Gyde Jensen | |
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| Member of theBundestag forSchleswig-Holstein | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
| Constituency | Free Democratic Party List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1989-08-14)14 August 1989 (age 36) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party |  German:Free Democratic Party  EU:Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| Children | 1 |
Gyde Jensen (born 14 August 1989) is a German politician of theFree Democratic Party (FDP) who served as a member of theBundestag from 2017 to 2025.
Jensen studied English, Political Science, and International Politics at theUniversity of Kiel. After her studies, she worked inGeneva andWashington, D.C. as a communications consultant for theFriedrich Naumann Foundation, which is related to the FDP.[1][2]
In May 2016, the state representative assembly of the Schleswig-Holstein FDP elected Jensen to fourth place in the list for the2017 federal elections. Jensen won the election against former member of the Bundestag, Sebastian Blumenthal.[3] In the election, the FDP won three seats in the state of Schleswig-Holstein with 12.6 percent of the second votes.[4] When Bernd Klaus Buchholz, second on the list, resigned his candidacy to become Schleswig-Holstein's State Minister for Economic Affairs, Jensen took his place.[5]
At the time of her election in 2017, Jensen was the youngest female member of parliament.[6] From 2018 until 2021, she served as chairwoman ofCommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid,[7] making her the youngest chair of a committee in the history of the Bundestag.
In addition to her role in parliament, Jensen served as member of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2018. As member of the FDP, she was part of theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. She served on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, and the Sub-Committee on Human Right.[8]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), theGreen Party and the FDP following the2021 federal elections, Jensen was part of her party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired byHeiko Maas,Omid Nouripour andAlexander Graf Lambsdorff.[9]
From 2021 to 2025, Jensen served as one of six deputy chairpersons of the FDP parliamentary group under the leadership of its chairmanChristian Dürr, where she oversees the group's activities on education policy.[10]
In addition to her committee assignments, Jensen was part of the German-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group. She was also part of theInter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.[11]
Amid theCOVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Jensen joined forces with five other parliamentarians –Konstantin Kuhle,Andrew Ullmann,Dieter Janecek,Paula Piechotta andKordula Schulz-Asche – on a cross-party initiative to support legislation that would require all those who have not had yet been vaccinated to receive counselling before later requiring all adults above 50 years to be vaccinated.[15][16]
Jensen is married to FDP member of state parliament Dennys Bornhöft.[17] In September 2019, she gave birth to a daughter.[18]
