Katrin Schmidberger | |
|---|---|
 Schmidberger in 2013 | |
| Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin | |
| Assumed office 27 October 2011 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Katrin Schmidberger 3 August 1982 Rosenheim, Bavaria, West Germany |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Residence(s) | Kreuzberg, Berlin |
| Alma mater | Humboldt University of Berlin |
Katrin Schmidberger (born 1982) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who is serving as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2011.
Schmidberger grew up in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz in Bavaria, where she graduated from the Ostendorfer-Gymnasium in 2002. She has lived in Berlin since 2002, where she studied social sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin. From 2003 to 2011, she worked on the staff of Hans-Christian Ströbele, a Green representative in the Bundestag. Schmidberger speaks German, English, French, and Latin. [1] [2]
Schmidberger joined the Greens in 2000. She was spokesperson for the Bavarian branch of the Green Youth from 2000 to 2001 and political director for the federal Green Youth from 2002 to 2004. She also served as representative for the Green Youth on the council of attac. In 2006, she joined the executive committee of the Greens' Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district branch, serving until 2011. [1] [2]
Schmidberger was elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin in the 2011 Berlin state election on the Greens party list. She became Greens spokeswoman for rent, culture, and the social city, and joined the Committee for Urban Development and Housing and the Committee for Interior, Security and Order. [2]
She was re-elected in the 2016 Berlin state election, winning the constituency of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg 1 with 44.1% of votes, the second-strongest performance of any candidate statewide. [3] Afterwards, she became spokeswoman for housing, rent, and tourism. [2] Schmidberger was re-elected to the Abgeordnetenhaus again in 2021, retaining her constituency with 41.2% of votes. [4] In the new parliament, she remained spokeswoman for housing and rent and also became spokeswoman for budget policy. [5]
Schmidberger sits on the social affairs board of Arbeiterwohlfahrt Berlin, a member of the Rent and Alternative Housing Policy network, and a member of the New Property Policy roundtable. [2]
Schmidberger advocates for the preservation of affordable housing, the protection of tenants from displacement, and socially-oriented urban development. [6] She opposes the use of housing as vacation rentals and calls for tighter restrictions on misuse of housing in Berlin. [7] Schmidberger supports the preservation of social housing in Berlin and opposes the privatisation of public properties. [8] For example, she opposed the Institute for Federal Real Estate's proposed sale of the Dragoner-Areal in Kreuzberg to a private investor. [9] She supports the Berlin rent cap and the initiative to expropriate Deutsche Wohnen. [10] [11]
Canan Bayram is a German lawyer and politician. She is a member of the 19th German Parliament (Bundestag). She was a member of the House of Representatives of Berlin from 2006 to 2017, when she was directly elected to the Berlin-Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg – Prenzlauer Berg East electoral district in the 2017 federal election. From 2017 until 2021, she was the only Alliance 90/Green member of parliament to hold a direct mandate rather than being elected from the party list.
Kordula Schulz-Asche is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2013.
Thomas Lutze is a German politician who represents the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Previously, he was a member of the Left Party. Thomas Lutze has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saarland from 2009 to 2023, and has represented Berlin since October 2023.
Cansel Kiziltepe is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as State Minister (Senator) for Labour, Social Affairs, Equality, Integration, Diversity and Anti-Discrimination in the government of Governing Mayor Kai Wegner since 2023.
The 2021 Berlin state election, ruled invalid in 2022 and repeated in 2023, was held on 26 September 2021, on the same day as the 2021 German federal election, which also had to be repeated in parts of Berlin due to irregularities. Thus, the 19th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin was elected twice.
Bettina Jarasch is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who served as Deputy Mayor and Senator for Environment, Mobility, Consumer and Climate Protection in the Berlin state government from December 2021 to April 2023. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 2016 to 2021 and again since 2023, as well as leader of the Berlin branch of the Greens from 2011 to 2016. She was the Greens' lead candidate for the 2021 Berlin state election and again for the 2023 Berlin repeat state election.
Halina Wawzyniak is a German politician of The Left who served as a member of the Bundestag from 2009 to 2017. She was federal co-deputy leader of The Left from 2008 to 2012.
Ricarda Lang is a German politician who has been serving as co-leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens since January 2022, alongside Omid Nouripour. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021. Previously, she was co-deputy leader of the party and spokeswoman for women's policy from 2019 to 2021, and co-leader of the Green Youth from 2017 to 2019.
Daniel Wesener is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who served as State Minister (Senator) for Finance in the government of Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey of Berlin from December 2021 to April 2023. He was previously state chairman of the Greens from 2011 to 2017, and a member of the State Parliament of Berlin from 2016 to 2022.
Dirk Behrendt is a German lawyer and politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens. He served as Senator for Justice, Consumer Protection and Anti-Discrimination in the Berlin state government from 2016 to 2021, and as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin from 2006 to 2016. Prior to this, he was a judge in Berlin and served as spokesman of the Berlin–Brandenburg Judges Association.
Antje Kapek is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. From 2012 to 2022, she was co-chair of the Greens parliamentary group in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. She was co-lead candidate in the 2016 Berlin state election alongside Ramona Pop, Bettina Jarasch, and Daniel Wesener.
Silke Gebel is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2016, she has been co-chair of the Greens parliamentary group in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus since 2011.
Katalin Gennburg is a German politician of The Left who has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2016.
Bahar Haghanipour is a German social scientist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since 2021, she has been Vice President of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin. She has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus since 2021.
Klara Schedlich is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who is serving as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2021.
Laura Neugebauer is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who is serving as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2021.
Gollaleh Ahmadi is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who is serving as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2021.
The 2023 Berlin repeat state election was held on 12 February 2023 to once again elect the 19th Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin as the 2021 Berlin state election held on 26 September 2021 was declared invalid due to irregularities. Also affected were parts of the 2021 German federal election in Berlin, these were repeated on 11 February 2024.
The state of Berlin has three instruments of direct democracy. These enable German citizen residents to directly influence policy, in addition to indirect democracy via elected officials in the House of Representatives. In addition, there are two instruments at the borough level.
Niklas Schenker is a German political scientist and politician from Die Linke. He has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since 2021.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
