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Franziska Mascheck (born 4 February 1979 in Dresden)[1] is a German dancer, social worker and politician for the SPD and since 2021 member of the German Bundestag, the federal diet.
Life
[edit]Mascheck was born 1979 in the East German city of Dresden and grew up with her two siblings in Schwedt/Oder.[2] She is of Protestant denomination.[1] She is a granddaughter of the aerodynamics scientists Hans-Joachim Mascheck and a descendant of the founders of the dye works Oskar Mascheck, known in Saxony. She became member of the Bundestag in 2021.[3]
She completed a four-year ballet degree at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden. Following that she worked as a dancer in New York and Austin.[2]
After returning to Germany, Mascheck founded the children's and youth dance theater tanzbasis in Berlin. She studied social work and holds a bachelor's degree in it from the Catholic University of Social Sciences in Berlin[4] and is also a trained Montessori teacher.[2]
In 2016, she moved with her husband, the mime artist Marc Mascheck, and their four children to Linda, where they bought a four-sided farm and founded KulturGut Linda e.V..[2]
Politics
[edit]Mascheck has held a seat on the local council in Kohren-Sahlis and the Frohburg city council since 2019.[5][6] She is involved in the town twinning of Kohren-Sahlis with Montottone, Italy.[7]
In 2021, Mascheck was elected deputy district chair of the SPD in the Leipzig district together with Carlo Hohnstedter.[8] Most recently, she has worked freelance for the Children and Youth Foundation of Saxony. She also completed a master’s degree in social work at the Mittweida University of Applied Sciences from 2018 to 2021.[1][2]
In the 2021 federal election, Mascheck ran in the federal electoral district Leipzig-Land (154) and received 20% of the first votes as the third-place finisher. She entered the 20th German Bundestag via 8th place on the state list of the SPD Saxony.[9] She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021 and is a full member of the Committee for Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Municipalities.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c ""Franziska Mascheck, SPD - Sozialarbeiterin"". bundestag.de (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ a b c d e ""SPD-Kandidatin Franziska Mascheck aus Frohburg will den ländlichen Raum stärken"". lvz.de (in German). 24 August 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Franziska Mascheck".
- ^ ""Franziska Mascheck"". linkedin.com (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ ""Stadt-/ Gemeinde- und Ortschaftsräte"". spd-leipzig-land.de (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ ""Die Mitglieder des 7. Stadtrates der Stadt Frohburg; Legislaturperiode 2019 - 2024:"". frohburg.de (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ ""Über mich"" (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ ""SPD im Leipziger Land stellt die Weichen für die nächsten zwei Jahre"". spd-leipzig-land.de (in German). 11 July 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ ""Bundestagswahl 2021"". bundeswahlleiter.de (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.
- ^ ""Ausschuss für Wohnen, Stadtentwicklung, Bauwesen und Kommunen"". bundestag.de (in German). Retrieved 14 October 2022.