24 Facts About Anke Domscheit-Berg

Anke Domscheit-Berg is a German politician and activist.

Anke Domscheit-Berg has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017, when she was elected on the party list of The Left, without being a party member.

Anke Domscheit-Berg joined the party in 2021 following her nomination to the top female position on the party election list in the state of Brandenburg.

Anke Domscheit-Berg grew up as daughter of an art historian and a doctor in Muncheberg, East Germany.

From 2008 to 2011, Anke Domscheit-Berg was active as a lobbyist for Microsoft in Germany.

Anke Domscheit-Berg aims to promote the decentralised development of fibre-optic networks in Germany.

Anke Domscheit-Berg was a freelance policy advisor at the World Future Council on the topic of violence against women and girls and an honorary member of the think-tank of the German NGO Welthungerhilfe.

From August 2013 to July 2014, Anke Domscheit-Berg was chair of the Pirate Party in Brandenburg.

Anke Domscheit-Berg was defeated in the constituency by CDU candidate Dietlind Tiemann, but was elected as a member of the Bundestag via the party list.

Anke Domscheit-Berg is the chair of the Left group in the Bundestag's 'Digital Agenda' committee.

Anke Domscheit-Berg is chairwoman of the Left Party in the "Digital Agenda" committee and deputy member of the committees on education, research, technology impacts, transport and digital infrastructure, and the "Artificial Intelligence" Commission of Inquiry.

Anke Domscheit-Berg wanted to avoid the false impression that it was tactically motivated to promote her candidacy.

Anke Domscheit-Berg is committed to gender equality in all areas of society.

Anke Domscheit-Berg worked on the Women Matter study, which focussed on the influence of top female executives on corporate success.

Anke Domscheit-Berg was a founding member of the initiative FidAR, which campaigns for a statutory quota for women on supervisory boards and from 2003 to 2010 she was a member of the extended board of the non-partisan women's initiative Berlin - Stadt der Frauen.

Anke Domscheit-Berg called for a 'gender equality law for the private sector and a gender quota for supervisory boards.

Anke Domscheit-Berg trained female managers at large companies and gave lectures on the topic at universities.

Anke Domscheit-Berg is calling for public administration data, provided it is not personal or security-relevant, to be accessible on the Internet without a licence and in machine-readable form.

Anke Domscheit-Berg is active in the action platform 'Berlin Open Data' and was a jury member of the first German apps competition, Apps4Berlin, as well as the EU Open Data Challenge.

Anke Domscheit-Berg is one of the supporters of the Charter of Fundamental Digital Rights of the European Union, which was published at the end of November 2016.

Anke Domscheit-Berg has been married to former WikiLeaks spokesperson and author Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who wanted to set up his revelation platform with OpenLeaks, since summer 2010.

Anke Domscheit-Berg welcomed the fact that WikiLeaks is working towards the goal of transparent governments and states by publishing government documents and explained details about the authentication of the documents sent to WikiLeaks.

Anke Domscheit-Berg regretted that there is no term with a positive connotation in German that corresponds to the English 'whistleblower'.

The Senate stated on its website: 'The manager and lobbyist for women Anke Domscheit-Berg Domscheit received the 2010 Women's Prize for her many years of professional, political and journalistic commitment to the networking of women and the promotion of equality in business.