Kerstin Andreae
Kerstin Andreae born on the 21st October 1968 in Schramberg and is a German politician and member of Alliance ‘90/The Greens in the Bundestag.
Political Career[edit]
From 1999 to 2002 Andreae was a member of the city council in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 2002, Andreae was first elected into the German Bundestag. Between 2005 and 2007, she served as the Green parliamentary groups’ coordinator in the Finance Committee. From March 2007 to March 2012 she was the groups’ spokesperson for the for economic affairs and coordinator in the Committee on Economic Affairs and Technology.
After the 2013 federal elections, Andreae — who is considered a centrist in her party — unsuccessfully tried to become the chairwoman of the Green’s parliamentary group. Commentators regarded her loss against Katrin Göring-Eckardt as a sign that Green lawmakers rejected a chance to reach out to Angela Merkel’s CDU as a possible coalition partner.
In late 2013, when the government announced its plan to significantly increase social expenditures for the current generation of pensioners, Andreae called this a "flagrant pillaging of pension funds" and a "socially unjust" burden on lower- and middle-income individuals.
In 2014, Andreae criticised the government’s approval of utility group RWE selling its oil and gas unit RWE Dea to investors led by Russia's second-richest man, Mikhail Fridman.
Education[edit]
After graduating from high school in 1988, Andreae studied political science and economics at the University of Freiburg. In 1988 she worked as press secretary and campaign manager to Wilfried Telkämper, the a Member of the European Parliament.
