Sven-Christian Kindler | |
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 Sven-Christian Kindler in 2020 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2009–2025 | |
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| Born | (1985-02-14)14 February 1985 (age 40) |
| Political party | Greens |
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Sven-Christian Kindler (born 14 February 1985) is a German politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofLower Saxony from 2009 to 2025.[1]
After graduating from high school in 2004 at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule (Hanover), Kindler completed a dual degree program of business administration at the Leibniz-Akademie Hanover and atBosch Rexroth Pneumatics, which he completed in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. The training included an internship in Stockholm. From 2007 to 2009 he worked in corporate controlling at Bosch Rexroth Pneumatics.
Kindler first became a member of the Bundestag in the2009 German federal election.[2] In parliament, he was a member of the Budget Committee; in 2018, he also joined its Sub-Committee on European Affairs. In this capacity, he was his parliamentary group'srapporteur on the annual budget of theFederal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and theFederal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, among others. From 2022, he was 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.[3] Within his parliamentary group, he serves as spokesman on budget policy.[4]
In addition to his committee assignments, Kindler was part of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2009) and the German-Iranian Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2018).
Ahead of the2021 elections, Kindler was elected to lead the Green Party's campaign in Lower Saxony, alongsideFiliz Polat.[5] 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, he was part of his party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and thenational budget, co-chaired byDoris Ahnen,Lisa Paus andChristian Dürr.[6]
In April 2024, Kindler announced that he would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[7]
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