Agnes Krumwiede

• Name — Agnes Krumwiede • Office — Member of the Bundestag • Term Start — 27 October 2009 • Term End — 22 October 2013 • Born — 17 January 1977 • Birthplace — Neuburg an der Donau, West Germany (now Germany) • Party — Greens • Children — 1 • Relations — Franziska Krumwiede-Steiner (sister)

Krumwiede is a pianist and a qualified musician with a concert exam. She ran a piano school in Ingolstadt until 2009 and worked as a freelance concert pianist and song accompanist. She also worked as a freelancer for Bayerischer Rundfunk and Donaukurier. Krumwiede is single, lives in Ingolstadt and has a son with politician Stephan Kühn. Her sister Franziska Krumwiede-Steiner is also a Member of the German Bundestag.

Krumwiede has been a member of the Greens party since 2001. She is a founding member of the Green Youth in Ingolstadt and was a scholarship holder of the party-affiliated Heinrich Böll Foundation during her studies. In 2002 and 2008, she ran for the city council in Ingolstadt and in 2003 she was a candidate for the state list in the Bavarian state elections. In the 2009 Bundestag election she ran as a direct candidate in the Ingolstadt constituency and received 8.2% of the first votes. She was elected into the Bundestag via Landeslistenplatz 9. There, she was spokeswoman for cultural policy of the parliamentary group of the Greens and chairwoman of the parliamentary group in the committee for culture and media. Krumwiede lost her seat in the 2013 federal election, thus missing re-entry into parliament.