Parsa Marvi

Parsa Marvi (born 6 February 1982 in Tehran, Iran) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a member of the Bundestag from Baden-Württemberg. He has sat in the 20th and 21st electoral terms and holds his seat in the 21st Bundestag through the SPD state list, on which he is placed eighth, while standing in the Karlsruhe-Stadt constituency, Wahlkreis 271. He lives in Karlsruhe, is married and has two sons.

Marvi passed the Abitur in Göttingen in 1999. From 1999 to 2005 he studied informatics at the University of Karlsruhe and business administration at the Berufsakademie Karlsruhe, graduating as a Diplom-Betriebswirt (BA). From 2006 to 2011 he worked at MLP AG, in product management for retirement provision and as a board assistant in that department. From 2011 to 2021 he was a broadband product manager at 1&1 Telecom GmbH in Montabaur. The Bundestag's published interests record that job, and a right to return to it, as his occupation before he became a member.

He joined the SPD in 1999. From 2003 to 2007 he was deputy state chair of the Young Socialists in Baden-Württemberg. He has chaired the Karlsruhe SPD since 2012 and has been a deputy state chair of the Baden-Württemberg SPD since 2018. The Bundestag biography, which restates members' own accounts, also lists him as a Karlsruhe city councillor and chair of the council's SPD group since 2014.

Marvi was the SPD direct candidate in Karlsruhe-Stadt in 2013, 2017, 2021 and 2025, on list places 31, 18, 12 and 8. He did not win the seat. In 2013 the SPD received 43,866 first votes (29.6 percent), behind the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on 39.5 percent; in 2017 its 37,924 first votes (23.6 percent) again finished second, to the CDU's 28.5 percent. In 2021, on a turnout of 77.6 percent, the SPD took 33,630 first votes (21.3 percent) and the same share of second votes, and Alliance 90/The Greens won the constituency with 30.0 percent of first votes. Marvi entered the Bundestag on the state list. At the 2025 election, turnout was 83.1 percent. Zoe Mayer of the Greens held the constituency with 30.6 percent, Tobias Emanuel Bunk of the CDU was second with 39,597 votes (23.6 percent), and the SPD's 25,553 first votes (15.3 percent) placed third. Marvi was re-elected from the list.

In the 21st Bundestag he is a full member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on Digital Affairs and State Modernisation, and a deputy member of the committees on Economic Affairs and Energy and on Housing, Urban Development, Construction and Municipalities. In the SPD parliamentary group he has been a member of the extended executive since 3 June 2025 and deputy spokesperson of the working group on digital affairs and state modernisation since 27 June 2025. He is a deputy, not a full, member of the Council of Elders' commission on information technology and digitalisation. The Bundestag biography also lists membership of the Workers' Welfare Association (AWO), the United Services Trade Union (ver.di) and the Europa-Union.

Early life and education

Emigration from Iran

Parsa Marvi was born on 6 February 1982 in Tehran, Iran. On his own website he writes that a life in freedom and democracy was not foreordained for him: as the Islamic Republic continued to radicalize, his parents concluded that people they considered modern and emancipated had no place and no future in Iran, and they came to Germany to build a new life for the family. A June 2012 profile in the Karlsruhe outlet ka-news, published when he became district chair of the local Social Democrats, reported that he arrived in Germany in 1987, when he was about five. The profile gives neither a residence status nor a route.

His early childhood in Tehran fell during the Iran–Iraq War. The German Federal Agency for Civic Education dates that war from Iraq's attack on 22 September 1980 to the ceasefire of 20 August 1988 and describes it as killing about one million people, many of them civilians, including in the "war of the cities," when both sides fired missiles into urban residential districts. The same agency records net migration from Iran to West Germany of about 3,200 people in 1979, 6,900 in 1980 and 1,100 in 1981, notes that from the mid-1980s Iran was among the main countries of origin of asylum seekers, and states that many people of Iranian origin in Germany today arrived only in the past decade, with entries for work and study as well as protection. In January 2026 the Badische Neueste Nachrichten, recording that he was born in Tehran, quoted him as saying that relatives were still in Iran, that he had no news of them, and that he could only hope they were safe.

Schooling and higher education

Marvi's schooling was in Göttingen, where he took the Abitur, the general German qualification for university entrance, in 1999. The 2012 ka-news profile reported that he was 17 and the youngest person in the city to pass the Abitur that year. Neither that profile nor the Bundestag biography names the school. The same profile said that he then moved to Karlsruhe to study computer science and business administration, that he regarded the city as the place where he had put down roots, and that he liked to call himself a "well-integrated Badener," a person at home in Baden.

