born: 1963
married, four children
land list: Bavaria

Office in Berlin
T: +49 30 / 227 - 74531
F: +49 30 / 227 - 76655
elisabeth.scharfenberg@bundestag.de

Spokesperson on long-term care policy
Spokesperson on old people  policy 

I was born and grew up in the Rhine-Main region of Hesse, and was thoroughly politicised and influenced during my youth by the protest movement against the new runway at Frankfurt airport. This was my Green foundation stone, and I have maintained my belief in it to this day. I joined the Greens in 1999, when the most intensive child-raising years had passed, and have been an active member since then - at local and regional level as executive committee spokeswoman, at federal state level as member of the Bavarian party council. I sit for the Greens on Oberfranken Council. I was 17 when the Green Party was founded, and the party and the way of life it represents have accompanied me throughout my life. My successful candidacy for the Bundestag means I can dedicate myself full time to Green politics. My political work has been enriched by my experience as a freelance social worker. I stand for social policies that never lose sight of people's needs.

Committees

• Committee on Health and Long-term Care (m.)

• Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (alt. m.)

Political CV

• Member of Alliance 90/The Greens since 1999

• Local executive committee spokeswoman (2000 - 2006)

• District councillor in Oberfranken (from 2003 - 2006)

• Executive committee spokeswoman, Oberfranken Alliance 90/The Greens (since 2002)

• Executive committee, Hof local branch of Alliance 90/The Greens (2000 – 2005)

• Member of the Bavarian party council of Alliance 90/The Greens (from 2003 - 2005)

• Member of Bundestag (since 10/2005)