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Timon Gremmels (born January 4, 1976 in Marburg) is a German politician with the SPD and member of the Bundestag (German parliament).

Education and Career
After receiving his abitur diploma in 1995 from Herderschule in Kassel, Gremmels studied Political Science with a minor in law and emphasis on peace & conflict studies at the Philipps University of Marburg, finishing his degree in 2003. He then worked from 2003-2007 as a research assistant to Barbara Weiler (SPD), then a member of the European Parliament. Afterwards, he became a program officer of the regional SPD in Hesse and an advisor to the Social Democratic Association for Local Affairs (Sozial Demokratischen Gemeinschaft für Kommunalpolitik, SGK) until 2008 when he started working as a policy advisor on the economy, transportation, energy, regional development, and Europe at the SPD parliamentary group in Hesse. Before his entrance into the Hessian state parliament, Gremmels held the “Corporate Social Responsibility" position on the Management Board of SMA Solar Technology AG in 2009.

Political Party
Gremmels joined the SPD in 1992. He then became involved with Jusos, the Working Group of Young Socialists in the SPD, and was the president of Jusos Kassel between 1997 and 2001 and, in 2002, subsequently became the Deputy Chairman of Jusos in North Hesse. From 1999 to 2011 he sat on the board of the SPD district in North Hesse. Furthermore, Gremmels was the president of the working group 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.

Member of Parliament
In November 2016, Timon Gremmels was nominated as a SPD candidate for the Kassel (district) and was then elected to the Bundestag during the September 2017 general election (German federal election, 2017). In the election, he secured 35.5% of the first vote, and thus moved to the 19th Bundestag as a directly elected parliamentarian. He is on the Bundestag committees for economy and energy as well as petitions.

Timon Gremmels was a member of the Hessian state parliament (Landtag of Hesse) from November 1, 2009 to October 31, 2017. In 2009 had Gremmels acted initially as a replacement candidate for Ulrike Gottschalk, but during the state election in 2013 he would successfully defended the direct mandate of the SPD in Kassel with the nation’s best first vote results of 47.6%. Most recently, he was an energy spokesman and Deputy Chairman for the Hessian SPD parliamentary group. From 2001-2013 Gremmels was a member of the municipal council of his hometown Niestetal and, among other things, Deputy Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group there. Since 2001, Gremmels has been a part of Kassel‘s county council (Landkreises Kassel).

Affiliation
Timon Gremmels is also a member of the non-partisan Union of European Federalists (UEF), which is committed to a federal Europe and the European integration process.