Tobias Bacherle | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Herrenberg, Germany | 18 October 1994
Political party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
Tobias Björn Bacherle (born 18 October 1994) is a German politician representing Alliance 90/The Greens. He was elected to the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election. [1]
Born in Herrenberg, Bacherle grew up in Sindelfingen. After passing the Abitur school leavers' exam in 2013 at Gymnasium in den Pfarrwiesen , he attended the University of Tübingen, where he studied political science, taking minors in Islamic studies, languages, history and culture of the Middle East, as well as media science. [2]
Before his election to the Bundestag, Bacherle worked as a political advisor to the MEP Michael Bloss. [3]
He is the co-founder of the voluntary organisation Dit is schade, which aims to promote local culture in Sindelfingen. [4]
Bacherle was elected to the town council of Sindelfingen in 2014, and became the chairperson of the Alliance 90/The Greens group in 2019. [5]
From 2014 to 2015, he was speaker for the Green Youth in the district of Böblingen, and from 2016 to 2019 a member of the executive committee of the Green Youth in Baden-Württemberg.
In the German federal elections of 2017 and 2021, Bacherle ran as a direct candidate in the electoral district of Böblingen, where he lost both times to Marc Biadacz. In 2021, however, he was elected to the Bundestag through the Baden-Württemberg party list of Alliance 90/The Greens, having been appointed 10th place. [6]
In addition to his committee assignments, Bacherle is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Maghreb States.