The Bundestag biography, which the parliament notes is drawn from members' own disclosures, states that from 1999 to 2005 he studied informatics at the Universität Karlsruhe and business administration (Betriebswirtschaft) at the Berufsakademie Karlsruhe, and that his qualification is Diplom-Betriebswirt (BA). The entry gives one six-year span for both subjects and does not record a completed degree in informatics, a business specialization, or a training firm. The Berufsakademie Karlsruhe was founded in 1979, initially with 48 students and 32 training companies, and a 1982 state law made the Berufsakademien regular institutions of Baden-Württemberg. The Karlsruhe institution describes that history as a dual course of study built with partner firms; before the later change of status it awarded Diplom certificates, and the business diploma Marvi lists is the Diplom-Betriebswirt (BA). On 1 March 2009 the academy received formal higher-education status and became the Karlsruhe site of the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg); the site records some 10,000 Diplom certificates from its history and more than 1,000 bachelor's degrees after that change. Separately, on 1 October 2009 the Universität Karlsruhe and the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe merged into the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Both changes came after the 1999–2005 span given in his parliamentary biography.

Professional career

Before he entered the Bundestag in 2021, Parsa Marvi spent his employed career in product management, first at the financial-services firm MLP and then at the telecommunications company 1&1 Telecom.

Financial services at MLP

The Bundestag biography, which states that its biographical details rest on members' own information, lists Marvi from 2006 to 2011 as an employee in product management for old-age provision (Altersvorsorge) and as Vorstandsreferent Produktmanagement — a board referent in product management — at MLP AG. A June 2012 profile in the Karlsruhe news site ka-news, written after he had already changed employers, described the same stretch more briefly: after his studies he worked at the financial-services provider MLP as assistant to the management board.

MLP, which announced its results from Wiesloch, was in those years a listed insurance broker whose dominant business was arranging life insurance and investment funds. Coverage of the 2007 figures quoted chief executive Uwe Schroeder-Wildberg on customers holding back especially from long-term provision products, the field named in Marvi's title, and described MLP's advisers as self-employed commercial agents. The post recorded for Marvi was a salaried job in central product management and as a board referent, not one of those field agencies.

Broadband product management

From 2011 to 2021 Marvi was broadband product manager (Produktmanager Breitband) at 1&1 Telecom GmbH. The 2012 ka-news profile called him an IT product manager at the communications provider 1&1. By then the day job ran alongside honorary party office in Karlsruhe. He told ka-news that chairing the local Social Democratic Party did not conflict with employment — as an elected representative, he said, one had to know how life outside politics worked — and that he often used his lunch break for political email, leaving evenings and weekends for more complex party work.

1&1 Telecom GmbH, registered at the local court in Montabaur (HRB 22331), is the company that provides DSL and mobile services under the 1&1 name; the corporate imprint describes 1&1 Telecommunication SE as a company of 1&1 AG. Heise online, reporting the Montabaur group's quarterly results in 2014, identified United Internet as the internet-services company that houses the 1&1 brand together with Web.de and GMX. Fixed broadband was still mostly DSL when that employment ended. The Federal Network Agency's 2021 report put active fixed lines at about 36.9 million, about 25.4 million of them DSL, and competitors of Deutsche Telekom at about 61 percent of fixed broadband lines and about 45 percent of DSL lines, with several year-end figures marked as forecasts.

The biography ends the 1&1 post in 2021, the year he entered parliament. Section 45(1) no. 1 of the Members of the Bundestag Act requires notice of the last occupation before the mandate and of any right to return afterward, or of the dismissal protection in section 2(3). The published entry is "1&1 Telecom GmbH, Montabaur, Produktmanager, Rückkehrrecht," repeated on the biography for the 21st electoral term. It records a right to resume the product-manager post, not paid outside work, and no pay figure is attached. Section 2(3) is separate: dismissal for candidacy or for holding the mandate is unlawful, and that protection lasts one year after the mandate ends.

Career in the Social Democratic Party

Young Socialists

Marvi has been a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) since 1999. The Bundestag biography, which is based on members' own disclosures, lists him as deputy state chair of the Young Socialists in the SPD (Jusos) in Baden-Württemberg from 2003 to 2007. In a 2012 interview he said that he had held that Juso post at 21, and that at 18 he had been a substitute SPD candidate for the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.

Alongside that youth post, by April 2006 he was chair of the SPD branch in Karlsruhe's Oststadt district. At that year's general meeting he reviewed the state-election result and argued that the SPD needed a clearer profile against the Greens, so that voters would know what the party stood for. He was still described as head of the Oststadt branch when the Karlsruhe district party elected him its chair in 2012.

District and state leadership

On the evening of 24 May 2012, a district delegate conference in Karlsruhe's Europahalle elected Marvi, then 30, chair of the SPD Karlsruhe with 54 of 59 valid votes. Johannes Jung, the outgoing chair, did not stand; ka-news reported that since the beginning of May he had led Baden-Württemberg's state representation in Brussels. Delegates elected Walter Lamprecht, of the Daxlanden branch, and Marion Hug, of the Oberreut branch, as deputy chairs. ka-news described the 30-year-old as the youngest chair in the local party's history. In his remarks that evening he tied the vote to the coming mayoral election, saying that a party which did not believe in itself would not win.

