Lennard Oehl
{{Short description|German politician (born 1993)}}
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| name = Lennard Oehl
| image = Lennard Oehl (2021).jpg
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| office = Member of the Bundestag
| term_start = 2021
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| term_end = 2025
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1993|06|01}}
| birth_place = Frankfurt, Germany
| party = SPD
| nationality = German
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Lennard Oehl (born 1 June 1993 in Frankfurt) is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from 2021 to 2025.[https://www.hessenschau.de/politik/bundestagswahl/neue-spd-bundestagsabgeordnete-wir-wollen-der-politik-ein-anderes-gesicht-geben,junge-spd-bundestagsabgeordnete-100.html Junge SPD-Kandidaten ziehen in den Bundestag: "Wir wollen der Politik ein anderes Gesicht geben"] Hessenschau, 29 September 2021.
Education and Profession
Oehl attended primary school in Ostheim from 1999 to 2003. In 2011 he took part in the UNIS World Student Conference in New York. He received his Abitur at the Hohe Landesschule in Hanau in 2012. From 2013 to 2019, Oehl was a speaker for Christoph Degen, who at the time was a member of the Landtag of Hesse for the SPD. Oehl studied economics and received his Bachelor's degree in 2017. In 2017/18 he had a semester abroad in Łódź. In 2019, he graduated with a Master's degree.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Deutscher Bundestag 20. Wahlperiode" |url=https://www.btg-bestellservice.de/pdf/10037700.pdf |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=Deutscher Bundestag |date= |language=de}} He then worked as an analyst for a financial data service provider in Frankfurt.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Jan Lennard Oehl, MDB" |url=https://www.spd-hessen.de/personen/jan-lennard-oehl/ |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=SPD Hessen |date= |language=de}}{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Lennard Oehl" |url=https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/O/oehl_lennard-861610 |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=Deutscher Bundestag |date= |language=de}}
Political career
In 2016, Oehl was elected to the Nidderau city council.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Lennard Oehl" |url=https://www.spd-nidderau.de/personen/lennard-oehl/ |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=SPD Nidderau |date= |language=de}} He has been chairman of the Young Socialists in the SPD Main-Kinzig-Kreis since 2018.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title=" Lennard Oehl als Kreisvorsitzender der Jusos wiedergewählt " |url=https://www.spd-mkk.de/2020/03/11/lennard-oehl-als-kreisvorsitzender-der-jusos-wiedergewaehlt-2/ |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=SPD Main Kinzig |date= |language=de}}
Oehl became member of the Bundestag in the 2021 elections, representing the Hanau district. In parliament, he has since been serving on the Finance Committee.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Finanzausschuss" |url=https://www.bundestag.de/finanzen |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=Deutscher Bundestag |date= |language=de}}
In the 2021 Bundestag election, he won the direct mandate in the Hanau (electoral district) with 31.1% of the first-past-the-post votes and entered the 20th German Bundestag.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Bundeswahltag 2021" |url=https://www.bundeswahlleiterin.de/bundestagswahlen/2021/ergebnisse/bund-99/land-6/wahlkreis-180.html |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=Die Bundeswahlleiterin |date= |language=de}}{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Wahlkreis 180: Jan Lennard Oehl (SPD) holt sich das Direktmandat" |url=https://kinzig.news/14026/wahlkreis-180-jan-lennard-oehl-spd-holt-sich-das-direktmandat |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=Kinzig News |date=26 October 2021 |language=de}} He is a member of the Finance Committee and a substitute member of the Budget Committee as well as the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Lennard Oehl" |url=https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/profile/lennard-oehl/ausschuss-mitgliedschaften|access-date=29 June 2023 |work=abgeordnetenwatch.de |date= |language=de}}
In February 2025, Oehl lost his seat in Bundestag in district Hanau against Pascal Reddig.
Political positions
In the 2021 federal election, he focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, housing, environment, infrastructure and digitalisation.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Perspektive Hasselroth" |url=https://www.spd-hasselroth.de/wp-content/uploads/sites/464/2022/01/Perspektive_2_21_mail.pdf |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=SPD Hasselroth |date= |language=de}} He called for the "burdens of the crisis (pandemic) to be distributed more fairly" and for affordable rents to be made possible.{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="SPD an Main und Kinzig wählt neuen Unterbezirksvorstand" |url=https://www.spd-mkk.de/2021/05/31/spd-an-main-und-kinzig-waehlt-neuen-unterbezirksvorstand/ |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=SPD Main Kinzig |date=31 May 2021 |language=de}}{{cite news |last1= |first1= |title="Bezahlbares Wohnen" |url=https://www.spd-hammersbach.de/2021/09/10/bezahlbares-wohnen/ |access-date=29 June 2023 |work=SPD Hammersbach |date=10 September 2021 |language=de}}
Other activities
- Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2022)[https://www.spd-wirtschaftsforum.de/das-wirtschaftsforum/politischer-beirat/ Political Advisory Board] Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
References
{{Reflist}}{{Members of the 20th Bundestag}}{{Authority control}}
External links
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- [https://www.bundestag.de/abgeordnete/biografien/O/oehl_jan-861610 Biography at the German Bundestag]
- [https://www.lennard-oehl.de/ Website of Stefan Heck]
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Category:Politicians from Frankfurt
Category:Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians