{{Short description|German politician (born 1997)}} {{Officeholder infobox | office = Member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein | term_start = 7 June 2022 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1997|10|29|df=yes}} | birth_place = Braunschweig, Germany | birth_name = | party = Alliance 90/The Greens }} '''Jasper Balke''' (born 29 October 1997) is a German politician from the Alliance 90/The Greens. He has been a member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein since 7 June 2022.
== Life and politics == Balke graduated from the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben School in Braunschweig in 2016. In 2016/2017 he completed a voluntary social year in nursing in Magdeburg. In 2018 he began studying human medicine at the University of Lübeck with a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-08-01 |date=2024-06-05 |language=de |title=Über mich |url=https://jasper-balke.de/ueber-mich/ |website=jasper-balke.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
In the same year, Balke joined the Alliance 90/The Greens party and joined the Green Youth. He was political director of the Green Youth Lübeck and from 2019 to 2021 state spokesman for the Green Youth Schleswig-Holstein. In 2019, he was elected district chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens in Lübeck.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-08-01 |publisher=Grüne Schleswig-Holstein |title=Jasper Balke |url=https://sh-gruene.de/blog/person/jasper-balke/}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
In the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein state election, Balke ran eighth on the Green Party's state list and as a direct candidate in the {{Ill|Lübeck-Süd|de|Landtagswahlkreis Lübeck-Süd}} constituency. He received 34.4 percent of the first votes ahead of {{Ill|Anette Röttger|de}} (CDU) with 27.9 and was directly elected.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-08-01 |date=2024-08-01 |language=de |title=Landtagswahl SH 2022 in Lübeck: Alle Ergebnisse live aus den Wahlkreisen |url=https://www.ln-online.de/lokales/luebeck/landtagswahl-sh-2022-in-luebeck-alle-ergebnisse-live-aus-den-wahlkreisen-TDMZAQ7YQ4JCLNMQ6NWCCIFAFQ.html |website=Lübecker Nachrichten}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref> {{cite web|access-date=2024-08-01 |date=2021-12-11 |language=de |title=Grüne treten mit drei Frauen an Spitze zur Landtagswahl an |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/neumuenster-gruene-treten-mit-drei-frauen-an-spitze-zur-landtagswahl-an-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-211211-99-343909 |website=Süddeutsche Zeitung}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> At the age of 24, he entered the state parliament as the youngest parliamentarian and one of three constituency winners of his party.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2024-08-01 |author=Esther Geißlinger |date=2022-05-19 |title=Jüngster Abgeordneter in Kiel: Jasper Balke sitzt jetzt im Landtag |url=https://taz.de/Juengster-Abgeordneter-in-Kiel/!5855446/ |website=taz, die tageszeitung}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> He is a member of the Social Committee and a deputy member of the Education Committee.{{citation needed|date= February 2025}}
== External links ==
* [http://lissh.lvn.parlanet.de/cgi-bin/starfinder/0?path=samtflmore.txt&id=fastlink&pass=&search=ID=3427&format=WEBVOLLLANG Biographie] at the Schleswig-Holsteinischen Landtag * [https://jasper-balke.de/ Persönal Website]
== References == <references />{{DEFAULTSORT:Balke, Jasper}} Category:Living people Category:1997 births Category:People from Braunschweig Category:Alliance 90/The Greens politicians Category:Members of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein Category:21st-century German politicians