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Annkathrin Kammeyer

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Annkathrin Kammeyer
Annkathrin Kammeyer in May 2012
Member of the Hamburg Parliament
Assumed office
7 March 2011
Personal details
Born (1990-01-12) 12 January 1990 (age 34)
Horn, Hamburg, Germany
Political partySPD
Residence(s)Hamburg, Germany
Websiteannkathrin-kammeyer.de

Annkathrin Kammeyer (born 12 January 1990) is a German Social Democratic politician and Member of the Hamburg Parliament since 7 March 2011.

Life and work

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Born in Horn, Hamburg, she was raised in a political family, Kammeyer had an early interest in politics. After her final exams at the Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium in 2009, she started studying political science at the University of Hamburg.[1]

Political career

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Kammeyer joined the SPD in 2006. She became the group leader of the Jusos (Young Socialists in the SPD) in Horn and deputy district chairman of the Jusos in Hamburg-Mitte.[2]

From 2008 she worked in the office of Member of the Hamburg Parliament Michael Neumann. After her finals, she supported the Johannes Kahrs' campaign for the Bundestag. She also was active for AStA at the University of Hamburg.

Kammeyer ran as a candidate for the SPD in the 2011 Hamburg state election, in voting district 2 of Billstedt-Wilhelmsburg-Finkenwerder. She was elected, despite being only 46th on the SPD party list. On 7 March 2011, she became the youngest member of the Hamburg Parliament in history, at 21 years of age.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Eva Eusterhus (24 February 2011). "Diese Rote ist noch etwas grün" (in German). Die Welt. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  2. ^ "Über mich - Annkathrin Kammeyer" (in German). 2011. Archived from the original on 15 August 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
  3. ^ Jule Bleyer (7 March 2011). "Annkathrin Kammeyer: Keck im Parlament" (in German). Hamburger Abendblatt. Retrieved 15 May 2012.
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