Hannah Neumann

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Hannah Neumann
MEP
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Neumann in 2020
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office
2 July 2019
Personal details
Born (1984-04-03) 3 April 1984 (age 41)
Speyer, West Germany
Party Flag of Germany.svg German
Alliance 90/The Greens
Flag of Europe.svg EU
European Green Party
Children3
Alma mater Free University of Berlin
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Occupation Peace researcher, politician
Website hannahneumann.eu

Hannah Neumann (born 3 April 1984) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She was re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament election. [1] [2]

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In parliament, Neumann focuses on foreign policy and human rights. Since 2024, she has served as the Chair of the Delegation for relations with Iran.

Early life and education

Neumann studied media studies at TU Ilmenau from 2002 until 2007 and political science and media studies at the Free University of Berlin from 2008 until 2012. [3] During her studies, she spent a year abroad at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines from 2004 until 2005. She received her Doctorate in 2012 with a thesis on the peace process in the Philippines.

Career

Prior to her election to the European Parliament, Neumann worked as a legislative assistant to Tom Koenigs (2013–2014) and as chief of staff to Omid Nouripour (2014–2016) in the German Bundestag. [4] From 2018 until 2019, she was an associate fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), focusing on arms exports and peace policy. [5]

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

Neumann was first elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 European elections.

During her first term (2019–2024), she served on the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE). She was also a substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET). In 2022, she joined the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware. [6] [7] From 2019 to 2024, Neumann chaired the Parliament's delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula (D-ARP). [8]

Following the 2021 German federal elections, Neumann was part of the Green Party's delegation in the foreign policy working group during the coalition negotiations, co-chaired by Heiko Maas, Omid Nouripour and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff. [9]

Second term (2024–present)

Neumann was re-elected in the 2024 European Parliament election. In the Tenth European Parliament, she became the Chair of the Delegation for relations with Iran (D-IR), succeeding Cornelia Ernst. [10] She continues to serve as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE), while moving to a substitute role for the Delegation for relations with the Arab Peninsula. [11]

In early 2025, Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution found that Neumann's office had been targeted by a hacking campaign. According to Politico , the group thought to be behind the attack was a hacking collective associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, known as APT42. [12]

She is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, [13] the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights [14] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption. [15]

Political positions

Hannah Neumann presenting herself in a video produced by Heinrich Böll Foundation/Green European Foundation.

Neumann advocates for a feminist foreign policy and stricter controls on arms exports. She has been a vocal critic of the Iranian government, particularly regarding its human rights violations and the persecution of minorities such as the Baháʼí community. [16] She has campaigned for the inclusion of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on the EU terrorist list.

In May 2021, Neumann joined a group of 39 mostly Green Party lawmakers from the European Parliament who in a letter urged the leaders of Germany, France and Italy not to support Arctic LNG 2, a $21 billion Russian Arctic liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, due to climate change concerns. [17]

Other activities

References

  1. ↑ "Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Der Bundeswahlleiter (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. ↑ "Hannah Neumann | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union". Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  3. ↑ "Hannah Neumann | DGAP". dgap.org. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  4. ↑ "Europawahl: Das sind die spannendsten EU-Abgeordneten, die neu ins Parlament eingezogen sind". Handelsblatt (in German). 29 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "Dr. Hannah Neumann". German Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  6. ↑ "Members of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware, European Parliament" (PDF). www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  7. ↑ "Parliament names MEPs to sit on three new committees | News". www.europarl.europa.eu. 24 March 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  8. ↑ "Home | Hannah NEUMANN | MEPs | European Parliament". www.europarl.europa.eu. 3 April 1984. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  9. ↑ "Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP". www.deutschlandfunk.de (in German). 27 October 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2022.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ "Delegation for relations with Iran". European Parliament. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  11. ↑ "10th parliamentary term | Hannah NEUMANN | MEPs". European Parliament. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
  12. ↑ Roussi, Antoaneta; Vinocur, Nicholas (23 April 2025). "European Parliament's Iran delegation chair victim of Tehran-linked hacking". Politico Europe .
  13. ↑ Intergroup on Anti-Racism and Diversity, European Parliament
  14. ↑ "Members – The European Parliament's LGBTI Intergroup". lgbti-ep.eu. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  15. ↑ "Intergroup on Anti-Corruption, European Parliament" (PDF). www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  16. ↑ "Historic resolution of the European Parliament champions Baha'i rights in Iran". Bahá'í International Community. 28 November 2025.
  17. ↑ Abnett, Kate; Jessop, Simon (19 May 2021). "EU lawmakers urge France, Germany, Italy to ditch Arctic LNG 2 support". Reuters. Retrieved 18 December 2022– via www.reuters.com.
  18. ↑ Members European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
  19. ↑ "Neues DGAP-Präsidium | DGAP". dgap.org. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  20. ↑ "Leadership and governance". Berghof Foundation. Retrieved 18 December 2022.

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