Zohra Mojadeddi
Zohra Mojadeddi | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Hamburg Parliament | |
| In office 2020â2025 | |
| Constituency | State list |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1969 (age 56â57) Afghanistan |
| Party | Alliance 90/The Greens Hamburg |
| Occupation | Politician |
Zohra Mojadeddi (born 1969) is a German Greens politician who served as a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2020 until 2025. Prior to her election, she worked as a management consultant specializing in financial services and served in the Wandsbek borough council.
Biography
[edit]Mojadeddi was born in 1969 in Afghanistan.[1] Her family became political prisoners when the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan rose to power in the SovietâAfghan War.[2] Following her release, she fled the country with her brother and mother, eventually reaching Hamburg through Pakistan.[2][1]
In 2000, Mojadeddi started working as a management consultant, with her clients financial services, private equity, and venture capital.[1][2] She was a member of the Wandsbek borough council from 2019 to 2020, as well as chair of Alliance 90/The Greens Hamburg's building affairs subcommittee for Alstertal.[3] She had been inspired to go into politics due to the rise of xenophobia in Germany.[4]
Mojadeddi was elected to the Hamburg Parliament in the 2020 Hamburg state election through the Greens' state list.[5] She was her party's spokesperson on economic policy.[1] She chaired the Economic Affairs Committee, and she was part of the Budget and Petitions Committee and the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the CumEx Tax Scandal.[2][6] She opposed the Bundeswehr special fund amidst the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, citing her experiences with the Soviet-Afghan war.[7]
On 17 December 2024, during a debate on the city's budget, Mojadeddi told the Parliament that she felt obligated to "raise my voice for peace in Gaza and the West Bank and speak out against a war of annihilation", referring to the Gaza war.[1] CDU parliamentary group leader Dennis Thering subsequently accused her of antisemitism, while AfD deputy Krzysztof Walczak pointed to Hamas' nature as the war's instigator.[8] Greens parliamentary group chair Dominik Lorenzen distanced himself from her statements, saying it did not reflect the position of his group.[1] Parliament president Carola Veit reprimanded her for going off-topic.[1]
Mojadeddi was not re-elected to Parliament in the 2025 Hamburg state election.[9]
Mojadeddi is married to Zaid el-Mogaddedi, founder of the Institute for Islamic Banking and Finance.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Expertin fĂźr Vernichtungskrieg". Jungle World (in German). 2 January 2025. Archived from the original on 11 November 2025. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ a b c d Die Brgerschaft der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (PDF) (in German). Vol. 1. 2024. p. 55. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "Zohra Mojadeddi". EuroMinds (in German). Archived from the original on 12 October 2025. Retrieved 30 December 2025.
- ^ "From refugee to politician: Afghan woman elected to Hamburg Parliament". Deutsche Welle. 27 February 2020.
- ^ "Vorläufiges Ergebnis der BĂźrgerschaftswahl 2020 â Gewählte Abgeordnete der 22. Hamburgischen BĂźrgerschaft â" (PDF). Statistik-Nord.de. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 November 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2025.
- ^ Drieschner, Frank (18 August 2022). "Meister der Gedächtnislßcken". Zeit. Retrieved 30 December 2025.
- ^ Werner, Jana (1 May 2022). "How the Green Basis is mobilizing against the "Bundeswehr Special Fund"". Die Welt.
- ^ "Eklat in der Hamburgischen BĂźrgerschaft: GrĂźne-Abgeordnete spricht von Vernichtungskrieg im Gazastreifen". NDR (in German). 17 December 2024. Archived from the original on 9 February 2025. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
- ^ "Ergebnisse BĂźrgerschaftswahl 2025 in Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg". www.wahlen-hamburg.de (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2025.
- ^ el-Mogaddedi, Zaid (18 February 2020). "2020: Wenn nicht jetzt liebe Umma, wann wacht ihr dann auf?". Islam.de. Archived from the original on 14 August 2025.
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