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Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn | |
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 Strengmann-Kuhn in 2014 | |
| Member of theBundestag | |
| In office 2017–2025 | |
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| Born | (1964-05-20)20 May 1964 (age 61) |
| Political party | Greens |
| Children | 2 |
| Occupation | Economist |
Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn (born 20 May 1964) is a German politician of theAlliance 90/The Greens who served as a member of theBundestag from the state ofHesse from 2008 to 2013 and again from 2014 to 2025.[1]
After graduating from high school, Strengmann-Kuhn studied economics at theUniversity of Bielefeld, graduating as Diplom-Volkswirt in 1992.[citation needed]
Strengmann-Kuhn then worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University from 1993 to 1995, at the Department of Economics atGoethe University Frankfurt from 1995 to 2000 and at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at theUniversity of Hohenheim from 2001 to 2003.[citation needed]
Strengmann-Kuhn was a member of the Bundestag from 4 January 2008 to 2013 as successor to Margareta Wolf, representing theOffenbach district. At the end of January 2014, he returned to the Bundestag as successor toPriska Hinz.[2]
In parliament, Strengmann-Kuhn was a member of the Finance Committee and the Study Group on Vocational Education and Training.[3][4] He also served as his parliamentary group's spokesman on labour market policy and European social policy.[5]
In the negotiations to form a so-calledtraffic light coalition of theSocial Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and theFree Democratic Party (FDP) on the national level following the2021 German elections, Strengmann-Kuhn was part of his party's delegation in the working group on labour policy, co-chaired byHubertus Heil,Katharina Dröge andJohannes Vogel.[6]
In August 2024, Strengmann-Kuhn announced that he would not stand in the2025 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[7]
Amid theEuropean migrant crisis in 2015, Strengmann-Kuhn joined fellow Green parliamentariansLuise Amtsberg,Annalena Baerbock,Franziska Brantner andManuel Sarrazin in calling for more responsibilities for theEuropean Commission in managing the European Union's intake of refugees, a clear mandate forFrontex and EU-managed facilities for asylum seekers in their countries of origin.[8]
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