page_title: Frithjof Schmidt
section_title: Member of the Bundestag, 2009-present
hierarchical_section_title: Frithjof Schmidt / Political career / Member of the Bundestag, 2009-present
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Frithjof Schmidt 2008. English: Frithjof Schmidt.
context_page_description: Frithjof Schmidt is a German politician and member of the Alliance '90/The Greens group in the Bundestag. Between 2004 and 2009, he served as Member of the European Parliament for Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Greens.
context_section_description: In the 2009 German federal elections, Schmidt was elected into the Bundestag. He has since been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
  In his first term between 2009 and 2013, Schmidt was part of his parliamentary group’s leadership around co-chairs Renate Künast and Jürgen Trittin, in charge of foreign policy issues. He was re-elected to that position in 2013, this time under the leadership of Katrin Göring-Eckardt and Anton Hofreiter. Following the 2017 elections, he was replaced by Agnieszka Brugger; instead, he joined the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Sub-Committee on the United Nations.
  In addition to his committee assignments, Schmidt has been a member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) since 2018. A delegate of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group, he serves on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy. In this capacity, he authored a 2019 report on the use of digital technologies in the context of elections.
caption: Frithjof Schmidt
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