Lukas Sieper

Lukas Sieper (born 22 March 1997) is a German politician who is leader of the Party of Progress.^[1] In the 2024 European Parliament election, he was elected a Member of the European Parliament.^[2]

Lukas Sieper MEP
Lukas Sieper in June 2024
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 July 2024
Chairman of Party of Progress
Incumbent
Assumed office March 2020
Preceding	Office established
Personal details
Born	(1997-03-22) 22 March 1997 (age 28) Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Citizenship	German
Political party	Party of Progress (since 2020) Independent (before 2020)

Biography

Sieper was educated at the Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Gymnasium in Wiehl, North Rhine-Westphalia. Between school and university, he undertook voluntary military service in the German Federal Armed Forces. In 2020, he founded the Partei des Fortschritts (Party of Progress; PdF), a grassroots democratic party. He studied law at the University of Cologne, during which he undertook an Erasmus semester at Amsterdam University where he studied international and European law. He passed with honours the first law examination in September 2023. Since 2023, he has been a doctoral student in the Department of Public Law, International Law and European Law at the University of Cologne.^[3]

In the June 2024 European Parliament election, he was elected as an Member of the European Parliament.^[3] He was first on the list for his political party, Partei des Fortschritts (Party of Progress; PdF), which received 228,148 (0.6%) votes in that election, winning one seat.^[4]