledged “the responsibility of the member states for their own budgets” in the European elections, Hahn said: “A positioning in future euro rescue policy always depends on the specific individual case.”

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hahn's curriculum vitae on the Young Liberals page, accessed: May 3, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Severin Weiland: Closed at Scheideweg , SPIEGEL Online from January 27, 2019, accessed: May 3, 2019
  3. ↑ https://www.bundeswahlleiter.de/europawahlen/2019/gewaehlte/bund-99.html#c4273fe9-ed32-41df-8ff5-de539ad73ada
  4. ↑ dpa: Hamburg FDP elects Svenja Hahn as a candidate for Europe. Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 16, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b c Benedikt Becker: How the FDP wants to score with young candidates. In: https://www.wiwo.de . Wirtschaftswoche, January 26, 2019, accessed on April 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Panel discussion on the European elections. In: https://www.frei-berufe-hamburg.de . Association of Freer Professions in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg eV, April 17, 2019, accessed on April 27, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Panel discussion on the European elections in Hamburg. In: https://www.dstv.de/ . German Association of Tax Consultants V., April 9, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Copyright reform destroys the idea of ​​the Internet - Svenja on the Article 13 demos. In: https://www.jungeliberale.eu . Young Liberals, March 23, 2019, accessed April 27, 2019 .
  9. ↑ European Monetary Fund - Help for self-help. In: https://www.fdp.de/ . Free Democratic Party, accessed April 27, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Svenja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Svenja Ilona (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP), LYMEC President
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg