Erik Marquardt (born 20 October 1987) is a German politician who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament for the Alliance 90/The Greens political party.

[5] On 25 January 2012, the Committee on Education, Research, and Technology Assessment of the German Bundestag held a live expert discussion on tuition fees.

[7] The 44th GJ federal congress in April 2015 rejected the asylum law reform of the CDU-SPD coalition government and criticized the approval of the Green Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann.

[8] On the 25th day of German unity on 3 October 2015, the GJ tweeted a reminder of the dissolution of the GDR and asked provocatively why Germany should not "succeed" again.

In response to Green critics of the tweet, he stressed that it was the GJ's job to be provocative and to put its finger on the sore spot.

[9] The tweet served the right-wing extremist magazine Compact after the 2019 European elections as evidence for the false claim that the Greens were planning to abolish Germany as a nation state.

[7] Marquardt was one of the GJ federal spokespersons who worked continuously with the Young Socialists to push through a red-red-green majority in their parties and in the Bundestag.

A difficult compromise was expected with FDP and SPD politicians, who had previously given priority to deportations, including to war zones.