Doris Ahnen

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Matthias Kollatz-Ahnen
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Doris Ahnen
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Ahnen in 2020
Minister for Finance of Rhineland-Palatinate
Assumed office
12 November 2014
Alma mater University of Mainz (MA)
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Website www.doris-ahnen.de

Doris Maria Ahnen is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Minister for Finance in the state government of Rhineland-Palatinate since 2014. [1] Prior to that she served as the Minister for Education, Research and Culture since 2001. She has been a part of the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate since the 2006 elections. [2] She is also a member of the German Bundesrat for Rhineland-Palatinate. [3]

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Political career

State Minister of Education, 2001–2014

From 2001 until 2014, Ahnen served as State Minister of Education in the government of Minister-President Kurt Beck. [4] In this capacity, she chaired the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs in 2004.

Since 2004, Ahnen has been serving as deputy chair of the SPD in Rhineland-Palatinate, under the leadership of chairpersons Kurt Beck (2004–2012) and Roger Lewentz (2012–present).

Ahnen co-chaired the SPD's national conventions in Berlin, (2011, [5] 2014, [6] 2015, [7] 2017), [8] Leipzig (2013), [9] Dortmund (2017) [10] and Wiesbaden (2018). [11]

State Minister of Finance, 2014–present

Since 2014, Ahnen has been serving as State Minister of Finance in the government of Minister-President Malu Dreyer. In this capacity, she is one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, where she serves on the Finance Committee and the Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Regional Planning.

During the negotiations to form a coalition government under Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2013 federal elections, Ahnen led the SPD delegation in the working group on education and research; her co-chair from the CDU/CSU was Johanna Wanka. [12] In the negotiations to form Merkel's fourth coalition government following the 2017 federal elections, she was part of the working group on financial policies and taxes, led by Peter Altmaier, Andreas Scheuer and Olaf Scholz.

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the FDP following the 2021 federal elections, Ahnen led her party's delegation in the working group on financial regulation and the national budget; her co-chairs from the other parties were Lisa Paus and Christian Dürr. [13]

Ahnen was nominated by her party as delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2022. [14]

Personal life

Ahnen was married to fellow SPD politician Matthias Kollatz-Ahnen from 1993 until 2018. [15] [16]

Other activities

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References

  1. ↑ "Finanzministerin Doris Ahnen". RLP (in German). Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Abgeordnetensuche - 18. Wahlperiode". Landtag RLP (in German). Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. ↑ "Doris Maria Ahnen". Bundesrat (in German). Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. ↑ Hugh Williamson (May 12, 2006), Doubts surround SPD's down-to-earth new leader Financial Times .
  5. ↑ Protokoll des ordentlichen Bundesparteitages 2011, Berlin Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
  6. ↑ Protokoll des außerordentlichen Bundesparteitages 2014, Berlin Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
  7. ↑ Protokoll des ordentlichen Bundesparteitages 2015, Berlin Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
  8. ↑ Protokoll des außerordentlichen Bundesparteitages der SPD in Berlin, 19. März 2017 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
  9. ↑ Protokoll des Bundesparteitages 2013, Leipzig Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
  10. ↑ Protokoll des außerordentlichen Bundesparteitages in Dortmund, 2017 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
  11. ↑ Protokoll des außerordentlichen Bundesparteitages Wiesbaden, 2018 Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
  12. ↑ Christian Tretbar (October 23, 2013), Sie haben sich erstmal alle umarmt Der Tagesspiegel .
  13. ↑ Andreas Apetz and Thomas Kaspar (October 22, 2021), Ampel-Koalition: Alle Verantwortlichen, AGs und Themen im Überblick Frankfurter Rundschau .
  14. ↑ Drucksache 18/1875: Vom Landtag Rheinland-Pfalz gewählte Mitglieder und Ersatzmitglieder der 17. Bundesversammlung State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  15. ↑ Hannelore Crolly (November 21, 2014), Deutschlands erstes Finanzminister-Ehepaar Die Welt .
  16. ↑ Hildburg Bruns (July 27, 2018), Finanzsenator Kollatz ist jetzt Ahnen-los B.Z. .
  17. ↑ Kurt Beck als Vorsitzender der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung bestätigt Friedrich Ebert Foundation, press release of December 17, 2018.
  18. ↑ 2020 Annual Report: Report of the Board of Supervisory Directors KfW.
  19. ↑ Doris Ahnen Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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