Sabrina Repp

German politician (born 1999)
Sabrina Repp
Member of the European Parliament
for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office
16 July 2024
Personal details
Born (1999-02-01) 1 February 1999 (age 25)
Tessin, Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party (since 2019)
Other political
affiliations
Party of European Socialists
Alma materTU Dresden
University of Rostock

Sabrina Repp (born 1 February 1999) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1]

Early life and career

Repp was born in Tessin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in 1999.[2][3] Her father is a painter and her mother is a cleaner.[4][5] She graduated from TU Dresden with a bachelor's degree in political science in 2021, and from the University of Rostock with a master's degree in political science in 2023.[3] She has been serving as deputy chair of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern branch of Jusos since 2022, and previously served as chair of Jusos in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge (2019–2020), and as deputy chair of Jusos in Saxony (2019–2021).[3]

In October 2023, Repp was nominated as the European candidate for the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.[6] In January 2024, she was elected to 11th place on the national SPD list at a conference in Berlin. It is the first time in years that the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has been able to secure a safe place on the list.[7] In advance, the SPD Mecklenburg-Vorpommern had reached an agreement with the SPD of Saxony-Anhalt, which continues to not be directly represented in the European Parliament. The Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Manuela Schwesig, and the SPD's top candidate, Katarina Barley, supported Repp's candidacy.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Europawahl 2024: Alle Gewählte in alphabetischer Reihenfolge". Federal Returning Officer.
  2. ^ "Sozialdemokraten bitten in Güstrow zum Gespräch". Nordkurier. April 22, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Unsere Europaabgeordnete: Sabrina Repp". SPD Lübtheen.
  4. ^ "EU-Kandidatin Repp will Sitz für die SPD in Brüssel holen". Norddeutscher Rundfunk. May 21, 2024.
  5. ^ "Überraschung bei MV-SPD: Kandidatin für EU-Wahl vorn auf Bewerberliste". Norddeutscher Rundfunk. January 26, 2024.
  6. ^ Ramp, Pele. "Rostock: Sabrina Repp ist SPD-Kandidatin für Wahl zum Europaparlament". www.ostsee-zeitung.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  7. ^ NDR. "Überraschung bei MV-SPD: Kandidatin für EU-Wahl vorn auf Bewerberliste". www.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  8. ^ "SPD-Europapolitikerin Barley macht Kandidatin aus MV Mut". Süddeutsche.de (in German). 2024-03-06. Retrieved 2024-09-08.