Franziska Drohsel

Franziska Drohsel
Chairwoman of the Young Socialists in the SPD
In office
24 November 2007 – 18 June 2010
Preceded byBjörn Böhning
Succeeded bySascha Vogt
Personal details
Born (1980-06-01) 1 June 1980 (age 44)
Wedding, West Berlin, Germany
Political partySPD
Alma materHumboldt University of Berlin
OccupationLawyer, politician

Franziska Drohsel (born 1 June 1980 in Wedding, West Berlin[1]) is a German politician. From 24 November 2007 until 18 June 2010 she was chairperson of the Young Socialists in the SPD (also called "Jusos"), a division of the German Social Democratic Party.

Drohsel studied law, and including an Eramus exchange year at La Sapienza University, in Rome. After state legal exams in 2005, she became a doctoral student and researcher at Humboldt University of Berlin. She has been active with Jusos since 1995, and the SPD since 2001. She is also a member of the trade union ver.di. As a result of public pressure, a few days after being elected Jusos party chairperson, she gave up her membership to Rote Hilfe e.V. (a revival of the historical International Red Aid), which is considered to be a left-wing extremist organization by the German Verfassungsschutz.[2]

Drohsel earned a doctorate under Ulrich Battis [de] in 2010, with her dissertation "Vereinbarkeit gesetzlicher Öffnungsklauseln mit der Koalitionsfreiheit aus Art. 9 Abs. 3 GG." From April 2012 to March 2014, she was for the first time deputy chairwoman of the Steglitz-Zehlendorf SPD district association, and in March 2016 she took over this office again. Since February 23, 2016, she has additionally been deputy chairwoman of the Berlin-Lankwitz SPD within the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district association.[3] From 2015 to 2017, she worked for the law firm Gaßner, Groth, Siederer & Coll. and advised on construction planning and building regulation law, grant law, and constitutional law.[4] Since 2017, she has worked as a legal officer for the Federal Coordination of Specialized Counseling against Sexualized Violence in Childhood and Adolescence.[5]

  1. ^ "Berlinerin will Juso-Vorsitzende werden". Tagesspiegel. September 20, 1987.
  2. ^ "Linksextremismus: Juso-Chefin verlässt "Rote Hilfe"". Der Spiegel. 2007-12-01.
  3. ^ "SPD Lankwitz - Abteilung". 2016-06-08. Archived from the original on 2016-06-08. Retrieved 2022-10-24.
  4. ^ "Gaßner, Groth, Siederer & Coll.: Dr. Franziska Drohsel, LL.M." 2016-12-21. Archived from the original on 2016-12-21. Retrieved 2022-10-25.
  5. ^ "Geschäftsstelle - BKSF -". www.bundeskoordinierung.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-10-25.