Anna Lührmann
Anna Lührmann (born 14 June 1983 in Lich, Hesse) is a German political science professor and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since the 2021 elections. In addition to her work in parliament, she has been Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office in the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since December 8, 2021. Lührmann became the youngest-ever member of the German Parliament in 2002, as well as the youngest member of parliament in the world. As an academic, she later served as the Deputy  Director of the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute and Assistant Professor at the University of Gothenburg, and returned to politics in 2021, currently representing the Rheingau-Taunus-Limburg constituency in the German Bundestag. Political career. Lührmann first became involved in the Green Party at thirteen and her election came after a fast career in the youth organisation "Grün-Alternatives Jugendbündnis". Member of the German Parliament, 2002–2009. In parliament, Lührmann served on the Budget Committee from 2004 until 2009. In this capacity, she was her parliamentary group’s rapporteur on the annual budgets of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building  and Urban Affairs, the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology. Academic career. Lührmann began studying political sciences at FernUniversität Hagen, where she obtained her BA, followed by a MSc in Gender and Peace Studies from Ahfad University (Sudan), and a MA in Research Training in Social Sciences from Humboldt University. In 2015, she received her PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin. In August 2015, she joined the Varieties of Democracy Institute at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as Postdoctoral Research Fellow . Lührmann's  research interests include democratic resilience, autocracy, elections, regime legitimacy, and democracy aid and the United Nations. From 2009 until 2011 Lührmann advised the UNDP in Sudan on electoral and parliamentary issues. She is lead author of UNDP's handbook "Enhancing Youth Political Participation Throughout the Electoral Cycle A Good Practice Guide", published in 2013. Return to politics. Lührmann has been a member of the German Bundestag again since the 2021 elections. Political positions. Lührmann belongs to the moderate wing of the Green Party.