Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag
In office 27 September 2017 – 4 June 2019
Chief Whip
Carsten Schneider
Preceded by
Thomas Oppermann
Succeeded by
Rolf Mützenich (Acting)
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
In office 17 December 2013 – 27 September 2017
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Preceded by
Ursula von der Leyen
Succeeded by
Katarina Barley (Acting)
General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party
In office 13 November 2009 – 26 January 2014
Leader
Sigmar Gabriel
Preceded by
Hubertus Heil
Succeeded by
Yasmin Fahimi
Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party
In office 26 October 2007 – 12 November 2009
Leader
Kurt Beck Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Acting) Franz Müntefering
Preceded by
Kurt Beck
Succeeded by
Hannelore Kraft
Member of the Bundestag for Rhineland-Palatinate
In office 18 September 2005 – 1 November 2019
Succeeded by
Joe Weingarten
In office 27 September 1998 – 22 September 2002
Personal details
Born
Andrea Maria Nahles
(1970-06-20) 20 June 1970 (age 53) Mendig, West Germany
Political party
Social Democratic Party
Spouse
Marcus Frings (divorced)
Children
1
Alma mater
University of Bonn
Website
andrea-nahles.de
Andrea Maria Nahles (born 20 June 1970) is a former German politician who has been the director of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) since 2022.[1]
Nahles is best known for having served as leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April 2018 until June 2019 and the leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from September 2017 until June 2019. She served as a Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and SPD Youth leader. From 2020 to 2022, she was the president of the Federal Posts and Telecommunications Agency.[2]
Nahles is known within the party for criticising Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010. In June 2019, in the aftermath of the SPD's result in the 2019 European elections,[3] she announced her resignation as leader of the SPD and as parliamentary leader of the SPD.[4] For the transition period until a new SPD-leader was elected, Manuela Schwesig, Malu Dreyer and Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel acted as her successors.[5]
Nahles left the Bundestag on 31 October 2019.[6]
^Jan Klauth (2 August 2022), Andrea Nahles steht vor großen Reformen – doch ihr fehlt das Geld Die Welt.
^Martin Greive (26 June 2020), Nahles zur neuen Präsidentin der Bundesanstalt für Post und Telekommunikation gewählt Handelsblatt.
^"Ergebnisse - Der Bundeswahlleiter". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^"SPD: Andrea Nahles tritt zurück". ZEIT ONLINE (in German). Retrieved 2 June 2019.
^"Schwesig, Dreyer, Schäfer-Gümbel: Trio soll SPD kommissarisch führen". Der Spiegel. 3 June 2019 – via Spiegel Online.
^"Deutscher Bundestag - Ausgeschiedene Abgeordnete der 19. Wahlperiode". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 1 November 2019.
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