Jamila Schäfer

Jamila Anna Schäfer (born 30 April 1993) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections, representing the Munich South district. From 2018 to 2022 she served as one of her party's deputy chairs, under the leadership of Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck.

Jamila Schäfer
Schäfer in 2018
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Preceded byMichael Kuffer
ConstituencyMunich South
Personal details
Born (1993-04-30) 30 April 1993
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
CitizenshipGerman
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens

Early life

Born to a physiotherapist and a computer scientist, Schäfer grew up in Munich’s Großhadern district. In 2012 she started a law degree at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, which she did not complete. Since 2013 she is studying sociology with a minor in philosophy at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Goethe University Frankfurt which she had not completed as of February 2022[1][2][3]

Political career

From 2015 to 2017, Schäfer served as chair of the Green Youth, the Green Party’s youth organisation.

From 2018 to 2022, Schäfer was part of the Green Party’s national leadership around co-chairs Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck,[4] where she coordinated the party’s activities on European and international affairs.[5]

Schäfer was elected Member of the Bundestag for Munich South in the 2021 German federal election.[6][7]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the elections, Schäfer was part of her party's delegation in the working group on European affairs, co-chaired by Udo Bullmann, Franziska Brantner and Nicola Beer.[8]

In parliament, Schäfer has been serving on the Budget Committee (since 2021), the Committee on Foreign Affairs (since 2021) and the Subcommittee on the United Nations (since 2022).[9] On the Budget Committee, she is her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budget of the Federal Foreign Office. She is also a member of the so-called Confidential Committee (Vertrauensgremium) of the Budget Committee, which provides budgetary supervision for Germany's three intelligence services, BND, BfV and MAD.[10]

Other activities

Political positions

Within the Green Party, Schäfer is considered to be part of its left wing.[12] She is a vegetarian.[13]

Controversy

In early 2022, Schäfer became one of the six subjects of an embezzlement investigation launched by the Berlin public prosecutor’s office into the entire leadership board of the Green Party over the payment of so-called ‘corona bonuses,’ which had been paid in 2020 to all employees of the party’s federal office and at the same time to its board.[14]

Personal life

Schäfer lives in Berlin’s Weissensee district.[15]

References
  1. Dominik Baur (26 October 2021), Grüne im Bundestag: Die Abgeordnete zum Pferdestehlen Die Tageszeitung.
  2. "Deutscher Bundestag - Jamila Schäfer".
  3. "Verfügen Sie über ein abgeschlossenes Studium? Welche beruflichen Tätigkeiten haben Sie schon ausgeübt? | Frage an Jamila Anna Schäfer (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)".
  4. Ansgar Graw (29 January 2018), Zwei Realos sind keine Mehrheit Die Welt.
  5. Anna Hoben (22 August 2021), Jung, grün, hartnäckig Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  6. "Direktmandat für die Grünen: Jamila Schäfers historischer Sieg". BR24 (in German). 27 September 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
  7. "How green politics are changing Europe". BBC News. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  8. Britt-Marie Lakämper (21 October 2021), SPD, Grüne, FDP: Diese Politiker verhandeln die Ampel-Koalition Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.
  9. Jamila Schäfer Bundestag.
  10. Mitglieder mehrerer Gremien gewählt Bundestag, press release of 17 February 2022.
  11. General Assembly Heinrich Böll Foundation.
  12. Ansgar Graw (29 January 2018), Zwei Realos sind keine Mehrheit Die Welt.
  13. Dominik Baur (26 October 2021), Grüne im Bundestag: Die Abgeordnete zum Pferdestehlen Die Tageszeitung.
  14. Hans von der Burchard (19 January 2022), Senior German Green politicians under investigation over ‘corona bonuses’ Politico Europe.
  15. Dominik Baur (26 October 2021), Grüne im Bundestag: Die Abgeordnete zum Pferdestehlen Die Tageszeitung.
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