Nina Scheer

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Nina Scheer
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Scheer in 2019
Member of the Bundestag
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2013
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Born (1971-09-11) 11 September 1971 (age 51)
Berlin
NationalityGerman
Political party SPD
Children1

Nina Scheer (born 11 September 1971) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been a member of the Bundestag since 2013. Her political interests include energy policy and climate change. In 2019, Scheer was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, in a team with Karl Lauterbach. Her father was Hermann Scheer, also a SPD Bundestag member.

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Early life and career

Scheer was born in Berlin. From 1991 to 1996 she studied music with a specialization in the violin at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, then studied law at the University of Bonn. In 2008 she obtained a doctorate in political science at the University of Leipzig. [1]

Political career

Scheer has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2013 elections, standing in the electoral district Herzogtum Lauenburg – Stormarn-Süd, which encompasses the administrative district Duchy of Lauenburg and parts of Stormarn. Though she lost to Norbert Brackmann in both elections, she entered parliament through the SPD's party list.

In parliament, Scheer served on the Committee on the Economic Affairs and Energy from 2014 until 2017 before moving to the Committee on the Environment, Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety as well as to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Consumer Protection in 2018. In this capacity, she was her parliamentary group's rapporteur on nuclear energy. In addition, she has been a member of the Parliamentary Advisory Board on Sustainable Development since 2018. Since the 2021 elections, Scheer has been serving as her parliamentary group’s spokesperson for climate protection and energy. [2] She also joined the Subcommittee on International Climate and Energy Policy. [3]

Within the SPD parliamentary group, Scheer belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement. [4]

In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 elections, Scheer was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on energy policy, led by Peter Altmaier and Hannelore Kraft. [5]

Jointly with Karl Lauterbach, Scheer was a candidate in the 2019 Social Democratic Party of Germany leadership election, with an emphasis on combating climate change. [6] The duo was eliminated in the first round of voting with 14.6% of the vote. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "German Bundestag - Dr. Nina Scheer". German Bundestag. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  2. ↑ Jonas Jordan (17 December 2021), SPD-Fraktion: Das sind die Sprecher*innen der Ausschussarbeitsgruppen Vorwärts .
  3. ↑ Lisa Badum leitet Unterausschuss zur Klima- und Energiepolitik Bundestag, press release of 8 April 2022.
  4. ↑ Members Parliamentary Left.
  5. ↑ "SPD mit dem Fuß an der Bremse" . Retrieved 4 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "Mache Dir ein Bild von Nina Scheer & Karl Lauterbach!". Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "German Finance Minister Scholz favorite to lead SPD — but faces runoff" . Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  8. ↑ Mitglieder des Kuratoriums der Stiftung „Fonds zur Finanzierung der kerntechnischen Entsorgung“ benannt Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, press release of 12 March 2017.
  9. ↑ Members of the Advisory Board Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA)
  10. ↑ Council Agora Energiewende.
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