Martin SONNEBORN
Martin SONNEBORN

Non-attached Members

Germany - Die PARTEI (Germany)

Date of birth : ,

Curriculum vitae Martin SONNEBORN

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Curriculum vitae   (The MEP is solely responsible for the information published)

Updated: 05/01/2023

Education (qualifications and diplomas)

  • 1971-1984 : Education as clergyman (baccalaureate at catholic grammar school)
  • 1985-1985 : Military science education: security policy, ballistics & art of war (basic military service)
  • 1986-1986 : Organised crime (professional training as insurance broker)
  • 1993-1993 : Doctorate (on ‘Chemical Quantum Yield in the Redox Behaviour of Photon Catalysis with Increasing Irradiation Force’ in the field of ‘Quantum Gravity and Field Theory’ at the US elite university MIT, Cambridge) not completed, but also not started
  • 1987-1994 : Studied journalism, German language and literature and political science in Münster, Vienna and Berlin. Shamelessly plagiarised Master’s thesis; Title not revoked to date but not currently held

Professional career

  • 1994-1999 : Internship at the internationally renowned Titanic Magazine (Germany, Austria & Switzerland)
  • 2000-2005 : Editor-in-Chief Titanic Magazine
  • 2006-2014 : Head of department at the internationally no-longer-so-renowned DER SPIEGEL (albeit in the most serious department: SPAM)
  • 2006-2014 : Investigative reporter for ZDF (second German public service television station); References: Interviews with Deutsche Bank, Pharmaceutical industry
  • 2014-... : Member of the European Parliament. Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and the Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula (K-Pop Ambassador). Substitute Member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (‘Why are we kicking Great Britain and Switzerland out of the EU but not Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria?’). Decisive vote on support for sea rescuers and on the waiving of vaccine patent rights during the pandemic. Persona non grata in Azerbaijan in 2018 and 2019 respectively.

Political career

Offices held in a political party or national trade union

  • 2004-... : Federal Chairman DIE PARTEI.

Other activities

  • 2006-... : Author, lectures, readings

Contact

Bruxelles

Parlement européen
Bât. ALTIERO SPINELLI
08G354
60, rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60
B-1047 Bruxelles/Brussel
Strasbourg

Parlement européen
Bât. WINSTON CHURCHILL
M04008
1, avenue du Président Robert Schuman
CS 91024
F-67070 Strasbourg Cedex