On Saturday, 13 September 2025, the district association Main-Kinzig of B\u00fcndnis 90\/Die Gr\u00fcnen drew up its list for the district elections in the course of the local elections on 15 March 2026. Mahwish Iftikhar from Nidderau and Philip Schinkel from Bad Orb were elected to the top of the list.\u00a0
Mahwish Iftikhar, spokeswoman for diversity policy on the state board of the Greens in Hesse, who has been active in local politics for many years and chairwoman and managing director of the Greens' parliamentary group in the district council, has now also been elected as the top candidate. In her speech, she stressed: \u201cI am concerned with a policy that takes everyone with it and clearly combines environmental responsibility with social justice.\u201d She is particularly committed to work, democracy and the fight against social inequality.
Philip Schinkel, chairman of the parliamentary group in the town council of Bad Orb and member of the district board, completes the double leadership. In his introduction, he emphasized: \u2018Climate protection, social justice and the strengthening of child and youth work directly affect the everyday life of the people in the Main-Kinzig district.\u2019 He announced that he was particularly committed to improving the opportunities for children and young people to participate.
\u2018Our list shows: We start closed and with fresh vigor. Mahwish Iftikhar and Philip Schinkel stand for competence, experience and passion, and they will strengthen our green profile in the Kreistag with clear priorities and new ideas\", said the spokeswoman of the Kreisverband, Anja Zeller.
The list for the district election includes 20 women and 20 men from around 20 municipalities in the Main-Kinzig district and presents a broad mix of committed personalities:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.\u00a0 \u00a0 Mahwish Iftikhar, Nidderau
2.\u00a0 \u00a0 Philip Schinkel from Bad Orb
3.\u00a0 \u00a0 Sandra Gerbert from Hammersbach
4.\u00a0 \u00a0 Reiner Bousonville, Lake Erlen
5.\u00a0 \u00a0 Cornelia Hofacker, Langenselbold
6.\u00a0 \u00a0 Bernd Wietzorek, Gelnhausen
7.\u00a0 \u00a0 Lene Jeckel and Jossgrund\u00a0
8.\u00a0 \u00a0 Rainer Vogel, Nidderau
9.\u00a0 \u00a0 Sophia Spottke in Gro\u00dfkrotzenburg
10.\u00a0 \u00a0 Lucas B\u00e4uml in Gro\u00dfkrotzenburg
11.\u00a0 \u00a0 Nurhan Wendt, shy
12.\u00a0 \u00a0 Matthias Kuponiyi-B\u00f6ff, Brachttal
13.\u00a0 \u00a0 Monika K\u00fchn-Bousonville, Lake Erlen
14.\u00a0 \u00a0 Wolfgang Seifried and Sch\u00f6neck
15.\u00a0 \u00a0 Viola Ha\u00dfdenteufel, Nidderau
16.\u00a0 \u00a0 Lukas Happe, Gelnhausen
17.\u00a0 \u00a0 Annika Streit, Gelnhausen
18.\u00a0 \u00a0 Thomas Gassen from Gro\u00dfkrotzenburg
19.\u00a0 \u00a0 Claudia Schmidt, Steinau
20.\u00a0 \u00a0 Leonid Schneider, Lake Erlen
21.\u00a0 \u00a0 Karin Arcan-Meiers, Rodenbach
22.\u00a0 \u00a0 Thomas B\u00fcrvenich, Gelnhausen
23.\u00a0 \u00a0 Christine Dr\u00f6\u00dfler-Utecht, Rodenbach
24.\u00a0 \u00a0 Uwe Eberlein, Bruchk\u00f6bel
25.\u00a0 \u00a0 Claudia Henning-Eberlein from Bruchk\u00f6bel
26.\u00a0 \u00a0 Klaus B\u00f6ttcher, Lentil dish
27.\u00a0 \u00a0 Katharina G\u00f6ring, Biebergem\u00fcnd
28.\u00a0 \u00a0 Markus Sextro, Biebergem\u00fcnd
29.\u00a0 \u00a0 C\u00e9line Bousonville, Lake Erlen
30.\u00a0 \u00a0 Umut Yadigar, Niederdorfelden
31.\u00a0 \u00a0 Karin Sch\u00e4fer, Hammersbach
32.\u00a0 \u00a0 Dennis Mathie from Gelnhausen
33.\u00a0 \u00a0 Katja Hix from W\u00e4chtersbach
34.\u00a0 \u00a0 Stefan Chalupka from Gro\u00dfkrotzenburg
35.\u00a0 \u00a0 Elias Breitenberger, Bad Orb
36.\u00a0 \u00a0 Fabian Storck, W\u00e4chtersbach
37.\u00a0 \u00a0 Antje Sch\u00f6ny in Hammersbach
38.\u00a0 \u00a0 Beate Boege-Sonnek, Bad Orb
39.\u00a0 \u00a0 Octavia Gentemann-Schmidt, Bruchk\u00f6bel
40.\u00a0 \u00a0 Johannes Rubach in Gro\u00dfkrotzenburg
With this composition, the Greens present themselves as a diverse and competent team that wants to sustainably shape the political work in the district council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0(Photo: from left to right Bernd Wietzorek, Matthias Kuponiyi-B\u00f6ff, Nurhan Wendt, Monika K\u00fchn-Bousonville, Philip Schinkel, Lucas B\u00e4uml, Mahwish Iftikhar, Sophia Spottke, Lene Jeckel, Sandra Gerbert, Reiner Bousonville)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With great unity, the district association Main-Kinzig of B\u00fcndnis 90\/Die Gr\u00fcnen on Saturday, 13.9.2025 \u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":-1,"featured_media":2929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2931,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions\/2931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gruene-mkk.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}