Hans-Christian Ströbele

Hans-Christian Ströbele
Member of the German Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 1998
Personal details
Born	7 June 1939 (1939-06-07) (age 72) Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
Nationality	Germany
Political party	Alliance '90/The Greens
Alma mater	Free University of Berlin
Occupation	Lawyer
Website	www.stroebele-online.de

Hans-Christian Ströbele (born 7 June 1939) is a German politician and lawyer. He is a member of the German Green party.

Ströbele studied law and political science in Heidelberg and at the Free University of Berlin. Has practiced law since 1969 in Berlin. He was a member of the "Socialist Lawyers' Collective" for ten years, and has defended political criminals for thirty years, including members of the terrorist Red Army Faction.

In the late 1960s he was involved in the student movement. From 1970 to 1974, he was a member of the SPD. He co-founded the "Alternative List for Democracy and Environmental Protection," a predecessor to the Berlin chapter of the Greens. He was a member of the Bundestag from 31 March 1985 until 1987 and has been a member again since 1998. In 2002, he became the first Green politician ever to be directly elected to the Bundestag when he received a plurality of the votes in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Prenzlauer Berg East constituency. He was reelected in 2005 and 2009. He was one of the vice-leaders of the Green caucus in the Bundestag.

External links

• Website of Hans-Christian Ströbele
• Biography from German Bundestag

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Name	Strobele, Hans-Christian
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Date of birth	7 June 1939
Place of birth	Halle, Saxony-Anhalt
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