Andreas Mehltretter | |
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.jpg) Andreas Mehltretter in 2021 | |
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| Assumed office 2021 | |
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| Born | (1991-12-10)10 December 1991 (age 33) |
| Political party | SPD |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Andreas Mehltretter (born 10 December 1991 inMoosburg an der Isar,Bavaria) is a German politician of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as amember of the GermanBundestag since 2021.
Mehltretter was born 1991 in the Bavarian town ofMoosburg an der Isar.[1] Mehltretter graduated from the Dom-Gymnasium Freising in 2011 and went on to study economics atLudwig Maximilian University of Munich and at theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.[2] He completed his master's degree in 2017.
Since then, Mehltretter has been working as a self-employed IT service provider as well as working on his doctorate on the connection between arms trade and intra-state conflicts at theGeschwister-Scholl-Institut.[3]
In 2012, Mehltretter joined the SPD and is chairman of the SPD sub-district ofFreising. In the 2020 Bavarian local elections, he was elected to the Freising City Council and is the speaker for economy and digitalization of the city of Freising.[4] Before his election to the City Council, he was the spokesman of the Agenda21 group Building, Housing and Transport.
In 2017 and 2021, Mehltretter ran as a direct candidate of the SPD in theBundestag constituency of Freising,[5] and gained a seat in the Bundestag in 2021 through the state list.[6][7][8] In parliament, he is a full member of the Committee on Climate Protection and Energy as well as a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs and the Finance Committee.[6]
Within his parliamentary group, Mehltretter belongs to theParliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[9]
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