Gerhard Schick (born 18 April 1972) is a German economist and finance expert who heads Finance Watch Deutschland. He previously served as a member of the German

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for the

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Education and early career

After completing his secondary school education in 1991 at the Gymnasium Hechingen, Schick completed his Community Service and graduated in 1992. Between 1992 and 1998 Schick continued with his economics education at the

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and

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where he was awarded his

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in Economics. Subsequently, until 2001 he was a research associate at the Walter Eucken Institute Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and then from 2001 to 2004 the Market Economy Foundation in Berlin. In 2002 he was awarded a

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in Finance from the

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially ), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The university was founded in 1457 by the Habsburg ...

for his work on "Dual Federalism in Europe". In 2004 he joined the

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as a project manager.

Political career

Schick has been a member of the

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since the 2005 federal elections, representing

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

. He has been regularly elected from the land list, having unsuccessfully contested the Mannheim constituency. Schick has been the

Alliance 90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (, ), often simply referred to as Greens (, ), is a Green (politics), green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of the Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (formed in East Ger ...

parliamentary group's spokesman on financial policy since 2007. From its inception in 2008, he has been a member of the Financial Markets Panel, which provides parliamentary oversight of the Financial Market Stabilization Agency (FMSA). Following the 2013 federal elections, he was elected deputy chairman of the Finance Committee. * October 2008 - Member of the Alliance 90/The Greens Party Council. * September 2007 - Speaker of the fiscal Alliance 90/The Greens parliamentary group. * April 2006 - Member of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (Chairman since 2007). * February 2006 - February 2007 - Member of the Commission in the federal executive of Alliance 90/The Greens to reduce bureaucracy. * October 2005 - Member of the German Bundestag

Bündnis 90/Die Grünen Alliance 90/The Greens (, ), often simply referred to as Greens (, ), is a Green (politics), green political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of the Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (formed in East Ger ...

. * June 2005 - Member of the Program Committee of the Bundestag Program 2005. * November 2004 - February 2006 - Member of the Commission on Demographic Change of Alliance 90/The Greens. * July 2003 - September 2004 - Member of the Economic Policy Commission of Alliance 90/The Greens. * November 2002 - May 2003 - Member of the Social Commission of Alliance 90/The Greens. * September / October 2002 - Member of the negotiating teams for Economic and Labor in the coalition negotiations between Bündnos90/The Greens and the

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. * April 2001 - June 2007 - Speaker of the Federal Association for Economic and Financial Affairs of Alliance 90/The Greens. * February 2000 - May 2001 - Speaker of the State Association of Economy and Finance of Alliance 90/The Greens in Baden-Wuerttemberg. * October 1999 - Candidacy for Freiburg Council. * Since October 1996 - Member of Alliance 90/The Greens. Additional to this he has written several publications. In September 2018, Schick announced that he would resign from his parliamentary seat. He resigned by the end of 2018.

Finance Watch Deutschland

Schick led the creation of a new nongovernmental Organisation called "Bürgerbewegung Finanzwende" (Finance Watch Deutschland), which cooperates with Finance Watch.

Other activities

Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund The Nuclear Waste Disposal Fund () is a German federal fund to manage the financial endowment for long-term nuclear waste storage sites. The fund is organised as a trust and falls into the remit of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Ene ...

, Alternate Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2018) * Institut Solidarische Moderne (ISM), Member (since 2010)Members
Institut Solidarische Moderne (ISM).

Notes

External links

Website by Gerhard Schick

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schick, Gerhard 1972 births Living people People from Hechingen German gay politicians Members of the Bundestag for Baden-Württemberg LGBTQ members of the Bundestag German LGBTQ rights activists Members of the Bundestag 2013–2017 Members of the Bundestag 2009–2013 Members of the Bundestag 2005–2009 Members of the Bundestag for Alliance 90/The Greens Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Complutense University of Madrid alumni