Career
He serves in the States of Limburg since the 2015 elections, and previously served between 2007 and 2011. Wassenberg was born on 2 May 1966 in Heer, Maastricht. After completing his high school education in Maastricht in 1985 he went to study biology at Utrecht University and graduated in 1992.
Since 1993 he has worked as a policy officer for various foundations for animal rights, since 2006 for the Koningin Sophia-Vereeniging tot Bescherming van Dieren.
Wassenberg was elected to the States of Limburg for the Party for the Animals in the 2007 elections. He served one four-year term.
In the 2011 elections the party did not manage to obtain any seats. In the 2015 elections Wassenberg was once more elected to the States, as the sole representative of the party.
In November 2015 Esther Ouwehand temporarily resigned her seat in the House of Representatives due to health reasons.
Wassenberg became her replacement with an expected term of four months.
