Andreas Audretsch | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Audretsch in 2025 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1984-06-25)25 June 1984 (age 41) Stuttgart, Germany |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | University of Potsdam |
Andreas Audretsch (born 25 June 1984) is a German politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens[1][2] who has been serving as amember of theBundestag since the2021 German federal election. He has also been Deputy Chairman of theAlliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag since May 2022.[3][4]
Audretsch was born inStuttgart. He studied Politics, Journalism and Sociology at theUniversity of Münster before continuing his studies at theFree University of Berlin and theUniversity of Potsdam until 2008.[5] He also earned a PhD at theUniversity of Potsdam in political science.[5][6][7]
Following this, from 2006 to 2015, he worked as aradio journalist forDeutschlandradio and ARD radio, among others.[8][9] He carried out this work on a part-time basis from 2009, as he worked as a consultant in theGerman Bundestag from then until 2015.[10][11] In 2013 and 2014, he held a teaching position at theUniversity of Lüneburg.[12] From 2015 to 2021, he worked as apress spokesperson in political communication for theFederal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, theOffice of the Federal President and theFederal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.[10][11]
In June 2020, together with historian Claudia Gatzka, he published the book "Schleichend an die Macht. Wie die Neue Rechte Geschichte instrumentalisiert, um Deutungshoheit über unsere Zukunft zu erlangen über den “massiven Angriff der Neuen Rechten auf unsere liberale Demokratie"".[8] In May 2022, his book Growing Together. A new progressive movement emerges was published.[13]
Audretsch has been a member of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen since 2011 and has been involved with the party since 2009.[14][7]From 2013 to 2016, he was a member of the board and spokesperson for the board of the Greens inBerlin-Neukölln.[13][7] From 2015 to 2016, he was a member of the Green Party Council in Berlin.[12] From 2016 to 2021, he was a member of the state board of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Berlin.[15][14]In parliament, Audretsch has been a member of the Committee on Social Affairs since 2021.[16] In the 2021 Bundestag election, he ran in theBerlin-Neukölln constituency, where he came second behindHakan Demir (SPD; 25.8'%) with 19.7% of the first votes and thus missed out on the direct mandate.[17] However, he entered the 20th German Bundestag via fourth place on his party's Berlin state list.[18] He is a full member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and a deputy member of theJoint Committee, Mediation Committee[19][7] and Budget Committee.[20][7] Since 2022, he has been serving as one his parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of co-chairsBritta Haßelmann andKatharina Dröge, where he oversees the group's activities on financial policy, economic and social affairs.[13]
In the 2021 federal elections, Audretsch focused on labour and social issues, the fight againstright-wing extremism and "One World".[21] He also argued that the Berlin rent cap should be made possible by federal law, that protection against dismissal should be tightened and that tenant electricity should be made possible.[22] He also advocated the abolition of unemployment benefits II and a guaranteed livelihood.[22] He also believes that theminimum wage should be raised to twelve euros and that precarious work should be ended.[22] For the "fight against the right", he proposes a law topromote democracy.[22]
Audretsch has been a member ofVer.di since 2012.[7]He has been a Policy Fellow at the think tank "Das Progressive Zentrum" since 2017.[13]
Audretsch has lived inBerlin-Neukölln since 2006.[23] He is homosexual.[24]
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