Jasper Balke

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Jasper Balke
Member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 June 2022
Personal details
Born (1997-10-29) 29 October 1997 (age 27)
Braunschweig, Germany
Political party Alliance 90/The Greens

Jasper Balke (born 29 October 1997) is a German politician from the Alliance 90/The Greens. He has been a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein since 7 June 2022.

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Life and politics

Balke graduated from the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben School in Braunschweig in 2016. In 2016/2017 he completed a voluntary social year in nursing in Magdeburg. In 2018 he began studying human medicine at the University of Lübeck with a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation. [1]

In the same year, Balke joined the Alliance 90/The Greens party and joined the Green Youth. He was political director of the Green Youth Lübeck and from 2019 to 2021 state spokesman for the Green Youth Schleswig-Holstein. In 2019, he was elected district chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens in Lübeck. [2]

In the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Balke ran eighth on the Green Party's state list and as a direct candidate in the Lübeck-Süd  [ de ] constituency. He received 34.4 percent of the first votes ahead of Anette Röttger  [ de ] (CDU) with 27.9 and was directly elected. [3] [4] At the age of 24, he entered the state parliament as the youngest parliamentarian and one of three constituency winners of his party. [5] He is a member of the Social Committee and a deputy member of the Education Committee.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. ↑ "Über mich". jasper-balke.de (in German). 2024-06-05. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  2. ↑ "Jasper Balke". Grüne Schleswig-Holstein. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  3. ↑ "Landtagswahl SH 2022 in Lübeck: Alle Ergebnisse live aus den Wahlkreisen". Lübecker Nachrichten (in German). 2024-08-01. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  4. ↑ "Grüne treten mit drei Frauen an Spitze zur Landtagswahl an". Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). 2021-12-11. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  5. ↑ Esther Geißlinger (2022-05-19). "Jüngster Abgeordneter in Kiel: Jasper Balke sitzt jetzt im Landtag". taz, die tageszeitung. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
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