Niema Movassat | |
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 Movassat in 2014 | |
| Member of the German Bundestag fromNorth Rhine-Westphalia | |
| In office 2009–2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1984-08-22)22 August 1984 (age 41) |
| Political party | The Left |
Niema Movassat (born 22 August 1984) is a German politician fromThe Left. He served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 to 2021.[1]
Movassat was born inWuppertal,North Rhine-Westphalia, as the son of an engineer and a radiographer, both of Iranian descent. At the age of three his family moved with him to Oberhausen. Here he first attended the Adolf-Feld-Grundschule and in 2004 he passed his Abitur at the Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium. He then studied law at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, which he completed in April 2009 with the First Legal Examination as Diplom-Jurist. He became member of the bundestag after the2009 German federal election.[2] He is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection.[3] In June 2020, Movassat announced that he would not seek a fourth term and stood down at the2021 German federal election.[4]
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