Dirk Wiese (politician)

Dirk Wiese
Dirk Wiese in 2020
Member of the Bundestag
Incumbent
Assumed office 2013
Personal details
Born	(1983-07-11) 11 July 1983 (age 41) Paderborn, West Germany (now Germany)
Political party	SPD
Alma mater	University of Münster

Dirk Wiese (born 11 July 1983) 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 since 2013.

In addition to his parliamentary work, Wiese served as a Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy under Minister Brigitte Zypries, in the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2017 until 2018. From 2018 until 2020, he was the German government's Coordinator for Inter-Societal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership Countries at the Federal Foreign Office.^[1]