Ricarda Lang
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Ricarda Lang | |
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.jpg) Lang in 2019 | |
| Leader of Alliance 90/The Greens | |
| Assumed office 29 January 2022 Serving with Omid Nouripour | |
| Leader | |
| Preceded by | |
| Leader of the Green Youth | |
| In office October 2017 – November 2019 Serving with Max Lucks | |
| Preceded by | Jamila Schäfer |
| Succeeded by | Anna Peters |
| Member of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg | |
| Assumed office 26 October 2021 | |
| Preceded by | multi-member district |
| Constituency | Alliance 90/The Greens List |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 January 1994 Filderstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Citizenship | German |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Political party | Alliance '90/The Greens (2012–) |
| Residence | Berlin |
| Alma mater | Heidelberg University (no degree) Humboldt University of Berlin (no degree) |
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| Website | Party website |
Ricarda Lang (born 17 January 1994) is a German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens). Since 2019 deputy co-leader of the party alongside Jamila Schäfer. In 2022 she became leader of the party Alliance 90/The Greens alongside Omid Nouripour.[1]
Education
Up from 2012 Lang studied law at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg and from 2014 to 2019 she studied at Humboldt-University in Berlin, but earned no degree.[2]
Politics
Early beginnings
Lang joined the Green Party in 2012.[3] From 2017 until 2019, she served as chair of the Green Youth.
Since 2019, Lang has been part of the Green Party’s national leadership around co-chairs Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck.[4]
Lang was a candidate in the 2019 European Parliament election.
Member of the German Parliament, 2021–present
In the 2021 German federal election, Lang contested Backnang – Schwäbisch Gmünd, but missed the direct mandate. She entered the 20th German Bundestag via the state list.
In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Lang led her party's delegation in the working group on equality; her co-chairs from the other parties were Petra Köpping and Herbert Mertin.[5]
In parliament, Lang has been serving on the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs and the Committee on Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth since 2021.[6]
Lang is the first openly bisexual Member of the German Bundestag.[7]
Personal life
Lang has been living in Berlin since 2014.[8]
References
- ^ Tagesschau article about the digital party congress of Alliance 90/The Greens(29 Jan 2022), [1] Tagesschau
- ^ "Ricarda Lang". BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN (in German). Retrieved 16 January 2022.
- ^ Ulrich Schulte (15 November 2019), Ricarda Lang wird die neue Vizevorsitzende der Grünen Die Tageszeitung.
- ^ Ulrich Schulte (15 November 2019), Ricarda Lang wird die neue Vizevorsitzende der Grünen Die Tageszeitung.
- ^ Andreas Apetz and Thomas Kaspar (22 October 2021), Ampel-Koalition: Alle Verantwortlichen, AGs und Themen im Überblick Frankfurter Rundschau.
- ^ Ricarda Lang Bundestag.
- ^ Schulze, Micha. "Ricarda Lang ist das erste offen bisexuelle Mitglied des Bundestags". queer.de (in German). Retrieved 31 October 2021.
- ^ Milena Hassenkamp (11 September 2021), Grüne Bundestagskandidatin: Die Befreiung der Ricarda Lang Der Spiegel.