Gollaleh Ahmadi
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Gollaleh Ahmadi | |
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.jpg) Ahmadi in 2021 | |
| Member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin | |
| Assumed office 4 November 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gollaleh Ahmadi 1982 (age 43–44) |
| Party | Alliance 90/The Greens |
Gollaleh Ahmadi (born 1982) is a German politician of Alliance 90/The Greens who is serving as a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2021.
Ahmadi was born in Tehran in 1982. Her mother was a journalist and her father a car mechanic and trade union official. Her parents experienced political persecution because they were members of the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party of Iran; at times they were imprisoned or had to live undercover. The family fled to Germany in 1996, where they lived in a refugee shelter for three and a half years before settling in Fürstenwalde. Gollaleh completed her school education and passed the Abitur there in 2004. She then studied political science and the history and culture of the Middle East in Magdeburg, Frankfurt an der Oder, and Berlin.[1][2]
From 2009 to 2013, Ahmadi was spokeswoman for a German-Iranian student group campaigning for democracy and human rights in Iran. As part of an education campaign in Berlin, she led workshops on democratic education, anti-discrimination, anti-feminism and anti-racism.[1]
Between 2017 and 2019, Ahmadi worked in parliamentary offices of the Bundestag and the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin as a research assistant. She was also an interpreter at the department for justice in the Senate of Berlin. In 2019, she became officer manager for of a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus.[1]