Heike Hänsel (born 1 January 1966) is a German politician, representing The Left. Born in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, Heike Hänsel served as a member of the

Bundestag The Bundestag (, "Federal Diet") is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons ...

from the state of

from 2005 to 2021.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1985 at the Gymnasium am Romäusring in Villingen-Schwenningen, Heike Hänsel began studying Catholic theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. In 1990, she moved to the Justus Liebig University in Gießen, where she studied ecotrophology, which she completed in 1997 as a graduate ecotrophologist. Hansel has been active in the peace movement since 1988. From 1997 she worked for the Society for the Culture of Peace and was an election observer on behalf of the OSCE. She has been involved in the

Attac The Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financières et pour l'Action Citoyenne (''Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions and Citizen's Action'', ATTAC) is an activist organisation originally created to promote the e ...

movement, which is critical of globalization, since 2001. From 2001 to 2003, she was a member of the Attac Germany coordination group and from 2004 to 2005 spokeswoman for the EU-AG of Attac Germany. Heike Hänsel has been a member of the Bundestag since 2005. She is a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. She is vice-chairwoman of her parliamentary group and spokeswoman for international relations. She lost her seat at the

2021 German federal election Federal elections in Germany, Federal elections were held in Germany on 26 September 2021 to elect the members of the List of members of the 20th Bundestag, 20th Bundestag. States of Germany, State elections in 2021 Berlin state election, Berli ...

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