Tobias Bacherle | |
Office: | Member of the Bundestag |
Term Start: | 2021 |
Birth Date: | 1994 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Herrenberg, Germany |
Party: | Alliance 90/The Greens |
Nationality: | German |
Tobias Björn Bacherle (born 18 October 1994) is a German politician representing Alliance 90/The Greens. He was elected to the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election.[1]
Born in Herrenberg, Bacherle grew up in Sindelfingen. After passing the Abitur school leavers' exam in 2013 at, he attended the University of Tübingen, where he studied political science, taking minors in Islamic studies, languages, history and culture of the Middle East, as well as media science.[2]
Before his election to the Bundestag, Bacherle worked as a political advisor to the MEP Michael Bloss.[3]
He is the co-founder of the voluntary organisation Dit is schade, which aims to promote local culture in Sindelfingen.[4]
Bacherle was elected to the town council of Sindelfingen in 2014, and became the chairperson of the Alliance 90/The Greens group in 2019.[5]
From 2014 to 2015, he was speaker for the Green Youth in the district of Böblingen, and from 2016 to 2019 a member of the executive committee of the Green Youth in Baden-Württemberg.
In the German federal elections of 2017 and 2021, Bacherle ran as a direct candidate in the electoral district of Böblingen, where he lost both times to Marc Biadacz. In 2021, however, he was elected to the Bundestag through the Baden-Württemberg party list of Alliance 90/The Greens, having been appointed 10th place.[6]
In addition to his committee assignments, Bacherle is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the Maghreb States.