Johann Saathoff | |
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Member of the Bundestag | |
Assumed office 2013 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Emden, West Germany (now Germany) | 9 December 1967
Political party | SPD |
Johann Saathoff (born 9 December 1967) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) who has been serving as Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community in the coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz since 2021.[1] He has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Lower Saxony since 2013.
From 2020 until 2021, Saathoff served as the German government's Coordinator for Inter-Societal Cooperation with Russia, Central Asia and the Eastern Partnership Countries at the Federal Foreign Office in the coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.[2]