Birgit Menz

Birgit Menz is a German politician of the Left Party who was from 2015 to 2017 a member of the Bundestag.

Early life and education

Menz was born on 16 May 1962 in Suhl, TH and since 1997 lives in Bremen. After visiting a polytechnic secondary school, she trained as a bookseller at a vocational school for bookselling, and graduated from the University of Applied Sciences for Bookselling. She later did various retraining programmes, and thanks to those, she currently works as a clerk in an engineering office.

Political work

Since the age of nineteen, Menz has been active in left-wing party politics, within the Party of [Democratic Socialism |Party of Democratic Socialism] on the executive committee, in auditing and as treasurer. She was participated in the local initiative "Stephanikreis Ladenschluss" against right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism.
She joined the Bundestag in March 2015 after Agnes Alpers had to resign from the political work due to a stroke she suffered. As part of her parliamentary work, she was Chairwoman of the Parliamentary Advisory Council on Sustainable Development, as well as a full member of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety and a deputy member of the Committee on Transport and Digital Infrastructure and the ''Committee on Education, Research and Technology Assessment.''