Ulle Schauws | |
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.jpg) Schauws in 2024 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Ursula Schauws (1966-04-30)30 April 1966 (age 59) Hüls,North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany |
| Citizenship | German |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
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Ursula "Ulle"Schauws (born 30 April 1966) is a German politician of theAlliance '90/The Greens party.
Schauws studied history, politics andfilm studies. She worked ascontributing editor anddramaturge for German film productions – includingAlarm für Cobra 11 – Die Autobahnpolizei –[1] before becoming asocial worker withSOS Children's Villages.[2]
Schauws has been a member of the GermanBundestag since the2013 federal elections, representing theKrefeld II – Wesel II district. She successfully ran for re-election again in2017, this time on the 11th place of the Green Party's list.
Since joining the parliament, Schauws has been serving on the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, which appointed her as deputy chairperson in 2018. From 2014 until 2017, she was also a member of the Committee on Cultural and Media Affairs. Within her parliamentary group, she serves as spokesperson on women's issues.[3] Since 2022, she has been part of the Commission for the Reform of the Electoral Law and the Modernization of Parliamentary Work, co-chaired byJohannes Fechner andNina Warken.[4]
In addition to her committee assignments, Schauws has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the Southern African Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2018).
In the negotiations to form acoalition government between theSPD, the Green Party andFree Democratic Party (FDP) following the2021 federal elections, Schauws was part of her party's delegation in the working group on equality, co-chaired by Petra Köpping,Ricarda Lang and Herbert Mertin.[5]
Schauws lives with her partner inKrefeld.[9]
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