Johann Saathoff

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Johann Saathoff
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Saathoff in 2014
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2013
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Born (1967-12-09) 9 December 1967 (age 56)
Emden, West Germany
(now Germany)
Political party SPD

Johann Saathoff (born 9 December 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021. [1] He has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2013.

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From 2020 until 2021, Saathoff served as the German government's Coordinator for Inter-Societal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership Countries at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. [2]

Political career

Saathoff became a member of the Bundestag in the 2013 German federal election. [3] From 2013 until 2021, he was a member of the Committee for Food and Agriculture and the Committee for Economic Affairs and Energy. [4] [5]

In addition to his committee assignments, Saathoff is part of the German Parliamentary Friendship Group for Relations with the ASEAN States.[ citation needed ]

In the negotiations to form a so-called traffic light coalition of the SPD, the Green Party and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) following the 2021 federal elections, Saathoff was part of his party's delegation in the working group on economic affairs, co-chaired by Carsten Schneider, Cem Özdemir and Michael Theurer. [6]

Other activities

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References

  1. ↑ Mike Szymanski (7 December 2021), Neue Bundesregierung: Auch die zweite Reihe steht Süddeutsche Zeitung .
  2. ↑ Andreas Niesmann (21 August 2020), Johann Saathoff soll neuer Russland-Beauftragter werden RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland .
  3. ↑ "Johann Saathoff, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 23 September 2013. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "German Bundestag - Food and Agriculture". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "German Bundestag - Economic Affairs and Energy". German Bundestag. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  6. ↑ Ampel-Koalition: Das sind die Verhandlungsteams von SPD, Grünen und FDP [ permanent dead link ] Deutschlandfunk , 27 October 2021.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ German Members Petersburger Dialog.
  9. ↑ Council Agora Energiewende.
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