Gyde Jensen
Member of the Bundestag
for Schleswig-Holstein
Assumed office
2017
ConstituencyFree Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born (1989-08-14) 14 August 1989 (age 34)
Rendsburg, West Germany
CitizenshipGerman
Political party German:
Free Democratic Party
 EU:
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Children1

Gyde Jensen (born 14 August 1989 in Rendsburg) is a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2017.

Education and early career

Jensen studied English, Political Science, and International Politics at the University of Kiel. After her studies, she worked in Geneva and Washington, D.C. as a communications consultant for the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, which is related to the FDP.[1][2]

Member of the Bundestag

Gyde Jensen, 2018

In May 2016, the state representative assembly of the Schleswig-Holstein FDP elected Jensen to fourth place in the list for the 2017 federal elections. Jensen won the election against former member of the Bundestag, Sebastian Blumenthal.[3] In the election, the FDP won three seats in the state of Schleswig-Holstein with 12.6 percent of the second votes.[4] When Bernd Klaus Buchholz, second on the list, resigned his candidacy to become Schleswig-Holstein's State Minister for Economic Affairs, Jensen took his place.[5]

At the time of her election in 2017, Jensen was the youngest female member of parliament.[6] From 2018 until 2021, she served as chairwoman of Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid,[7] making her the youngest chair of a committee in the history of the Bundestag.

In addition to her role in parliament, Jensen has been serving as member of the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2018. As member of the FDP, she is part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group. She is currently serving on the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, and the Sub-Committee on Human Right.[8]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Jensen was part of her party's delegation in the working group on foreign policy, defence, development cooperation and human rights, co-chaired by Heiko Maas, Omid Nouripour and Alexander Graf Lambsdorff.[9]

Since 2021, Jensen has been serving as one of six deputy chairpersons of the FDP parliamentary group under the leadership of its chairman Christian Dürr, where she oversees the group's activities on education policy.[10]

In addition to her committee assignments, Jensen is part of the German-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group. She is also part of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.[11]

Other activities

Political positions

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, Jensen joined forces with five other parliamentarians – Konstantin Kuhle, Andrew Ullmann, Dieter Janecek, Paula Piechotta and Kordula Schulz-Asche – on a cross-party initiative to support legislation that would require all those who have not had yet been vaccinated to receive counselling before later requiring all adults above 50 years to be vaccinated.[15][16]

Personal life

Jensen is married to FDP member of state parliament Dennys Bornhöft.[17] In September 2019, she gave birth to a daughter.[18]

External links

References

  1. ^ "Regionalbüro Lübeck". Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung. Archived from the original on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  2. ^ Gyde Jensen. "Über mich". Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  3. ^ Ulf Billmayer-Christen (20 May 2017). "Nord-FDP ebnet Kubicki den Weg nach Berlin". Kieler Nachrichten. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Informationen zur Wahl des 19. Deutschen Bundestags für Schleswig-Holstein – Vorläufiges Ergebnis für Schleswig-Holstein". Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Buchholz verzichtet auf Mandat". Lübecker Nachrichten. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Abgeordnete in Zahlen - Älteste, jüngste und dienstälteste Abgeordnete". Deutscher Bundestag. Archived from the original on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  7. ^ Deutscher Bundestag - Ausschuss für Menschenrechte und humanitäre Hilfe.
  8. ^ Gyde Jensen Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
  9. ^ Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP Archived 1 November 2021 at the Wayback Machine Deutschlandfunk, October 27, 2021.
  10. ^ Constanze von Bullion, Henrike Roßbach and Mike Szymanski (7 December 2021), Berliner Personalien: Neue Gesichter, unerwartete Namen Süddeutsche Zeitung.
  11. ^ Member Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.
  12. ^ Senate Leibniz Association.
  13. ^ Board of Trustees Aktion Deutschland Hilft.
  14. ^ Board of Trustees European Youth Parliament – Germany.
  15. ^ Severin Weiland (25 January 2022), Weiterer Gruppenantrag im Bundestag: Mehrere Abgeordnete von FDP und Grünen wollen Impfpflicht ab 50 Jahren Der Spiegel.
  16. ^ Riham Alkousaa (26 January 2022), German lawmakers debate compulsory COVID shots as infections surge Reuters.
  17. ^ "Gyde Jensen on Instagram: "🔗"". Instagram. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
  18. ^ "Baby im Parlament". Eckernförder Zeitung - 19.09.2019. Retrieved 22 December 2019.
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