Andreas Audretsch

Andreas Audretsch (born 25 June 1984) is a German politician of the Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since the 2021 German federal election. He has also been Deputy Chairman of the Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group in the Bundestag since May 2022.

Early life and education Audretsch was born in Stuttgart. He studied Politics, Journalism and Sociology at the University of Münster before continuing his studies at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Potsdam until 2008. He also earned a PhD at the University of Potsdam in political science.

Life and career Following this, from 2006 to 2015, he worked as a radio journalist for Deutschlandradio and ARD radio, among others. He carried out this work on a part-time basis from 2009, as he worked as a consultant in the German Bundestag from then until 2015. In 2013 and 2014, he held a teaching position at the University of Lüneburg. From 2015 to 2021, he worked as a press spokesperson in political communication for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, the Office of the Federal President and the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

Political career Audretsch has been a member of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen since 2011 and has been involved with the party since 2009. In the 2021 Bundestag election, he ran in the Berlin-Neukölln constituency, where he came second behind Hakan Demir (SPD; 25.8'%) with 19.7% of the first votes and thus missed out on the direct mandate. However, he entered the 20th German Bundestag via fourth place on his party's Berlin state list. He is a full member of the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and a deputy member of the Joint Committee, Mediation Committee He also argued that the Berlin rent cap should be made possible by federal law, that protection against dismissal should be tightened and that tenant electricity should be made possible. He also advocated the abolition of unemployment benefits II and a guaranteed livelihood. He is homosexual.