Anna Lührmann

Anna Lührmann (born 14 June 1983 in Lich, Hesse) is a German political science professor and former politician. She became the youngest-ever member of the German Parliament in 2002,[1] as well as the youngest member of parliament in the world. As an academic, she 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. [2]

Anna Lührmann (2021)

Political Career

She became involved in the Green Party at thirteen and her election came after a fast career in the youth organisation Grün-Alternatives Jugendbündnis. She belongs to the moderate wing of the Green Party. From 2009 - 2011 she advised 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.[3]

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. [4] In August 2015, she joined the Varieties of Democracy Institute at the Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, as Postdoctoral Research Fellow .[5] Lührmann's research interests include democratic resilience, autocracy, elections, regime legitimacy, and democracy aid and the United Nations. [6] [7]

References
  1. Paterson, Tony (2002-10-05). "Germany's youngest MP to take seat for Greens at 19". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-05-09.
  2. "About Me". Anna Luehrmann.de. 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  3. http://www.youthpolicy.org/library/documents/enhancing-youth-political-participation-throughout-the-electoral-cycle-a-good-practice-guide/
  4. "Anna Lührmann". Open Democracy. 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-08-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Wolfgang Merkel and Anna Luhrmann on the Resilience of Democracies". CEU Democracy Institute. n.d. Retrieved December 1, 2021.
  7. [anna-luehrmann.de "Forschung"] Check |url= value (help). Anna Luehrmann.de. 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2021.

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