Brigitte Zypries

Brigitte Zypries
2014
Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy
In office
27 January 2017 – 14 March 2018
ChancellorAngela Merkel
Preceded bySigmar Gabriel
Succeeded byPeter Altmaier
Minister of Justice
In office
22 October 2002 – 17 October 2009
ChancellorGerhard Schröder
Angela Merkel
Preceded byHerta Däubler-Gmelin
Succeeded bySabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger
Parliamentary State Secretary for Aerospace Affairs
In office
17 December 2013 – 26 January 2017
ChancellorAngela Merkel
MinisterSigmar Gabriel
Preceded byPeter Hintze
Succeeded byDirk Wiese
Member of the Bundestag
for Darmstadt
In office
18 September 2005 – 24 September 2017
Preceded byWalter Hoffmann
Succeeded byAstrid Mannes
Personal details
Born (1953-11-16) 16 November 1953 (age 70)
Kassel, Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
Alma materUniversity of Giessen
Websitebrigittezypries.de

Brigitte Zypries (born 16 November 1953) is a German lawyer and politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Between 2017 and 2018, she served as Minister for Economics and Energy in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel; she was the first woman to hold that office in German history.

Zypries had previously been Parliamentary State Secretary since December 2013, charged with the coordination of Germany's aviation and space policies. She was Federal Minister of Justice of Germany from 2002 to 2009 and State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior from 1998 to 2002.