A party statement carried by Baden TV reported that the conference on the evening of 21 July 2016 returned him for two years with 96 percent of the votes cast by the 50 delegates present, with Lamprecht and former Landtag member Regina Schmidt-Kühner remaining as deputies. On 11 July 2024 the annual delegate conference confirmed him again, with Schmidt-Kühner and Anton Huber as deputies; in his report he called the elections of 9 June a disappointment for the SPD, pointed to what he described as the party's successes in the federal coalition, and urged members to win disappointed voters back. The executive chosen on 15 July 2026 again named him chair: the district party reported 86 percent for Marvi and 88 percent each for Schmidt-Kühner and Huber, in a board of 15, after he had reviewed a year shaped by education and economic-policy debates and by the state-election campaign.

At state level he became a deputy chair at the 24 November 2018 conference in Sindelfingen, during a contested change of leadership. Leni Breymaier did not stand again after winning a membership vote only narrowly against Bundestag member Lars Castellucci, and Andreas Stoch declared his candidacy at short notice. Delegates elected Stoch with 159 votes (50.64 percent) to Castellucci's 151 (48.09 percent) and four abstentions, then chose four deputy chairs on yes-or-no ballots: Marvi received 243 yes votes (79.93 percent), 48 no votes and 13 abstentions, alongside Jasmina Hostert (80.13 percent), Dorothea Kliche-Behnke (76.00 percent) and Gabi Rolland (75.50 percent).

At the first digital state conference, on 14 November 2020, he received 243 yes votes (81.27 percent), against 44 no votes and 12 abstentions, with Hostert, Kliche-Behnke and Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter as the other deputies and Stoch confirmed at 94.75 percent. On 19 November 2022 in Friedrichshafen the state party reported 84.6 percent for him, beside Hostert at 91.1 percent, Schwarzelühr-Sutter at 90.1 percent and Kliche-Behnke at 86.3 percent. At the conference in Offenburg, in results published on 17 November 2024, he received 83.3 percent, with Hostert at 87.5 percent, Kliche-Behnke at 83.5 percent, Schwarzelühr-Sutter at 82.2 percent and Stoch at 93.9 percent. At the conference reported on 22 June 2026 he was re-elected with 73.0 percent and Hostert with 83.2 percent; Yannik Hummel, a forester and student, and Landtag member Viviane Sigg were newly elected, with 80.9 and 85.9 percent, after Kliche-Behnke and Schwarzelühr-Sutter did not stand again.

Karlsruhe municipal politics

City council and the SPD faction

Marvi joined the municipal council (Gemeinderat) of Karlsruhe at the election of 25 May 2014. The city’s statistics office recorded turnout of 45.2 percent and 100,888 valid ballots. The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) received 21.9 percent of the vote and 10 of the 48 seats, against 19.6 percent and the same number of seats in 2009. The Christian Democratic Union of Germany remained the largest group, with 26.7 percent and 13 seats, and Alliance 90/The Greens took 19.9 percent and nine. In a ka-news interview of 3 July 2014, Marvi was reported to have received 48,585 votes, more than any other candidate, and the SPD faction was said to have just elected the then 32-year-old as its chair.

He kept that post through the term. On 19 July 2015 ka-news reported a faction proposal, set out by Marvi as chair, for a “Kulturpark Altes Heizkraftwerk” at the listed former heating plant behind the main station. The group opposed a purely commercial redevelopment and asked that Karlsruher Fächer GmbH, which had converted the Alter Schlachthof, be examined as a developer of studios, exhibition space and gastronomy.

At the election of 26 May 2019, turnout was 58.7 percent and 135,735 ballots were valid. The SPD fell to 14.3 percent and seven seats; the Greens rose to 30.0 percent and 15 seats, and the CDU held nine seats on 18.7 percent. Marvi, the SPD’s lead candidate, told ka-news that the figures were “bitter” and that a federal trend had brought sharp SPD losses “from Munich to Kiel.” He was returned: the published list of the new council placed him first among the SPD members and recorded continuous membership since 2014, and he remained faction chair. In that council survey he said he wanted the group to press for relief for families, affordable housing, and the upkeep and expansion of infrastructure, together with a responsible budget.

