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Frithjof Schmidt | |
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| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2009–2021 | |
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| Born | (1952-04-17)April 17, 1952 (age 73) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |  Germany |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
Frithjof Schmidt (born 17 April 1953 inBad Harzburg) is a German politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens who served as member of theBundestag from 2009 until 2021 and asMember of the European Parliament from 2004 until 2009.[1]
Between 2006 and 2012, Schmidt was publisher-editor of German weekly newspaperDer Freitag.
Schmidt became a member ofAlliance 90/The Greens in 1988. From 1996 to 1998, he was a member of the party's federal executive board under the leadership ofGunda Röstel andJürgen Trittin.
Throughout his tenure, Schmidt was a member of theCommittee on Development, which he became the vice-chairman of in 2007. From 2005, he also served as a member of theACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.
During his time in the European Parliament, Schmidt served asrapporteur on parliamentary resolutions on fair trade and development (2006) as well as on policy coherence for development and the effects of the EU's exploitation of certain biological natural resources on development in West Africa (2008).
In the2009 German federal elections, Schmidt was elected into theBundestag. He has since been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
In his first term between 2009 and 2013, Schmidt was part of hisparliamentary group’s leadership around co-chairsRenate Künast andJürgen Trittin, in charge of foreign policy issues. He was re-elected to that position in 2013, this time under the leadership ofKatrin Göring-Eckardt andAnton Hofreiter. Following the2017 elections, he was replaced byAgnieszka Brugger; instead, he joined the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Sub-Committee on the United Nations.
In addition to his committee assignments, Schmidt has been a member of the German delegation to theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from 2018 until 2021. A delegate of theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group, he served on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. In this capacity, he authored a 2019 report on the use of digital technologies in the context of elections.[2]
In August 2012, Schmidt was one of 124 members of the Bundestag to sign a letter that was sent to the Russian ambassador to Germany,Vladimir Grinin, expressing concern over the trial against the three members ofPussy Riot. “Being held in detention for months and the threat of lengthy punishment are draconian and disproportionate,” the lawmakers said in the letter. “In a secular and pluralist state, peaceful artistic acts -- even if they can be seen as provocative -- must not lead to the accusation of serious criminal acts that lead to lengthy prison terms.”[3][4]
In late 2016, Schmidt was part of a group of German left-leaning lawmakers from the Green Party, the center-leftSocial Democrats (SPD) and theLeft Party who met to explore the possibility of forming acoalition government to replaceChancellorAngela Merkel in the2017 elections.[5]
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