Andrea Nahles

Andrea Nahles
Nahles in 2019
Leader of the Social Democratic Party
In office
22 April 2018 – 3 June 2019
General SecretaryLars Klingbeil
DeputyManuela Schwesig
Natascha Kohnen
Malu Dreyer
Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel
Ralf Stegner
Olaf Scholz
Preceded byMartin Schulz
Succeeded byMalu Dreyer (Acting)
Manuela Schwesig (Acting)
Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel (Acting)
Norbert Walter-Borjans & Saskia Esken (Elected)
Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the Bundestag
In office
27 September 2017 – 4 June 2019
Chief WhipCarsten Schneider
Preceded byThomas Oppermann
Succeeded byRolf Mützenich (Acting)
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
In office
17 December 2013 – 27 September 2017
ChancellorAngela Merkel
Preceded byUrsula von der Leyen
Succeeded byKatarina Barley (Acting)
General Secretary of the Social Democratic Party
In office
13 November 2009 – 26 January 2014
LeaderSigmar Gabriel
Preceded byHubertus Heil
Succeeded byYasmin Fahimi
Deputy Leader of the Social Democratic Party
In office
26 October 2007 – 12 November 2009
LeaderKurt Beck
Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Acting)
Franz Müntefering
Preceded byKurt Beck
Succeeded byHannelore Kraft
Member of the Bundestag
for Rhineland-Palatinate
In office
18 September 2005 – 1 November 2019
Succeeded byJoe Weingarten
In office
27 September 1998 – 22 September 2002
Personal details
Born
Andrea Maria Nahles

(1970-06-20) 20 June 1970 (age 54)
Mendig, West Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party
SpouseMarcus Frings (divorced)
Children1
Alma materUniversity of Bonn
Websiteandrea-nahles.de

Andrea Maria Nahles (born 20 June 1970) is a former German politician who has been the director of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) since 2022.[1]

Nahles is best known for having served as leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from April 2018 until June 2019 and the leader of the SPD in the Bundestag from September 2017 until June 2019. She served as a Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs from 2013 to 2017 and SPD Youth leader. From 2020 to 2022, she was the president of the Federal Posts and Telecommunications Agency.[2]

Nahles is known within the party for criticising Gerhard Schröder's Agenda 2010. In June 2019, in the aftermath of the SPD's result in the 2019 European elections,[3] she announced her resignation as leader of the SPD and as parliamentary leader of the SPD.[4] For the transition period until a new SPD-leader was elected, Manuela Schwesig, Malu Dreyer and Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel acted as her successors.[5] Nahles left the Bundestag on 31 October 2019.[6]

  1. ^ Jan Klauth (2 August 2022), Andrea Nahles steht vor großen Reformen – doch ihr fehlt das Geld Die Welt.
  2. ^ Martin Greive (26 June 2020), Nahles zur neuen Präsidentin der Bundesanstalt für Post und Telekommunikation gewählt Handelsblatt.
  3. ^ "Ergebnisse - Der Bundeswahlleiter". www.bundeswahlleiter.de. Archived from the original on 1 August 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  4. ^ "SPD: Andrea Nahles tritt zurück". Die Zeit (in German). 2 June 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Schwesig, Dreyer, Schäfer-Gümbel: Trio soll SPD kommissarisch führen". Der Spiegel. 3 June 2019 – via Spiegel Online.
  6. ^ "Deutscher Bundestag - Ausgeschiedene Abgeordnete der 19. Wahlperiode". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 1 November 2019.