Carsten Schneider | |
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.jpg) Carsten Schneider (2021) | |
| Minister of State for East Germany and Equivalent Living Conditions | |
| Assumed office 8 December 2021 | |
| Chancellor | Olaf Scholz |
| Preceded by | Marco Wanderwitz (as Parliamentary State Secretary for the New States) |
| Chief Whip of the SPD Group in the Bundestag | |
| In office 24 October 2017 – 8 December 2021 | |
| Leader | Rolf Mützenich |
| Preceded by | Christine Lambrecht |
| Succeeded by | Katja Mast |
| Member of the Bundestag for Thuringia | |
| Assumed office 26 October 1998 | |
| Preceded by | Norbert Otto |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 January 1976 Erfurt, East Germany |
| Political party | SPD |
Carsten Schneider (born 23 January 1976) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as a member of the German Parliament since 1998.[1][2] Since 2021, he has also been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary for East Germany and Equivalent Living Conditions in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet.
From 2017 until 2021, Schneider was the First Secretary of his party's parliamentary group, in this position assisting the group's successive chairs Andrea Nahles (2017–2019) and Rolf Mützenich (2019–2021).
- ^ "Deutscher Bundestag: Schneider, Carsten". Bundestag.de. 16 February 2007. Archived from the original on 26 June 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ "Official Biography, Carsten Schneider". Deutscher Bundestag. Archived from the original on 26 June 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2013.