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Kai Gehring MdBborn: 1977
land list: North Rhine-Westphalia

Office in Berlin
T: +49 30 / 227 - 74501
F: +49 30 / 227 - 76642
kai.gehring@bundestag.de

Spokesperson on youth, generations and higher education policy

My name is Kai Gehring. I serve the new parliamentary group as a Green elected representative from the Ruhr Region, and aged 27, I am the youngest Green Member of the Bundestag. In Berlin I want to devote all my energy to supporting the coming generations. My political focus is on children and young people, and school and university education. I became a member of the Green Party in 1998 because I wanted to act against injustice and discrimination, and my borough branch was my first port of call. In early 1999 I co-founded the Youth League of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and took a leading role in building it up. I have been on its executive committee for three years. In the Federal Parliament I see myself as a partner and advocate of the younger generation. I would like to contribute new impulses and ideas to creating a more equitable youth welfare and educational policy. Here I am primarily concerned with better access to training, university education and careers. We need to do more about child poverty, educational disadvantage and youth unemployment. For me, intergenerational equity means the young and the old developing joint solutions to the demographic questions facing us. In my view, opposition requires the development of progressive – and realistic – concepts. With this in mind, I look forward to working with you.

Committees

  • Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment (m.)

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

  • Committee on Cultural and Media Affairs (alt. m.)

Political CV

  • Member of Alliance 90/The Greens (since 1998)
  • Co-founder of the NRW Green Youth League
  • Executive committee, NRW Green Youth League (1999-2002), speaker from 2000
  • NRW and national congress delegate for the Essen district association (since 2000)
  • Delegate to the Green's Länder council (since 2001)
  • NRW executive committee, youngest member (since 2002)
  • NRW electoral candidate (2005)