Ana-Maria Trăsnea (born 15 March 1994) is a Romanian-German politician (

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). From May 2023 to March 2024, she was a

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. Prior to that, from 2021 to 2023, she served as the State of Berlin’s Representative to the

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and as State Secretary for Civic Engagement, Democracy Promotion, and International Affairs in the

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of Governing Mayor

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Early life and education

Trăsnea was born in

Piatra Neamț Piatra Neamț (; ; ) is the capital city of Neamț County, in the historical region of Western Moldavia, in northeastern Romania. Because of its very privileged location in the Divisions of the Carpathians, Eastern Carpathian mountains, it is con ...

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. Her parents split up when she was a child; her mother went to work in Germany, her father to work to

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. She grew up at her aunt until she was 13 years old. Trăsnea came to Germany from Romania in 2007. She attended the Emmy-Noether-Gymnasium in the

Treptow-Köpenick Treptow-Köpenick () is the ninth Boroughs of Berlin, borough of Berlin, Germany, formed in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform by merging the former boroughs of Treptow and Köpenick. The borough was formerly part of East Berlin. Overview Among ...

district of Berlin, where she obtained her Abitur in 2013. She then studied cultural studies at the

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from 2013 to 2018 and obtained a bachelor's degree, spending the winter semester 2015/2016 at the

University of Salamanca The University of Salamanca () is a public university, public research university in Salamanca, Spain. Founded in 1218 by Alfonso IX of León, King Alfonso IX, it is the oldest university in the Hispanic world and the fourth oldest in the ...

in Spain. She then completed a master’s degree in European Studies at the

from 2017 to 2021, which is on hold. From 2016 to 2019, parallel to her studies, she was a project-related workshop leader for various youth-political educational projects of the "Forum Politics and Society" in the "Political Dialogue" department of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation Berlin. In 2019, Trăsnea was a student assistant in the Strategic Planning Unit of the Management Staff at the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. From 2020 to 2021 she was personal assistant to the State Secretary for Youth and Family, Sigrid Klebba, in the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family.

Political career

Trăsnea joined the

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while she was at school and was involved in the initiative School without Racism from 2007 to 2013, organizing, among other things, an anti-racism working group at her school. Trăsnea was a member of the Treptow-Köpenick district assembly from 2016 to 2021, where she was deputy leader of the SPD parliamentary group from 2019 and leader of the parliamentary group from 2021. In 2020 she was awarded the Helene Weber Prize. In the 2021 federal election, she ran as a

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in the Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick constituency, but was not directly elected. As she was in sixth place in the state list, she initially missed entry into the Bundestag. From December 2021 to April 2023, Trăsnea was the representative of the State of Berlin at the federal level and State Secretary for Volunteering, Democracy Promotion and International Affairs in the Berlin Senate Chancellery. On 16 May 2023, Trăsnea moved into the German Bundestag replacing

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. At the 2025 Federal election she ran in the district of Berlin-Treptow-Köpenick. She was defeated by long-time

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politician

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, coming in fourth behind Gysi, as well as the

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and CDU candidates.

External links

Personal Website

References

1994 births Living people People from Piatra Neamț Social Democratic Party of Germany politicians Members of the Bundestag for Berlin Female members of the Bundestag 21st-century German politicians 21st-century German women politicians 21st-century Romanian politicians 21st-century Romanian women politicians Romanian emigrants to Germany European University Viadrina alumni University of Salamanca alumni {{DEFAULTSORT:Trasnea, Ana-Maria