Franziska Drohsel (born 1 June 1980 in

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) is a German politician. From 24 November 2007 until 18 June 2010 she was

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of the

Young Socialists in the SPD Working Group of Young Socialists in the SPD (german: Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Jungsozialistinnen und Jungsozialisten in der SPD, Jusos) is a volunteer youth organization of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). As of 2021, there are over ...

(also called "Jusos"), a division of the

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. Drohsel studied law, and including an Eramus exchange year at

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, in

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. After state legal exams in 2005, she became a doctoral student and researcher at

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. She has been active with Jusos since 1995, and the SPD since 2001. She is also a member of the trade union

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. As a result of public pressure, a few days after being elected Jusos party chairperson, she gave up her membership to Rote Hilfe e.V. (a revival of the historical

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), which is considered to be a left-wing extremist organization by the German

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. Drohsel earned a

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under in 2010, with her dissertation "Vereinbarkeit gesetzlicher Öffnungsklauseln mit der Koalitionsfreiheit aus Art. 9 Abs. 3 GG." From April 2012 to March 2014, she was for the first time deputy chairwoman of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf

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district association, and in March 2016 she took over this office again. Since February 23, 2016, she has additionally been deputy chairwoman of the Berlin-Lankwitz SPD within the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district association. From 2015 to 2017, she worked for the law firm Gaßner, Groth, Siederer & Coll. and advised on construction planning and building regulation law, grant law, and constitutional law. Since 2017, she has worked as a legal officer for the Federal Coordination of Specialized Counseling against Sexualized Violence in Childhood and Adolescence.

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