Malte Spitz

Malte Spitz ( born April 14, 1984 in Telgte ) is a German politician ( Alliance 90/The Greens ). Spitz was 2004-2006 political national director of the Young Greens and was from 2006 to 2013 assessor of the Federal Executive of Alliance 90/The Greens. His work focuses on media policy, civil rights, economic policy, and demographics.

Party offices

Spitz in 2001 was held in the Young Greens and Alliance 90/The Greens one. From May 2004 to November 2006 he was a political federal secretary of the Green Youth. At the Federal Conference of Delegates on December 2, 2006 in Cologne, he was ( then 22 years old ) elected as assessor in the Federal Executive of Alliance 90/The Greens. Since then, Spitz is a professional politician. In November 2008, he was confirmed by the Federal Delegates Conference in Erfurt in a crucial vote against Melanie Schnatsmeyer with 66.4 percent of the vote in office. In November 2010, the Federal Delegates Conference in Freiburg with 53.9 percent against Stephan Schilling, former Speaker of the Young Greens. In his third re-election in November 2012 in Hanover voted 84 per cent of the party delegates for Spitz.

After losing for the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary election in 2013 Spitz announced that he no longer wanted to run for the federal board. In between, he was regarded as the successor of Steffi Lemke as national manager. But pointed announced to waive this candidacy to have more time for family and future studies. Instead, he successfully ran for the party council.

Network policy

Spitz has, since 2005, the fair sharing network to introduce a flat rate with culture and was also one of the speakers. In April 2010 he founded in protest against the privacy policy of Facebook Group Facebook Privacy Control - NOW! the partisan reports about 75,000 supporters found. He is also the founder of the " pro net neutrality ," which expresses itself for a legal foundation of net neutrality.

In the summer of 2009, he has the mobile operator T -Mobile sued for publication of his stock data and put the data in February 2011, the time available. An interactive graphic that visualizes the data is ready. The publication of data retained was awarded the Grimme Online Award 2011 of the Grimme Institute in the category special. In addition, there were in 2011 for the visualization of the data retained by Malte Spitz also a Lead Award in Gold Lead Academy as a " web special of the year " as a " Online Journalism Award " in the category "Outstanding Informational Graphic or Data Visualization, Professional ". This publication and a presentation of Spitz at the TED Global 2012 on this topic was a broad, lasting over several years, international media coverage. Spitz has published several guest posts on net politics in renowned German - and English-language media.

Other topics

Spitz is the co-author of Green Men Manifesto.

Nominations

Spitz was a candidate in the electoral district of Unna I for Alliance 90/The Greens for the federal election in 2013 and is number 16 of the State List in North Rhine -Westphalia. In the constituency it reaches 5.6 % of the first preference votes behind the candidate of the SPD and CDU was the third best result. As the national association of North Rhine -Westphalia scored only 13 country list mandates of Alliance 90/The Greens, handed him the 16th place in the national list is not for collection in the Bundestag.