Alexander Bonde

Alexander Bonde ( born January 12, 1975 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ). Since May 12, 2011, he became Minister of State for Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection in Baden- Württemberg.

Life and career

During his school years Bonde was a grant from the Parliamentary Youth Exchange Program of the U.S. Congress and the German Bundestag at the Kahuku High School in Hawaii and acquired there in 1993 the High School Diploma. After graduation in 1995 at the Theodor -Heuss -Gymnasium in Freiburg Bonde made ​​community service as a supervisor of severely and then in 1996 began the study of law at the Albert -Ludwigs- University of Freiburg. In 1999 he moved to study for the Diploma in Public Administration ( FH) at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration of the State of Baden- Württemberg in Kehl, which he gave up in 2001 to act as personal assistant to the Baden-Württemberg Landtag Heike Dederer and as campaign manager for various mayoral election battles be able to. The election agency public -office - Election Management & Strategy Development GbR, the Bonde had set up with a colleague to 2002, was dissolved after his election to the Bundestag in the same year.

Bonde is married Protestant and the CDU politician Conny Mayer- Bonde. They have two sons and a daughter and live in Baiersbronner district Mitteltal.

Party

Bonde's political involvement began, inter alia, as spokesman for the Regional Student Council in Freiburg im Breisgau. From 1994 to 1996 he was chairman of the National Advisory Council students Baden -Württemberg, in which he had been elected as the representative of South Baden secondary schools. During his studies he was elected twice Committee for the Alliance of Independent Student Councils in the Great Senate of the University of Freiburg and thus into the general students.

Bonde '90 was still a schoolboy in 1993 a member of Greens. He was involved initially in the Green Youth and belonged from 1993 to 1996 and from 1997 to 1998 whose national board of directors in Baden- Württemberg. From 1994 to 1995 he was also a member of the federal board of the Young Greens and 1998-2001 state chairman of the Young Greens in Baden- Württemberg. Was from 1995 to 1997 and again since 1999 Bonde is a member of the executive committee of the Greens in Baden- Württemberg.

Member of Parliament

From 2002 to 2011 Bonde was a member of the German Bundestag. Here he was most recently a member of the Budget Committee and Group spokesman and chairman of the Greens for budgetary policy. He is also vice chairman of the United States - Parliamentary Group of the German Bundestag and deputy member of the Defence Committee, where he served until early 2008 as a full member. From October 2009, he was also a substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Consumer Protection.

Since November 2008, Bonde member of the committee was pursuant to the Financial Market Stabilisation Fund. § 10a of the Financial Market Stabilization Act, which oversees the work of the 480 billion -euro Special Fund for Financial Market Stabilization ( SoFFin) in secret sessions. The committee will also develop the future financial market policy.

Bonde is always drawn on a state list Baden -Württemberg in the Federal Parliament and entered in each constituency 284 Emmendingen Lahr as a direct candidate at. In the general election in 2002 he moved after for Cem Özdemir, who was indeed placed on the list, had his seat but was not accepted due to the bonus miles affair. In the list list of the Baden-Württemberg Greens for the 2005 federal election he beat 4th place Oswald Metzger. In the country list for the parliamentary elections in 2009, he sat down on October 11, 2008 at No. 8 against the designated national chairman Cem Özdemir.

State Minister

On 12 May 2011 Bonde was sworn in as a member of the Cabinet Kretschmanns in the state parliament of Baden- Württemberg as the new Minister for Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection. Bonde is president of the Tourism Baden-Württemberg and chairman of the Baden State Rothaus.