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Tareq Alaows (31), who fled Syria, is running as a direct candidate for the Greens in North Rhine-Westphalia in the federal election.
"Now I want to be the first person in the Bundestag who fled Syria to give a political voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who are on the run and who live with us here," said the lawyer on Tuesday in a video on Twitter.
According to the North Rhine-Westphalian state association of the Greens, Alaows was elected by the members from Oberhausen and Dinslaken as their candidate for the Bundestag constituency there.
Alaows arrived in Germany five years ago and was initially housed in a gym in Bochum.
"Since then I have been fighting to improve the living conditions of refugees," he said in the video.
A few months after his arrival he became politically active and co-founded the self-organized group “Refugee Strike Bochum”.
In 2018 he helped organize the first pier demos.
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The 31-year-old studied law in Syria.
As an employee of the Red Crescent, he provided humanitarian emergency aid in war zones and documented human rights violations.