Sonja Eichwede | |
|---|---|
 Eichwede in 2021 | |
| Member of the Bundestag | |
| Assumed office 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 October 1987 Bremen, Germany |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party of Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
Sonja Katharina Eichwede (born 25 October 1987) is a German lawyer and politician representing the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She was elected to the Bundestag in the 2021 German federal election. [1]
Eichwede was born in Bremen. She studied and passed the Abitur school leavers' exam at Kippenberg-Gymnasium in Bremen in 2007. After graduating, she studied Jurisprudence at the University of Tübingen, graduating in 2013. As part of her studies, she completed an Erasmus exchange in Oslo in 2010. In 2013, Eichwede passed the first German state examination in law, and following this worked as a trainee lawyer at the Landgericht Bremen until 2015. [2]
Eichwede stood as a candidate in the 2021 federal elections for the Brandenburg an der Havel – Potsdam-Mittelmark I – Havelland III – Teltow-Fläming I constituency in Brandenburg. She won a direct mandate with 32.1% of first preference votes, beating Christian Democratic Union candidate Dietlind Tiemann, among others. [3]
In parliament, Eichwede has since been serving on the Committee on the Scrutiny of Elections, Immunity and the Rules of Procedure. She also serves on the Committee on the Election of Judges (Wahlausschuss), which is in charge of appointing judges to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, and on the parliamentary body in charge of appointing judges to the Highest Courts of Justice, namely the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), the Federal Administrative Court (BVerwG), the Federal Fiscal Court (BFH), the Federal Labour Court (BAG), and the Federal Social Court (BSG). [4] She has been her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for legal affairs. [5]
According to Eichwede, she is single, and an evangelical Christian. [6]
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