Patrick Breyer

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Patrick Breyer
Patrick Breyer in 2019
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein
In office 6 May 2012 – 6 May 2017
Personal details
Born	Patrick Olaf Breyer[1] (1977-04-29) 29 April 1977 (age 47) Frankfurt am Main, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	Germany: Pirate Party Germany EU Party: European Pirate Party EU Parliament group: Greens/EFA

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Patrick Breyer (born 29 April 1977) is a German digital rights activist, jurist, Pirate Party Germany politician, and – since 2019 – Member of the European Parliament (MEP).^[2] From 2012 to 2017 he was a member of the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein and from April 2016 until the end of the legislative period he was also the leader of the Pirate group in that assembly.^[3] Breyer is one of four European Pirate Party MEPs in the 2019–2024 term along with three Czech Pirate Party members, all of whom are members of the Greens / EFA parliamentary group.