(1985-02-14) 14 February 1985 (age 36) Hannover, West Germany (now Germany)
Nationality
German
Political party
Greens
Signature
Sven-Christian Kindler (born 14 February 1985) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2009.[1]
After graduating from high school in 2004 at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Schule (Hanover), Kindler completed a dual degree program of business administration at the Leibniz-Akademie Hanover and at Bosch Rexroth Pneumatics, which he completed in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. The training included an internship in Stockholm. From 2007 to 2009 he worked in corporate controlling at Bosch Rexroth Pneumatics.
Political career[]
Kindler first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2009 German federal election.[2] He has since been a member of the Budget Committee; in 2018, he also joined its Sub-Committee on European Affairs. In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, among others. Within his parliamentary group, he serves as spokesman on budget policy.[3]
In addition to his committee assignments, Kindler has been part of the German-Israeli Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2009) and the German-Iranian Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2018).
Ahead of the 2021 elections, Kindler was elected to lead the Green Party's campaign in Lower Saxony, alongside Filiz Polat.[4]