Britta Haßelmann | |
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 Haßelmann in 2023 | |
| Leader of theAlliance 90/The Greens in theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 7 December 2021 Serving with Katharina Dröge | |
| Preceded by | Katrin Göring-Eckardt |
| Chief Whip of theAlliance '90/The Greens in theBundestag | |
| In office 8 October 2013 – 7 December 2021 | |
| Leader | Katrin Göring-Eckardt Anton Hofreiter |
| Preceded by | Volker Beck |
| Succeeded by | Irene Mihalic |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 18 September 2005 | |
| Constituency | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1961-12-10)10 December 1961 (age 63) |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of Bielefeld |
Britta Maria Haßelmann[1] (born 10 December 1961) is a German politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as co-chair of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in theBundestag since 2021, alongsideKatharina Dröge.[2] From 2013 until 2021, she was the group’s first manager (Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin).[3] She has been a member of theBundestag since2005.
Haßelmann was born inStraelen and later studiedsocial work at theUniversity of Bielefeld.
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Haßelmann became a member of the Green Party in 1994. From 2000 until 2006, she served – alongsideFrithjof Schmidt – as co-chair of the Green Party inNorth Rhine-Westphalia, the party's largest chapter.[4] During that period, her party was in acoalition government with theSocial Democratic Party under Minister-PresidentWolfgang Clement.
Haßelmann has been a member of the GermanBundestag since the2005 federal election, representing Bielefeld. From 2005 until 2017, she served on the Finance Committee. In 2009, she also joined theCouncil of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. From 2017, she served on the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure as well as on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to theFederal Constitutional Court of Germany. She is also a member of theVermittlungsausschuss [de] ofBundestag andBundesrat.[5]
Within her parliamentary group, Haßelmann served asChief Whip from 2013 until 2021, under the leadership of the group's co-chairsKatrin Göring-Eckardt andAnton Hofreiter. In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form acoalition government with the Christian Democrats – both theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) and theChristian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and theFree Democratic Party following the2017 elections, she was part of her party's delegation.
From 2018, Haßelmann was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany'selectoral system, chaired byWolfgang Schäuble.[6]
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