Stephanie Aeffner

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Stephanie Aeffner
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2021
Personal details
Born	(1976-04-29) 29 April 1976 (age 48) Donaueschingen, West Germany
Political party	Greens

Stephanie Aeffner (born 29 April 1976) is a German politician from Alliance 90/The Greens who has been serving as a Member of the German Bundestag since 2021.

Aeffner hails from Frankfurt.

In 2000 Aeffner began studying social pedagogy at the Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences, which she completed in 2006 as a qualified social worker. After working as a temporary worker in outpatient nursing, she worked from 2006 to 2009 as a quality manager in the Clinic for Surgery at the University Hospital Mannheim.

In the 2021 German federal election, Aeffner contested Pforzheim.^[1] She came in fourth place, but was elected to the Bundestag on the state list.^[2] In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), she was part of her party's delegation in the working group on social policy, co-chaired by Dagmar Schmidt, Sven Lehmann and Johannes Vogel.^[3]

In parliament, Aeffner has since been serving on the Committee on Labour and Social Affairs and the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development.^[4]

Aeffner has been dependent on a wheelchair since 1999.^[5]