Overview
- Multiple outlets, citing Tagesspiegel reporting from Green parliamentary sources, say Nietzard began work on December 1 in Lena Gumnior’s office.
- The position has not been disclosed; neither Nietzard nor Gumnior confirmed the hiring and both invoked employment protections.
- Nietzard stepped down as Green Youth co‑spokesperson about a month earlier after a year leading the roughly 20,000‑member organization.
- In a recent Zeit interview she left her next steps open and reiterated police criticism, including saying Germany has a policing problem.
- Gumnior entered the Bundestag from Lower Saxony and serves on the Legal Committee with deputy membership on the Interior Committee; senior Greens such as Winfried Kretschmann have previously criticized Nietzard.