Helga Trüpel

Helga Trüpel MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2004
Constituency	Germany
Personal details
Born	(1958-07-21) 21 July 1958 Moers, Germany
Political party	German: Alliance '90/The Greens EU: The Greens–European Free Alliance
Alma mater	University of Bremen
Website	www.helgatrupel.de

Helga Trüpel (born 21 July 1958) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. She is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens, part of the European Green Party.

From 1991 to 1995 she has been minister for Culture and the Integration of Immigrants in the City State of Bremen.

Educational background

Helga Trüpel studied German, Religious Studies, and Psychology at the University of Bremen. In 1988 she completed her PhD in German Literature.

Political career

In 1980 Trüpel joined the political party Die Grünen, today called Bündnis90/Die Grünen. From 1987 to 1991 and again from 1995-2004 she was an elected member of the City Council of the City State of Bremen. In 1991 she joined the state government as minister for Culture and the integration of immigrants.

In 2004, 2009 and 2014 she was elected Member of the European Parliament joined the political group The Greens/EFA. Since 2004 she is a vice-president of the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. Between 2004 and 2014 Helga Trüpel worked as the spokesperson for budgetary affairs of her political group. During both her first and second terms she was furthermore elected co-spokesperson of the delegation of German Greens. Helga Trüpel has been a member of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with the People's Republic of China.