Anja Hirschel

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Anja Hirschel is a Pirate Party politician and city councillor in Ulm, Germany, [1] and has been since 2019. [2] She is the Germany Pirate Party's lead candidate for the 2024 European elections. [3] She is the successor of Patrick Breyer in this position. [4]

She originally came to Ulm for computer science studies. [5] She is a state-certified data protection officer and works full-time for an IT company, where she is a works council member.

On 27 January 2024, at the general assembly in Luxembourg, the European Pirate Party (PPEU) officially nominated Marcel Kolaja (Czech Pirate Party) and Anja Hirschel (German Pirate Party) as top candidate for the upcoming European Parliament elections. [6]

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References

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