born: 1969 in Berlin
married, three children
profession: Attorney
land list: Lower Saxony

Office in Berlin
T: +49-30 / 227 - 71664
F: +49-30 / 227 - 76591
katja.keul@bundestag.de

Parliamentary Secretary

Commitees

• Defence Committee (m.)
• Committee on Legal Affairs (alt. m.)

I spent most of the 1980s, an important period for the environmental movement, in other countries. After school, I decided to study law to help people secure their rights and promote just causes. After 12 years of professional experience working as a lawyer, I still cannot imagine any better motivation than this. In 1996, I moved to Lower Saxony, started a family and joined the Greens.

I found myself unable to support the decision to attack Serbia without a UN mandate in March 1999, so I left party politics. In the following years I concentrated on my professional activities as a lawyer. There I learned that it really is possible to make a specific difference by getting involved. At the same time, the increasing poverty of my clients – employees, families, single-parent families and children – made me increasingly angry. This social injustice cannot be remedied by lawyers alone, however dedicated they may be. It requires basic political decisions. When the prospect of a CDU/CSU/FDP government loomed on the horizon for the first time again in 2005, I decided to return to the Greens. Since then, I have been active as a Member of the State Working Group on Europe, as a delegate to the Federal Working Group on Peace and Foreign Affairs and as the Spokesperson for Nienburg County Association. As a new member of the Federal Parliamentary Group, I want to contribute to the work of the Working Group on Foreign Affairs.

Political CV

• Member of Alliance 90 / The Greens since 2006
• Since 2007: Member of County Executive Committee in Nienburg and Member of State Working Group on Europe
• Since May 2008: Spokesperson of County Association and Delegate to Federal Working Group on Peace and International Affairs