Lennard Oehl

Lennard Oehl (born 1 June 1993 in Frankfurt) is a German economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and has been serving as a member of the Bundestag since 2021.^[1]

Lennard Oehl
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2021
Personal details
Born	(1993-06-01) 1 June 1993 (age 30) Frankfurt, Germany
Political party	SPD

Education and Profession

Oehl attended primary school in Ostheim from 1999 to 2003. In 2011 he took part in the UNIS World Student Conference in New York. He received his Abitur at the Hohe Landesschule in Hanau in 2012. From 2013 to 2019, Oehl was a speaker for Christoph Degen, who at the time was a member of the Landtag of Hesse for the SPD. Oehl studied economics and received his Bachelor's degree in 2017. In 2017/18 he had a semester abroad in Łódź. In 2019, he graduated with a Master's degree.^[2] He then worked as an analyst for a financial data service provider in Frankfurt.^[3][4]

Political career

In 2016, Oehl was elected to the Nidderau city council.^[5] He has been chairman of the Young Socialists in the SPD Main-Kinzig-Kreis since 2018.^[4][6]

Oehl became member of the Bundestag in the 2021 elections, representing the Hanau district.^[4] In parliament, he has since been serving on the Finance Committee.^[7]

In the 2021 Bundestag election, he won the direct mandate in the Hanau (electoral district) with 31.1% of the first-past-the-post votes and entered the 20th German Bundestag.^[8][9] He is a member of the Finance Committee and a substitute member of the Budget Committee as well as the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection.^[10]

Political positions

In the 2021 federal election, he focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, housing, environment, infrastructure and digitalisation.^[11] He called for the "burdens of the crisis (pandemic) to be distributed more fairly" and for affordable rents to be made possible.^[12][13]

Other activities

• Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2022)^[14]

References

1. Junge SPD-Kandidaten ziehen in den Bundestag: "Wir wollen der Politik ein anderes Gesicht geben" Hessenschau, 29 September 2021.
2. "»Deutscher Bundestag 20. Wahlperiode«" (PDF). Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
3. "»Jan Lennard Oehl, MDB«". SPD Hessen (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
4. "»Lennard Oehl«". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
5. "»Lennard Oehl«". SPD Nidderau (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
6. "» Lennard Oehl als Kreisvorsitzender der Jusos wiedergewählt «". SPD Main Kinzig (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
7. "»Finanzausschuss«". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
8. "»Bundeswahltag 2021«". Die Bundeswahlleiterin (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
9. "»Wahlkreis 180: Jan Lennard Oehl (SPD) holt sich das Direktmandat«". Kinzig News (in German). 26 October 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
10. "»Lennard Oehl«". abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
11. "»Perspektive Hasselroth«" (PDF). SPD Hasselroth (in German). Retrieved 29 June 2023.
12. "»SPD an Main und Kinzig wählt neuen Unterbezirksvorstand«". SPD Main Kinzig (in German). 31 May 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
13. "»Bezahlbares Wohnen«". SPD Hammersbach (in German). 10 September 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
14. Political Advisory Board Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

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