Company boards and departure from the council

The council seat carried places on municipal bodies. The city’s participation report for 2014 lists “StR Parsa Marvi” on the supervisory board of KVVH – Karlsruher Versorgungs-, Verkehrs- und Hafen GmbH from 1 October 2014. The company is wholly owned by the city and is charged with electricity, gas, district heat and water, telecommunications and street lighting, public transport and the Rhine ports; its holdings then included Stadtwerke Karlsruhe, the transport operator VBK, the municipal baths company and the rail-infrastructure company KASIG. Disclosures for his 2021–2025 Bundestag mandate, as republished by abgeordnetenwatch, record that supervisory-board seat, membership of the administrative board (Verwaltungsrat) of Sparkasse Karlsruhe, and a deputy seat on the savings bank’s credit committee as each ending in December 2021, with no separate income entered for those posts. The same record states that the council membership ended in December 2021 and discloses 3,560 euros gross for 2021 for that office, within the published band of 3,500 to 7,000 euros. It also lists unpaid roles as deputy chair of Netzwerk Mannheimer Kreis e.V. (NEMAK) in Tübingen and as a board member of Netzwerk für Innovationen in Karlsruhe (NeIKa e.V.).

Yvette Melchien with deputy chairs Michael Zeh and Anton Huber after the Karlsruhe SPD council faction elected a new board in January 2022.

After Marvi entered the Bundestag on the state list of Baden-Württemberg, he resigned the council mandate. ka-news reported that at the faction’s first meeting of 2022 the group elected Yvette Melchien to succeed him as chair, with Michael Zeh and Anton Huber as equal deputies. David Hermanns of Durlach, a councillor from 2014 to 2019, took the vacant seat. The faction said a new election of officers was also due because the first half of the council term had elapsed. In its roundup of 24 January 2023 the city press office noted that Hermanns had succeeded Marvi after Marvi’s election to the Bundestag, and that Hermanns was himself leaving, with Dr. Raphael Fechler to take his place. The archived Bundestag biography for the 20th electoral period, which the parliament says rests on members’ own information, still described Marvi as a Karlsruhe councillor and SPD faction chair “since 2014,” without an end date.

Bundestag candidacies

Parsa Marvi stood four times as the direct candidate of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in Bundestag constituency 271, Karlsruhe-Stadt, which comprises the city of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg. He did not win the constituency seat at any of those elections. He entered the Bundestag from the SPD state list for the 20th term and was returned the same way for the 21st.

Elections of 2013 and 2017

On 10 October 2012 a Karlsruhe SPD membership meeting preferred Marvi to Max Lindemann by 119 votes to 14, and on 24 October the constituency conference confirmed him as the 2013 Bundestag candidate by 50 votes to 2. The state party, meeting in Heilbronn, placed him 31st on its list for Baden-Württemberg, under the name Parsa Ahmadi-Marvi and identified with Karlsruhe-Stadt. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) again nominated its sitting member Ingo Wellenreuther; 265 of 373 eligible members present voted for him.

At the election of 22 September 2013, turnout in the constituency was 72.9 percent. The CDU candidate received 58,452 first votes (39.5 percent, up 1.4 percentage points from 2009) and the SPD candidate 43,866 (29.6 percent, up 2.9 points). Alliance 90/The Greens took 20,337 first votes (13.7 percent). On second votes the SPD had 33,785 (22.7 percent, up 2.1 points), behind the CDU on 37.5 percent. Statewide the SPD won no constituency and received 20 list seats, so 31st place did not yield a mandate.

Marvi ran again in 2017. The Federal Returning Officer’s register of admitted candidates lists him for constituency 271 and as 18th on the SPD state list; the state delegate conference in Schwäbisch Gmünd on 11 March 2017 had elected him to that place. The same register lists Wellenreuther for the CDU in constituency 271 and Sylvia Kotting-Uhl for the Greens, and marks those two, but not Marvi, as elected. On 24 September 2017, with turnout at 77.6 percent, Wellenreuther received 45,821 first votes (28.5 percent, down 10.9 points) and Marvi 37,924 (23.6 percent, down 6.0 points). Kotting-Uhl received 28,268 (17.6 percent). The Alternative for Germany (AfD) had 16,073 first votes (10.0 percent), the Free Democratic Party (FDP) 13,829 (8.6 percent) and Die Linke 12,155 (7.6 percent). SPD second votes in the constituency fell to 27,044 (16.8 percent, down 5.9 points). The SPD’s final allocation in Baden-Württemberg was 16 seats, all of them list seats, which did not reach 18th place.

Election of 2021

For the election of 26 September 2021 the admitted-candidate register again names Marvi for Karlsruhe-Stadt, this time 12th on the SPD state list, with Wellenreuther for the CDU and Zoe Mayer for the Greens. Until that election the candidate with the most first votes took the constituency seat outright, while second votes determined party strength under the Sainte-Laguë/Schepers method, including overhang and compensatory seats. Turnout was again 77.6 percent. Mayer won the seat with 47,473 first votes (30.0 percent, up 12.4 points). Marvi was second with 33,630 (21.3 percent, down 2.4 points), ahead of Wellenreuther with 30,921 (19.5 percent, down 9.0 points). SPD second votes in the constituency were 33,828 (21.3 percent, up 4.5 points).

