Ambassadors

Our ambas­sadors pro­mote inter­gen­er­a­tional jus­tice, assist with projects and pro­vide ideas for new ones on a vol­un­tary basis. The group of ambas­sadors con­sists of no more than ten to twelve peo­ple aged up to 35.

Are you young, com­mit­ted and pas­sion­ate about the rights of future gen­er­a­tions? Are you ready to stand up and fight for the rights of those with no voice? Join us and become an ambassador!
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Current Ambassadors

Jonas Hohen­forst
born in 2002, Jonas is a youth rep­re­sen­ta­tive and founder who advo­cates for greater involve­ment of young peo­ple in soci­ety. Jonas empow­ers young indi­vid­u­als to edu­cate them­selves on cur­rent issues and take a stand with the NGO “Jugend-Enquete-Kom­mis­sion e.V.” that he co-found­ed. He is a reg­u­lar guest in the Ger­man Bun­destag, where he rep­re­sents the inter­ests of young peo­ple with politi­cians and civ­il soci­ety actors. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Fed­er­al Agency for Civic Edu­ca­tion, he works on award­ing the Youth Democ­ra­cy Prize in Ger­many and high­light­ing projects that are ground­break­ing for our democ­ra­cy. As a mem­ber of the Asso­ci­a­tion for Eco­nom­ic Edu­ca­tion Ger­many, he works towards strength­en­ing finan­cial edu­ca­tion in Ger­many. Cur­rent­ly, Jonas is enhanc­ing his degree in med­i­cine by study­ing eco­nom­ics in Bayreuth, aim­ing to bring the real­i­ty of the health­care sys­tem into deci­sion-mak­ing processes.
Main focus areas: Youth par­tic­i­pa­tion, finan­cial edu­ca­tion, and polit­i­cal consulting.

Ben Jaga­sia
born in 2005, is a schol­ar­ship hold­er in 11th grade at Schule Schloss Salem on Lake Con­stance. His pas­sion is writ­ing. Most recent­ly, as a free­lance author for DIE ZEIT, he wrote a com­men­tary enti­tled “Grauen­pow­er”, in which he pro­motes a com­pul­so­ry social year for both prospec­tive seniors and school grad­u­ates. Because the polit­i­cal demand for jus­tice for young peo­ple is a mat­ter of the heart for him. Fur­ther­more, he is involved with­in Mod­el-Unit­ed-Nations (stu­dent sim­u­la­tion of the UN) and the Round­square net­work to give young peo­ple a voice. Last year, he went on a stu­dent exchange to Peru where, among oth­er things, he taught Eng­lish at an ele­men­tary school in a dis­ad­van­taged region and built hous­es for peo­ple in need. In his free time, Ben enjoys read­ing, swim­ming and sail­ing on Lake Constance.
Main focus areas: edu­ca­tion pol­i­cy, youth pol­i­cy, pen­sion pol­i­cy with focus on inter­gen­er­a­tional con­tract, social cohe­sion, eco­log­i­cal transformation

Arthur Kießling
born in 2002, stud­ies eco­nom­ics at the Freien Uni­ver­sität Berlin. Along­side his stud­ies, he is involved with ONE and Fair­trade as a youth ambas­sador on the top­ics of devel­op­ment coop­er­a­tion, sup­ply chains and fair trade. In this role, he has already been able to car­ry out projects and events at the Fed­er­al For­eign Office, in Brus­sels and in the Chan­cellery, among oth­er places, as well as rep­re­sent­ing the per­spec­tive of young peo­ple at con­fer­ences such as the World Health Sum­mit, the COP and the Sub­sidiary Body for Imple­men­ta­tion of the Unit­ed Nations.
Main focus areas: Eco­log­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion, youth par­tic­i­pa­tion and the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals

