Franziska Brantner

Franziska Katharina Brantner ( born August 24, 1979 in Lörrach ) is a German political scientist and politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ). It belongs to the 18th German Bundestag.

Life

Brantner grew up in Neuenburg am Rhein and graduated at the German - French Grammar School in Freiburg im Breisgau her high school diploma. After high school she spent a year in the offices of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Tel Aviv and then in Washington DC active. She studied political science with a focus on International Relations and European Politics at the elite university Sciences Po in Paris and at Columbia University 's School of Public and International Affairs ( SIPA ) in New York with master and diploma in 2004. 2010, she was at the University of Mannheim with a work on the ability to reform political institutions doctorate at the example of the United Nations. Meanwhile, she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Political Science II by Thomas King and received a teaching assignment for International Policy. At the European Studies Centre at St Antony 's College, Oxford, she was a research assistant from 2006 to 2007.

During the conference, " Beijing 5 " of the UN General Assembly in 2000 ( a follow-up conference to the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, 1995) and until 2005 was Brantner co-chair of " Youth Caucus " of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. For the development of the United Nations Fund for Women (UNIFEM ), the UN women's rights organization, she worked as a consultant and co-ordinated in Brussels a joint project with the French EU presidency in 2008 that developed the European Framework for Resolution 1325 of the UN Security. For the European Council on Foreign Relations, she was co-author of a study on the EU's human rights policy in the United Nations. For the Bertelsmann Foundation, she worked in Brussels on European foreign policy and European responses to the financial and economic crisis.

Brantner is also trained according to the guidelines of the Association of mediation mediator. She speaks fluent French, English and Spanish and is able to communicate in Hebrew.

Brantner had a relationship with the mayor of Tübingen Boris Palmer, with whom she has a daughter born in May 2010. She lives in Heidelberg.

Policy

Brantner occurred in 1996 with 17 years of Young Greens, was a member of the Baden- württembergischem State Executive Committee (1996-1997) and Federal Executive ( 1997-1999). During her studies at Sciences Po in Paris, she founded a green university group and was there 2001/2002 co-organizer of the first " European Student Convention ".

She was a member of the Peace and Security Commission of the Federal Party and was a member of the writing staff for the electoral program of the party for the European elections in 2009.

In the European elections 2009, she ran to 11th place by the Federal list of Alliance 90/The Greens as the common candidate of the Green Party of the Rhine -Neckar and thus won a total of 14 reached by the German Greens seats in the European Parliament. She was a member of the Group of the Greens / EFA and was spokeswoman for foreign affairs of the Group and standing rapporteur for the EU Stability Instrument for Conflict Resolution and Crisis Response. In addition, it has led the negotiations on the establishment and reform of the European External Action Service for the Greens / EFA. She was a permanent member and Green Coordinator of the Committee for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, the Women's Rights and Gender Equality Committee and the Budget Committee. Likewise Brantner is as representative engaged in the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

Brantner was a member of the European Union Parliamentarians European Parliament and one of four vice - chairman of the European Parliament Platform for Secularism in Politics ( EPPSP ), a forum for Members of the European Parliament and civil society. In 2010, she supported the initiative Spinelli Group for more Europe. In the euro - crisis, they argued in 2012 for a community of liability.

In 2012 she was nominated as successor to Fritz Kuhn of the Green Party in the Bundestag constituency Heidelberg for the federal election in 2013 and was elected on the regional list. With the entry into the Bundestag she has resigned her seat in the European Parliament on 21 October 2013.