Anton Hofreiter was born in Munich on February 2nd, 1970. After his graduation in 1990 he studied biology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He holds a doctorate degree in botany and worked and lectured several years as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of botanical systematics at the University of Munich. From 1997 to 2001 he conducted research abroad, especially dealing with matters of biodiversity in South America. Already as a teenager Anton Hofreiter engaged in political matters. He joined Alliance 90 / The Greens at the age of 16. Anton Hofreiter is a member of the German Parliament since 2005, chairing the Committee on Transport, Building and Urban Development from 2011 till 2013. In October 2013 he was appointed as the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Group of Alliance 90 / The Greens in the German Parliament. Since December 2021 Mr. Hofreiter is chairing the Committee for the Affairs of the European Union in the German Parliament.