Foreign policy expert from Hesse: Omid Nouripour

Omid Nouripour (Alliance 90/The Greens) was elected as Vice-President of the German Bundestag on 25 March 2025. The parliamentarian from Frankfurt am Main has been a Member of the Bundestag since 2006. In the elections of 23 February 2025, Nouripour re-entered the German Bundestag via his party’s list for the state of Hesse.

Omid Nouripour was born on 18 June 1975 in Tehran. When he was 13, he and his parents left Iran. Nouripour had completed middle school in Tehran, and attended academic secondary school in Frankfurt and university in Mainz. He has been a member of The Greens since 1996 and was chairman of the Green Youth in Hesse for four years before he took over the Bundestag mandate of Joschka Fischer (Alliance 90/The Greens) in 2006. 

A focal point of Nouripour’s work in the Bundestag has been foreign policy. Among other roles, Nouripour was parliamentary-group coordinator on the Committee on Foreign Affairs, a substitute member of the Defence Committee and the Sports Committee and chairman of the German-Ukrainian Parliamentary Friendship Group. In addition, he has been committed to protecting human rights defenders through the Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid Committee’s “Parliamentarians Protect Parliamentarians” programme.