Zoe Mayer

Zoe Mayer
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office
2021
Personal details
Born (1995-08-07) 7 August 1995 (age 30)
Karlsruhe, Germany
PartyAlliance 90/The Greens
Alma materKarlsruhe Institute of Technology

Zoe Mayer (born 7 August 1995) is a German engineer and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who has been a member of the Bundestag, the parliament of Germany, since the 2021 German federal election.[1] She was directly elected as member of parliament for Karlsruhe-Stadt.[2]

Early life and education

Mayer graduated with a master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2019 and has since been working on a PhD thesis about climate protection in the building sector.[3] She completed her dissertation on 02 February 2023.[4][5]

Political career

Career in local politics

Before being elected to the Bundestag,[1] Mayer served as head of her party's group in Karlsruhe city council, where she was first elected in 2014.[6]

Member of the German Parliament, 2021–present

In parliament, Mayer has been serving on the Committee on Food and Agriculture.

In addition to her committee assignments, Mayer has been one of the founding members of a cross-party group promoting a One Health approach since 2022.[7]

In February 2026, two weeks before the 2026 Baden-Württemberg state election, Zoe Mayer posted an outtake from a 2018 interview with a regional TV station on TikTok and Instagram featuring Manuel Hagel, then CDU secretary general and now candidate for Minister-President in the upcoming election and accused him for sexualizing underage girls in it.[8] The Greens candidate for the same election, Cem Özdemir defended Hagel and stated that Mayer did act on her own and not on behalf of the Green party.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b "Deutscher Bundestag - Zoe Mayer". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Bundestagswahl 2021: Wahlergebnis Karlsruhe-Stadt". Die Zeit. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Grünen-Kandidatin in Karlsruhe: Zoe Mayer für Klima- und Tierschutz". Badische Neueste Nachrichten (in German). 19 August 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  4. ^ Twittereintrag, 3. Februar 2023
  5. ^ Zoe Mayer (2023), Concepts and tools to improve the thermal energy performance of buildings and urban districts - diagnosis, assessment, improvement strategies and cost-benefit analyses, doi:10.5445/IR/1000158865, retrieved 24 February 2025
  6. ^ "In Karlsruhe setzt sich Grüne Zoe Mayer klar durch". Die Zeit. Archived from the original on 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  7. ^ Rudolph gründet Parlamentskreis mit Thüringer Allgemeine, 16 September 2022.
  8. ^ Susann Kreutzmann: "Die selbst inszenierte moralische Überlegenheit der Grünen hält der Realität nicht stand" NZZ, 25 February 2026.
  9. ^ Maren Haring : "Aussage über Schülerin: Kritik an Video-Ausschnitt von CDU-Spitzenkandidat Hagel" tagesschau.de, 25 February 2026.
  10. ^ "CDU-Kandidat wegen Spruch über Schülerin in der Kritik" dpa/Landtag-bw.de, 24 February 2026.


allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Mayer