Andreas Mehltretter | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2021 | |
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Born | Moosburg an der Isar, Germany | 10 December 1991
Political party | SPD |
Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Andreas Mehltretter (born 10 December 1991 in Moosburg an der Isar, Bavaria) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2021.
Mehltretter was born 1991 in the Bavarian town of Moosburg an der Isar. [1] Mehltretter graduated from the Dom-Gymnasium Freising in 2011 and went on to study economics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [2] He completed his master's degree in 2017.
Since then, Mehltretter has been working as a self-employed IT service provider as well as working on his doctorate on the connection between arms trade and intra-state conflicts at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut. [3]
In 2012, Mehltretter joined the SPD and is chairman of the SPD sub-district of Freising. In the 2020 Bavarian local elections, he was elected to the Freising City Council and is the speaker for economy and digitalization of the city of Freising. [4] Before his election to the City Council, he was the spokesman of the Agenda21 group Building, Housing and Transport.
In 2017 and 2021, Mehltretter ran as a direct candidate of the SPD in the Bundestag constituency of Freising, [5] and gained a seat in the Bundestag in 2021 through the state list. [6] [7] [8] In parliament, he is a full member of the Committee on Climate Protection and Energy as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and the Finance Committee. [6]
Within his parliamentary group, Mehltretter belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement. [9]
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