13 Facts About Franziska Brantner

Franziska Katharina Brantner was born on 24 August 1979 and is a German politician of the Green Party who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 2013.

Franziska Brantner was a Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2013.

In 2010, Franziska Brantner defended her PhD thesis "The reformability of the United Nations" at the University of Mannheim where she used to be a research associate at the department for Political Science II of Prof.

Franziska Brantner worked as a consultant for the United Nations Development Fund for Women, the Women's Rights Organisation of the UN.

In 2010, Franziska Brantner was co-author of a study concerning the EU Human Rights Policy on behalf of the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Franziska Brantner speaks fluent French, English and Spanish and is able to communicate in Hebrew.

In 1996, Franziska Brantner became a member of the Green Party Youth at the age of 17.

Franziska Brantner then was part of the Green Party's local administration in Baden-Wurttemberg and their Federal Board.

Franziska Brantner is a member of the General Assembly of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, was member of the Peace and Security Commission of the Green national party and was one of the authors of the party's manifesto for the European election in 2009.

Franziska Brantner was her group's chief negotiator for the establishment of the European External Action Service.

Between 2014 and 2017, Franziska Brantner served as chairwoman of the parliamentary Sub-Committee for Civilian Crisis Prevention and as member of the Committee on Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

Franziska Brantner is part of the Elie Wiesel Network of Parliamentarians for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities and against Genocide Denial.

Franziska Brantner voted against participation in EUTM Somalia.