Ana-Maria Trăsnea

Ana-Maria Trăsnea (born 15 March 1994) is a Romanian-German politician who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2023.

Ana-Maria Trăsnea in 2022.

From 2021 to 2023 she was a representative of the state of Berlin at the federal level and state secretary for engagement, democracy promotion and international affairs in the Berlin Senate Chancellery.

Life

Trăsnea was born in Piatra Neamț in Romania.[1]

Education and career

Ana-Maria Trăsnea came to Germany from Romania in 2007. She attended the Emmy-Noether-Gymnasium in the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin, where she obtained her Abitur in 2013. She then studied cultural studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) from 2013 to 2018 and obtained a bachelor's degree, spending the winter semester 2015/2016 at the University of Salamanca in Spain. She then completed a master’s degree in European Studies at the European University Viadrina from 2017 to 2021, which is on hold.

From 2016 to 2019, parallel to her studies, she was a project-related workshop leader for various youth-political educational projects of the "Forum Politics and Society" in the "Political Dialogue" department of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Berlin. In 2019, Trăsnea was a student assistant in the Strategic Planning Unit of the Management Staff at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. From 2020 to 2021 she was personal assistant to the State Secretary for Youth and Family, Sigrid Klebba, in the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family.[2]

Politics

Trăsnea joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany while she was at school and was involved in the initiative School without Racism from 2007 to 2013, organizing, among other things, an anti-racism working group at her school.

She was a member of the Treptow-Köpenick district assembly from 2016 to 2021 , where she was deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group from 2019 and leader of the parliamentary group from 2021.[3] In 2020 she was awarded the Helene Weber Prize. In the 2021 federal election, she ran as a direct candidate in the Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick constituency, but was not directly elected. As she was in sixth place in the state list, she initially missed entry into the Bundestag.

From December 2021 to April 2023 she was the representative of the State of Berlin at the federal level and State Secretary for Volunteering, Democracy Promotion and International Affairs in the Berlin Senate Chancellery.[4]

On 16 May 2023, she moved into the German Bundestag replacing Cansel Kiziltepe.[5]

References
  1. Keno Verseck (2021-09-21). "Jung, progressiv, aus Rumänien - für Deutschland". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 2021-12-23.
  2. "Bevollmächtigte des Landes Berlin beim Bund und Staatssekretärin für Bürgerschaftliches Engagement und Internationales". Senatskanzlei Berlin. 2021-12-23. Retrieved 2021-12-25.
  3. "ANA-MARIA TRASNEA". Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  4. "Ana-Maria Trăsnea". Retrieved 2021-12-22.
  5. "Ausgeschiedene Abgeordnete und deren Nachfolger". bundestag.de. 2022-01-03. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
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