Jens Zimmermann (politician)

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Jens Zimmermann
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Zimmermann in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
Personal details
Born (1981-09-09) 9 September 1981 (age 42)
Groß-Umstadt, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party SPD
Alma mater

Jens Zimmermann (born 9 September 1981) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Hesse since 2013.

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Political career

Zimmermann first became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election. [1] He is a member of the Finance Committee and the Committee on the Digital Agenda. [2] [3] In this capacity, he is his parliamentary group's rapporteur on measures against money laundering and terrorist financing.

In addition to his committee assignments, Zimmermann is part of the German-British Parliamentary Friendship Group.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Zimmermann was part of the working group on digital policy, led Helge Braun, Dorothee Bär and Lars Klingbeil. In similar negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, he led his party's delegation in the working group on digital policy; his co-chairs from the other parties were Malte Spitz and Andreas Pinkwart. [4]

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References

  1. "Dr. Jens Zimmermann, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 9 October 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. "German Bundestag - Finance". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. "German Bundestag - Digital Agenda". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. Andreas Apetz and Thomas Kaspar (October 22, 2021), Ampel-Koalition: Alle Verantwortlichen, AGs und Themen im Überblick Frankfurter Rundschau .
  5. Administrative Council Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin).
  6. Bernd Westphal wird neuer Beirats-Vorsitzender beim Wirtschaftsforum der SPD Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, press release of 7 June 2018.