Till Steffen | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2021 | |
| State Minister of Justice of Hamburg | |
| In office 2015–2020 | |
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| Born | (1973-07-22)22 July 1973 (age 52) |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, University of Hamburg |
Till Steffen (born 22 July 1973) is a German lawyer and politician ofAlliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the GermanBundestag since the2021 elections, representing theHamburg-Eimsbüttel district.[1]
From 2015 until 2020, Steffen served as Senator of Justice of the city state ofHamburg in theSenate Scholz II[2] and again in theSenate Tschentscher. Already from 2008 to 2010 he held this office in theSenate von Beust III andSenate Ahlhaus.
Till Steffen was born inWiesbaden. He studied law at the universities ofMainz, Hamburg, andAberdeen. He obtained his doctorate in the field of European nature conservation law. In 1997 he came to Hamburg and worked as a lawyer with a focus onadministrative law first in the law firmvon Harten and since 2008 as a partner in the law firmelblaw Rechtsanwälte.[3]
Steffen has been a member of the Greens since 1990. Prior to his time in Hamburg, he worked from 1993 to 1997 as a city councilor in Wiesbaden. In 1994, he co-founded theGreen Youth and was a member of the first federal executive. From 1999 to 2000 he was a member of the regional executive committee of theGAL Hamburg, the Hamburg section of Alliance 90/The Greens. Between 2001 and 2004 he was a group chairman of the GAL in the Eimsbüttel district meeting.
From 17 March 2004 Steffen was a member of theHamburgische Bürgerschaft. In the 18th electoral term he was a member of the Committee on Internal Affairs, the Legal Committee, the Constitutional Committee and the Special Committee on Administrative Reform. In addition, he was in the supervisory committee "constitutional protection" and the parliamentary committee of inquiry "information dissemination".
As one of the state's representatives at theBundesrat, Steffen was a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs from 2015 until 2020.
In 2020, Steffen announced his intention to run for a seat in the German Parliament in the2021 German federal election.[4]
In parliament, Steffen has since been serving on the Committee on Legal Affairs and the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure.[5] Since 2022, he has also been serving on the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely theFederal Court of Justice (BGH), theFederal Administrative Court (BVerwG), theFederal Fiscal Court (BFH), theFederal Labour Court (BAG), and theFederal Social Court (BSG).[6] From 2022 to 2023, he was part of the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work, co-chaired byJohannes Fechner andNina Warken.[7]
In addition to his committee assignments, Steffen has been a member of the German delegation to theFranco-German Parliamentary Assembly since 2022.[8]
After the2025 German federal election, Steffen unsuccessfully challengedKonstantin von Notz in an internal vote on the role of deputy chair of the Green Party's parliamentary group.[9]
Amid theCOVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Steffen joined forces with six other parliamentarians –Dirk Wiese,Heike Baehrens,Dagmar Schmidt,Janosch Dahmen,Katrin Helling-Plahr andMarie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann – on a cross-party initiative in 2022 to support legislation that would have required all adults to be vaccinated.[11][12]
Together withMarco Wanderwitz,Carmen Wegge andMartina Renner, Steffen was one of the initiators of a 2024 cross-party initiative to request that theFederal Constitutional Court issue a ban of the far-rightAlternative for Germany party.[13]
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