Monika Lazar

Monika Lazar
Monika Lazar
	Monika Lazar in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 2017
Personal details
Born	13 September 1967 (age 56); Leipzig, East Germany; (now Germany)
Political party	Greens

Monika Lazar (born 13 September 1967) is a German politician. Born in Leipzig, Saxony, she represents the Alliance 90/The Greens. Monika Lazar has served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony since 2004.^[1]

Life

After graduating from the extended secondary school "Rudolf Hildebrandt" in Markkleeberg in 1986, Monika Lazar studied the economics of domestic trade at the Leipzig Graduate School of Management until 1990. Afterwards she worked in her parents' bakery and also completed an apprenticeship as a baker from 1991 to 1993. In 1996 she began postgraduate studies in business administration, which she completed in 1998 as a business economist. Afterwards she worked for ZeitPunkt - Kulturmagazin in Leipzig until 2004. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2004.^[2] She is a member of the sports committee.^[3] For her parliamentary group, Lazar is spokesperson for sports policy and for strategies against right-wing extremism.^[4]

References

^ "Monika Lazar | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.
^ Bundestagsfraktion, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. "Infos zur Person". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "German Bundestag - Sports". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-16.
^ Bundestagsfraktion, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. "Die fachpolitischen SprecherInnen". Bundestagsfraktion Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)