Lisa Paus

Elisabeth "Lisa" Paus (born 19 September 1968 in Rheine, Germany)[1] is a German politician of the Alliance '90/The Greens. Since 2009 she has been a member of the German parliament.

Lisa Paus
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1968-09-19) 19 September 1968
Rheine, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
(now Germany)
CitizenshipGerman
Nationality Germany
Political partyAlliance '90/The Greens
Alma materFree University of Berlin

Early life and education

After graduating from high school she volunteered for one year at an orphanage in Hamburg, Germany. She then moved to Berlin to study at the Free University. She graduated in 1999 with a master's degree in economics.

From 1997 until 1999, Paus worked for Frieder Otto Wolf who was a member of the European Parliament and Germany's Green Party. In 2005 she became a teacher at the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Political career

Career in state politics

In 1995, Paus joined Germany's Green Party, Alliance '90/The Greens. She was involved in the party in various forms. In the 1999 state elections, she was elected to the State Parliament of Berlin. There she was her parliamentary group's spokesperson on economic policy.

Member of the German Parliament, 2009–present

Paus has been a Member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 federal elections. She is a member of the Finance Committee and within the committee she is the Green's spokesperson. In her first term between 2009 and 2013, she also served on the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union.

On the Finance Committee, Paus was involved in the parliamentary inquiry into the Wirecard scandal from 2020 until 2021; following the inquiry's completion, she co-authored a 675-page report together with Florian Toncar and Fabio De Masi.[2]

In addition to her committee assignments, Paus has served as deputy chairwoman of the German-Irish Parliamentary Friendship Group (since 2014) and of the Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with Malta and Cyprus (since 2018). She is also a member of the German-Italian Parliamentary Friendship Group and the German-Slovenian Parliamentary Group.

Ahead of the national elections in 2017[3] and 2021,[4] Paus was elected to lead her party's campaign in the state of Berlin.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democrats (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Paus led her party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget; her co-chairs from the other parties were Doris Ahnen and Christian Dürr.[5]

Since 2021, Paus has been serving as one her parliamentary group's deputy chairs, under the leadership of co-chairs Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge, where she oversees the group's activities on financial policy, economic and social affairs.[6]

Other activities

Personal life

In 2009, Paus had her first child. The child's father died of cancer in 2013.[7]

References
  1. "Lisa Paus, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen" (in German). Deutscher Bundestag. Archived from the original on 27 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
  2. Martin Greive, Jan Hildebrand and Felix Holtermann (7 June 2021), Wirecard-Skandal: „Die Behörden haben auf der falschen Seite mitgespielt“ Handelsblatt.
  3. Jens Anker (25 March 2017), Berliner Grüne: Lisa Paus deklassiert Bettina Jarasch Berliner Morgenpost.
  4. Julius Betschka (21 March 2021), So lief der Parteitag der Berliner Grünen: Bundestagsabgeordnete Lisa Paus wird mit 98 Prozent zur Spitzenkandidatin gewählt Der Tagesspiegel.
  5. Andreas Apetz and Thomas Kaspar (22 October 2021), Ampel-Koalition: Alle Verantwortlichen, AGs und Themen im Überblick Frankfurter Rundschau.
  6. Grüne Bundestagsfraktion wählt Fraktionsvorstand Parliamentary Group of the Green Party, press release of 7 December 2021.
  7. Klaus Wallbaum (13 November 2014), Bundestag macht Mut zur Meinung Hannoversche Allgemeine.

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