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Alexander Bonde

Member of the German Parliament

Alexander Bonde, born on 12 January 1975, is one of the youngest members of the German Bundestag, the national parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Bonde’s first electoral term in the Bundestag began in September 2002. He got reelected in September 2005. He already serves on the Budget & Appropriations Committee and the Defence Committee.

Bonde is a member of Alliance 90/The Greens, the party of Joschka Fischer, Germany’s former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice-Chancellor. In the years 1998 - 2005 the Greens formed a joint governing coalition with Chancellor Schröder’s Social Democratic Party. Today they are one of the three opposition parties in the German Bundestag and are working on their return to power.

On the Budget & Appropriations Committee, Bonde is a “rapporteur” (roughly equivalent to being a member of a small subcommittee) for the fields of defence, homeland security, foreign affairs and the Chancellery. Moreover Bonde is “rapporteur-general” (roughly equivalent to chairing a small subcommittee) for economic cooperation and development. As a young parlamentarian Alexander Bonde frequently proposed and supported measures for more generational justice and a balanced budged.

On the Defence Committee, Bonde is responsible for the weapons systems of each of the military services, infrastructure and communication. On behalf of his party, he is responsible for North America and Asia on the Committee, and is a member of the subcommittee on Cooperation with the Business Community.

Alexander Bonde was born and grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau. Freiburg is located in the Black Forest region in the southwest of Germany, near the French and Swiss borders. His constituency is no. 284, “Emmendingen-Lahr”, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. The constituency covers 41 municipalities and stretches from the French border on the banks of the river Rhine to the mountains of the Black Forest in the west.

As a student, Alexander Bonde was granted a scholarship by the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange programme. In 1992/1993 he graduated from Kahuku High School in Hawaii, USA. It was during this time that his interest in international affairs in general and in North America and Asia in particular was sparked. Today he regularly participates in German-American and German-Asian activities. He is member of the board of the German-Atlantic-Association and member of the German-US, German-Japanese, German-Chinese, German-Korean and German-ASEAN Parliamentary Groups.

Following the exchange year, Bonde finished grammar school in Germany, carried out civilian service at a home for disabled children, and studied law and public administration in Freiburg and Kehl. In 2001 and 2002 he worked for the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament and founded a small firm specialising in campaign management.