Markus Kurth | |
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 Markus Kurth in 2006 | |
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| Assumed office 2017 | |
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| Born | (1966-04-14)14 April 1966 (age 59) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Children | 1 |
Markus Kurth (born 14 April 1966) is a German politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of theBundestag from the state ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia since 2002.[1]
After graduating from high school in 1985 at theKardinal-Frings-Gymnasium in Bonn, Kurth did his civilian service with the Caritas Association Bonn until 1987 and then studied political science at theFree University of Berlin, which he completed in 1993 with a degree in political science.
Kurth subsequently worked as a research assistant at the Department of Sociology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf from 1994 to 1997 and as a freelance political consultant from 1997 to 1998. In 1998, he joined the Initiativkreis Emscherregion as a research associate and in 2002 took over the responsibilities of an education manager at the Heinrich Böll Foundation North Rhine-Westphalia.
Kurth first became a member of the Bundestag in the2002 German federal election.[2] He is a member of the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and spokesman for his group on pension policy.[3][4]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) on the national level following the2021 German elections, Kurth was part of his party's delegation in the working group onsocial policy, co-chaired byDagmar Schmidt,Sven Lehmann andJohannes Vogel.[5]
In November 2024, Kurth announced that he will not seeking re-election for Bundestag in February 2025.[6]
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