Dagmar Ziegler

Dagmar Ziegler (born 28 September 1960) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Brandenburg since 2009.[1]

Dagmar Ziegler
Dagmar Ziegler in 2020
Vice President of the Bundestag
(on proposal of the SPD-group)
Assumed office
26 November 2020
Preceded byThomas Oppermann
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2009
Personal details
Born (1960-09-28) 28 September 1960
Leipzig, East Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD

Political career

Career in state politics

From 1994 until 2009, Ziegler was a member of the State Parliament of Brandenburg. In the government of Minister-President Matthias Platzeck, she served as State Minister of Finance (2000-2004) and State Minister for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Families (2004-2009).

Member of the German Parliament, 2009–present

Ziegler became a member of the Bundestag after the 2009 German federal election.[2] From 2009 until 2013, she served as deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group under the leadership of chairman Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

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 federal elections, Ziegler was part of her party's delegation in the working group on families, women and equality, led by Annette Widmann-Mauz and Manuela Schwesig.

Since 2014, Ziegler has been serving on the parliament’s Council of Elders, which – among other duties – determines daily legislative agenda items and assigns committee chairpersons based on party representation. In 2018, she also joined the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development.[3]

In December 2019, Ziegler announced that she would not stand in the 2021 federal elections but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.[4] In her final year in parliament, she serves as the parliament's vice-president, following the sudden death of Thomas Oppermann.

Other activities

References
  1. "Dagmar Ziegler | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  2. "Dagmar Ziegler, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  3. "German Bundestag - Economic Cooperation and Development". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  4. Benjamin Lassiwe (December 16, 2019), Dagmar Ziegler tritt nicht wieder an: SPD-Bundestagsabgeordnete hört 2021 auf Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten.
  5. Board of Trustees Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
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