Britta Haßelmann (born 10 December 1961) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as co-chair of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2021, alongside Katharina Dröge.[1] From 2013 until 2021, she was the group’s first manager (Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin).[2] She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2005.
Britta Haßelmann | |
|---|---|
 Haßelmann in 2023 | |
| Leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens in the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 7 December 2021 Serving with Katharina Dröge | |
| Preceded by | Katrin Göring-Eckardt |
| Chief Whip of the Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag | |
| In office 8 October 2013 – 7 December 2021 | |
| Leader | Katrin Göring-Eckardt Anton Hofreiter |
| Preceded by | Volker Beck |
| Succeeded by | Irene Mihalic |
| Member of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Assumed office 18 September 2005 | |
| Constituency | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 December 1961 Straelen, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Bielefeld |
Early life and career
editHaßelmann was born in Straelen and later studied social work at the University of Bielefeld.
Political career
editEarly beginnings
editHaßelmann became a member of the Green Party in 1994. From 2000 until 2006, she served – alongside Frithjof Schmidt – as co-chair of the Green Party in North Rhine-Westphalia, the party's largest chapter.[3] During that period, her party was in a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party under Minister-President Wolfgang Clement.
Member of the German Parliament, 2005–present
editHaßelmann has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2005 federal election, representing Bielefeld. From 2005 until 2017, she served on the Finance Committee. In 2009, she also joined the Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. From 2017, she served on the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure as well as on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. She is also a member of the Vermittlungsausschuss of Bundestag and Bundesrat.[4]
Within her parliamentary group, Haßelmann served as Chief Whip from 2013 until 2021, under the leadership of the group's co-chairs Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter. In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party following the 2017 elections, she was part of her party's delegation.
From 2018, Haßelmann was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany's electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.[5]
Other activities
edit- German National Committee for UNICEF, Member of the Board (since 2020)[6]
- Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board[7]
- Terre des Femmes, Member
References
edit- ^ Helene Bubrowski (7 December 2021), Zwei Frauen an der Spitze: Haßelmann und Dröge sind neue Grünen-Fraktionsvorsitzende Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
- ^ "Fraktionsspitze: Göring-Eckardt gewinnt Kampfabstimmung bei Grünen". Spiegel Online. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag – Britta Haßelmann". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
- ^ "Vermittlungsausschuss – Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestags".
- ^ Robert Roßmann (20 January 2019), Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher Süddeutsche Zeitung.
- ^ Board German Committee for UNICEF
- ^ Governance Archived 20 June 2021 at the Wayback Machine Heinrich Böll Foundation.