Christoph Maier
born 2000, is an advi­sor for sus­tain­able finan­cial invest­ments and advo­cate for finan­cial inter­gen­er­a­tional jus­tice. Through his pre­vi­ous engage­ments, he has devel­oped a deep under­stand­ing of the needs of future gen­er­a­tions. As an ambas­sador for the foun­da­tion, he pro­motes finan­cial edu­ca­tion and sus­tain­able invest­ments as the key to achiev­ing inter­gen­er­a­tional jus­tice. He sup­ports the foundation’s work through col­lab­o­ra­tions with local uni­ver­si­ties, star­tups, and asso­ci­a­tions, as well as through pub­lic speeches.
Main focus areas: finan­cial edu­ca­tion, sus­tain­able invest­ments, envi­ron­men­tal and sus­tain­abil­i­ty work, eco­log­i­cal economics

Anna-Maria Spit­tel
born in 1988, works as a research assis­tant at the Depart­ment for Spe­cial Needs Edu­ca­tion and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion at the Carl von Ossi­et­zky Uni­ver­si­ty Old­en­burg. She stud­ied reha­bil­i­ta­tion coun­sel­ing edu­ca­tion in Dort­mund and Reutlingen/Ludwigsburg, inter­rupt­ed by an intern­ship in Ecuador. In her doc­tor­al the­sis she deals with young car­ers as a tar­get group of coun­sel­ing in the school sys­tem. The inter­est for chil­dren, ado­les­cents and young adults as rel­a­tives of fam­i­ly mem­bers with ill­ness­es and impair­ments and espe­cial­ly for the group of Young Car­ers arose in her mas­ter stud­ies and con­tin­ues since then in var­i­ous net­works and research projects on a nation­al and inter­na­tion­al level.
Main focus areas: young car­ers, health, edu­ca­tion, care

Mile­na Weber
born in 2000, stud­ies Glob­al Envi­ron­men­tal and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Stud­ies at the Leuphana Uni­ver­si­ty of Lüneb­urg. She has tak­en Polit­i­cal Sci­ence as a minor sub­ject. Dur­ing her stud­ies, Mile­na spent one semes­ter abroad in Spain and one in Ire­land. It is not only dur­ing her stud­ies that she deals with sus­tain­abil­i­ty issues. For exam­ple, she has worked on projects in Ecuador and Tan­za­nia in the field of species and envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion. For her project work “Plas­tik­flut-was tun?” (in eng­lish: “Plas­tic flood — what to do?”) she received the “Salzkristall” award for out­stand­ing achievement.
Main focus areas: Inter­na­tion­al rela­tions, inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal law, neo­colo­nial­ism and democracy

Michael Weilch
born in 2001, is study­ing Eco­nom­ic Law at the Vien­na Uni­ver­si­ty of Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vien­na. His inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ences include semes­ters in Valen­cia and Buenos Aires, as well as intern­ships at var­i­ous embassies, which have high­light­ed the impor­tance of inter­na­tion­al coop­er­a­tion and diverse per­spec­tives on democ­ra­cy and rep­re­sen­ta­tion for him. Con­stant­ly nur­tur­ing, devel­op­ing, and advanc­ing demo­c­ra­t­ic struc­tures is fun­da­men­tal to him. He empha­sizes the inte­gra­tion of aca­d­e­m­ic knowl­edge and prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence, along with active par­tic­i­pa­tion in polit­i­cal affairs. In this con­text, he has co-orga­nized a sem­i­nar on the “Future of Democ­ra­cy” in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Aus­tri­an Acad­e­my of Sciences.
Main focus areas: Demo­c­ra­t­ic the­o­ry, Inter­na­tion­al pol­i­tics, Peace and con­flict stud­ies, Forms of rep­re­sen­ta­tion, Youth participation.

