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Election poster of the Greens with party leader and Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock in Berlin: Cash injection shortly before the election
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Shortly before the election, the Greens received a new record donation: Dutch technology and media entrepreneur Steven Schuurman donated 1.25 million euros to the party.
The donation, even though it comes from abroad, is legal as the donor is an EU citizen.
The Greens have been campaigning for the introduction of an upper limit for party donations for ten years.
The third big single donation this year
In April the software developer Moritz Schmidt donated one million euros to the Greens.
The man from Greifswald had made big profits with the digital currency Bitcoin.
With the donation of millions he wanted to give an impetus for a policy change towards more environmental and climate protection.
(Read a SPIEGEL portrait by Schmidt here.)
His donation was the largest single donation in the history of the party to date.
In February, the pharmaceutical heir Antonis Schwarz donated 500,000 euros, the largest single amount to date to the Greens.
According to the party, Schwarz 'money was also intended for the federal election campaign and the state election campaigns this year.
Schwarz is a wealthy heir to the Rhenish pharmaceutical company Schwarz Pharma.
He is listed as the founder of the Guerrilla Foundation.
According to its own statements, the foundation wants to bring about a “major systemic change in Europe” by supporting “activists and grassroots social movements”.
Schwarz had already donated 65,000 euros to the Greens in 2019.
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