Nyke Slawik | |
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.png) Slawik in 2025 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Constituency | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1994-01-07)7 January 1994 (age 31) |
| Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| Website | nyke-slawik |
Nyke Slawik (born 7 January 1994) is a German politician and member of theBundestag representing the German state ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia on theAlliance 90/The Greens list.[1][2] Upon her election in the2021 German federal election, Slawik and fellow politicianTessa Ganserer together became the first openly transgender people elected to the German parliament.[3]
Slawik was born and raised inLeverkusen-Opladen, where her mother's family had lived for several generations. Her father immigrated toLeverkusen from the Polish region ofSilesia in the late 1970s. After graduating from high school in 2012, she enrolled atHeinrich Heine University in the German city ofDüsseldorf, where she studied English and American studies alongside Media and Communication studies. During her time at the university, she studied abroad in the city ofLeicester, England and interned at theEuropean Parliament inBrussels.[4]
In 2009, Slawik joined theGreen Youth, the Green party's youth association, before serving as a board member of the Young Greens of Düsseldorf from 2013 to 2015.[5][6] From 2015 to 2017, she was a member of the board of the Green Youth in her home state ofNorth Rhine-Westphalia.
In2017, she ran as a Green candidate for theLandtag of North Rhine-Westphalia. Two years later, during the2019 European election in Germany, she ran as a Green party candidate for theEuropean Parliament.
From 2018 to 2021, Slawik worked as research assistant in theState Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia for the MPsWibke Brems [de] andMatthi Bolte [de].[4][7]
Slawik was elected to the Bundestag in the2021 German federal election on the Green list of North Rhine-Westphalia. Along with fellow GreenTessa Ganserer, Slawik became the first openly transgender person elected to the German parliament.[8][9]
In the negotiations to form acoalition government of theChristian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Green Party underMinister-President of North Rhine-WestphaliaHendrik Wüst following the2022 state elections, Slawik was part of her party’s delegation in the working group on transport.[10]
Slawik supports immediate action to be taken by Germany against theclimate crisis, including totally phasing coal out by 2030 and transitioning to 100% renewable energies. She is also in favour of putting a halt to constructions of new roadways and extensions and instead investing that money intogreen transportation.[12]
Slawik favours raising the minimum wage to 12 euros per hour and increasing theHartz IV unemployment benefits by 50 euros, as well as abolishing the sanctions placed on program recipients who do not meet certain conditions. She has also indicated that she supports potentially replacing the benefits with a more robust system.[12]
To advance the rights of marginalized groups in Germany, Slawik supports establishing an all-encompassing federal anti-discrimination law, requiring women to make up at least 50% of German parliaments and executive business boards. She supports an identityself-determination law for transgender Germans, and ending the pay gap between women and men. Slawik also supports a nationwide plan to combat racism, sexism, transphobia and homophobia.[12]
Slawik supports a possible decrease in thevoting age to 16 to facilitate increased youth involvement in government.[12]
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