Verena Schäffer
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Verena Schäffer (born November 22, 1986 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German politician of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party . She has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament since 2010 and was the youngest member of the state parliament in the 15th legislative period. Since August 2012 she has been the deputy chairwoman of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group.
Her main focus in the parliamentary group is on domestic politics and right-wing extremism . She is a full member of the Interior Committee, the Personnel Subcommittee, the Budget and Finance Committee, the Committee on Women, Equal Rights and Emancipation, as well as the control committee according to § 23 of the constitution protection of North Rhine-Westphalia. She is also the spokesperson for the State Parliament's Interior Committee.
Verena Schäffer grew up in Witten and graduated from high school there in 2007. From 2007 to 2010 she studied history and Jewish studies at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and graduated with a bachelor's degree . Since 2012 she has been enrolled in the master’s course in European Modernism: History and Literature at the Fernuni Hagen .
In 2004 she joined the Green Youth and the Greens. In November 2005 she was elected to the state board of the Green Youth of North Rhine-Westphalia, where she was state board spokeswoman from November 2006 to May 2010. In the local elections on August 30, 2009 she was elected to the council of the city of Witten and the district council of the Ennepe-Ruhr district . She resigned from the district council after the state elections in May 2010. In the state elections in 2010 and 2012, she ran in the constituency Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis II as a direct candidate and received 15.6% and 15.8% of the first votes.
Since November 2006, she has been a member of the board of the information and documentation center for anti-racism work in Düsseldorf for the Green Youth .
Web links
- Verena Schäffer
- Verena Schäffer at the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament
- Verena Schäffer in the Witten City Council
- Verena Schäffer on parliamentwatch.de
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schäffer, Verena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die GrünenGrüne), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1986 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |