Svenja Schulze

Svenja Schulze
Official portrait, 2013
Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
Assumed office
8 December 2021
ChancellorOlaf Scholz
Preceded byGerd Müller
Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
In office
14 March 2018 – 8 December 2021
ChancellorAngela Merkel
Preceded byBarbara Hendricks
Succeeded bySteffi Lemke
Minister for the Innovation, Science and Research of North Rhine-Westphalia
In office
15 July 2010 – 27 June 2017
Minister-PresidentHannelore Kraft
Preceded byAndreas Pinkwart (Innovation, Science, Research and Technology)
Succeeded byAndreas Pinkwart (Economics, Innovation, Digitization, and Energy)
General Secretary of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia
In office
June 2017 – March 2018
Preceded byAndré Stinka
Succeeded byNadja Lüders
Member of the German Bundestag
for North Rhine-Westphalia
Assumed office
26 October 2021
Preceded bymulti-member district
Member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia
In office
22 October 2004 – 16 March 2018
Preceded byFrank Baranowski
Succeeded byInge Blask
Constituency
In office
3 June 1997 – 1 June 2000
Preceded byStefan Frechen
ConstituencySocial Democratic List
Personal details
Born (1968-09-29) 29 September 1968 (age 56)
Düsseldorf, West Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party
Alma materRuhr-Universität Bochum

Svenja Schulze (born 29 September 1968) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). She serves as Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development in the cabinet of Olaf Scholz. Schulze has been serving as member of the German Bundestag since 2021, representing North Rhine-Westphalia.

Schulze served as the Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety in the fourth coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. From 15 July 2010 to 30 June 2017, she was Minister for Innovation, Science and Research in the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia.[1]

  1. ^ Abgeordnete Svenja Schulze Archived 23 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, landtag.nrw.de