Timon Gremmels

Gremmels joined the SPD in 1992. He became involved with Jusos, the Working Group of Young Socialists in the SPD, and was the president of Jusos Kassel between 1997 and 2001. In 2002, he was subsequently elected deputy chairman of Jusos in North Hesse. From 1999 to 2011 he sat on the board of the SPD group in North Hesse. Furthermore, Gremmels was the president of the committee for education (SPD-Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Bildung) in the district of North Hesse from 2003–2007. Since 2011, he has been a member of the executive committee of the Hessian SPD.[3] In April 2015 he was elected chairman of the local SPD group in Kassel-Land, the Hessian SPD group with the largest number of members.[4]

Gremmels was a Member of the Landtag of Hesse from November 1, 2009 to October 31, 2017.[5] Initially, he acted as a replacement MP for Ulrike Gottschalk. Later, in the 2013 state election he successfully defended the direct mandate of the SPD in Kassel with the state's best first vote result of 47.6%.[6] Most recently, he served as his parliamentary group's spokesman on energy topics and deputy chairman for the Hessian SPD parliamentary group. From 2001 until 2013 Gremmels was a member of the municipal council of his hometown Niestetal[7] and, among other roles, deputy chairman of the local SPD parliamentary group. Since 2001, Gremmels has been a part of Kassel's county council (Landkreis Kassel).[8]

In November 2016, Gremmels was nominated as SPD candidate for the Kassel constituency.[9] He was elected to the Bundestag in the 2017 general election where he secured 35.5% of the first vote in his constituency.[10] Thus he moved to the 19th Bundestag as a directly elected parliamentarian.

In parliament, Gremmels serves on the Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy[11] and on the Committee on Petitions.[12] In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group’s rapporteur on efficient energy use.