 hans-christian strÃ¶bele, , (born 7 june 1939) is a german politician and lawyer. he is a member of the german green party. ==education and early career== strÃ¶bele studied law and political science in heidelberg and at the free university of berlin. he has practiced law since 1969 in berlin. in the late 1960s he was involved in the student movement. from 1970 to 1974, he was a member of the spd. he was also a member of the "socialist lawyers' collective" for ten years, and rose to national fame defending militants of the urban guerrilla group red army faction and other defended political activists.harriet torry and paul sonne (november 1, 2013), germany open to speaking to snowden "wall street journal". in 1983, strÃ¶bele was convicted by the berlin district court of supporting terrorist groups through his smuggling of information between members serving in prison. the court concluded that strÃ¶bele had helped decisively to keep the groups active during their time in prison. == beginnings of the green party == strÃ¶bele co-founded the "alternative list for democracy and environmental protection," a predecessor to the berlin chapter of the greens. he was a member of the bundestag from 31 march 1985 until 1987 (the end of the term). on the berlin state level, he helped facilitating the red-green coalition of 1989/1990. strÃ¶bele became the partyâs spokesman in june 1990 but he stood down in february 1991 after opposing the persian gulf war. this included opposition to the delivery of patriot missiles to israel during an official visit of the party in the country. as of 1992 he continued as assemblyman of the greens in the tiergarten borough of berlin. == member of parliament, 1998- == in 1998, when the greens became the junior partner in a government led by gerhard schrÃ¶der, strÃ¶bele entered the german parliament (bundestag) again through his place on the green party's electoral list. since then, he has been a member of the parliamentary control panel, which provides parliamentary oversight of germanyâs in
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