Across Baden-Württemberg the SPD polled 1,287,934 second votes (21.6 percent) and was allocated 22 seats: one constituency seat and 21 list seats. Because the SPD won only one constituency in the state, list place 12 was inside that allocation, and Marvi took a list mandate rather than the Karlsruhe seat. The 20th Bundestag convened on 26 October 2021.

Election of 2025

Marvi was again the SPD candidate in constituency 271 at the snap election of 23 February 2025, and eighth on the state list. A June 2023 amendment of the federal electoral law, applied for the first time at this election, fixed the Bundestag at 630 seats and ended overhang and compensatory mandates. Second votes remained decisive for the number of seats. A party candidate now wins a constituency only with the most first votes and only if that seat is covered by the party’s second-vote allocation in the state (Zweitstimmendeckung); other seats are filled in the order of the closed state list.

Turnout in Karlsruhe-Stadt was 83.1 percent. Dr. Zoe Mayer of the Greens held the constituency with 51,306 first votes (30.6 percent, up 0.6 points). Tobias Emanuel Bunk of the CDU was second with 39,597 (23.6 percent, up 4.1 points), and Marvi third with 25,553 (15.3 percent, down 6.0 points). The AfD received 22,986 first votes (13.7 percent) and Die Linke 13,353 (8.0 percent). SPD second votes in the constituency were 26,164 (15.6 percent, down 5.8 points).

Statewide the SPD received 898,778 second votes (14.2 percent, down 7.5 points) and no constituency seat in Baden-Württemberg. Its 13 seats there were all list seats, filled in list order through 13th place. Marvi, eighth on that list, was among those elected. The 21st Bundestag constituted itself on 25 March 2025.

Twentieth Bundestag

Committee memberships

Marvi sat in the Bundestag for the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) throughout the 20th electoral term, from 26 October 2021 until it ended on 25 March 2025. From 13 December 2021 the SPD group listed him as an ordinary member of the Finance Committee and of the Committee on Digital Affairs, and as a deputy member of the Committee on Economic Affairs. When the Finance Committee constituted itself on 15 December 2021, Alois Rainer (CDU/CSU) was elected chair of its 45 ordinary members; Marvi was one of 13 from the SPD. The same day the Digital Affairs Committee, 34 members, met for the first time under Tabea Rößner (Alliance 90/The Greens), with Marvi among the SPD’s ten seats. The group’s record for the term also lists him, from 15 February 2022, as a deputy member of the board of trustees of the Stiftung Forum Recht and, from 7 November 2023, as a deputy member of the Council of Elders commission on new information and communication technologies and media.

Finance and tax legislation

On the Finance Committee he shared rapporteurships with Fritz Güntzler (CDU/CSU). Their report of 18 May 2022 covered the Fourth Act on Tax Assistance to Cope with the Corona Crisis. In his first plenary speech, at first reading on 8 April 2022, Marvi set the draft against the pandemic, inflation, supply-chain strain and the economic effects of Russia’s attack on Ukraine, and called it part of relief he put at more than €30 billion that year, a figure Olav Gutting (CDU/CSU) disputed from the floor. The draft made specified corona bonuses for hospital and care staff tax-free up to €3,000 and extended the home-office lump sum, degressive depreciation, loss carry-back and filing deadlines; the committee recommended a €4,500 ceiling, a wider set of facilities under the Infection Protection Act, and inclusion of voluntary and collectively agreed payments. At the second and third reading on 19 May 2022 Marvi said the talks had improved the bill and that it followed earlier corona tax laws in giving rapid relief to employees and smaller firms, especially in health and care.

Later that day, in a CDU/CSU current-affairs hour on inflation, he said high inflation harmed social cohesion, cut real incomes and hit those with least the hardest, and that the coalition meant to relieve households rather than accept stagflation. On 30 September 2022, at the second and third reading of a coalition bill for a temporary cut in value-added tax on gas supplied through the grid, he described advance payments several hundred percent above previous levels and presented the cut, which he said also covered district heating, as a further step against inflation beside planned price caps.

On 10 November 2022 he answered an AfD motion on cum-ex and cum-cum trades. He called them among the largest losses ever inflicted on the public purse, said they had always been unlawful rather than the product of a statutory gap, and cited the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Fiscal Court for treating the practice as criminal. He said cum-ex cases through 2012 were relatively advanced, while Finance Ministry circulars of 2016 and 2017 had narrowed cum-cum recovery, and he stated that €1.8 billion had been reclaimed by April 2022, with the estimate since as high as €3.1 billion.

