Dietmar Nietan

Dietmar Nietan (born 25 May 1964) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1998 till 2002 and since 2005.[1]

Dietmar Nietan
Dietmar Nietan in 2013
Member of the Bundestag
Assumed office
2005
Personal details
Born (1964-05-25) 25 May 1964
Düren, West Germany
(now Germany)
NationalityGerman
Political partySPD
Alma materUniversity of Cologne

Political career

Nietan became a member of the Bundestag for the second time in the 2017 German federal election.[2] He is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs;[3] in this capacity, he serves as his parliamentary group's rapporteur on the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy and relations to Turkey.[4] He also served on the Committee on European Affairs from 1998 until 2005 and from 2009 until 2013.

In addition to his committee assignments, Nietan is part of the German-Polish Parliamentary Friendship Group. From 2005 until 2009, he chaired the German Parliamentary Friendship Group with Belgium and Luxembourg.

Within the SPD parliamentary group, Nietan belongs to the Parliamentary Left, a left-wing movement.[5]

In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel following the 2017 federal elections, Nietan was part of the working group on energy, climate protection and the environment, led by Armin Laschet, Georg Nüßlein and Barbara Hendricks.

Other activities

Corporate boards
  • Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft (ddvg), Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profit organizations

References
  1. "Dietmar Nietan | Abgeordnetenwatch". www.abgeordnetenwatch.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  2. "Dietmar Nietan, MdB". SPD-Bundestagsfraktion (in German). 2011-06-27. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  3. "German Bundestag - Foreign Affairs". German Bundestag. Retrieved 2020-03-20.
  4. Martin Zagatta (March 8, 2017), Deutsch-türkische Freundschaft: „Auch die Türkei muss sich entscheiden“ Deutschlandfunk.
  5. Members Parlamentarische Linke.
  6. Members European Council on Foreign Relations.
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