Katha­ri­na Wimmer
born in 2006, is a stu­dent, free­lance jour­nal­ist, and active­ly involved in youth edu­ca­tion on a vol­un­tary basis. Her goal is to give a voice to the inter­ests of the younger gen­er­a­tion and encour­age par­tic­i­pa­tion in pol­i­tics. As a project col­lab­o­ra­tor for the NGO “Jugend-Enquete-Kom­mis­sion e.V.,” she advo­cates for a nuanced rep­re­sen­ta­tion of youth in polit­i­cal process­es and the preser­va­tion of demo­c­ra­t­ic val­ues. Through her var­i­ous engage­ments, she has gained expe­ri­ence in event organ­i­sa­tion and net­work­ing. Addi­tion­al­ly, she par­tic­i­pates in oth­er projects relat­ed to top­ics such as cli­mate pro­tec­tion and jour­nal­ism. Fur­ther­more, she works with a Bavar­i­an local edi­to­r­i­al team, com­ple­ment­ing her atten­dance at the eleventh grade of a high school near Passau.
Main focus areas: Youth par­tic­i­pa­tion, cli­mate jus­tice, pro­mo­tion of democracy.

There­sa Zeng
born in 2001, is study­ing Euro­pean Stud­ies as part of a tri­na­tion­al Master’s pro­gram at the uni­ver­si­ties of Mainz, Opole and Dijon. She pre­vi­ous­ly stud­ied polit­i­cal sci­ence and French at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tübin­gen and the Insti­tute d’é­tudes poli­tiques de Paris. In addi­tion to socio-polit­i­cal issues, she is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in sus­tain­able peace­build­ing, as well as inter­na­tion­al coop­er­a­tion and col­lab­o­ra­tion, which are also issues cen­tral to her stud­ies. In addi­tion to her stud­ies, she is involved in the Aca­d­e­m­ic Asso­ci­a­tion for Secu­ri­ty Stud­ies, whose uni­ver­si­ty group sec­tion in Tübin­gen she chaired in 2023, and in the Young Euro­pean Federalists.
Main focus areas: Social pol­i­cy, pen­sion pol­i­cy, inter­na­tion­al and Euro­pean rela­tions, secu­ri­ty policy.

Dr. Wolf­gang Gründinger
was born in 1984 and is an author, activist and ana­lyst. His sev­en book pub­li­ca­tions include “Ten Years Smarter,” “Old Sacks Pol­i­tics,” and “My Lit­tle People’s Par­ty” (all in Ger­man). After hold­ing posi­tions at the Ger­man Dig­i­tal Asso­ci­a­tion and the Cyber Inno­va­tion Hub of the Ger­man Armed Forces, he is cur­rent­ly Chief Evan­ge­list at the Berlin-based solar start­up Enpal. He was described as part of Germany’s “young elite” by the busi­ness mag­a­zines Cap­i­tal and Han­dels­blatt. His doc­tor­al dis­ser­ta­tion at the Hum­boldt Uni­ver­i­ty in Berlin focussed on the influ­ence of spe­cial inter­est groups in Ger­man ener­gy pol­i­cy. Before that he stud­ied polit­i­cal and social sci­ence. He has received “das poli­tis­che Buch” prize from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung for his work.
Main focus areas: demog­ra­phy, get­ting young peo­ple into pol­i­tics, ener­gy pol­i­cy, pen­sions, inher­i­tance tax, the exten­sion of vot­ing rights

Mar­tin Hagen, MP
was born in 1981, is leader of the lib­er­al FDP in the Bavar­i­an region­al par­lia­ment and is an inde­pen­dent strat­e­gy and com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­sul­tant. He has pre­vi­ous­ly worked for an inter­na­tion­al man­age­ment con­sul­tan­cy, as a press spokesman in the Ger­man Bun­destag and as the Chief of the Bavar­i­an Free Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty. Mar­tin stud­ied pol­i­tics in Munich and Beer She­va (Israel) and was active in pol­i­tics dur­ing his stu­dent days, among oth­er things as region­al chair­man of the Young Lib­er­als of Bavaria and mem­ber of the Ger­man del­e­ga­tion for the Inter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Lib­er­al Youth (IFLRY). He is edi­tor of the book “A new Bavaria – Why our home needs an update” (Das neue Bay­ern — Warum unser Land ein Update braucht).
Main focus areas: edu­ca­tion, estab­lish­ing equal­i­ty of opportunity