Britta Haßelmann

Britta Maria Haßelmann^[1] (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.^[2] From 2013 until 2021, she was the group’s first manager (Erste Parlamentarische Geschäftsführerin).^[3] She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2005.

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Britta Haßelmann
Haßelmann in 2023
Leader of the Alliance 90/The Greens in the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 December 2021 Serving with Katharina Dröge
Preceded by	Katrin Göring-Eckardt
Chief Whip of the Alliance '90/The Greens in the Bundestag
In office 8 October 2013 – 7 December 2021
Leader	Katrin Göring-Eckardt Anton Hofreiter
Preceded by	Volker Beck
Succeeded by	Irene Mihalic
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 18 September 2005
Constituency	North Rhine-Westphalia
Personal details
Born	(1961-12-10) 10 December 1961 (age 63) Straelen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Political party	Alliance 90/The Greens
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Bielefeld
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Haßelmann was born in Straelen and later studied social work at the University of Bielefeld.

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.^[4] During that period, her party was in a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party under Minister-President Wolfgang Clement.

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 Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure as well as on the 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 Vermittlungsausschuss [de] of Bundestag and Bundesrat.^[5]

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.^[6]

• German National Committee for UNICEF, Member of the Board (since 2020)^[7]
• Heinrich Böll Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board^[8]
• Terre des Femmes, Member

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