Hubertus Heil | |
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.jpg) Heil in 2021 | |
| Minister of Labour and Social Affairs | |
| Assumed office 14 March 2018 | |
| Chancellor | Angela Merkel Olaf Scholz |
| Preceded by | Katarina Barley (acting) |
| Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party | |
| Assumed office 6 December 2019 | |
| Leader | Saskia Esken Norbert Walter-Borjans |
| Preceded by | Manuela Schwesig |
| General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party | |
| In office 2 June 2017 – 8 December 2017 Acting | |
| Leader | Martin Schulz |
| Preceded by | Katarina Barley |
| Succeeded by | Lars Klingbeil |
| In office 15 November 2005 – 13 November 2009 | |
| Leader | Franz Müntefering Matthias Platzeck Kurt Beck Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Klaus Uwe Benneter |
| Succeeded by | Andrea Nahles |
| Member of the Bundestag for Gifhorn – Peine | |
| Assumed office 27 September 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Engelbert Nelle |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Wolfgang-Hubertus Heil 3 November 1972 Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, West Germany (present-day Germany) |
| Political party | Social Democratic Party |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of Potsdam University of Hagen |
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Wolfgang-Hubertus Heil (born 3 November 1972) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and the first cabinet of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 14 March 2018.[1]
In 2005, Heil became general secretary of the SPD. In September 2009, after immense losses for the SPD during the German federal election, Heil announced his resignation from this position for November.[2] Andrea Nahles succeeded him as general secretary in November 2009. After Katarina Barley's appointment as Federal Minister of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, he briefly returned to the office from 2 June to 8 December 2017.
- ^ Tobias Buck and Guy Chazan (14 March 2018), Germany's new government: who's who in Angela Merkel's cabinet Financial Times.
- ^ "Steinbrück und Heil geben Parteiämter auf". Der Spiegel (in German). 29 September 2009. Retrieved 23 June 2010.