He and Güntzler signed the report of 30 November 2022 on the Annual Tax Act 2022. At second and third reading on 2 December he said the coalition had raised the home-office lump sum to a maximum of €1,260, €260 above the government draft, and merged it with the dedicated-room deduction into one daily allowance, so many employees no longer needed a separate enclosed office. He also cited full deductibility of retirement-provision expenses from 2023 and the EU energy-crisis contribution for 2022 and 2023 on windfall profits in coal, oil and energy.

The same pair reported the bill implementing Council Directive (EU) 2022/2523 on a global minimum corporate tax. The report noted that 136 jurisdictions in the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework had agreed a two-pillar statement on 8 October 2021. At second and third reading on 10 November 2023 Marvi said Germany and other European Union states were enacting that deal; a Franco-German aim at the OECD had once been 21 percent, he said, but a 15 percent floor was better than very low or zero rates, and he put the yearly cost of multinational profit-shifting in the hundreds of billions of euros.

On the Growth Opportunities Act he spoke for the SPD at first reading on 13 October 2023 and at second and third reading on 17 November 2023. In the final debate he said tax measures alone would not restart growth but could aim at it: at least 90,000 firms with official energy audits would gain access to a premium for investment in energy and resource efficiency, the research allowance would expand especially for smaller firms, and degressive depreciation for new housing, which he credited to Building Minister Klara Geywitz, had been widened.

Digital affairs

In that same 13 October sitting Marvi spoke on CDU/CSU and AfD motions on the European Artificial Intelligence Act. He said that about a year after GPT-3.5, generative systems had moved artificial intelligence from a niche into media, politics, offices and homes, bringing disinformation, reinforced discrimination, exposure of sensitive data, and the use of clickworkers in the Global South to filter traumatic material. He argued for binding rules rather than a development stop. Against the Union motion he said it underplayed commercialization, would leave copyright out of the regulation despite a June 2023 European Parliament proposal that firms disclose copyrighted training data, and would drop Parliament language on transparency and resource use. He asked for work in the closing talks instead of what he called last-minute fundamental criticism.

Twenty-first Bundestag

Marvi returned to the Bundestag for its 21st legislative period at the 2025 German federal election, on the state list of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in Baden-Württemberg. The party placed him eighth on the list adopted on 15 December 2024, for constituency 271, Karlsruhe-Stadt. A state results service lists 13 SPD members returned on that list, with him eighth, and the Bundestag records a list seat rather than a direct mandate. In Karlsruhe-Stadt, Zoe Mayer of Alliance 90/The Greens won with 30.6 percent of the first votes; Tobias Bunk of the CDU was second on 23.6 percent. The SPD, whose candidate was Marvi, took 15.3 percent of the first votes (25,553), down 6.0 points on 2021. Across Baden-Württemberg the SPD’s second-vote share was 14.2 percent. The new Bundestag constituted itself on 25 March 2025.

Offices in the parliamentary group

On 3 June 2025 the SPD group elected Marvi among 25 members of its extended executive, the Fraktionsvorstand. It runs the group’s business and prepares its meetings.

Since 21 May 2025 he has sat on the finance working group and as a full member of the working group on digital affairs and state modernisation, and since 27 June 2025 as one of its deputy spokespersons, with Dr Carolin Wagner, under spokesperson Johannes Schätzl. From 21 May 2025 he has been a substitute on the working groups for economic affairs and energy and for housing, urban development, building and municipalities.

From 9 September 2025 the group also lists him on its accompanying group for the Commission on Reform of the Welfare State. The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, which led the commission from September 2025 to January 2026, names him with Dagmar Schmidt and Annika Klose as the SPD members of that body of coalition MPs, which followed the commission and could put parliamentary views into its work.

Committee work since 2025

On 21 May 2025 he became a full member of the Finance Committee, named among eight SPD members at its opening, and of the Committee on Digital Affairs and State Modernisation. That committee, chaired by Hansjörg Durz, has 30 full members and 30 substitutes; Marvi was an SPD full member when it met. He is a substitute on the committees for economic affairs and energy and for housing, urban development, building and municipalities. Substitutes may attend every sitting but may vote only in place of an absent full member of their own group. The Bundestag biography does not list the commission of the Council of Elders on information technologies and digitalisation. The SPD group records him there only as a substitute member, from 24 June 2025.

The group named him rapporteur for the bill carrying out the amended European eIDAS rules on a digital-identity wallet. In Germany the wallet is branded d-you. A Bundestag note on the committee stage says use is voluntary and that the wallet was to start on 2 January 2027. On 14 October 2026 the digital committee adopted the amended bill, and a coalition resolution, with the CDU/CSU and the SPD in favour and the other groups against. The next day, in the 102nd sitting, Marvi spoke for the SPD. He said repeated identity checks waste time, and that bodies querying wallet data must declare at registration which data they need, which he called a gain for data protection. The CDU/CSU and the SPD then voted for the bill and the resolution; Die Linke, the Greens and the Alternative for Germany voted against, with no abstentions.

