Lisa Paus
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Lisa Paus | |
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| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2009 | |
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| Born | September 19, 1968 Rheine, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany (now Germany) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality |  Germany |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens |
| Alma mater | Free University of Berlin |
Elisabeth "Lisa" Paus (born 19 September 1968 in Rheine, Germany)[1] is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. Since 2009 she has been a member of the German parliament.
Early life and education[]
After graduating from high school she volunteered for one year at an orphanage in Hamburg, Germany. She then moved to Berlin to study at the Free University. She graduated in 1999 with a master's degree in economics.
From 1997 until 1999, Paus worked for Frieder Otto Wolf who was a member of the European Parliament and Germany's Green Party. In 2005 she became a teacher at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.
Political career[]
In 1995, Paus joined Germany's Green Party, Alliance '90/The Greens. She was involved in the party in various forms. In the 1999 state elections, she was elected to the State Parliament of Berlin. There she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson on economic policy.
Paus has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 federal elections. She is a member of the Finance Committee and within the committee she is the Green's spokesperson. In her first term between 2009 and 2013, she also served on the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union.
On the Finance Committee, Paus was involved in the parliamentary inquiry into the Wirecard scandal from 2020 until 2021; following the inquiry's completion, she co-authored a 675-page report together with Florian Toncar and Fabio De Masi.[2]
In addition to her committee assignments, Paus has served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Irish Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2014) and of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Malta and Cyprus (since 2018). She is also a member of the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Slovenian Parliamentary Group.
Ahead of the national elections in 2017[3] and 2021,[4] Paus was elected to lead her party's campaign in the state of Berlin.
Other activities[]
- Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS), Member of the Advisory Board
- Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions and for Citizens' Action (ATTAC), Member
Personal life[]
In 2009, Paus had her first child. The child's father died of cancer in 2013.[5]
References[]
- ^ "Lisa Paus, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ^ Martin Greive, Jan Hildebrand and Felix Holtermann (June 7, 2021), Wirecard-Skandal: „Die Behörden haben auf der falschen Seite mitgespielt“ Handelsblatt.
- ^ Jens Anker (March 25, 2017), Berliner Grüne: Lisa Paus deklassiert Bettina Jarasch Berliner Morgenpost.
- ^ Julius Betschka (March 21, 2021), So lief der Parteitag der Berliner Grünen: Bundestagsabgeordnete Lisa Paus wird mit 98 Prozent zur Spitzenkandidatin gewählt Der Tagesspiegel.
- ^ Klaus Wallbaum (November 13, 2014), Bundestag macht Mut zur Meinung Hannoversche Allgemeine.
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- 1968 births
- Living people
- People from Rheine
- Alliance 90/The Greens politicians
- Members of the Bundestag for Berlin
- Members of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin
- Female members of the Bundestag
- 21st-century German women politicians
- Free University of Berlin alumni
- Members of the Bundestag 2017–2021
- Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017
- Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013
- Members of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens