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Manuel Sarrazin MdBborn: 1982
land list: Hamburg

Office in Berlin
T: +49 30 / 227 - 71736
F: +49 30 / 227 - 76737
manuel.sarrazin@bundestag.de

Spokesperson on european policy

Politics is all about joining in! I have always seen it as my task to get young people from all backgrounds involved in politics so they can campaign for their rights and the issues that concern them. I joined the Greens when I was 16 years old and quickly took on responsibility within the party. In 2000 I was elected to the managing committee of my home branch of the Greens in Hamburg-Harburg and became the branch chairman in 2001. I also engaged in voluntary work, helping to found the non-partisan organisation Jugendinitiative Politik e. V., which encourages young people to attend open-door discussion events with politicians. I was also involved in the Future Bus project, coordinating the information material for the bus that toured Hamburg schools informing children about the debate on right wing extremism and xenophobia. When I was elected to the provincial legislature of Hamburg in 2004 I was its youngest member and in this position too I continued to campaign for more youth involvement in politics in Hamburg. As spokesman on European and international affairs I campaigned for a European political outlook in Hamburg. I currently work as deputy chairman of the Hamburg branch of the Europa Union Hamburg.

Since 2002 I have been studying history, law and East European studies as I have always been fascinated by everything that happens east of the River Oder. As a member of the Greens international alternative list, I have campaigned for the Greens and oppositional groups in Russia, Tibet, Belarus and China. This has allowed me to build up excellent working relationships and friendships with my contacts in these countries. I hope this experience will prove a useful asset for my work for the Greens in the Bundestag – (Eastern) Europe is the future after all!

Something else you should also know about me is that I am a fervent FC St. Pauli fan and have a life-long season ticket.

Committees

  • Committee on Affairs of the European Union (sp. + m.)
  • Budget Committee (alt. m.)

Political CV

  • Member of Alliance 90/The Greens since 1998
  • Founding member of the Jugendinitiative Politik e.V. (since 1999)
  • Member of the executive committee of Alliance 90/The Greens in Hamburg-Harburg (1999-2001)
  • Delegate for the Hamburg Harburg district association to the federal party conference for Alliance 90/The Greens in Münster (2000)
  • Executive committee spokesman for the Alliance 90/The Greens Hamburg-Harburg district association (2001 – 2004)
  • Delegate for the land committee of the Alliance 90/The Greens/Green Alternative List (GAL) Hamburg for the district association for Hamburg-Harburg (since February 2001)
  • GAL Hamburg candidate on the parliamentary list, placed fourth on the land list for Hamburg; front runner for the Young Greens (GJ) Hamburg in the parliamentary election (2002)
  • Representative of the provincial legislature of Hamburg (Hamburgischen Bürgerschaft). Spokesman on European and international affairs (March 2004 – May 2008)
  • Member of the GAL-Hamburg executive committee (since 2005)
  • Vice chairman of the land branch of the Europa Union Hamburg e.V (since 2006)
  • Member of the executive committee of Alliance 90/The Greens/GAL Hamburg (since June 2008)