The group presented him as finance rapporteur, with spokesperson Frauke Heiligenstadt, when on 12 November 2025 the two welcomed inheritance- and gift-tax proposals from the German Council of Economic Experts. On 5 November 2025 he and Schätzl called a cabinet bureaucracy package, including a digital “work and stay” agency and digital property contracts, a first step, and said they would not accept lower EU protection standards.

Constituency activity

The group lists Karlsruhe-Stadt as his constituency and three further betreute Wahlkreise: Neckar-Zaber (266), Bruchsal–Schwetzingen (278) and Karlsruhe-Land (272). Another SPD member, in an account carried by local reporting, has described the practice as assigning members to districts from which no SPD candidate entered the Bundestag, so that residents still have an SPD member to approach. His Karlsruhe office is at Pforzheimer Straße 21.

In September 2026 ka-news, drawing on Marvi’s statement, reported that the Budget Committee had that afternoon approved 1.51 million euros for “Klimaneutrales Rheinstrandbad Rappenwört – Modernisierung” under a federal pool-renovation programme. He said he had sought the money for new heating of changing-room process water and of the technical area.

In October 2026 the same site reported his call to keep paid child-sickness leave at 15 days per parent and child (30 for a single parent) after 2026. It said the entitlement would otherwise fall on 1 January 2027 to 10 and 20 days. The report cast this as a reply to Health Minister Carsten Linnemann, who on 23 September had said the figure would be 10 days and had called the higher number a pandemic measure.

Political positions

Taxation and public finance

The Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) group called Marvi its rapporteur when, on 12 November 2025, he and finance spokesperson Frauke Heiligenstadt welcomed the annual report of the German Council of Economic Experts. She called for a fair inheritance and gift tax, with large fortunes paying more and deferrals so firms and jobs survived. Marvi said billions still passed virtually tax-free through foundations—an "inheritance society"—and wanted business-asset privileges cut, deferral widened for Mittelstand successions, the Verschonungsbedarfsprüfung abolished and a minimum rate on large inheritances. A January 2026 SPD flyer named him, with Tim Klüssendorf, Wiebke Esdar and Heiligenstadt, as an author of "FAIRerben": a €1 million lifetime allowance, €5 million for business transfers, progressive tax on very large business wealth, an end to special exemptions, and up to 20 years to pay where jobs were kept.

On 8 October 2026 he told the Bundestag that the SPD shared the view of Alliance 90/The Greens on very large transfers, not ordinary family inheritances, but would not pass their bills that day, leaving it to CDU/CSU–SPD talks after the case at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. On crypto he called a one-year route to tax-free gains unjust and said they should bear the flat withholding tax (Abgeltungsteuer), which he called efficient, not the Greens' personal rate. He backed a Finance Ministry draft the SPD would finish with the coalition. Dated 30 September 2026, it would have taxed "exchange crypto-assets" such as Bitcoin bought from 1 January 2027 at 25 percent whatever the holding period, with older coins left under the old rule; the cabinet missed 14 October. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published a 21 September debate between Marvi and Matthias Steger of the Bitcoin Bundesverband on taxing Bitcoin like shares. Cash.online reported objections that crypto would be treated unlike gold, and a petition of 44,439 signatures to keep the one-year rule. The House rejected the Greens' abolition bill on 8 October.

In the traffic-light coalition he spoke for the SPD, not as author of the bill, for a 15 percent global minimum tax on firms above €750 million in turnover, after nearly 140 OECD countries agreed—a result he credited to then finance minister Olaf Scholz. On 10 November 2023 he said 15 percent beat zero, though the SPD and France had sought 21; Die Linke's Christian Görke called Germany's yield of about €20 million a nullity next to far larger estimated losses. On 10 November 2022, against an Alternative for Germany motion, he called cum-ex and cum-cum criminal in the view of the Federal Court of Justice and the Federal Fiscal Court, cited €1.8 billion recovered by April 2022, and dismissed the motion as a "show debate".

Digital government and payments

On 15 October 2026, at the final reading of the Digital Identities Act, Marvi spoke for the SPD on the German EU identity wallet, "d-you". He said people still repeated identity data, and that a wallet had to be useful and data-sparing. Changes he said the SPD had won with the Union included a duty to declare, at registration, which data a body would request; a once-only extension of trials, with notice to the digital committee; faster delivery of the pseudonymous login required by revised eIDAS rules, missing from the 2 January 2027 start; and shorter deadlines for electronic certificates. The vote, he said, began the law's "actual probationary period". Use stayed voluntary under Article 5a(15). Netzpolitik.org reported that the coalition majority passed the act with only identification at the start. Thomas Lohninger and Bianca Kastl called the safeguards weak, and Union rapporteur Markus Reichel conceded a gap on pseudonyms.

