Britta Haßelmann
{{Short description|German politician (born 1961)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Britta Haßelmann
| image = 2023-03-06-Britta Haßelmann-hart aber fair-4177.jpg
| caption = Haßelmann in 2023
| office = Leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens in the Bundestag
| term_start = 7 December 2021
| term_end =
| alongside = Katharina Dröge
| predecessor = Katrin Göring-Eckardt
| successor =
| office1 = Chief Whip of the Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag
| leader1 = Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Anton Hofreiter
| term_start1 = 8 October 2013
| term_end1 = 7 December 2021
| predecessor1 = Volker Beck
| successor1 = Irene Mihalic
| office2 = Member of the Bundestag
for North Rhine-Westphalia
| term_start2 = 18 September 2005
| term_end2 =
| constituency2 = Alliance 90/The Greens
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1961|12|10}}
| birth_place = Straelen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
| party = Alliance 90/The Greens
| children = 1
| alma_mater = University of Bielefeld
| occupation =
}}
Britta Maria Haßelmann{{Cite web |title=Gewählte 'H' - Die Bundeswahlleiterin |url=https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswahlen/2021/gewaehlte/bund-99/h.html |access-date=2025-05-10 |website=www.bundeswahlleiterin.de}} (born 10 December 1961) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as co-chair of the Green Party’s parliamentary group in the Bundestag since 2021, alongside Katharina Dröge.Helene Bubrowski (7 December 2021), [https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/gruenen-fraktion-hasselmann-und-droege-sind-neue-vorsitzende-17672128.html Zwei Frauen an der Spitze: Haßelmann und Dröge sind neue Grünen-Fraktionsvorsitzende] Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. From 2013 until 2021, she was the group’s first manager ({{lang|de|Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin}}).{{Cite news |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/katrin-goering-eckardt-und-anton-hofreiter-werden-gruenen-fraktionschefs-a-926745.html |title=Fraktionsspitze: Göring-Eckardt gewinnt Kampfabstimmung bei Grünen |date=8 October 2013 |work=Spiegel Online |access-date=9 September 2019}} She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2005.
Early life and career
Haßelmann was born in Straelen and later studied social work at the University of Bielefeld.
Political career
=Early beginnings=
Haßelmann became a member of the Green Party in 1994. From 2000 until 2006, she served – alongside Frithjof Schmidt – as co-chair of the Green Party in North Rhine-Westphalia, the party's largest chapter.{{Cite web|url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/H/hasselmann_britta-520132|title=Deutscher Bundestag – Britta Haßelmann|website=Deutscher Bundestag|language=de|access-date=1 March 2020}} During that period, her party was in a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party under Minister-President Wolfgang Clement.
=Member of the German Parliament, 2005–present=
Haßelmann has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2005 federal election, representing Bielefeld. From 2005 until 2017, she served on the Finance Committee. In 2009, she also joined the Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. From 2017, she served on the {{not a typo|Committee}} on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure as well as on the {{not a typo|Committee}} on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. She is also a member of the {{ill|Vermittlungsausschuss|de}} of Bundestag and Bundesrat.{{Cite web |url=https://www.vermittlungsausschuss.de/VA/DE/mitglieder/bundestag-mitglieder/vermittlungsausschuss-bundestag-liste-mit-stellvertreter-node.html |title=Vermittlungsausschuss – Mitglieder des Deutschen Bundestags}}
Within her parliamentary group, Haßelmann served as Chief Whip from 2013 until 2021, under the leadership of the group's co-chairs Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter. In the – unsuccessful – negotiations to form a coalition government with the Christian Democrats – both the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) – and the Free Democratic Party following the 2017 elections, she was part of her party's delegation.
From 2018, Haßelmann was part of a cross-party working group on a reform of Germany's electoral system, chaired by Wolfgang Schäuble.Robert Roßmann (20 January 2019), [https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/wahlrecht-der-bundestag-soll-kleiner-und-weiblicher-werden-1.4295342 Kleiner, feiner, weiblicher] Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Other activities
- German National Committee for UNICEF, Member of the Board (since 2020)[https://www.unicef.de/informieren/ueber-uns/unicef-deutschland/-/vorstand/11156 Board] German Committee for UNICEF
- Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board[https://www.boell.de/de/navigation/struktur-2230.html Governance] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620064940/https://www.boell.de/de/navigation/struktur-2230.html |date=20 June 2021 }} Heinrich Böll Foundation.
- Terre des Femmes, Member
References
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External links
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- {{official website|https://britta-hasselmann.de}}
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