Jamila Schäfer

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Jamila Schäfer
Jamila Schäfer 2018.jpg
Schäfer in 2018
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Preceded byMichael Kuffer
ConstituencyMunich South
Personal details
Born (1993-04-30) 30 April 1993 (age 28)
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
CitizenshipGerman
NationalityGermany
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens

Jamila Anna Schäfer (born 30 April 1993) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections, representing the Munich South district. From 2018 to 2022 she served as one of her party's deputy chairs, under the leadership of Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck

Early life[]

Born to a physiotherapist and a computer scientist, Schäfer grew up in Munich’s Großhadern district.[1]

Political career[]

From 2015 to 2017, Schäfer served as chair of the Green Youth, the Green Party’s youth organisation.

From 2018 to 2022, Schäfer was part of the Green Party’s national leadership around co-chairs Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck,[2] where she coordinated the party’s activities on European and international affairs.[3]

Schäfer was elected Member of the Bundestag for Munich South in the 2021 German federal election.[4][5]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the elections, Schäfer was part of her party's delegation in the working group on European affairs, co-chaired by Udo Bullmann, Franziska Brantner and Nicola Beer.[6]

In parliament, Schäfer has been serving on the Budget Committee and the Committee on Foreign Affairs since December 2021.[7] On the Budget Committee, she is her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Foreign Office.

Political positions[]

Within the Green Party, Schäfer is considered to be part of its left wing.[8] She is a vegetarian.[9]

Controversy[]

In early 2022, Schäfer became one of the six subjects of an embezzlement investigation launched by the Berlin public prosecutor’s office into the entire leadership board of the Green Party over the payment of so-called ‘corona bonuses,’ which had been paid in 2020 to all employees of the party’s federal office and at the same time to its board.[10]

Personal life[]

Schäfer lives in Berlin’s Weissensee district.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ Dominik Baur (26 October 2021), Grüne im Bundestag: Die Abgeordnete zum Pferdestehlen Die Tageszeitung.
  2. ^ Ansgar Graw (29 January 2018), Zwei Realos sind keine Mehrheit Die Welt.
  3. ^ Anna Hoben (22 August 2021), Jung, grün, hartnäckig Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  4. ^ "Direktmandat für die Grünen: Jamila Schäfers historischer Sieg". BR24 (in German). 27 September 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  5. ^ "How green politics are changing Europe". BBC News. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  6. ^ Britt-Marie Lakämper (21 October 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
  7. ^ Jamila Schäfer Bundestag.
  8. ^ Ansgar Graw (29 January 2018), Zwei Realos sind keine Mehrheit Die Welt.
  9. ^ Dominik Baur (26 October 2021), Grüne im Bundestag: Die Abgeordnete zum Pferdestehlen Die Tageszeitung.
  10. ^ Hans von der Burchard (19 January 2022), Senior German Green politicians under investigation over ‘corona bonuses’ Politico Europe.
  11. ^ Dominik Baur (26 October 2021), Grüne im Bundestag: Die Abgeordnete zum Pferdestehlen Die Tageszeitung.
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