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Jamila Schäfer | |
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 Schäfer in 2024 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Michael Kuffer |
| Constituency | Munich South |
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| Born | (1993-04-30)30 April 1993 (age 32) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
Jamila Anna Schäfer (born 30 April 1993) is a German politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the GermanBundestag since the2021 elections, representing theMunich South district. From 2018 to 2022 she served as one of her party's deputy chairs, under the leadership ofAnnalena Baerbock andRobert Habeck.
Born to aphysiotherapist and acomputer scientist, Schäfer grew up in Munich’sGroßhadern district. In October 2011, Schäfer joined theGreen Youth, the youth organization ofAlliance 90/The Greens, as part of protests against theeight-year high school system.[1] In 2012 she started a law degree atLudwig Maximilian University of Munich, which she did not complete. Since 2013 she is studyingsociology with a minor inphilosophy atLudwig Maximilian University of Munich andGoethe University Frankfurt which she had not completed as of February 2022.[2][3][4]
From 2015 to 2017, Schäfer served as chair of theGreen Youth, the Green Party’syouth organisation.
From 2018 to 2022, Schäfer was part of the Green Party’s national leadership around co-chairsAnnalena Baerbock andRobert Habeck,[5] where she coordinated the party’s activities on European and international affairs.[6]
Schäfer was electedMember of the Bundestag forMunich South in the2021 German federal election,[7][8] and was the only non-CSU member of the Bundestag from Bavaria elected in a constituency seat.
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the elections, Schäfer was part of her party's delegation in the working group on European affairs, co-chaired byUdo Bullmann,Franziska Brantner andNicola Beer.[9]
In parliament, Schäfer has been serving on the Budget Committee (since 2021), the Committee on Foreign Affairs (since 2021) and the Subcommittee on the United Nations (since 2022).[10] On the Budget Committee, she is her parliamentary group’srapporteur on theannual budget of theFederal Foreign Office. She is also a member of the so-calledConfidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services,BND,BfV andMAD.[11]
Within the Green Party, Schäfer is considered to be part of itsleft wing.[13] She is avegetarian.[14]
Schäfer lives inBerlin’sWeissensee district.[15]
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