Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
In office 2 June 2017 – 14 March 2018
Chancellor
Angela Merkel
Preceded by
Manuela Schwesig
Succeeded by
Franziska Giffey
General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party
In office 11 December 2015 – 2 June 2017
Leader
Sigmar Gabriel Martin Schulz
Preceded by
Yasmin Fahimi
Succeeded by
Hubertus Heil
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the European Parliament for Germany
Incumbent
Assumed office 2 July 2019
Preceded by
Multi-member district
Constituency
Social Democratic Party List
Member of the Bundestag for Rhineland-Palatinate
In office 22 October 2013 – 1 July 2019
Preceded by
Multi-member district
Succeeded by
Isabel Mackensen
Constituency
Social Democratic Party List
Personal details
Born
(1968-11-19) 19 November 1968 (age 55) Cologne, West Germany (now Germany)
Citizenship
German
British
Political party
SPD (since 1994)
Spouse
Marco van den Berg
(m. 2020)
Children
2
Education
University of Marburg Paris-Sud University University of Münster
Signature
Website
Official website
Katarina Barley (born 19 November 1968) is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, serving as one of its Vice-Presidents. She served as Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection in the fourth Cabinet of Angela Merkel.[1] Prior to that, she had served as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth and, from 28 September 2017, as the acting Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, both until 14 March 2018.[2]
A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Barley served as a member of the Bundestag from 2013 until 2019 and was Secretary-General of her party from 2015 to 2017. She holds law degrees from France and Germany and a doctorate in European law, and formerly worked as a corporate lawyer with the law firm Wessing & Berenberg-Gossler in Hamburg, as a judge and as a governmental legal adviser. Barley holds citizenship of both Germany and Britain.[3]
^Seibert, Evi (2 June 2017). "Passt schon" [It's okay]. Tagesschau (online) (in German). Hamburg. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
^"Katarina Barley: Bundesministerin für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend / Bundesministerin für Arbeit und Soziales" [... Federal Minister for Family, Old People, Women and Young People / Federal Minister for Work and Social Affairs] (in German). Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung, Berlin. Retrieved 10 March 2018.[permanent dead link]
^"Germany disappointed by May's Brexit plan, suggests second referendum". Reuters. 22 January 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
KatarinaBarley (born 19 November 1968) is a German politician and lawyer who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, serving as one...
Current seats CDU/CSU Manfred Weber 29 Greens Terry Reintke 21 SPD KatarinaBarley 16 AfD Maximilian Krah 9 Left Martin Schirdewan Carola Rackete 5 FDP...
of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. She succeeded KatarinaBarley in this office, who became Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer...
Chancellor Angela Merkel Preceded by Kristina Schröder Succeeded by KatarinaBarley Personal details Born Manuela Frenzel (1974-05-23) 23 May 1974 (age 49)...
December 2021 6 Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection KatarinaBarley SPD 14 March 2018 27 June 2019 Christine Lambrecht SPD 27 June 2019...
turned down any alliance with FdI. Former German Minister of Justice KatarinaBarley accused Weber of opening up to the far right in Europe. During the...
Stefan Andres Prize Gabriele Pauli (born 1957), former politician KatarinaBarley (born 1968), politician (SPD) Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg...
Nahles (b. 1970) SPD 17 December 2013 28 September 2017 Merkel (III) KatarinaBarley was acting Federal Minister from 28 September 2017 to 14 March 2018...
successor of Andrea Nahles. By late 2015, Gabriel replaced her with KatarinaBarley. From 2016 until 2018, Fahimi served as State Secretary at the Federal...
García (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) as First Vice President, KatarinaBarley (SPD) and Francisco André (Socialist Party (Portugal)) as Executive...
Die Wolke Gudrun Pausewang with KatarinaBarley, then Minister of Family Affairs, at the 2017 ceremony Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Author Gudrun Pausewang...
assault". Spahn said he hoped to work together with Justice Minister KatarinaBarley for a law to ban conversion therapy, that he hoped would be approved...
Nahles succeeded him as general secretary in November 2009. After KatarinaBarley's appointment as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens...
Schnarrenberger (Justice) Ilse Aigner (Consumer Protection) Succeeded by KatarinaBarley Member of the Bundestag for Saarland In office 26 October 2021 – 16...
(in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019. "Deutscher Bundestag - Dr. KatarinaBarley". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 2 December 2019. "Deutscher...
seniors and youth, led by Annette Widmann-Mauz, Angelika Niebler and KatarinaBarley. On 24 March 2018, Leonhard was elected with 94.6 percent of the delegate...