No plenary text here gives Marvi's own view of the digital euro. On 17 January 2024 Bundesbank executive Burkhard Balz told the Finance Committee it should complement cash, not replace it. The news service attributed to the SPD group, without naming a speaker, a wholesale and Internet-of-Things use case.

Iran and foreign affairs

Born in Tehran, Marvi has tied remarks on Iran to relatives there. On 13 January 2026 the Badische Neueste Nachrichten quoted him, during a communications blackout amid protests, saying that after the "Woman, Life, Freedom" wave "it is simmering again", that the system was striking back "mercilessly", and that "I do not believe one can bomb a democracy into being. The change has to come from within." He wanted the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps listed as terrorists and officials sanctioned, and said he had no news of relatives.

On 30 January 2026, on a Greens motion, he said a state that had turned on its people for 47 years had "long since lost all legitimacy", and that democracy had to come from Iranian society itself. He thanked Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul that European Union ministers had that week listed the Guards as terrorists, with sanctions on about 30 officials, but said those responsible should still answer in The Hague.

In the 4 March 2026 Aktuelle Stunde he asked for empathy both for that population and for people fearing bombardment by the United States and Israel, including in Tehran, warning of thousands of civilian deaths and harm to protesters. Calling Ali Khamenei the "dead dictator", he said the leaders deserved no empathy and belonged before the International Criminal Court. He criticized the operation, as SPD spokesman Adis Ahmetovic had, yet said it was good that "this dictator is now history", argued that the US president had pressed international law since early January in a way Joe Biden would not have, and said Iran was itself breaking that law. He called a ceasefire urgent.

Affiliations and disclosures

Memberships

The Bundestag biography of Parsa Marvi, which the parliament says rests on members' own information, lists membership of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (AWO), ver.di and the Europaunion. The AWO Bundesverband describes the Arbeiterwohlfahrt as a welfare association, active for more than a century, that represents its regional associations. ver.di is the Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, a services-sector trade union. The Europa-Union Deutschland, given as Europaunion in the biography, describes itself as a non-partisan citizens' organization for European unification and as the German section of the Union of European Federalists.

These are biographical memberships, not entries in the statutory schedule of outside income. The same page also records SPD membership since 1999 and still describes Marvi as a member of the Karlsruhe municipal council, and chair of its SPD group, since 2014. ka-news reported on 12 January 2022 that he had resigned the council mandate after entering the Bundestag, that David Hermanns would take the seat, and that Yvette Melchien had been elected SPD group chair.

Outside activities and travel

Sections 45 and following of the Members of the Bundestag Act (Abgeordnetengesetz) require members to notify the President within three months of taking their seats, and to report changes within three months. The Bundestag publishes an item after checking that publication is required. The duty covers the last occupation before the mandate and any right to return to it, paid work beside the mandate, posts in companies, public-law bodies and associations, agreements on future work or benefits, and certain holdings. Income is published, in euro and cent, above 1,000 euro in a month or 3,000 euro in a year. Under section 48, donations and other benefits for political activity from one source must be notified above 1,000 euro in a calendar year and are published above 3,000 euro; benefits linked to political-information events or to international contacts are not classed as donations but use the same thresholds. Published sums are gross, including compensation and benefits in kind, and are not taxable income.

For the 21st Bundestag the only published entry is the pre-mandate job: product manager at 1&1 Telecom GmbH in Montabaur, with a right to return (Rückkehrrecht). The archived 20th-term biography lists further posts. Marvi was on the supervisory board of KVVH – Karlsruher Versorgungs-, Verkehrs- und Hafen GmbH until December 2021, and at Sparkasse Karlsruhe a member of the administrative board and a deputy member of the credit committee, both until December 2021. City-council membership is dated to December 2021, with gross receipts of 3,560.00 euro in 2021. Honorary roles are a board seat at Netzwerk für Innovationen in Karlsruhe (NeIKa e.V.) until 31 December 2023 and the deputy chair of Netzwerk Mannheimer Kreis e.V. (NEMAK e.V.) in Tübingen until 21 June 2023.

Under donations and other benefits, ELNET Deutschland e.V. of Berlin is recorded as having met travel costs of 4,049.44 euro in 2024. abgeordnetenwatch republishes the filings with the same two amounts, 3,560 euro and 4,049.44 euro. In the Bundestag lobby register, ELNET Deutschland e.V. describes the European Leadership Network as a think tank and network on European–Israeli relations, including publications, dialogue events and delegation trips. The filing does not state the destination or the programme.

Separately, ka-news on 19 August 2025 published a conversation with Marvi in its series "Auf ein Bier mit", held at the Vogelbräu in Karlsruhe, on coalition politics and municipal questions.