Martin Auer is 22 years old and a student of International Business Administration and Entrepreneurship at Leuphana University in Lueneburg. He is the co-founder and first chairperson of the association Youth Lead the Change Germany (YLCG) which aims to excite young people about democracy and to establish municipal youth budgets in Germany. During a seminar about Citizen Entrepreneurship Martin initiated the project jugendhaushalt.de with a group of students and YLCG.