Kai Gehring | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2005–2025 | |
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| Born | (1977-12-26)26 December 1977 (age 47) |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | Ruhr University Bochum |
| Profession | Sociologist |
| Website | www.kai-gehring.de |
Kai Gehring (born 26 December 1977) is a German politician of theGreen Party who served as a Member of the German Parliament from 2005 to 2025.
After receiving hisAbitur inVelbert, Gehring majored insocial sciences at theRuhr University Bochum, earning hisDiplom in 2003.
Having joined the liberal partyAlliance '90/The Greens in 1998, Gehring was part of the party’s leadership in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2000 until 2006, under chairwomanSylvia Löhrmann.
Gehring was elected to theBundestag in the2005 federal election. In parliament, he served on the Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment. He was his parliamentary group’s spokesperson for youth (2005–2011), education (2011–2013), and universities (2005–2017). From 2018 until 2021, he also served on theCommittee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid.
In addition to his committee assignments, Gehring served as deputy chairman of the German-Greek Parliamentary Friendship Group (2013–2017); the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Arabic-Speaking States in the Middle East (since 2018), which is in charge of maintaining inter-parliamentary relations withBahrain,Irak,Yemen,Jordan,Qatar,Kuwait,Lebanon,Oman,Saudi Arabia,Syria,United Arab Emirates and thePalestinian territories; and the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Central African States (since 2018).
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democrats (FDP) following the2021 German elections, Gehring was part of his party's delegation in the working group on innovation and research, co-chaired byThomas Losse-Müller,Katharina Fegebank andLydia Hüskens.[1]
From December 2021, Gehring chaired the Committee on Education and Research.[2]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Green Party underMinister-President of North Rhine-WestphaliaHendrik Wüst following the2022 state elections, Gehring was part of his party’s delegation in the working group on research, digitization and innovation, co-chaired byAnja Karliczek andRaoul Roßbach.[3]
In June 2024, Gehring announced that he would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4]
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