Niels Annen
Niels Annen born on the 6th April 1973 is a German politician and member of the SPD.
Political Career[edit]
Annen served as the national chairman of the SPD’s youth wing from 2001 to 2004. Annen was elected to the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, at the 2005 election, representing Hamburg Eimsbüttel. In parliament, he served on the foreign affairs committee. He was deselected for the 2009 election, losing a selection convention by 45 votes to 44 to Daniel Ilkhanipour, who lost the seat at the 2009 election to the CDU candidate Rüdiger Kruse.
Further Information[edit]
Annen had been criticised as a “perpetual student in the Bundestag”, after dropping out of a History degree course which he had been studying for 14 years. After 2008 he obtained a bachelor’s degree in history from the Humboldt University of Berlin, with a thesis on the resettlement of Baltic Germans during World War 2 and a master’s degree in International Public Policy from John Hopkins University in the United States in 2011. He returned to the Bundestag at the 2013 election, regaining the Hamburg Eimsbüttel district from the CDU.
