Draft:Netzwerk Berlin

Netzwerk Berlin
Foundation	1999 (1999)
National affiliation	SPD
Spokesperson	Rasha Nasr Lina Seitzl Armand Zorn
Ideology	Progressivism
Political position	Centre
Website	netzwerkberlin.de

Netzwerk Berlin (trans. Berlin Network) is an association of SPD members who describe themselves as progressives. Its members are commonly referred to as Netzwerker. Alongside the Parlamentarische Linke (Parliamentary Left) and the Seeheimer Kreis, Netzwerk Berlin is one of the three main political currents within the SPD parliamentary group. Within the party, it is generally associated with the reformist wing.

The Netzwerk was founded in 1999 by ten SPD members of parliament between the ages of 23 and 43. The initiative came from Hans-Peter Bartels, Kurt Bodewig, and Hubertus Heil, together with Jürgen Neumeyer, who became the group's first managing director. Since the 18th legislative period, Netzwerk Berlin has consistently represented roughly one quarter of the members of the SPD parliamentary group, depending on the overall size of the faction.

Prominent representatives of Netzwerk Berlin have included former SPD party chairman Sigmar Gabriel, then parliamentary group leader and Vice President of the German Bundestag Thomas Oppermann, and current Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Carsten Schneider.

Former Vice President of the German Bundestag Aydan Özoğuz is also a member of Netzwerk Berlin.

The group's current spokespersons are Rasha Nasr, Lina Seitzl, and Armand Zorn.

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