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Florian Schneider (* 16.November 1991 in Kassel, Germany) is a german SPD politican and has been a member of the Hesse State Parliament since 2022.

Life and Education
Florian Schneider grew up in the district of Kassel, where he still lives today. In 2008, Schneider earned his secondary school certificate at the Erich Kästner School in Baunatal-Altenbauna and completed his schooling in 2011 with the general university entrance qualification at the Max Eyth School in Kassel. During his education as an information technology officer, he was involved in the student council of the Martin Luther King School in Kassel and in the city student council of Kassel. After completing his vocational training and further training as a project manager (Chamber of Industry and Commerce) and warehouse manager (Federal Logistics Association), he worked in IT project management for the DHL Supply Chain at Deutsche Post DHL Group until he entered the Hessian State Parliament in January 2022.

Politics
Schneider joined the SPD in November 2015. He was elected to the local branch executive of the SPD Schauenburg in 2016 and in the same year to the North Hessian district chair of the Schwusos, now SPDqueer. He was chair of the Jusos Kassel-Land from 2017 to 2018 and has been a board member of the SPD sub-district Kassel-Land since 2017, an advisor to the SPD district Hessen-Nord and in rotation to the SPD state association Hessen.

Since the regional election in March 2021 he is also a member of the local Parliament in his hometown Schauenburg. ,Chairman of the Main & Finance Committee there and member of the Planning Advisory Board.

On 1 January 2022, he succeeded Manuela Strube in the Hessian State Parliament after she had won the mayoral election in Baunatal in November 2021. He thus represents the constituency Kassel-Land II and is also a member of the Committee for Digital Affairs and Data Protection and the Committee for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the Landtag.

Memberships
Schneider is a member of the worker welfare (AWO), Greenpeace, Bundeswehr Reserves Association and the Social Democratic Community for Local Politics in Hesse. He is also a member of the non-party Europa-Union Germany, which supports a federal Europe and the European unification process. Schneider is also a deputy member of the examination committees for digitalisation management and IT systems management at the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Since 2018, he has been a member of the board of the Leichenbrüderschaft Elgershausen (Elgershausen Mortuary Brotherhood), which is the oldest mortality insurance fund in Germany and also organises the Schützen- & Heimatfest Elgershausen (Elgershausen Shooting and Local History Festival), which is well-known beyond the town's borders.