Gollaleh Ahmadi

Gollaleh Ahmadi (born 1982) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who is serving as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2021.

Life, education and career Ahmadi was born in Tehran in 1982. Her mother was a journalist and her father a car mechanic and trade union official. Her parents experienced political persecution because they were members of the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party of Iran; at times they were imprisoned or had to live undercover. The family fled to Germany in 1996, where they lived in a refugee shelter for three and a half years before settling in Fürstenwalde. Gollaleh completed her school education and passed the Abitur there in 2004. She then studied political science and the history and culture of the Middle East in Magdeburg, Frankfurt an der Oder, and Berlin.

From 2009 to 2013, Ahmadi was spokeswoman for a German-Iranian student group campaigning for democracy and human rights in Iran. As part of an education campaign in Berlin, she led workshops on democratic education, anti-discrimination, anti-feminism and anti-racism.

Ahmadi is also a delegate in the Green Federal Women's Council since 2019, was a member of the state steering group on education in 2017–2018, and co-speaker for the state working group "Women* and Gender" in 2019. Afterwards, she became Greens spokeswoman for security and media policy.