Niema Movassat

Niema Movassat
Niema Movassat
	Movassat in 2014
Member of the German Bundestag from North Rhine-Westphalia
	In office; 2009–2021
Personal details
Born	22 August 1984 (age 40); Wuppertal, West Germany; (now Germany)
Political party	The Left

Niema Movassat (born 22 August 1984) is a German politician from The Left. He served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2009 to 2021.^[1]

Life

Movassat was born in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, as the son of an engineer and a radiographer, both of Iranian descent. At the age of three his family moved with him to Oberhausen. Here he first attended the Adolf-Feld-Grundschule and in 2004 he passed his Abitur at the Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium. He then studied law at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, which he completed in April 2009 with the First Legal Examination as Diplom-Jurist. He became member of the bundestag after the 2009 German federal election.^[2] He is a member of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection.^[3] In June 2020, Movassat announced that he would not seek a fourth term and stood down at the 2021 German federal election.^[4]

References

^ "Niema Movassat | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 17 March 2020.
^ Bundestag, Fraktion DIE LINKE im. "Profil". Fraktion DIE LINKE. im Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 17 March 2020.
^ "German Bundestag - Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection". German Bundestag. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
^ Movassat.de: Zeit für persönliche Veränderung, 15 June 2020 (German)