Boris Mijatović (born 4 February 1974 inKassel) is a German politician ofThe Greens who has been serving as amember of theBundestag since 2021, representing theKassel district.
Mijatović was born 1974 in the West German city of Kassel. Following his graduation from Jacob Grimm School in Kassel in 1993, Mijatović worked for astartup until 1998. In 2001, he completed his master's degree inpolitical science at theUniversity of Kassel, where he subsequently worked as a research assistant.[1][2]
Following his internship at theInternational Criminal Court inThe Hague from 2005 to 2006,[3] he was a freelance worker for victim research projects from 2005 to 2010.[4]
Mijatović is married and lives in Kassel.[3]
Mijatović joined the Green Party in 2004.[2] He has been acity councillor of Kassel since 2011, first in the Committee for Integration and Sports and since 2016 for Youth Policy and Participation. From 2015 to 2019, he was district chairman of the Kassel Greens.[1] Since 2018, Mijatović has been a member of the state executive committee of Hessen, and since 2019, he has been the parliamentary group chairman in Kassel.[5]
From 2011 to 2017 he worked as advisor forNicole Maisch, a member of the Bundestag, and from 2018 to 2021 forMartin Häusling, member of theEuropean Parliament.[4][6]
In 2021, as previously in 2017, Mijatović ran for the direct mandate in theKassel constituency but lost toTimon Gremmels (SPD) with 17.3% (2017: 9.4%) of the vote.[7][8]
In 2021, he was elected to the Bundestag via list position 8 of theHessian Greens [de].[9] In parliament, Mijatović has been serving on the Committee on the European Affairs and theCommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.[3] In addition to his committee assignments, he is also part of theInter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.[10]
