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Sebastian Matthias Mink ( born July 13, 1983 in Reutlingen ) is a German politician and served from May 2011 to April 2012 the Federal President of the Pirate Party of Germany. In February 2014 he resigned from the Pirate Party.

Life

Sebastian mink obtained the Abitur at the Scholl -Schule Tübingen 2002. After he had completed the community service at the German Red Cross, he began after 2003, a study of bioinformatics at the Eberhard -Karls- University of Tübingen, where he graduated in 2010. On October 15, 2011, he married his long-time partner.

Policy

Mink was from 2001 to 2004 active member of the CDU in the local chapter of Tübingen and ran last in 33 out of the party list unsuccessful in the Tübingen municipal elections in 2004. 2009 he resigned from the CDU.

After he had entered in the general election of 2009 in the Pirate Party, he served there from November of the same year as assessor in the newly established district association Tübingen as well as coordinator of the Working Group on Land Policy in National Association of Baden- Württemberg, from April 2010 to May 2011 then as its Chairman. In May 2011 he was elected to the national party national chairman. On the national party in April 2012, he was defeated in re- election as chairman of his former deputy, Bernd Schloemer. Mink was elected deputy national chairman.

Mink was elected on list # 1 on the national list of the Pirate Party of Baden- Württemberg for the parliamentary elections in 2013. It also occurs in the constituency of Tübingen as a direct candidate.

In February 2014 he resigned from the Pirate Party.

Positions

In a commentary in the Frankfurter Allgemeine he disagreed, citing the limits to growth and Meinhard Miegel the imagination infinite economic growth and called for the end of " sustainability lie."

In December 2012, Mink was instrumental in founding the so-called " Frankfurt College " within the PIRATES. The College sees itself as a community of interest whose substantive positions but are not yet public. The College had a hard time within the " anti-party party " (Frankfurter Rundschau), since it occurs against networks within parties because this their grassroots understanding disagree.